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...very good grasp of the game," said O'Malley, with an effort, afterward. "He was quick to see the difference between cricket and baseball." Said the King, "At cricket they only clap. They do not cheer." As time passed, all sorts of bizarre things befell Feisal. He rode to City Hall in an open car while noontime crowds craned at him curiously. He took a regular $1.40 tour of Radio City. In the midst of it a news photographer, afraid of being barred by cops, handed the King his camera and said: "Here-you take the pictures." Feisal complied...
Local entomologists were not much help. They could only identify the insects as relatively harmless field crickets (Grylus assimilis), not half as ravenous as the grasshoppers that frequently devastate vast acres of crops. There are a few insecticides that might do some good, said the hesitant bug men. But chemists, they admitted, have concentrated on more vicious pests and have not yet bothered to develop cricket killers...
...most popular sport among German-speaking Swiss (about three-quarters of the country's people) is the ancient game of Hornuss (from the German for "hornet"). Hornuss is a rough, hard-hitting mixture of golf, baseball, cricket and guided-missile warfare. Peaceful farmers summon up martial blood when they get playing Hornuss; Swiss city folks sneer affectionately at the game as "stratosphere pingpong," but they turn out in droves to watch it played...
Jones and Maria have drawn up a chart for easy reference, using Maria's designations: White the married, who liked lamb and pork, but no shrimp; White the father of Cricket (Frank White III), who liked fruits, eggs, bacon and pastries; and White the criança (youngster), who refused milk and potatoes for fear of becoming White the fat. Now, when the name of Senhor White comes up, Maria goes to the kitchen, consults the chart and points out which one she means...
...Yorkshire's Len Hutton, the captaincy of Britain's cricket team for this week's Test Match with India; in London. Hutton, 13th player ever to make a 100th century, i.e., score 100 (or more) runs in one inning, is the first professional ever to captain a British team...