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... habits : unlike the bull - fights of Spain , and the earlier sports of Eng- land , it is suited to the softer feelings of a refined age . No living creature suffers for our sport : no frogs or minnows impaled , or worms writhing upon ...
... habits : unlike the bull - fights of Spain , and the earlier sports of Eng- land , it is suited to the softer feelings of a refined age . No living creature suffers for our sport : no frogs or minnows impaled , or worms writhing upon ...
Page 100
... habit of betting will take the honesty out of any man . A half - crown sweepstakes , or betting such odds as lady's long kids to gentleman's short ditto , is all very fair sport ; but , if a man , after years of high betting , can still ...
... habit of betting will take the honesty out of any man . A half - crown sweepstakes , or betting such odds as lady's long kids to gentleman's short ditto , is all very fair sport ; but , if a man , after years of high betting , can still ...
Page 111
... habit almost impossible to correct , a lasting bar to brilliant execution . And why ? because the piano or the ... habits of hitting before their place is pre- occupied with bad - for , " there's the rub " is very great indeed . If Pilch ...
... habit almost impossible to correct , a lasting bar to brilliant execution . And why ? because the piano or the ... habits of hitting before their place is pre- occupied with bad - for , " there's the rub " is very great indeed . If Pilch ...
Page 112
... habit , which youth and strength cannot always give , nor age and inactivity entirely take away . The following are simple rules for forming correct habits of play ; for adding the judgment of the veteran to the activity of youth , or ...
... habit , which youth and strength cannot always give , nor age and inactivity entirely take away . The following are simple rules for forming correct habits of play ; for adding the judgment of the veteran to the activity of youth , or ...
Page 114
... habit of not raising the bat till they have seen the pitch of the ball . This is said to tend both to safety and system in play ; but a first - rate player , who has already attained to a right system , should aspire to more power and ...
... habit of not raising the bat till they have seen the pitch of the ball . This is said to tend both to safety and system in play ; but a first - rate player , who has already attained to a right system , should aspire to more power and ...
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