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...Australian cricketers won a test match on British soil for the first time. Next day, the following epitaph appeared in the London Sporting Times: "In affectionate remembrance of English Cricket which died at the Oval on 29th of August, 1882. Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances. R. I. P. (N. B. The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia...
This gloomy conceit tickled Britishers so thoroughly that they have not yet tired of it. British and Australian cricket teams have this season been playing for the Ashes since Dec. 2. Last week the fourth test began at Brisbane. Australia was behind, two matches to one, but a more than respectable 340 in the first innings made the situation look more cheerful-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...
Particularly disastrous for Australia, this year's series-which will not be officially finished until the superfluous fifth test has been played this week-started in Sydney, where England won by ten wickets. Australia won the second match at Melbourne but only after famed Don Bradman, whom Antipodeans justifiably consider the greatest batsman in the world, had been bowled for a duck on the 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...
...mile west of the airport, 800 ft. aloft, the big ship went into a spin, crashed into a grove of trees. Engineer, assistant, test-pilot, all were killed. To their graves they took the secret of the crash. Best guess: sudden shifting of the bags of lead ballast...
Next day Miss Ulric self-reproachfully pleaded: "It's all been a bad misunderstanding. I never even used the word 'critics.' That was my lawyer. ... I am trying to fight a test case for the people in the theatre. ... I am merely trying to say that actors have a right to include long-distance calls, dinners to authors, etc. on their expense accounts, and get an exemption on them in the name of business liabilities...