Australian aboriginal descent whose career was curtailed by continual
controversy surrounding the legality of his bowling action. Born into
the Bundjalung people at Yulgilbar in New South Wales, he first made an
impression as a professional runner before playing club cricket in
Sydney. In a trial match against the New South Wales state team in 1900,
he dismissed two Test cricketers but was called for throwing; he then
bowled with his arm in splints to prove that his action was legitimate.
Having topped the bowling averages in the local competition, Marsh was
selected to make his debut in the Sheffield Shield. He made an immediate
impression and led the first-class bowling averages for the season after
three matches. He was no-balled in his second match and then seventeen
times in his fourth match, leading to angry crowd demonstrations. Marsh
only played in two more first-class matches and he was passed over for
selection for Australia because of his action. Regarded as one of the
outstanding talents of his era, his lack of opportunities has often been
attributed to racial discrimination.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Marsh>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1847:
Mexican–American War: The United States Army used heavy
artillery to repulse the much larger Mexican army at the Battle of Buena
Vista near Saltillo, Coahuila.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Buena_Vista>
1885:
Sino-French War: France gained an important victory in the
Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of what is now Vietnam.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_%C4%90%E1%BB%93ng_%C4%90%C4%83ng>
1927:
German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter
to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli in which he described his uncertainty
principle for the first time.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg>
1947:
The International Organization for Standardization, responsible
for worldwide industrial and commercial standards, was founded.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization>
2007:
A Virgin Trains Pendolino express train from London Euston to
Glasgow Central derailed near Grayrigg, Cumbria, UK, killing one person
and injuring 22.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayrigg_derailment>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
salami tactics:
The piecemeal removal or scaling back of something (especially political
opposition); a gradual attack on an opposing position, group, etc.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/salami_tactics>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-
winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre
of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine
adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an
adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.
--W. E. B. Du Bois
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._E._B._Du_Bois>
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