Word: trumper
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Nationalistic tensions are high when Florence Vassy, the coach of the obnoxious American competitor, Freddie Trumper, falls in love with the Russian player, Anatoly Sergievsky. The ensuing love triangle has serious consequences—including threats to national security...
...bowl," recalled England's Jim Laker, "Bradman seemed to know where the ball was going to pitch, what stroke he was going to play and how many runs he was going to score." He wasn't a beautiful batsman?he lacked the grace of Victor Trumper, Ted Dexter or Mark Waugh?but as his late teammate Jack Fingleton wrote: "He was such a genius that he could well have indulged himself in the artistic flourishes of batting, but he was too much of a realist to permit himself to do this. Every spectator in Bradman's heyday sensed that...