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Saying why this should be so is like trying to say why some leaves have crickets living under them while others have not. When Artist Arthur Rackham adjusts his cuffs and sets out to put part of a story into a picture, his fancy slips cricket-wise into the subject, in small surprising lines that never reveal what they are about until they have done it. Some are firm lines with tiny hairs on them, like a cricket's thigh. Some are more delicate and hesitant, like timid creatures creeping from crannies. Some are wry and perverse, like...
...contest of the brawn and physical skill of the two teams, but also a contest between their brains, seems to hold a certain amount of water. No doubt competitive athletics conducted on this plan would approach more nearly the ideal set by English ideas of sport, in an informal cricket contest where play is interrupted while the sacred rites of the tea table are observed, this plan would work. Unfortunately, the condition of intercollegiate athletics in America today, especially football, is different...
...Henry Stetson, mother of two debutante daughters, had no golfing style, but merely an impertinent putter. Mrs. Wright Goss, ten years ago the "perfect girl" of Vassar, had exuberant drives, but a nervous, jabbing putter. Mrs. Stetson defeated Mrs. Goss at the Merion Cricket Club, thereby winning the woman's national golf championship. Glenna Collett, the defending champion, had previously been eliminated...
...Fred Lamprecht, giant blond tackle of Tulane University's noted football team, last week at the Merion Cricket Club duplicated the record of Dexter Cummings by winning the intercollegiate golf championship for the second successive year. Spectators applauded when Lamprecht stopped Paul Haviland of Yale in the morning round by a putt for a 2 on the 13th. Some spectators were amazed when Haviland was eliminated in the afternoon round by a putt for a 2 on the 13th. Other blase watchers recalled that last year at Montclair Lamprecht defeated Jack Westland of Washington University 9-7 by means...
King George, with Queen Mary, postponed their arrival at an important cricket match last week long enough to "open" a new wing in the big modern-and-foreign galleries at the National Gallery of Modern Art, known as the Tate Galleryš over by the Thames riverbank. There they greeted the donor of the new galleries, Sir Joseph Duveen, merchandizer of Art to U. S. and other millionaires...