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# "A Great Game" - Life Magazine Page 175 This page satirizes English cricket snobbery. The main article mocks Lord Wickelmere's proposal that cricket matches be limited to two months (like American baseball) to prevent excessive play. The text ridicules Mr. Grace, a famous cricketer, for considering this "iconoclast" idea beneath England's sacred sporting traditions. The lower section contains unrelated short humorous pieces: a dialogue about lost speculation money, a joke about heaven versus summer vacation, and a London bus driver anecdote about a modest young woman requesting the top seats. The cartoon illustrates the bus story, showing the interaction between the driver and passenger. The page combines sports satire with everyday comic vignettes typical of Life's humor format during this era.
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- LIFE; 175 A Great Game. Amore the festivities held in England in honor of the British victory at Waterloo was a game of cricket which began August 15, 1815, the Gentlemen of West Britain going to the wickets at that date. The game has been waging strenuously ever since, and on the 15th of August this year the last batter of the West Britons went down before the cun- ning bowling of the old Earl of Flubhurst, who has stood up staunchly to his work all these years. The score of the Gen- tlemen of West Britain was 9,416,218. The Gentlemen of Kent, the opposing team, are now at the bat, and all England is watching the result breathlessly, though the game will hardly be finished until the middle of the present century, if the players survive. It is the contemplation of this historic game, in which Lord Wicketmere made a score of 129,615, that makes Eng- lishmen sniff at the suggestion of Mr. Grace, the famous cricketer, that cricket should be made to approximate the snap and go of American baseball, and that no game should last longer than two months. Mr. Grace, we fear, is an iconoclast, who has little reverence for the sacred traditions of his country. He should, and will be, turned down. HE: So you lost all your money in specula- tion? Tue Urcent Case: Yes'm. “But, beside that, didn’t you have any logiti- mate business?"’ “Oh, yes. I was a dealer in straight tips.” What's your idea of heaven ? Well, it’s the way a man feels the first three days after he is home from a sum- mer vacation. AFTERNOON TEA, : She: 11's UNUSUAL POR YOU NOT TO BE AT RUSINESS IN THE AFTERNOON, 18N°T IT, He; Ber Tu1s 1s BUSINESS. lTlirage. MV ETHOUGHT I read within her Nold London omnibus driver “* was standing beside his ’bus eyes Rare and irradiant prophecies. Methought upon her brow I saw A high devotion without flaw. Methought I marked behind her smile Her heart, a haven void of guile. ‘Twas Love's mirage. knew That I had dreamed, and naught was true. Clinton Scollard. One day I one day, when he was approached by a very comely young woman, who evidently wished to ascend to the outside seats on top, but hesitated for fear she could not make the difficult ascent with be- coming modesty. The driver, evi- dently understanding the dilem- ma, shook his head and said: “Climb up, miss; don’t mind me, legs ain’t no treat to me.” She; DINNY, OF THINK POLKS Is LOOKIN’ AT Us. “SURe, AN’ THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE BUYIN’ THE rarer ron.” comicbooks.com