County cricketers use the curved side of the bat for driving.
Stratten and Jellicoe were cricketers of high promise, and Heriot chatted with them as usual about their cricket and the game in general.
That did not prevent him from bowling to one of the long line of cricketers who stuck single stumps down the length of the white palings that bounded the ground on one side.
Close to her carriage two young gentlemen-cricketers were strolling, while Fallow field gained breath to decide which men to send in first to the wickets.
The three young cricketers were hostile from the beginning.
The three young gentlemen-cricketers had hitherto behaved with a certain propriety.
Smith and Pierce, together with a large delegation of the lovers of outdoor sports, including cricketers and base-ball players.
The program for the afternoon was a varied one, a two-inning game between the Australian Cricketers and the All-America team being the starter, and in this the American players easily demonstrated their superiority.
He hailed originally from New York, I believe, and while in England surprised the cricketers by his fine catching, no ball being too hot for him to handle.
He said it was one of the best things he had ever seen: it had been given to him by a bloke in the Cricketers the other night.
Sometimes Easton passed the evening at the Cricketers but frequently he went over to the allotments, where Harlow had a plot of ground.
Here is one that he told in the bar of the Cricketers on the Saturday afternoon of the same week that Bill Bates and the Semi-drunk got the sack.
Chapter 19 The Filling of the Tank Viewed from outside, the 'Cricketers Arms' was a pretentious-looking building with plate-glass windows and a profusion of gilding.
After receiving their wages, Crass, Easton, Bundy, Philpot, Harlow and a few others adjourned to theCricketers for a drink.
Easton, however, felt pretty confident that Crass would do his best to get him kept on till the end of the job, for they had become quite chummy lately, usually spending a few evenings together at the Cricketers every week.
The Cricketers was only a few minutes walk from the shop and at pay-time a number of the men used to go in there to take a drink before going home.
It appears that in the year 1887 the cricketers of Town Malling won eleven matches out of twelve; but during this year they have not been so successful.
In all these branches there have been notable cricketers in the Britannia, nor must the Engineer officers be omitted--of whom more anon.
We must, however, leave the achievements of the cricketersand the football teams for a little while, in order to notice some of the other competitions, which it has been considered advisable to include under the heading of "Games.
There are nine positions in a base-ball field, two less than in a field of cricketers in a match.
Many young cricketers cramp their play by using a bat much too heavy for them.
Sherwen, almost under the cavalryman's mount, was protecting his rear with the fallen Galpy's cricket bat, and the two other cricketers were fighting back to back on the other side.
Both of the youngcricketers had been battered and bruised, though it was nothing, they gleefully averred, to what they had meted out.
And not only spectators butcricketers had disappeared.
I felt that, to cricketers who intended to play Mr. Hedges, any objections which I might urge would appear quite trivial.
One of the crowd said to the writer our cricketers “worship the bat.
Some cricketersnever seem to get beyond the “beginning” period, and it is in vain to expect anyone to delight in a thing which he cannot do fairly well.
If cricketers will remember that superior play ought to be the object, and will forget the result, these exhibitions of inferior cricket will be fewer.
If the muscular power of the batsman be not fully exerted upon the natural hits, we think all good cricketers will agree with us, that safety demands that the ball should be “let alone.
Greater interest is felt in fine fielding than in brilliant batting by the spectator, though from a cricketers standpoint a finished batsman will always be the favorite.
The unthinking spectator concludes that cricketers are sleepy, while fielders upon the diamond are consiantly performing feats of wonder.
The most important fielder is thought by many cricketers to be the bowler, nor do we wish to disparage the judgement of anyone prejudiced in favor of that opinion.
While the game is in progress cricketers should be active mentally as well as physically, and they have only themselves to thank for the erroneous impression which has become prevalent that cricket is a sleepy game.
Captains too often do not give rigid instructions upon this most important duty (supposing that cricketers know their business), and also from a desire not to offend a batter.
If English cricketers worship the bat at home, they show no evidence of it upon American cricket grounds.
They set an example to American cricketers which the sooner they follow, the sooner will they equal their alert foreign competitors.
Cricketers glory in him, his friends delight in him, and the sweetest smile of his best girl emphasizes his triumph.
Another thing these old cricketers did which may be commended to the modern clubs--they set about the game as if they meant to finish it.
Palairet holds his bat, and I have always regarded and always shall regard him as the model for young cricketers to copy.
That is all that cricketers want, and kings only fare worse.
Among the more famous Kent cricketers we may quote the names of W.
He was also a stubborn bat, who came off when things were at their worst, and he remains one of the distinguished cricketers of his lengthy period.
Two cricketers who have been before the public ever since, and who in different ways have proved notable exponents of batting, are Messrs.
At the same time, I do not think that cricketers as a rule run as well as they ought to between the wickets.
The group of cricketers who went up from Brighton College will always be memorable.
The games should have local interest, and should if possible bring over one or two cricketers known to the house party.
Above all, it had in view the keeping of old ‘Varsity cricketers of the past in touch with the present, and the present in touch with the future.
One of the troublous parts of cricket legislation has been the question of the residential qualification of cricketers for their counties, and the manner of defining what bona fide residence is.
They do not call themselves amateurs and receive salaries under the guise of expenses, which is exactly what cricketers do; and many of us ask ourselves, what is the reason of this?
Punch had already adapted Byron for his purpose; now he turned to Campbell:-- The Cricketers of England!
At the close of the season Punch gives wholesome advice to English cricketers to repair their bad taste, bad management and bad play, and the advice is not without its point in 1921.
The Women's Liberal Federation had declared for the suffrage, and Punch illustrated the situation in a picture of two political lady cricketers appealing to the G.
The former will be the highly developed descendants of the athletes and the beauties, the splendid cricketers and lawn tennis players of our day.
He got up late in the morning, he lingered over breakfast, and until it was time to go to Brighton he lay on the sofa watching the cricketers and the children playing, shaping resolutions, and striving with himself and deceiving himself.
If I were to mention all my subjects in their various professions, I should fill more space than I am permitted, but among other well-known cricketers whom I have portrayed and caricatured are G.
First Match of the Australian Cricketers against Lord Sheffield's English Eleven.
Have I not already told how some of our cricketers caught the enemy's bombs and hurled them back again?
But none the less no such matches will be played, for the simple reason that the cricketers themselves refuse to come back until their job is finished.
At a pause in the game there was a gathering on the lawn to watch the execution of a little surprise which the cricketers had prepared for our host.
Perhaps the truest realization of just how difficult it is to play a finished game of base ball was obtained by the cricketers who went in against the Chicagos.
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