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...cricket enthusiasts last week got their first chance to see in action a 23-year-old Australian with a wide grin and protruding ears who is indisputably the greatest cricket batsman in the world. He, George Donald Bradman, with the other members of an Australian team that has been touring Canada, arrived in Manhattan to play three matches against teams of West Indians and one on the grounds of the Staten Island Cricket Club. Fatigued by the Canadian tour, in which his team won 14 out of 17 matches, and bothered by the sun, Batsman Bradman...
Undefeated as a result of its victory over a strong group of players representing the Longwood Cricket Club last Saturday, the University tennis team will play its last match before the North Carolina encounter Friday, when it meets M.I.T. on the Divinity Courts at 3 o'clock this afternoon. On Friday the team will oppose the Southernors in an attempt to retrieve the only defeat suffered by the Crimson netmen last year...
...Chancellor Chamberlain. He "indicated" to correspondents what he called a "tentative refusal" of Lady Houston's proffered gift. It appeared that what the impulsive Dame had actually done was to withold her due income tax payment of $151,200, offering instead her gift of $756,000. Most irregular. Not cricket...
After Uncle Wes dies of a knife-wound, complicated by Big Pa's conjuring, Cricket grows more & more restless. Though she loves Blue, she will not listen to his marriage proposals: she wants to go off to the big city, where Man Jay had gone before. When a rich stranger appears in the neighborhood and steals the bootleg trade away from Uncle Kelly, Cricket takes up with him. On the day set for their wedding the groom does not appear. Uncle Kelly has settled him. But the bride, all dressed for a wedding, must have a groom. Blue snatches...
Things do not go well with Cricket and Blue. Three months after the wedding she miscarries the rich stranger's child. Blue hides her shame, but Cricket is sick of the settlement, its people and its life. Even her love for Blue cannot hold her; she runs off to New York, joins Man Jay in Harlem. When, later, they return to persuade Blue to give her a divorce, Blue cannot understand what it is all about. After a fight in which Cricket defends Blue against Man Jay, Blue lets his love go. He will see her again, no more...