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...Harvard Cricket Club to Washington, D.C., spring trip. It lost by eight to the British Common wealth Club and played to a draw Howard University. Tony former player for Trinity Cambridge, looked especially in the Howard game, taking wickets. He is expected to the Crimson this year...
...these stories, barefoot Mick was initiated into the code of the young English gentleman. Naturally it got him into a lot of trouble-when he "owned up to" his own school crimes or refused to "tell on" others, he would get extra cane. But for the time being, playing cricket in the clouds was the only way out of Cork. These Etonian fancies were to him what the drink was to his father...
...taught at Lady Eden's fashionable Kensington kindergarten. But then the shy, unspoiled schoolmarm retired to her Yorkshire home, gardened with her mother, stomped the moors of the 4,000-acre family estate with her father, Sir William Worsley, onetime team captain and now president of the county cricket club. And last week the Duke of Kent was all but stuck to the Worsley wicket: he proudly nipped up to Buckingham Palace with his new fiancee for a toast from the Queen to a June wedding...
Addition and subtraction were perhaps no more difficult than they were for the Romans, who could easily take XXXIX from CIV, but multiplication and division often unhinged the juvenile mind. Sample: if 23 cricket bats cost ?25 11s. 9d., how much does one cricket bat cost...
...answer: ?1 2s. 3d. It is solved by first turning everything into shillings, then into pence. Multiply the pounds by 20, add the shillings, multiply the sum by 12, and add the pennies. Then divide by 23 (cricket bats) and convert back to pounds, shillings and pence by division. Answer in the new system: 2 Rands, 22 l/2 cents...