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Visits former Queen Victoria of Spain at Kensington Palace (F Kuhn Jr)
article by Prof Laski on principle of parliamentary authority as important issue for Labor party
Mexico grants right of asylum
Cabinet decides to give King more time to make decision as result of aroused pub opinion; Baldwin to make interim statement to House of Commons; Earl of Mansfield and other Conservatives invite members of both houses and all parties, including Churchill's followers, to emergency meeting; Baldwin confers with Queen Mary; King not responsive toward pro-King movement; statement by official spokesman on Cabinet meeting
Uncensored account of siege of Madrid by W P Carney, N Y Times correspondent; illus; map
1936Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.[†]
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a 22-yard pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. Two players from the batting team, the striker and nonstriker, stand in front of either wicket holding bats, while one player from the fielding team, the bowler, bowls the ball toward the striker's wicket from the opposite end of the pitch. The striker's goal is to hit the bowled ball with the bat and then switch places with the nonstriker, with the batting team scoring one run for each of these swaps. Runs are also scored when the ball reaches the boundary of the field or when the ball is bowled illegally.