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...back gardens. There is the fine distinction between the Queen as monarch and the Queen as head of the Church of England; there is the way in which India is, but at the same time is not, part of the Commonwealth. Almost as subtle are the differences in cricket between a "gentleman" (i.e., amateur) and a "player" (i.e., professional...
Today, the distinction is only evident in the annual game: Gentlemen v. Players. Until recently, in all games the players (paid by county cricket associations) used different doors from the gentlemen when they left the cricket grounds at Lord's. In the program, gentlemen were entitled to have their initials listed before their names; not so the players, who were listed only by their surnames. Professionals played on the same teams as the amateurs and were cheered with no less fervor...
However, it was not considered cricket for a professional to become the team captain. The first man for whom that unwritten rule was broken is Yorkshireman Len Hutton, one of Britain's alltime cricket greats...
...after celebrating his win, promptly bailed out all his fellow tosspots in the city jail, explaining: "They're a very nice crowd." Such incidents are routine for lottery-covering newsmen, but last week all Australia waited breathless while the big Tasmanian barrel roared to a stop and English Cricket Star Alec Bedser reached for the marble that would pay someone more than half a million dollars. In the Sydney slum suburb of Redfern, Mary Milner fell on her knees as she heard the number read out over the radio: it was that of a ticket shared by her husband...
...began to come clear through the clangorous fog: many of the rhythms were regurgitations of foregoing rhythms. Twice more the taped sounds interrupted the orchestra, each time became more drastic, until the effect was of actual terror, as machine-gun bursts alternated with animal wails, with monstrously loud cricket chirps, with the sounds of huge crowds of faceless people roaring. Eventually, a passage of simple dissonance sounded as sensual as Ravel...