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" He would bring it from under his arm by a twist, and nearly as high as his arm-pit, and with this action push it, as it were, from him. How it was that the balls acquired the velocity they did by this mode of delivery, I never could comprehend. "
The cricket-field. By J. Pycroft - Page 77
by James Pycroft - 1862
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 60

1870 - 604 pages
...himself upright all the time. His balls were very little beholden to the ground when pitched, it was but touch and up again ; and woe be to the man who did...in to block them, for they had such a peculiar curl that they would grind his fingers against the bat.'' Now the account of this reads like good bowling,...
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The Cricket Field; Or, The History and the Science of the Game of Cricket

James Pycroft - Cricket - 1854 - 330 pages
...can hardly call it a bail — but by popping the ball in the hole therein represented. David Harris' bowling, Fennex used to say, introduced, or at least...informants in ascribing great improvement in batting, and he specifies, " particularly in stopping " (for the act of defence, we said, w^as not essential to...
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The cricket field: or, The history and the science of cricket, by the author ...

James Pycroft - Cricket - 1854 - 324 pages
...can hardly call it a bail — but by popping the ball in the hole therein represented. David Harris' bowling, Fennex used to say, introduced, or at least...informants in ascribing great improvement in batting, and he specifies, " particularly in stopping " (for the act of defence, we said, was not essential to the...
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The Cricket Field: Or, The History and the Science of the Game of Cricket

James Pycroft - Baseball - 1859 - 270 pages
...were, from him. How it was that the balls acquired the velocity they did by this mode of deliver}', I never could comprehend. His balls were very little...and woe be to the man who did not get in to block then, for they had such a peculiar curl they would grind his fingers against the bat." And Nyren agrees...
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The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf ...

598 pages
...himself upright all the time. His balls were very little beholden to the ground when pitched, it was but touch and up again ; and woe be to the man who did...in to block them, for they had such a peculiar curl that they would grind his fingers against the bat." Now the account of this reads like good bowling,...
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The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'.

John William Carleton - 1870 - 630 pages
...himself upright all the time. His balls were very little beholden to the ground when pitched, it was but touch and up again ; and woe be to the man who did not get in to block them, for they had Buch a peculiar curl that they would grind his fingers against the bat." Now the account of this reads...
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Cricket

Allan Gibson Steel, Robert Henry Lyttelton, Andrew Lang - Cricket - 1888 - 476 pages
...kept himself upright all the time. His balls were very little beholden to the ground when pitched ; it was but a touch, and up again ; and woe be to the...in to block them, for they had such a peculiar curl that they would grind his fingers against the bat ; many a time have I seen the blood drawn in this...
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Cricket

William Gilbert Grace - Cricket - 1891 - 654 pages
...kept himself upright all the time. His balls were very little beholden to the ground when pitched : it was but a touch and up again ; and woe be to the man who did. not get in to block him, for they had such a peculiar curl that they would grind his fingers against the bat." Harris may...
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Cricket

Horace Gordon Hutchinson - Cricket - 1903 - 602 pages
...His balls," says Nyren, in another place, " were very little beholden to the ground when pitched ; it was but a touch, and up again, and woe be to the...in to block them, for they had such a peculiar curl that they would grind his fingers against the bat. Many a time have I seen the blood drawn in this...
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The Cricket-field

James Pycroft - Cricket - 1922 - 352 pages
...delivery I never could comprehend. . . . His balls were very little beholden to the ground when pitched ; it was but a touch, and up again ; and woe be to the...in to block them, for they had such a peculiar curl that they would grind his fingers against the bat." And Nyren agrees with my informants in ascribing...
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