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...rain-slicked turf of Philadelphia's Merion Cricket Club, Wimbledon Champion Tony Trabert whipped his Davis Cup Teammate Vic Seixas and took away the Pennsylvania State Grass Court championship, 6-1, 6-2, 6-3. Earlier, in the Pennsylvania and Eastern women's final, Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough beat New York State Champion Althea Gibson for the women's title...
After skittling Yale out for 24 runs on Franklin Field yesterday, the Crimson cricket team went on to score 84, winning by seven wickets. Cambridge Blue Tony Rimel spearheaded the Crimson attack with three wickets for one run, while Jehangir Mugaseth made the side's top score...
...member of one of Ceylon's patrician families, Sir John is strong-minded, wealthy (coconut groves and graphite mines) and sometimes unpredictable. He captained the cricket team at Colombo's Royal College, went on to study agriculture at Cambridge and rose quickly through the British colonial civil service. At 36, Kotelawala was Minister for Agriculture; at 38, as Minister of Communications, he did a well-remembered job on Ceylon's infant hydroelectric power network. Yet for all these early achievements, he did not become Prime Minister until two years ago, when he was 56. In his first...
After putting Princeton out for 64 in its match at Staten Island yesterday, the Cricket Club came within three runs of victory, losing its last wicket with 61 runs on the board. In Saturday's game, the experienced Staten Island Club over-whelmed the Crimson...
...Australia's Adelaide cricket pitch, England's speedball bowlers dropped Australian wickets like ninepins, won the deciding test match by five wickets and kept the Ashes, symbol of international cricket superiority...