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In 1930, England captain Douglas Jardine, together with Nottinghamshire's captain Arthur Carr and his bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce, developed a variant of leg theory in which the bowlers bowled fast, short-pitched balls that would rise into the batsman's body, together with a heavily stacked ring of close fielders on the leg side.
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1930 and England
In 1930, Bill Woodfull led an extremely inexperienced team to England.
On the 1930 tour a delegation led by the Irish lock George Beamish expressed their displeasure at the fact that whilst the blue of Scotland, white of England and red of Wales were represented in the strip there was no green for Ireland.
A series of papers published between 1931 and 1935 had its beginning on a trip from India to England in 1930,
* 1930 – Australian cricketer Donald Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test match against England.
The Australian cricket team toured England in 1930.
In England and Wales the Lunacy Acts 1890-1922 referred to lunatics, but the Mental Treatment Act 1930 changed the legal term to " Person of Unsound Mind ", an expression which was replaced under the Mental Health Act 1959 by mental illness.
* 1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia ( she left on May 5 for the 11, 000 mile flight ).
as a Rhodes Scholar from New College, Oxford, in England in 1930.
She stepped down as president of the Girl Guides in 1920 in favor of Robert's wife Olave Baden-Powell, who was named Chief Guide ( for England ) in 1918 and World Chief Guide in 1930.
Having qualified in medicine by means of the Conjoint Diploma ( MRCS England, LRCP London ) in 1930 Bion spent seven years in psychotherapeutic training at the Tavistock Clinic, an experience he regarded, in retrospect, as having had some limitations.
One, advanced by Katherine Elwes Thomas in 1930 and adopted by Robert Ripley, posits that Humpty Dumpty is King Richard III of England, depicted in Tudor histories, and particularly in Shakespeare's play, as humpbacked and who was defeated, despite his armies at Bosworth Field in 1485.
* Arthur Wharton, ( 1865 – 1930 ) Ghanaian-born footballer who played in England
Beginning with a century at Headingley in his First Test against England, Taylor amassed 839 runs at 83. 90 in the six Tests: the second best aggregate in an Ashes series in England, behind Don Bradman's 974 runs in 1930.
In the process, he passed 1000 Test runs against England and the partnership broke the Ashes partnership record at Lord's, which had been set by Bill Woodfull and Don Bradman in 1930.
England were favourites to win the 1930 Ashes series, and if the Australians were to exceed expectations, their young batsmen, Bradman and Jackson, needed to prosper.
In 1930 – 31, against the first West Indian side to visit Australia, Bradman's scoring was more sedate than in England — although he did make 223 in 297 minutes in the Third Test at Brisbane and 152 in 154 minutes in the following Test at Melbourne.
In Germany, the instrument was practically unknown ( although, curiously, Heckel stated in its 1930 catalog that sarrusophones could be made on demand ), and in England, there may have been limited use of the instrument, but it never caught on there.
The collection includes numerous books on New England ancestry, newspapers dating back to 1797 and census records for Wyoming and surrounding counties from 1790 to 1930.
From 1927 to 1930 he moved from Harvard to Cambridge University in England to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology with Richard Goldschmidt in Berlin where he performed research.
The pair followed the 1930 Test series between England and Australia with great interest, and regaled a bemused Jelka with accounts of their boyhood exploits in the game.
In 1930, Merton stayed at Oakham School, a boarding school in Rutland, England.
* Humber Pullman, a large automobile manufactured in central England between 1930 and 1954
Granada Television, a subsidiary of Granada Ltd, originated in Granada Theatres Ltd, which owned cinemas in the south of England, founded in Dover in 1930 by Sidney Bernstein and his brother Cecil.
1930 and captain
* 1930 – Richard With, Norwegian businessman, politician and captain, founder of Hurtigruten ( b. 1846 )
* 1846 – Richard With, Norwegian businessman, politician, and captain ( d. 1930 )
In December 1930, he became captain of the battleship.
Between 1930 and 1933, Thesiger represented Oxford at boxing and later ( in 1933 ) became captain of the Oxford boxing team.
He served as playing captain of the U. S. team in 1928 and 1930.
He was captain of the Kako from 1929 – 1930 and of the battleship Kongō from 1932-1933.
Promoted to the rank of captain in late 1930, he returned to Japan to take up administrative and training duties.
He did not do particularly well as a pace bowler in 1930, but following Australia's tour of England in that summer, when Don Bradman scored freely against the English bowling, Voce was part of a meeting convened between the future English captain, Douglas Jardine, and Nottinghamshire captain, Arthur Carr, to come up with a tactic to defeat Bradman and the Australians.
In 1930 and the following years, Carr was instrumental in developing the Bodyline bowling tactic together with future England captain Douglas Jardine and the two Nottinghamshire fast bowlers Harold Larwood and Bill Voce.
Woodfull reluctantly became captain in 1930 when Jack Ryder was dropped, and his team was derided as the worst Australian squad to tour England.
After the heavy 4 – 1 defeat in the previous Ashes series, captain and fellow Victorian Jack Ryder was omitted altogether from the 1930 Ashes tour, and Woodfull appointed captain.
He was appointed captain for England's last Test against the dominant Australian touring team in 1930, but lost the role to Douglas Jardine for the next few years.
From 1930 to 1938 he was a member of the reserve component of the former Army Air Corps, where he became a captain.
He was the first English captain of the Lions since Doug Prentice in 1930.
John " Johnny " William Henry Tyler Douglas ( 3 September 1882-19 December 1930 ) was a cricketer who was captain of the England team and an Olympic boxer.
Already chosen as tour captain before the final 1930 Ashes Test, Chapman led an MCC team to a 1 – 0 series defeat the following winter.
Don Valeriano Weyler and Nicolau ( Palma de Mallorca, September 17, 1838-Madrid, October 20, 1930 ) was a Spanish political and military noble, Marquis of Tenerife and Duke of Ruby, Grandee of Spain, captain general of Cuba during the independence uprising of Jose Marti and Maximo Gomez.
During his career with Harlequins, he appeared a total of 136 times, including 82 as captain, and he made his final appearance on 25 January 1930 against Cambridge University.
As Test captain, he was on the selection panel for the 1930 Ashes tour of England, but was out-voted for a place on the team, and the captaincy passed to Bill Woodfull.
Following the 1930 defeat to Spain, Pozzo dropped Adolfo Baloncieri, his captain and an international of ten years standing.
Theodore Cordy Freeman ( February 18, 1930, in Haverford, Pennsylvania – October 31, 1964 at Ellington Air Force Base, Houston, Texas ) was a NASA astronaut and a captain in the United States Air Force.
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