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...Dartmouth, pipe-smoking naval officers were sprawled on the Devon-green grass listening to the clear crack of willow bat on cricket ball, watching their more athletic colleagues play the youngsters of the Royal Naval College. The cadet eleven ginined happily in their spotless white flannels and played close. They had just caught a grizzled Lieutenant-Commander leg-before-wicket, and the present batsmen, for all their massive shin guards and bushy eyebrows, seemed easy. Suddenly at a whispered word from the sidelines the long-white-coated umpire stopped the game and announced...
...Rodney's officers changed their cricket flannels quickly, motored 15 miles to Torbay where the Rodney, world's twin- largest battleship lay at anchor.? Dartmouth cadets, thinking of Drake and his officers who were called from playing bowls to fight the Spanish Armada, buzzed with questions...
...Open Championship-Won by Robert Tyre Jones Jr.; at Mamaroneck, N. Y. (see p. 55). Intercollegiate Championship-Won by Thomas Aycock, Yale University; at Deal, N. J. Intercollegiate Team Championship-Won by Princeton University; at Deal. Tennis. Intercollegiate Championship-Won by Berkeley Bell, University of Texas; at Merion Cricket Club, Haverford, Pa.* Women's Intercollegiate Championship†-Won by Marjorie Gladman, University of Southern California; at Boston's Longwood Cricket Club. U. S. Army Championship-Won by Maj. Robert C. Van Vliet, infantryman, Panama Canal Zone (three-time title holder); at Washington's Columbia Country Club. Polo...
Many distinguished officers from Tid-worth barracks had, it appeared, ridden to hounds and played cricket with Captain Barker. "He ascribed his difficulty in throwing the ball to War wounds," said Dr. Farr of the Cricket Club last week, "I may have sometimes thought, mind you, that Barker was built 'all wrong.' He was. But there again, the poor feller was so terribly bashed in the War! Gad, I can't think of old Barker yet as a woman! The thing sticks and won't go down...
...Therefore, in words once uttered by the Present Lord High Chancellor: "We have a family legend that when father and mother went on their honeymoon they took with them 30 ragged boys from London. Mother spent most of her time fielding point while the boys were learning to play cricket...