Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...toast of every London pub last week was a skinny, buck-toothed 22-year-old lad from Pudsey named Leonard Hutton. With a cricket bat Pudsey's boy had tickled sporting Britain into a grin that stretched from Land's End to John o' Groat...
What Batsman Hutton had done, no Britisher had ever done before: in the fifth and last Test match with Australia he had scored 364 runs in one innings-and this at a time when English cricket seemed deader than "The Ashes" for which they were playing.-* The new record for the Anglo-Australian series was 30 runs better than the record set in 1930 by Australia's famed Don Bradman. It was even better than the record for all international cricket: 336 (against New Zealand), set in 1933 by Britain's famed Wally Hammond...
...Australia won the biennial series in 1934, again in 1936. This year the first two games were drawn, the third abandoned because of rain, the fourth taken by Australia. The mythical "Ashes," famed prize of Anglo-Australian cricket, were created by a monumental British joke: a facetious epitaph for English cricket, published in the London Sporting Times in 1882, after a visiting Australian team had trounced England at her own game...
Manuel L. Quezon, the little brown cricket who for three years has been the Philippine Commonwealth's first President, passed his 60th birthday last week. Like royalty, he celebrated his birthday by a two-day national party-speeches, parades, festivals. The party wound up with a giant ball in Manila to raise-in more democratic tradition-anti-tuberculosis funds. To punctuate the festivities he addressed 40,000 students & teachers. His subject: the state of the Philippine soul...
Into a beautiful little town across the Thames from Windsor Castle, with narrow streets, ancient Gothic and Tudor buildings and the fairest cricket pitch in England, visitors poured last week until it looked like a crowded London suburb. All came to see a 100-year-old ceremony at a 500-year-old school-Eton's famed Fourth of June festival celebrating the birthday of Patron George III. They looked at the playing fields where Waterloo was won, watched the fireworks, the traditional cricket matches, the river procession of ten racing shells. They were no end impressed by the strange...