Word: cricketers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feature matches in the Longwood Cricket Club Tennis Tournament in Brookline yesterday afternoon, Al Everts, Varsity number one man and one of the outstanding local entrants in the tournament, succumbed to the two-handed forehand and tricky dropsliots of Francisco Segura, Ecuador champion and top rated player in the foreign seedings...
...English crowds at football or cricket matches are more orderly and more polite to the players than American crowds...
When the A.E.F. began arriving Down Under, sports-loving Australians immediately began seeking to match their athletes against soldiers from overseas. But there seemed to be almost no sport common to both countries. Australians play cricket in the summer and football in the winter -rugby or soccer in New South Wales and Queensland, Australian football in other states...
...almost the only chance for competition between Americans and Australians lay in baseball, which has been played in Australia since the Great White Fleet's visit in 1908. Baseball is played in winter in Australia usually by cricket players who desire to keep in form for next summer...
...first big-time contest between American and Australian baseballers was a game played at the Carlton Cricket Club in Melbourne last week as part of July 4th exhibition...