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...long since set on the British Empire, there is still one thing that can summon former colonialists together to party like it’s 1899—the lure of sixers and sticky wickets. For those not versed in the baffling phraseology of British sport: cricket...
There is a secret, shameful part of every American that longs to attend a small, quaint, exclusive boarding school in the English countryside. The crack of the cricket bat, the furtive cigarettes, the obligatory corporal punishment--like buried memories from our Colonial past, they arouse atavistic, Anglophilic urges. Some people get their Brit fix from Harry Potter. They will get that, and much more, from William Boyd's brilliant, beautiful and exceptionally British Any Human Heart (Knopf; 498 pages...
...ever wondered why most of the sporting public is blissfully unconcerned about the eighth World Cricket Cup tournament, which just began in Cape Town, dip into the rule book. Each match lasts up to seven hours, with each side at bat for three and a half. Even if a batsman gets out, his side may still be in. If he gets a bouncer from the bowler, he ducks. If he gets out before scoring any runs, he gets a duck. If no runs are scored from a six-ball session, that's called "bowling a maiden over." With a lexicon...
...unusually long schedule of 18 matches has been arranged for the University tennis team this spring, including a Southern trip, on which seven matches are to be played in eight days. Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Pennsylvania, California, West Side Tennis Club, Longwood Cricket Club, Princeton, and Yale are some of the strongest teams which the Crimson racket men will face...
Because of the loss by graduation of Captain F. W. Hatch '19, and by illness of F. C. Hanighen '21, the mainstays of last year's team, the prospects for this season are very uncertain. The team suffered defeat at the hands of the Longwood Cricket Club, Princeton, and Yale in 1919, and will experience considerable difficulty this year unless more regular practice is introduced than was held last season...