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Royal Exiles. War has spared the sport because it is by no means a young man's game. The best batsman in the leagues is Cliff Daly, a real-estate salesman in his 40s. The best wicketkeeper is probably Evans Hackett, nearing 50. One of the star all-round players is Edmund Holder, an elevator man in his 50s. War did, however, take the top bowler, Roy Huggins. A former shipping clerk, he is one of twelve Negroes now working for a commission at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
Huggins bowled for the Trinidad Club, the present holder of the championship , cup. An all-round dependable of the Trinidad team is Joseph Cameron, who with Hackett and Holder was among the pioneers of Harlem cricket some 30 years ago. Cameron and his brother Henry, operators of an employment agency, are also leaders in the socially desirable Royal Exiles cricket club, which is not in the leagues...
Charlie Hockett had done a little teaching (freshman composition, English for foreigners) before the Army took him early in 1942. Corporal Hockett was raking leaves in a Virginia camp almost a year later when the Army decided to teach Chinese to 224 officers en route to China. Hackett, who knew no Chinese but had a Yale Ph.D. in the science of languages, got the job. He was still a corporal when he got back three months later. But he had done so well that he soon got his gold bars. Here...
...Jazz Club will present its ninth concert of the season at Jordan Hall on Sunday afternoon at 3 P.M., featuring the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, with Brad Gowans, Bobby Hackett, Eddie Edwards, Tony "Spargo" Sbarbaro and Teddy Roy. Edwards and Sbarbaro were charter members of the group that made jazz history over a quarter-century ago. Gowans, who organized the present group and Hackett are well known to followers of dixieland jazz for their work with various small bands in New York Boston and Chicago...
...Bobby Hackett will be interviewed by S/Sgt George Avakian over the CRIMSON Network at 7 o'clock Thursday night...