Bally Ache (February 3, 1957–October 28, 1960) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the Preakness Stakes in 1960 but died later that year.
 In her book "American Classic Pedigrees (1914–2002)", author Avalyn Hunter wrote that Bally Ache was "a crowd favorite" who "won hearts by his sheer determination."
The 1954–55 Ashes series consisted of five cricket Test matches, each of six days with five hours play each day and eight ball overs.
 It formed part of the MCC tour of Australia in 1954–55 and the matches outside the Tests were played in the name of the Marylebone Cricket Club.
 The England team was captained by Len Hutton, the first professional cricketer to lead an MCC tour of Australia.
 The Australian team under Ian Johnson was confident of victory, but despite losing the First Test by an innings England won the series 3–1 and retained the Ashes.
 They were the only touring team to win a series in Australia between 1932–33 and 1970–71 and only the second of three touring teams to win a series in Australia from behind (the other two being England in 1911–12 and the West Indies in 1992–93).
 The tour is best remembered for the bowling of Frank "Typhoon" Tyson, who was at the time regarded as the fastest, most frightening bowler ever seen in Australia.
 The series saw a phenomenal concentration of bowling prowess on both sides – four of the bowlers had career Test averages under 21, another five under 25 and the remaining four under 30.
 Unsurprisingly therefore, the ball dominated the bat for most of the series and each side only topped 300 in an innings twice.
 Unlike the following series in 1958–59 there were rarely any umpiring disputes and Keith Miller wrote "Mel McInnes, Colin Hoy and Ron Wright were our leading umpires in the 1954–55 M.C.C. tour of Australia, and I have no hesitation in saying that McInnes gave the finest exhibition of umpiring in a Test series that I have experienced".
Keith Ross Miller, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (28 November 1919 – 11 October 2004) was an Australian test cricketer and a Royal Australian Air Force pilot during World War II.
 Miller is widely regarded as Australia's greatest ever all-rounder.
 Because of his ability, irreverent manner and good looks he was a crowd favourite.
 English journalist Ian Wooldridge called Miller "the golden boy" of cricket, leading to his being nicknamed "Nugget".
 He "was more than a cricketer ... he embodied the idea that there was more to life than cricket".
Crowd Lu, (; born 15 July 1985) is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor.
 He is also referred to as Vitas Lu after making a parody of the song Opera No. 2 by the Russian singer Vitas, having the ability to hit the same high notes.
 Due to a serious car accident in his first year at Tamkang University, Lu learned to play guitar during his hospitalization.
 The following year, Lu won first prize for musical composition and solo performance at Tamkang University and proceeded to once again take the gold in composition and become the crowd favorite at National Chengchi University.
Mike Azzaro is an American professional polo player from San Antonio, Texas.
 Azzaro, whose current handicap is 8 goals, held the sport's highest handicap (10 goals) for over 10 years.
 Azzaro was awarded "The Polo Magazine"' s Polo Excellence Award for young player of the year in 1987 and 1990 and the award for player of the year in 1994.
 Known for his aggressive forward style of play, he has always been a crowd favorite.
 With Memo Gracida, he formed one of the most powerful duos in Polo.
 Both of them live in Wellington, Florida.
Aleem Sarwar Dar (born 6 June 1968) is a Pakistani cricket umpire and a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel.
 He won three consecutive ICC Umpire of the Year awards 2009, 2010 and 2011, after being nominated twice in 2005 and 2006.
 Aleem Dar, Marais Erasmus, Richard Kettleborough, Kumar Dharmasena and Simon Taufel were the only umpires to have received the award from its inception until 2016.
 Before becoming an umpire, he played first-class cricket for Allied Bank, Gujranwala Cricket Association, Lahore and Pakistan Railways as a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler.
 Since his retirement as a player, he has gained prominence as one of the leading umpires in international cricket.
 He was educated at Islamia College, Civil Lines, Lahore.
"Black Fender" is an English language single by Swedish singer Hans Edler done as a tribute to Ricky Nelson.
 He performed the song during his live tour "Hans Edler meets Ricky Nelson" in December 2006.
 It has grown into a huge crowd favorite and sang at almost all his later concerts until he decided to release it as a single.
The England team were very unhappy with the umpiring of the 1958–59 Ashes series, in particular the questionable actions of some bowlers in the Australian team.
 The televising of Test cricket was in its infancy and the notion of Test umpires using slow-motion replays or other modern techniques was considered absurd.
 Instead the umpires had to make judgements based on what they saw in a split-second, and honest mistakes were accepted as part and parcel of the game.
 However, touring teams sometimes felt that there was a natural bias towards the home team which led to some acrimony.
 Keith Miller thought "Mel McInnes, Colin Hoy and Ron Wright were our leading umpires in the 1954-55 M.C.C. tour of Australia, and I have no hesitation in saying that McInnes gave the finest exhibition of umpiring in a Test series that I have experienced".
 The England team thought well of him too, but in 1958-59 he lost the confidence of the England players and himself, appeared hesitant and gave some surprising decisions.
 In the Fourth Test he hesitated to give Ken Mackay out even after the batsman walked after snicking a catch off Brian Statham.
 Later Colin McDonald should have been run out when Fred Trueman flattened the stumps after his runner Jim Burke ran round the back of McInnes.
 McInnes gave him out, but then changed his mind and gave him not out as he had not seen whether Burke had made the run or not.
 On his next ball McDonald sportingly pulled his bat out of the way of the stumps to give Trueman "the easiest Test wicket I have ever taken".
 Trueman was affected again when he batted, given out caught by Wally Grout off Richie Benaud when he had dropped his bat and missed the ball.
 The England team became dispirited by the umpiring mistakes and, believing the officials to be against them, lost heart.
 As Fred Trueman wrote
Mathien is a Midwestern funk rock band named after lead singer and guitarist Chris Mathien.
 Chris wrote, produced, and played all the parts on his first album "Head, Heart & Hands" (2007).
 To form a live band Chris met with bassist Mike Schiff and drummer Aaron Bouslog and formed the group in Carbondale, Illinois, at Southern Illinois University.
 They would later be joined by keyboardist George Jackson after relocating to Chicago, Illinois.
 Lee England Jr. on violin was also added as a guest for the recording of the album "Hello, Again" (2009).
 The band played a packed House of Blues in Chicago to kick off the album and tour.
 With songs like "Little Richard", "Dirt That I Do","Goodbye", "Remember" and "We Don't Need to Make Love, to Know That We've Got it" the band had built a strong fan base and played shows on a 2009–2010 tour.
 2011 brought some changes with the band for the recording of "The Night I was an Alpha Male" (2011).
 George Jackson was out and Peter Wilkins joined the band on keyboards.
 They kicked off with an album release party at House of Blues again and toured in the Midwest.
 The band also broke into college radio playlists across the country; radio support came from North Central College WONC-FM in Naperville IL and Findlay College WLFC-FM in Findley, Ohio, and many others.
 The title track received heavy air play plus songs like "Jamie's Son", "Betaman", "Rub It In", "The Hold" and the huge crowd favorite "Lettuce Head".
 2012 the band changed drummers and welcomed Omar Jahwar to the band, Mathien began a midwest tour during 2012 building a fan base at every show they played.
 Later that year Chris Mathien was on WONC-FM's Local Chaos radio show and said the band will be recording a new album for release in 2013.
Lieutenant Gibson (1897–1900) was an American thoroughbred racehorse that was bred in Kentucky and is best remembered for winning the 1900 Kentucky Derby.
 His winning time of 2:06 stood as the Derby record for 11 years.
 Lieut. Gibson also won the Latonia Derby, Clark Stakes and Flatbush Stakes as a three-year-old.
 He was the crowd favorite for the 1900 running of the American Derby, but ran third.

Question: The writer of a list of leading umpires in the 1954-55 M.C.C. tour of Australia was a crowd favorite because of what?
Answer: irreverent manner and good looks