Word: bowler
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...until Hedley Verity of Yorkshire and Edward Paynter of Lancashire, with his neck wrapped in bandages to ward off a cold, pulled England out of the innings with 356. In Australia's second innings, Stanley McCabe made himself look foolish by ducking the pitches of England's bowler, Harold Larwood, instead of trying to defend his wicket. Australia was set down for 175 runs. In a light rain next morning, a dismal little gallery of 1,000 watched England run up 157 for four wickets, then clinch the series and the Ashes when Paynter, batting with Ames, slogged...
...first pitch in full view of 64,000 admirers. The third match, at Adelaide, gave rise to a deplorable controversy about the "body-line" bowling of Harold Larwood, who aimed his pitches so that they hit one Australian batsman on the chest and another on the head. Bowler Larwood was loudly barracked (jeered). The Australian Board of Cricket Control protested to the Marylebone Cricket Club of London that his methods were unsporting. The Maryle-bone-which was formed 200 years ago and in 1788 drafted the rules of cricket as they now stand-defended Bowler Larwood, offered to cancel...
...tennis championship and the cricket tests against England for a nonexistent trophy called "The Ashes." There was most excitement "Down Under" about the cricket. Not only had famed Batsman Don Bradman been bowled for a duck (put out with no runs) in the second match, but the crack British bowler, Harold Larwood, had consistently shown a distressing disregard for the safety of opposing batsmen. In the third match he had struck and injured Australia's W. M. Woodfull and W. A. Oldfield. The Australian Board of Cricket Control had addressed a protesting cable to the Marylebone Cricket Club...
...Floretta D. McCutcheon of Pueblo, Colo., considered to be the world's best lady bowler: records of 250-8 for 11 games and 248-2 for 12 games, bettering her own best previous scores, and a perfect game (300), the 8th in her career; in the course of a single evening's exercise, at St. Paul, Minn. ¶ William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, itinerant Georgia heavyweight pugilist: a 12-round bout against Dan McCorkindale of South Africa; by decision; before the biggest African prizefight crowd (15,000); at Johannesburg...
...Glasgow Art Gallery rejected a gift portrait of King George V, wearing a bowler hat and talking with an Aintree race course trainer, because it was not sufficiently "majestic looking...