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Hooper-Bowler-Hillstrom House

Additional features include a well-pump in the kitchen, a wood stove, and a large carriage stone on the front lawn, which acted as a step for ascending into or descending from carriages.


1997–98 Coca-Cola Cup

Sachin Tendulkar won the man of the tournament award and an Opel Astra that went with the award apart from winning other awards for most sixes and fastest fifty whereas Damien Fleming and Ricky Ponting of Australia won the best bowler and best fielder awards respectively.

2007 Weber Cup


Team USA captain Tim Mack, together with Tommy Jones, put the Americans in front overall for the first time, with a 226-207 win over Team Europe's captain Tomas Leandersson and Mika Koivuniemi.

Adrian McAdam

McAdam, who was a fast bowler, claimed the wickets of Habibul Bashar, Mohammad Ashraful and Javed Omar.

Andrew Hilditch

When a wayward throw from a Pakistani fieldsman dribbled onto the pitch, Hilditch picked up the ball and handed it back to the bowler, Sarfraz Nawaz.

Ben W. Hooper

Hooper served as a member of the U.S. Railroad Labor Board (RLB) during the administration of President Warren G. Harding in the early 1920s, and as chairman of the RLB was a central figure in the 1922 Railroad Shopmen's Strike.

Bernard Hollowood

One of his Staffordshire team-mates was the great bowler Sydney Barnes, whose last match for Staffordshire was in 1935.

Billy Hardwick

There have been only five other Triple Crown winners since: Johnny Petraglia, Mike Aulby, Pete Weber, Norm Duke and Chris Barnes.

Brett Fancy

He took the lead role of Sean Hooper in the LWT comedy series Square Deal written by Richard Ommanney, recorded live in front of a studio audience weekly and directed by Nick Phillips.

Colin Blythe

It is also the most wickets any bowler has ever taken in a single day's cricket (since equalled by Hedley Verity and Tom Goddard).

David A. Tall

Born in Plympton, he was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Devon.

Dennis Raetz

Raetz began a coaching career that took him from North Kansas City High, where his teams were renowned for their defensive prowess, to a head coaching position at the J.C Harmon High; where he coached future NFL Pro Bowler Mark Haynes.

Diandra Asbaty

Champion at 2010 PBA Don and Paula Carter Mixed Doubles tournament (with Brian Voss)

Ed Hooper

In 1996, Hooper coordinated a successful national media campaign to bring attention to the plight of Shiloh National Military Park’s erosion issues and the destruction of a Mississippian Indian Mound, which sat on the back of the National Park Service's Shiloh property.

Eddie Bo

He produced and arranged records by such artists as Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, Art Neville, Chris Kenner, Chuck Carbo, Irma Thomas, Johnny Adams, Mary Jane Hooper, Robert Parker, and The Explosions.

Edwin B. Hooper

Hooper gained approval for the development of the AIM-9 Sidewinder.

Emmanuelle 7: The Meaning of Love

It was directed by Brody Hooper, produced by Alain Siritzky, and written by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, based on character by Emmanuelle Arsan.

Franklin Hooper

He was born in Walpole, New Hampshire, the son of William Hooper and Elvira Pulsifer Hopper, and grew up on his parents' farm.

George Hunt

George E. Hunt (1896–1959), medium-pace bowler who made over 200 appearances for Somerset

George Louden

Business meant Louden never had the tiniest hope of going on an tour to Australia, though he was doubtless much better suited to the cast-iron Australian pitches than any English professional bowler of the time.

Hammad Siddiqi

In 1996, he was named in the 100 Best Young Cricketers in Pakistan, which included future stars like Shahid Afridi, Hasan Raza, Bazid Khan and Faisal Iqbal, and was invited to a camp for fast bowlers supervised by former Test bowler Sarfraz Nawaz the same year.

Henry Tinsley

Born in Welham Grange, Malton, Yorkshire, England, Tinsley was a right arm fast bowler, who took four first-class wickets at 14.25, with a best of 3 for 15 against Lancashire.

History of cricket in Pakistan from 1947 to 1970

Spin Bowler: Muhammad Amin, known for his unique bowling style and was one of the few players of his time who could actually execute a googly

Ian Fyfe

A bowler from his early cricket days at St. Pat's School under the watchful eye of Jacob Harris and as a leading wicket taker for Karachi Goan Association, he was among the top slow left arm spin bowlers of Karachi at that time.

Jan Drapentier

These, which are of no very great merit, include portraits of William Hooper (1674), Sir James Dyer (1675), Richard Baxter, the Earl of Athlone, Viscount Dundee, Henry Sacheverell, the seven bishops, and others.

Jess Stayrook

He is mainly known for being the third and last bowler to convert the 7-10 split on television after John Mazza (1991) and Mark Roth (1980).

Johnny Petraglia

Petraglia would win two more majors: the 1977 BPAA U.S. Open and 1980 PBA National Championship, making him one of only six players to earn the PBA career "Triple Crown." (Billy Hardwick, Mike Aulby, Pete Weber, Norm Duke and Chris Barnes are the others.

Larry Bowler

Bowler originally made an unsuccessful run for the state assembly in 1988, losing to then Assemblyman Phil Isenberg by a margin of 57% to 43%.

Mark Roth

He plays an opponent of a 153-average bowler (Al Molinaro) fulfilling a fantasy to compete and win against professionals.

Mor Aviram

Her brother, Or Aviram, is also a professional bowler, as was their mother, Sara Aviram.

Mutoid Waste Company

The Mutoid Waste Company was a performance arts group founded in the West London United Kingdom by Joe Rush and Robin Cooke in collaboration with Alan P Scott and Joshua Bowler.

Nick Knight

Knight's middle name was in honour of the 1930s English Test bowler Hedley Verity who was killed in World War II and is a distant family relation.

Patched

The original mutations in the ptc gene were discovered in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster by 1995 Nobel Laureates Eric F. Wieschaus and Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and colleagues, and the gene was independently cloned in 1989 by Joan Hooper in the laboratory of Matthew P. Scott, and by Philip Ingham and colleagues.

Patrick Coombe

He was a left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler who played for Cornwall.

Professional Women's Bowling Association

Former PWBA members such as Kelly Kulick, Kim Adler and Liz Johnson would eventually become exempt members of the PBA Tour.

Pundits from Pakistan

It includes a conversation with Intikhab Alam, the former Pakistani cricket captain, and interviews with Danish Kaneria, the Pakistani leg spinner, Sabih Azhar, Shoaib Akhtar’s first coach, Aaqib Javed, the former Pakistani fast bowler, Andy Atkinson, the English pitch consultant who had been hired by the Pakistan Cricket Board, Abdul Qadir, the former Pakistani leg spinner, and Sourav Ganguly, the Indian captain on the tour.

Rahatullah Mohmand

He was invited to play for Afghanistan to strengthen their batting by their coach Kabir Khan, the former left-arm fast medium bowler who played four Tests for Pakistan.He included in the 15-member Afghanistan team named ahead of the 2009 ICC World Cup Qualifiers due to take place in South Africa.

Rasanara Parwin

Rasanara Parwin (born Rasanara Kephatulla Parwin) born on May 4, 1992 is a right-arm off break bowler for the India national women's cricket team who made her debut in the 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup against West Indies.

Red Hat Society

In 1997, Cooper gave a friend a 55th birthday gift consisting of a red bowler purchased at an antique store along with a copy of Jenny Joseph's poem "Warning".

Shane Lee

Despite being included in the 1996 and 1999 World Cup squads, he only really established himself in the team in the 1999-2000 Carlton and United Series along with the emergence of his younger brother, fast bowler Brett Lee.

Stasia Czernicki

Czernicki was the first woman bowler regularly seen on the long-running TV show Candlepin Bowling, broadcast on Boston's WHDH-TV (later WCVB-TV), Channel 5.

Sullivan, Missouri

Elvin Mesger, Bowler, holder of the American Bowling Congress record for 800-or-better series

Sultans of Sylhet

In Sultans of Sylhet it is bowler Nazmul Hossain who has been on the Bangladesh national team when they beat world number one Australia.

Tara Buckman

Often cast in minor roles in larger budget films, Tara appeared in the Burt Reynolds vehicles Hooper and The Cannonball Run in 1978 and 1981, respectively.

Ted Hooper

He also co-authored The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Beekeeping (Roger Morse and Ted Hooper, 1985)

Trent Boult

Born in Rotorua, Boult is a left–arm medium–fast opening bowler and a right–handed batsman.

Underarm bowling incident of 1981

Greg Chappell, the Australian captain, ordered the bowler (his brother Trevor) to bowl underarm, rolling the ball along the ground to prevent the Number 10 New Zealand batsman (Brian McKechnie) any chance of hitting a six from the last ball to tie the match.

Valkiri

Development was completed in 1981, and it was fielded in 1987 and 1988 by the South African Defense Force (SADF) in southern Angola against Cuban supported People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA), specifically during operations Hooper and Moduler.

Weber Cup

On Day 1, in the 5th match, Tommy Jones rolled the 2nd ever perfect game in the tournament's history, against Team Europe captain Tomas Leandersson, and at close of play on day one, the scores were tied at 4 matches apiece.

William Henry Hooper

Hooper was elected to the Thirty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1865 – March 3, 1873).


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