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...ancient immutable law that The Season (when George is in his Palace and debutantes are presented at Court) starts on the first Friday in May with the Private View of the Royal Academy. The Season ends on the loth and nth of July with the Eton-Harrow cricket match at Lord...
...election as an Academician. A few days later long-suffering Sir William Llewellyn discovered that they were actually what many critics have called most Academy portraits: colored photographs. Sly Reginald had pasted tissue paper enlargements on canvas, colored them with oil paint. This was certainly not cricket! The pictures were thrown out, Reginald Eves was blackballed. Said Artist Eves...
...Harvard letter men are members of teams which were victorious in the second day's play in the national indoor mixed doubles tournament yesterday at the Longwood Cricket Club...
Lionel Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson, grandson of the late great poet, arrived in Manhattan for a brief visit. He had heard aboard ship that Lady Astor made a speech in the House of Commons charging that the English cricket team was recently defeated by the Australian team because the English team had drunk too much. Lord Tennyson was a member of the English team. He cried to newshawks: "This was false. . . . The members of our team when in training do not drink, or if they drink, it is comparatively little. . . . What does Lady Astor know about cricket...
...where a famous Oxford oarsman, who for many years was a rowing coach in this country, declared that the drinking athlete would beat the teetotaller every time. The statement was made in answer to Lady Astor's pronouncement in the House of Commons that England was losing on the cricket field because her players drank...