The Cricket Field; Or, The History and the Science of the Game of CricketLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 - 267 Seiten |
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... straight bat to strike it ; be- hind the bowler are several figures , male and female , waiting to stop or catch the ball , their attitudes grotesquely eager for a chance . ' The game is called Club - ball , but the score is made by ...
... straight bat to strike it ; be- hind the bowler are several figures , male and female , waiting to stop or catch the ball , their attitudes grotesquely eager for a chance . ' The game is called Club - ball , but the score is made by ...
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... straight , is represented in old pictures as crooked , and " cricce " is the simple Saxon word for a crooked stick . The derivation of Billiards from the Norman billart , a cue , or from ball - yard , according to Johnson , also Nine ...
... straight , is represented in old pictures as crooked , and " cricce " is the simple Saxon word for a crooked stick . The derivation of Billiards from the Norman billart , a cue , or from ball - yard , according to Johnson , also Nine ...
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... straight players that worry a bowler - twenty - two inches of wood , by four and a quarter - every inch of them before the stumps , hitting or blocking , is rather dishearten- ing ; but the moment a man makes ready for a leg hit , only ...
... straight players that worry a bowler - twenty - two inches of wood , by four and a quarter - every inch of them before the stumps , hitting or blocking , is rather dishearten- ing ; but the moment a man makes ready for a leg hit , only ...
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... straight play and free leg - hitting sel- dom last long together : when once exulting in the luxurious excitement of a leg volley , the muscles are always on the quiver to swipe round , and the bowler sees the bat raised more and more ...
... straight play and free leg - hitting sel- dom last long together : when once exulting in the luxurious excitement of a leg volley , the muscles are always on the quiver to swipe round , and the bowler sees the bat raised more and more ...
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... straight play . " Now - a - days , " said Beldham , " all the world knows that ; but when I began there was very little length bowling , very little straight play , and little defence either . " Fennex , said he , was the first who ...
... straight play . " Now - a - days , " said Beldham , " all the world knows that ; but when I began there was very little length bowling , very little straight play , and little defence either . " Fennex , said he , was the first who ...
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Seite 229 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though in the mean time some necessary question of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.