Word: crickets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lombardy poplar from the crates used to ship Chianti bottles from Italy. Toughest wood of all to find is the seasoned willow that Stradivarius used for blocks to strengthen the corners and ends of his violins; Mrs. Hutchins now gets it from polo balls and broken cricket bats, sent to her by friends in England...
Keeping Fit. Snell never walks anywhere if he can run instead. The headmaster of Auckland's Mount Albert Grammar School recalls a day in 1957 when Snell won two matches for the school's tennis team, then played a starring role in a cricket match. A little later, the headmaster found him running around the school track in shorts and T shirt. "What are you doing, Snell?" he asked. "I want to keep fit, sir," the 17-year-old replied...
...Doug Walter, and Lou Williams kept hitting hard and pushing upward to fill in the holes. With Sullivan back at number two, and Wiegand at five, four of the top five players were refugees from the tennis court. Compare that with Yale's first five, four of them Marion Cricket Club graduates...
...seasons ago, when the Eli trio of Howe, Hetherington, and West (Tinker to Evers to Chance) came of age, it was generally said that Yale would mop up the league for the next three years. Brought up in the Philadelphia Marion Cricket Club, these three were already the top ranking juniors. And reports were that Yale was just as tough all the way down the squash ladder...
According to Barnaby, Niederhoffer is now "beating everyone except the top ten ranking players." Unawed by experience, in the Harvard Club Invitationals he faced one after another of the Philadelphia Marion Cricket Clubbers, who are introduced to squash before baseball. He "mowed them down like a row of nine-pins...