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...Surrey's Jack Hobbs set the record: 197 centuries. England's W. G. Grace scored 126, and Australia's nonpareil, Don Bradman, made...
...schoolboys know that Raphael wrote a century of sonnets. Fewer know or care what a century in cricket is. In cricket, a century is 100 (or more) runs scored by a batsman during a single innings. Last week England's Len Button, playing for Surrey, joined the select group of 13 cricketers who have made their 100th century. * When Hutton scored his 100th run, the crowd at London's Kennington Oval rose to its feet to clap. His teammates jogged across the field to shake his hand. Cricketer Hutton, 35, acknowledged the applause by lifting his cap. That...
...Bramley, Surrey, England...
Quite right, said Reader Peter G. Masefield of Reigate, Surrey. "Some years ago I copied out, from an 18th Century book on the 'Lore of the Chase,' 88 collective terms for various birds and beasts, among them, on the domestic side, a 'kindle of kittens,' and a 'clowder of cats.' " In addition, he found "such antagonistic collections" as a "cowardice of curs," a "pride of lions," "skulk of foxes," "gaggle of geese" (which becomes a "skein" on the wing), "exaltation of larks," "murmuration of starlings" and a "rush of dun-birds." (A Liverpool University...