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...never sets on the British empire, then there is seldom a time when it is not shining down on a cricket game. Last week, when London was in darkness and the old, sick king stirred in the night at Buckingham Palace, the most important cricket of the year was being played in Melbourne, Australia. This was the third match in the series played yearly between a team of picked Britishers and a team of picked Australians for the "ashes...
This Committee on Iconography has collected a large number of photographs and prints for Lawrence Hall. Among these pictures are two reproductions of old prints of Harvard one showing a group of the older buildings, the other, portraying a quiet cricket game in progress in front of Sumner's monument near Harvard Square...
...Dakers was by way of being a poet; Mrs. Dakers, years before, something of a Shakespearean actress. And so it happened that their adolescent boys were made to wear painfully purple velvet costumes at their first "children's party." But so well did they play cricket that they lived down the velvets. Harold careered brilliantly at Cambridge (financed on his brother Jonathan's small inheritance) while his brother Jonathan worked his way through the local medical school. Both brothers loved elfin yet extremely modern Edie-Harold blithely, Jonathan desperately. Came the War with a smart uniform for Harold...
Amid the tension thus created, Edward of Wales was observed to be in irritable mood. Even for this the alibi was perfect. His Royal Highness had submitted to typhoid inoculation on shipboard, had run a temperature for four days, was obviously not up to cricket. Upon landing at Mombasa, Kenya Colony, T. R. H. proceeded to Nairobi, the capital, where they put up for several days at Government House with Governor Sir Edward W. M. Grigg, before plunging into the interior of Africa after big game...
...deciding match of the international tennis exhibition series, last week at the Germantown Cricket Club, was between Jean Borotra-Jacques Brugnon of France and George M. Lott Jr. John Hennessey of the U. S. Borotra killed more U. S. lobs than he made errors; and that was the way the French pair won the match...