Word: cricketers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vaulting.") An official of the International Amateur Athletic Federation darkly hinted that world records set with fiber-glass poles might be disallowed. Sportswriters compared vaulting's "lively pole" to baseball's "lively ball." Asked Columnist Arthur Daley of the New York' Times: "Is it cricket?" The World-Telegram and Sun's Joe Williams had an ambiguous answer: "The fiber-glass pole is as legitimate as a zip gun in a rumble...
Such contradictions abounded in an age whose propriety fostered its concealments. There was tremendous churchgoing, but lukewarm churchgoers, and a very worldly church: a future bishop examined candidates for Holy Orders while waiting to bat at cricket. And behind middle-class pomposity and plush cowered lower-class poverty and suffering: girl apprentices working a 20-hour day, girl coal miners standing in water up to their thighs...
...says) "ears that flapped like cabbage leaves." At Roedean she followed up her gaffe before the Queen Mother with other capers that ranged from throwing water on the headmistress to mayhem on the playing fields, where she broke the legs of two schoolmates ("but only one seriously-cricket is such a deadly dull game, I took aim at girls llegs"), cracked the collarbone of another during a foot race ("She was getting ahead of me, so I tripped her"). She was asked to leave...
...Yale Cricket Club, which plays an annual game with the Smith faculty on Harvard-Yale weekend, was reported to be quite upset about the whole business...
...singles championship at Forest Hills this week. But just 24 hours after he and Partner Chuck McKinley (who was suspended and put on a year's probation for his conduct in the Davis Cup interzone finals in Australia last year) won the U.S. doubles championship at the Longwood Cricket Club in Chestnut Hill. Mass.. Dennis the Menace was suspended from the singles tournament...