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...women's team, over Britain's best women tennis players, to take the Wightman Cup for the 15th time in a row, six matches to one ; at the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass. In the fourth and clinching match, Britain's Kay Tuckey was trounced, 6-1, 6-3, by 16-year-old Maureen Connolly of San Diego, the youngest U.S. Cup team member in history...
...schoolboys know that Raphael wrote a century of sonnets. Fewer know or care what a century in cricket is. In cricket, a century is 100 (or more) runs scored by a batsman during a single innings. Last week England's Len Button, playing for Surrey, joined the select group of 13 cricketers who have made their 100th century. * When Hutton scored his 100th run, the crowd at London's Kennington Oval rose to its feet to clap. His teammates jogged across the field to shake his hand. Cricketer Hutton, 35, acknowledged the applause by lifting his cap. That...
...public eye, "King" Selfridge grabbed all the publicity he could (Bleriot's little plane was on display in the store the day after it flew the Channel), advertised as no London merchant had ever advertised before. Selfridge's offered customers "101 unusual services," including expert umbrella rolling, cricket bat oiling, pipe cleaning, wig-making, wart removing. The store's "Great Luncheon Rooms" offered Southern U.S. cooking, such as "Fried Chicken, Maryland Cream Chicken, Corn...
...nearly so sports-minded as she thought she was. London's Economist last week reported that for every Briton who plays a game, two sit watching and 20 go to the cinema. Even more disillusioning: of 191 million Britons who watched sporting matches in 1949, only 2.6% chose cricket...
...Cricket Club yesterday elected new officers for next year. Bruce M. Cheek 2PA will serve as president of the club and Bruce M. Bogin '52 as secretary. Edward Philip George Seaga '52 of Kingston, Jamaica, B.W.L., and Eliot House will captain the cricket team...