 | James Pycroft - Baseball - 1859 - 270 pages
...of Nyren. " Harris's mode of delivering the ball was very singular. He would bring it from under the arm by a twist, and nearly as high as his arm-pit,...balls acquired the velocity they did by this mode of deliver}', I never could comprehend. His balls were very little beholden to the ground ; it was but... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1902 - 874 pages
...bring it from under the arm by a twist, and nearly as high as his arm-pit, and with this action ?wA it, as it were, from him. How it was that the balls acquired the velocity "ley did by this mode of delivery I never could comprehend. The reader will also, I imagine, find it... | |
 | Allan Gibson Steel, Robert Henry Lyttelton, Andrew Lang - Cricket - 1888 - 476 pages
...to their minds. His mode of delivering the ball was very singular. He would bring it from under the arm by a twist, and nearly as high as his arm-pit,...by this mode of delivery, I never could comprehend. When first he joined the Hambledon Club, he was quite a raw countryman at cricket, and had very little... | |
 | William Gilbert Grace - Cricket - 1891 - 654 pages
...with his left. His mode of delivering the ball was very singular. He would bring it from under the arm by a twist, and nearly as high as his armpit, and with his action push it, as it were, from him. He never stooped in the least in his delivery, but kept himself... | |
 | Horace Gordon Hutchinson - Cricket - 1903 - 602 pages
...never deviated. His mode of delivering the ball was very singular. He would bring it from under the arm by a twist, and nearly as high as his arm-pit,...push it, as it were, from him. How it was that the ball acquired the velocity it did by this mode of delivery, I never could comprehend." Nor any one... | |
 | James Pycroft - Cricket - 1922 - 352 pages
...of Nyren. Harris's " mode of delivering the ball was very singular. He would bring it from under the arm by a twist, and nearly as high as his armpit,...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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1902 - 876 pages
...deviated. . . . His mode of delivering the ball was very singular. He would bring it from under the arm by a twist, and nearly as high as his arm-pit, and with this action path it, as it were, from him. How it was that the balls acquired the velocity they did by this mode... | |
 | Henry Norman, Henry Chalmers Roberts - 1903 - 732 pages
...he raised the ball to his forehead, and drawing back his right foot, started off with his leit. His mode of delivering the ball was very singular. He...and with this action push it, as it were, from him." As it stands, this sentence only becomes intelligible to me on the interpretation of the Hon. RH Lyttelton... | |
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mode of delivering the ball was very singular. He would bring it from under the arm by a twist, and nearly as high as his armpit, and with this action push it, as it were, from him. 