Cricket opened in England during the first week in May with the first of thirty-nine matches to be played at Lord's. But though cricket has returned this year, county cricket appears to be dying, if it is not already dead, for it is doubtful whether ever again there will be people except professionals having the time and money to play a three days' cricket match. Sir Pelham ("Plum") Warner, the grand old man of cricket. now 67 years of age, is proud of the spot at Lord's where an enemy oil-bomb fell last winter:
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