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Harvard has defeated Wesleyan, 3 to 1, and Bridgewater Normal, 4 to 0. Penn has won from the Germantown Cricket Club and the Crescent Athletic Club, but lost to the Philadelphia Cricket Club...
...following news: Margaret Rose was chosen as the name for the month-old daughter of the Duke & Duchess of York (TIME, Sept. i). She will be christened at Buckingham Palace in October. Robert Tyre Jones Jr., practicing near Philadelphia for the U. S. Amateur golf championship at Merion Cricket Club (TIME, Sept. 22), denied he had suffered an attack of appendicitis. Said he: "I just had a stomach ache." He moved the scene of his practicing from the Merion club to parts unknown, to escape mobs of admiring gawkers. Later he returned to Merion, to take low score honors...
...Siegfried's cousin Philip was Under-Secretary for Air. Tall, bony, loosely built, he has a big jaw, nose, ears, hands; speaks usually in a slow, troubled voice. After his country gentleman's education at Marlborough and The House (Christ Church, Oxford), he spent his time mostly hunting, playing cricket, tennis, music, printed a few poems privately. During the War he emerged as one of England's most authentic War poets...
...venerated Walt Whitman and was indignant at the squalor of his Camden surroundings. Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, John Burroughs, Edward MacDowell, James M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Bernard Shaw, Israel Zangwill, Henry James ?he knew them all. On a visit to England, onetime Pitcher Garland met Cricketer Conan Doyle. Each upheld his favorite game: Doyle politely doubted the possibility of throwing a curve. Garland pitched a cricket ball at him, convinced...
...engravings present College scenes preceding those of Fisher while one stained and yellowed "plan of Cambridge" antedates the founding of Harvard. Of these early prints of the Colleges at Cambridge, the Massachusetts one is of particular interest in that there is represented in the foreground what is evidently a cricket match, a sign of the English influence which played so important a role during the formative period of the University. An engraving of a "birdseye view of Harvard. America's first and greatest University" gives an accurate and detailed panorama of the Yard-which summarizes the early period...