England

England, the defending trophy holder, dominated yesterday's doubles action and moved ahead of the United States in the final-round court tennis series for the Bathurst Cup at the Racquet Club. Julian Snow, British amateur singles champion, and Michael McMurrugh prevailed, 6-3, 6-3, 6-2, against Morris Clothier, the U.S. amateur champion from Valley Forge, and Henry Bunis of New York City. Before the match, England and the United States were deadlocked at 1-1 as a result of the singles triumphs by Snow and Clothier on Sunday.

A 30-yard blast from Monica Ocampo gave Mexico a 1-1 draw against England on Monday in Wolfsburg, Germany - the biggest surprise so far after two days of the Women's World Cup. Ocampo's dipping drive from far out in the 33d minute was a beauty of a shot. Still, goalie Karen Bardsley had plenty of time to react. She trotted slowly to her right corner and put out her hands. It was too late. England coach Hope Powell said the ball might have swerved, but she was forced to draw an inevitable conclusion about her keeper's effort: "She should have saved it. " Fara Williams had given England the lead in the 21st from a corner kick.

The Drexel women's varsity eight crew, fresh off a school-best third-place finish in the Dad Vail, is one of two American teams entered in this week's Henley Women's Regatta. It marks the first time that Drexel women will compete for the Jeffries Cup at the historic event. The Dragons, coming off one of their most successful seasons ever, arrived in England on Saturday to train on the Thames River in preparation for the single-elimination competition. Drexel's first race, set for tomorrow, is against the Neptune racing team from Dublin, Ireland.

Harry Kennedy is worried about what might happen when his soccer team plays its English hosts next week. It just might be a mismatch when the team from Chester County visits soccer-mad England on March 21. Kennedy's players are not sure if the Britons will be able to compete with them. Are they fools? Actually, they are teenage girls. And when the Rockettes, the 15-and-under team from the Downingtown Spirit United soccer club, play three games in Sheffield, England, on the six-day trip, they just might be the favorite in some of those games.

The witchcraft trials in Salem, Mass., in the 1640s, the milieu of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, were not unique to this continent. During the same period, accused witches were being executed in England, an occurrence that Caryl Churchill takes up in Vinegar Tom, the current production of Villanova Theater. Unlike Miller, who established the Salem witch hunt within the social context of colonial Massachusetts, Churchill is interested primarily in showing that the persecution of witches was just another, albeit a particularly vicious, way of oppressing and persecuting women.

An English team of Oxford and Cambridge University players won the Van Alen Cup by defeating the United States, 5-1, in the annual international court- tennis matches yesterday at the Racquet Club. The doubles were divided after England swept the four singles matches on victories by Hodey Swinglehurst of Cambridge, Roman Rokendeck of Oxford, both winning in three-set contests; David Baker of Cambridge, and Geoffrey Hodges of Oxford. The only Philadelphia player, Steve Simpson of Williams College, was beaten, 6-2, 6-0, by Hodges.

The British may be coming to Evesham Township in 1988 - at the invitation of the Township Council and the Tricentennial Commission. If all goes according to plan, an invitation to some of the activities planned for Evesham's year-long celebration will be delivered to officials in Evesham, England, next week . The invitation will be delivered by township resident David Ruggierio, who is devoting a portion of a trip to England to a visit to the...

Plantagenet Tours is an English company that specializes in thematic treks. This year's offerings include a tour of medieval England and France with stops in York, Rouen and Beynat, and a tour of literary England with stops in Cambridge and Dorchester. Next year, the company is gearing up for the Isak Dinesen (pen name of Karen Blixen) tour to Denmark and Africa, which will consist of two trips: one to Copenhagen and other Danish locales, to visit places Blixen lived before and after her African adventure, and the other to Kenya.

Starting Tuesday, a group of local South Jersey athletes will experience the best of British culture: They will tour the city of Nottingham with its 900-year-old castle, visit Sherwood Forest, stop at the Shakespeare Museum, see Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben and much more. And in their spare time they will be playing basketball - on a very competitive level. On Tuesday, a 12-member South Jersey women's 19-and-under all-star team will leave for a two-week tour of England.

If you yearn to visit England but don't want to journey across the "pond," Alison Black has a solution. In December, the native of Kingston-on-Thames opened Mulberry Tearooms, a restaurant at 60 S. Main St. in Medford that looks like an English outpost right down to the nine tea varieties, scones, shortbreads, cream meringues and pasties (a potato and cheese concoction) on the menu; the china tea cups on the sideboard; and a de rigueur picture of the queen on the wall. Queen Victoria, that is. For a picture of her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth at her coronation in 1952, you'll have to visit the restroom.

Here is an excerpt from the blog "My Daughter's Kitchen. " A few years working in New England gave me a taste of some of the best "chowda" I had ever eaten, both at little corner restaurants, seafood shacks on the Cape, and of course, at the famed Legal Sea Foods in Boston. Everyone had their own version, but the best were smooth and rich soups, stocked with clams, potatoes, a little onion, and a healthy splash of cream. Back in the Philadelphia area, I found it hard to find the same soup, as most restaurant renditions were dense and gloppy, thickened with flour and resonating with a strong flavor of bacon.

50 littleneck clams, picked over, discard any with broken shells 2 cups water Bottled clam juice (optional) 1 ounce meaty salt pork, rind removed and cut into ?-inch dice 1 tablespoon butter (optional) 1 clove garlic 1 medium yellow onion, diced small 1 stalk of celery, diced small 1 sprig fresh thyme 1 dried bay leaf 4 or 5 potatoes, peeled and cut into ?-inch dice Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper 1/2 cup cup heavy cream 1. Scrub clams and rinse well.

LONDON - Musicians often have a passionate infatuation with the utopian lushness of Frederick Delius' music - and then move on. The exception is one of England's busiest violinists, Tasmin Little. In her 70-concerto repertoire, her talisman is Delius, the composer she devoted herself to during a make-or-break period in her career, knowing full well that "break" was more likely than "make."

IT'S VERY POSSIBLE that by week's end Sebastien Le Toux will no longer be the face of the Union. A Union official confirmed to the Daily News a FoxSoccer.com report that English Premier League side Bolton has met with Le Toux and could offer the Union a hefty transfer fee for the two-time MLS Fair Play award winner. Le Toux is the Union's all-time leading scorer, with 25 goals and 20 assists in two seasons. According to a team source with knowledge of the situation, as of late last night, preliminary discussions had commenced but there is no official offer on the table at this time.

The Union might enter their third Major League Soccer season without Sebastien Le Toux, their leading scorer and, arguably, most popular player. Ives Galarcep of Foxsoccer.com reported Wednesday that the Union may sell Le Toux to Bolton of the English Premier League. Le Toux posted on his Twitter account, "On a jet plane headed to England. " Union manager Peter Nowak sent a text Wednesday saying, "Team policy is we don't comment or discuss on anything that is not certain.

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Mitt Romney eagerly pocketed an endorsement yesterday from two-time New Hampshire primary winner John McCain and bid to convert a single-digit victory in Iowa into a Republican presidential-campaign juggernaut. Unimpressed, Newt Gingrich ridiculed the former Massachusetts governor as a liberal turned moderate now masquerading as a conservative. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum sought to rally conservatives to his side after coming achingly close to victory in the Iowa caucuses.

LONDON - When he was building 400 offices from New England to Florida, Vernon Hill used to brag "it never rains on a Commerce Bank branch opening. " England is different , I thought, reaching London in a December sleet storm to check on Hill's new British start-up, Metro Bank P.L.C., I figured London workers might not tolerate his long hours and his demands that they keep busy. Competitors won't stand for his cheeky insults. Regulators won't bless his push-back, his contempt for "stupid rules," his hiring of his wife.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - Tom Brady got the offense going just in time to lead the New England Patriots to the winning touchdown in the final minute of a 20-16 victory over Dallas on Sunday. Brady threw an 8-yard scoring pass to Aaron Hernandez with 22 seconds left, and the Patriots' top-ranked offense overcame the Cowboys' stingy defense. Dan Bailey's 26-yard field goal for Dallas had broken a 13-13 tie with 5 minutes, 13 seconds left. Each team ran one series before the Patriots got the ball after a punt with 2:30 remaining.

The Union had one of their best offensive outputs of the season, and every bit of effort was needed to compensate for a defense that continues to show serious leaks. Trailing 4-1 at halftime, the Union roared back to grab a 4-4 draw on Wednesday against the New England Revolution in a Major League Soccer match before 16,148 at PPL Park in Chester. Sebastien Le Toux earned the equalizer with a volley from close range during second-half stoppage time. "Four goals in a half shouldn't happen and at times we looked like an expansion team," Union team manager Peter Nowak said.

MONTPELIER, Vt. - The full measure of Hurricane Irene's fury came into focus Monday as the death toll jumped to 40, New England towns battled epic floods, and millions faced the dispiriting prospect of several days without electricity. From North Carolina to Maine, communities cleaned up and took stock of the uneven and hard-to-predict costs of a storm that spared the nation's biggest city a nightmare scenario, only to deliver a historic wallop to towns well inland. In New York City, where people had braced for a disaster-movie scene of water swirling around skyscrapers, the subways and buses were up and running again in time for the Monday morning commute.