Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Sport: Harlem Cricket
One sport almost untouched by the war is Harlem's colored cricket. Last week the slim, supple bowlers and batsmen of the two big leagues, the New York and the Cosmopolitan, were out for spring practice in the vast green reaches of Van Cortlandt Park.
Most of the players and onlookers are West Indians. There are ten eleven-man teams in the New York League, six in the Cosmopolitan. After a summer's play in Van Cortlandt Park, a "world series" is held between the leagues in the Randalls Island Stadium.
New York-Cosmopolitan cricket has something of the quietly gala atmosphere of matches at Lord's in...
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