The Cricket Field; Or, The History and the Science of the Game of Cricket |
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Page 27
... style of play — a hundred pounds appear to depend on every ball - not a hit for these five minutes - see , he has a shilling on his stumps , and Hillyer is doing his best to knock it off . A question asked after every ball , the bowler ...
... style of play — a hundred pounds appear to depend on every ball - not a hit for these five minutes - see , he has a shilling on his stumps , and Hillyer is doing his best to knock it off . A question asked after every ball , the bowler ...
Page 36
... style of play is worth something independently of its effect on the score . Take the case of the Skating Club . Will they elect a man because , in spite of arms and legs centrifugally flying , he can do some tricks of a posture - master ...
... style of play is worth something independently of its effect on the score . Take the case of the Skating Club . Will they elect a man because , in spite of arms and legs centrifugally flying , he can do some tricks of a posture - master ...
Page 53
... style , almost after the manner of Mr. Budd . Old Small was among the first mem- bers of the Hambledon Club . He began to play about 1750 , and Lumpy Stevens at the same time . I can give you some notion , sir , of what cricket was in ...
... style , almost after the manner of Mr. Budd . Old Small was among the first mem- bers of the Hambledon Club . He began to play about 1750 , and Lumpy Stevens at the same time . I can give you some notion , sir , of what cricket was in ...
Page 54
... style of long stopping in the North and South Match of 1836 , made Lord Frederick and Mr. Ward justly proud of so good a representative of the game in their younger days . Albeit , an old player of seventy , describing the merits of all ...
... style of long stopping in the North and South Match of 1836 , made Lord Frederick and Mr. Ward justly proud of so good a representative of the game in their younger days . Albeit , an old player of seventy , describing the merits of all ...
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... style of bowling ; and cricket was not a new game in this old man's early days ( say 1780 ) about Leicester and Nottingham , as the score in page 41. alone would prove ; for such a game as cricket , evidently of gradual develop- ment ...
... style of bowling ; and cricket was not a new game in this old man's early days ( say 1780 ) about Leicester and Nottingham , as the score in page 41. alone would prove ; for such a game as cricket , evidently of gradual develop- ment ...
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Page 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.