Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly put a stop to golf tournaments in England, has cut down greyhound races to one meet instead of three a week; pigs and potatoes flourish on Wimbledon's famed tennis courts. But, come hell or Hitler, Englishmen still refuse to give up cricket and the Derby...
Fourteen-year-old Robert Tyre Jones Jr. stood on the first tee of Philadelphia's Merion Cricket Club golf course, his palms clammy, his knees quaking. Murmurous around, the tee was a surf of faces. For Bobby Jones, Atlanta's Boy Wonder, was the youngest golfer ever to compete in the National Amateur...
...black Derby hat. In uniform he is splendid. In his first public appearance at the China Station he held a full-dress parade at Hong Kong race track seated on a handsome brown horse, clanking unnautical golden spurs. He used to be a great athlete-an all-Navy cricket and rugby player, a squash-courts intimate of Edward of Windsor, an enthusiastic pursuer of the fox's brush-and still keeps himself trim by touching the floor 100 times every morning. He looks so spruce that he is often taken for a brother of his elder...
...Crystal Palace. A Victorian monster of iron and glass, surrounded by gardens full of melancholy statuary, the Palace had been since 1854 London's high-toned version of Coney Island. Thousands of contemporary Londoners had their first childhood outings there, listening to holy choirs, brass bands, evangelists; watching cricket, soccer, motorbike races; running through the gardens, boating on the pond. In World War I the grounds and building incongruously became H.M.S. Crystal Palace-i.e. a "training ship" for naval reservists...
...former New College men in the armed forces and eight killed in action, added that: "There being no artificial light out of doors, the beauty of the architecture by moonlight is remarkable." Magdalen College has let the Magdalen ground go to hay, formed a joint crew and a joint cricket team with...