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...fill in meet between Princeton and Yale designed to keep the Harvard team from letting up, the Longwood Cricket Club defeated the Varsity tennis team 6-3 yesterday afternoon at Longwood...
Amazingly last week the British Delegation were sniped at in a manner definitely "not cricket" by hawk-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain. He suddenly took it on himself to say that the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister had no authority from Britain's Cabinet to make fresh commitments at Stresa last week or at Geneva this week when the League Council meets. Mr. Chamberlain hinted that Mr. MacDonald and Sir John could not be trusted not to exceed their authority and that he was therefore obliged to expose their real position. Next day they hotly retorted...
Latest reports from England have Babe Ruth progressing rapidly in John Bull's national game of cricket. The coach who has taken him in hand describes him as one of his most apt pupils and Lou Gehrig who returned this week said that when he left him the Babe "was knocking a cricket ball out of the grounds against the best bowling or pitching in England...
...cricket to do anything like that, but we envision the picture with considerable pride. Baseball has never attained much popularity in Britain. Frontal attacks such as Harvard made successfully on her sister island empire have failed in the realm of George V. It may be that our premier baseballer is taking a page from the tactics of radical labor agitators and is "burrowing from within...
Perhaps lacking an opening in major league managerial circles, the retired home run king has assumed the portenous mission of swatting cricket balls all over the field so persistently as to achieve the complete and permanent ruin of the English national game. That would be something to rank with our own Boston Tea Party...