Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sport almost untouched by the war is Harlem's colored cricket. Last week the slim, supple bowlers and batsmen of the two big leagues, the New York and the Cosmopolitan, were out for spring practice in the vast green reaches of Van Cortlandt Park...
...York-Cosmopolitan cricket has something of the quietly gala atmosphere of matches at Lord's in London. The teams (bearing such names as Grenada, Windsor, Trinidad) disport their flannels, blazers and visored beanies against a background of picture hats and parasols. The crowd's applause almost never rises above a musical murmur. Between innings, there is a tea interval...
...equipment is British-made, and the best. A bat costs $18. Batting gloves are $5 a pair, kneepads $10. The ball costs $5. Because the fields are not surfaced for cricket, each team has to bring its own 20-yd.-long fiber mat ($75 apiece) to cover the pitch (bowling area). The supply of balls is running low, but a shipment from Britain is expected to ease the situation...
...eyes widened in horror: only screw holes marked the spot where Simone's St. Thomas had hung. He rushed to his superior. No gong clanged, no revolvers flashed from holsters. People leaving the museum were closely scrutinized. (Frisking or detaining on suspicion on such occasions is not cricket.) But no departing visitor had a suspicious bulge. At 5 o'clock, in an atmosphere of tense frustration, the museum closed its massive doors. At week's end, Metropolitan Director Francis Henry Taylor, having issued 950 handbills describing the stolen picture for art dealers, police, and other museums, left...
Americans made no attempt to sell their sports (though Britons futilely promoted rugby and cricket). When Army teams played exhibition baseball games, Allies yawned at first. The Americans kept playing. Soon even British troops were borrowing equipment. Now the Middle East softball league includes British, South African, Canadian, New Zealand, Australian and U.S. teams...