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...mill, he had another extraordinary idea: if, as an employe, he bought cloth at less than cost, and sold it for more than cost, he would soon be in the money. He was soon in the street, his ears ringing with the millowner's "long talk on England, cricket and all that sort of thing." Next he tried "the tobacco road" to wealth. His firm shipped him to South America "to discover why the natives were not smoking our cigarets." When he turned up at his boss's engagement party floating in alcohol, he was pushed across...
When voting's at last become cricket...
...feature matches in the Longwood Cricket Club Tennis Tournament in Brookline yesterday afternoon, Al Everts, Varsity number one man and one of the outstanding local entrants in the tournament, succumbed to the two-handed forehand and tricky dropsliots of Francisco Segura, Ecuador champion and top rated player in the foreign seedings...
...English crowds at football or cricket matches are more orderly and more polite to the players than American crowds...
...first big-time contest between American and Australian baseballers was a game played at the Carlton Cricket Club in Melbourne last week as part of July 4th exhibition...