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Smarting from a series of defeats, the men of Marylebone moved to Peshawar, where they were promptly whipped again. The losers were galled, less by the score than by a series of "leg before wicket"* decisions awarded to Pakistan's star bowler by Umpire Idris Beg. Back in their rooms at Deans Hotel, the cricketers got themselves sufficiently stimulated to hire tongas (horse-drawn rickshaws) and hunt down Umpire Beg. When they found him. they politely invited him back to Deans for "a little private party." Beg refused, so the players took him anyway-according to Beg-dislocating...
After putting Princeton out for 64 in its match at Staten Island yesterday, the Cricket Club came within three runs of victory, losing its last wicket with 61 runs on the board. In Saturday's game, the experienced Staten Island Club over-whelmed the Crimson...
...baseball, the best batsmen lead off the order. To England's joy, the Aussies' best were quickly put out. But then Australia's "tail wagged"; her weaker batsmen managed to build their team's total to a respectable 275 runs before their tenth and last wicket fell (i.e., the side was retired on the equivalent of three baseball outs). Then England batted, scoring 306 runs to gain a lead of 31 on the first of the match's two innings. On the third day, with Australia up at bat again, England's bowlers tore...
With snail-like caution, England resumed batting. The bowled balls bounced crazily off the now-frayed turf. In the early afternoon, some 25,000 tautly silent fans watched the Aussies claim another wicket-their last. At 2:53 p.m., England's Denis Compton swatted the winning...
...professional soccer player than as a cricketer. England needed a whopping 363 runs to win, and there was only a seven-hour playing day (with at least 1½ hours out for luncheon and tea) to do it in. Batsman Watson, slim and serious, stepped to the wicket. With chances of victory almost nil, England's practical aim was to stay at bat all day, thus pull out another draw. For 5 hrs. 45 min. Willie Watson stayed at his wicket, scored a drawn-out century (100 runs), finally left six fellow batsmen to "stonewall" (hit harmless, perfunctory grounders...