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Fortnight ago in the finals of the Metropolitan Grass Court Championship in Brooklyn, Ellsworth Vines, 18, unknown, beat Francis T. Hunter, second ranking U. S. player. Entering last week the annual invitation tournament of the Sea Bright, N. J. Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club ?a tournament which has become regarded as a more important sign-pointer for the national than any other mid-season event ? Ellsworth Vines was no longer unknown. People had learned about him ? that his father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores, that he began playing when he was six and was later...
...cricket team of Burnley, England: a game from Raw Tenstall, 222 to 116, in the course of which Bowler Joseph Boon twice performed "the hat trick...
...James Ramsay MacDonald from motoring over to Buckingham Palace to offer his resignation to King George last week. By a curious paradox the result of his narrow escape left him more firmly in power than he had been for a month. Several Liberals, darkly muttering "dirty practice" and "not cricket," announced their intention of voting regularly with the Laborites, at least for the immediate future...
Next morning, in all but the ultra-conservative press, the defeated conspiracy was bitterly assailed as "un-British trickery" and, even more scathingly, as "not cricket." Despite his fervent protests of innocence, editors refused to believe Mr. Lloyd George entirely guiltless. Commented the Labor Daily Herald...
...Australian cricket team: the first day's play in a match with the English team at Leeds, 458 runs and 3 wickets lost. Don Bradman broke the world's record score with a total...