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A batsman makes a century, and, having made it, is bowled by a ball which he is utterly unable to play. What if that ball had come at the beginning of his innings instead of at the end of it? Men go through life without a stain on their honour. I wonder if it simply means that they had the luck not to have the good ball bowled to them early in their innings. To take my own case.
Willings turned and motioned the fielders back, and in obedience Satterlee, 2d, crept farther out toward the edge of the field. But presently, when a ball had been delivered to the batsman, Satterlee, 2d, quite unconsciously, moved eagerly, anxiously in again, step by step. Then came a strike and Carpenter tapped the plate with the end of his bat and waited calmly. Another ball.
He was bowling fully as well as he had done at the beginning of the innings. The last ball of the over beat the batsman all the way. He scooped blindly forward, missed it by a foot, and the next moment the off stump lay flat. Blackburn's had won by seven runs. What might be described as a mixed reception awaited the players as they left the field.
In the old days the number of runs scored in a game was very high, it being a common thing for a winning team to make twenty to thirty runs. The rules of baseball are changed frequently and almost every change has been made with a view to restricting the batsman.
The ball touched the corner of the bat, and soared up in the direction of cover-point, where Pringle held it comfortably. 'There you are, said Marriott, 'when you put a really scientific bowler on you're bound to get a wicket. Why on earth didn't I go on before, Norris? 'You wait, said Norris, 'there are five more balls of the over to come. 'Bad job for the batsman, said Marriott.
All right, come. No-no-no. O, Osborne, why didn't you run that? It was an easy one." "Silly ass, Osborne," roared Cover-point, quite gratuitously, for no one had addressed him for the last twenty minutes. The batsman ran wildly out to the next ball and missed it. The wicket-keeper successfully stumped him. It was a clear case of "out," and a shout went up: "How's that?"
When the fielder knows the batsman, he will change without direction; but in any case he should respond quickly to any signal from the pitcher, because the latter may be going to force the batter to hit in a particular direction. The best fielders make the greatest difference in the positions they play for different batsmen.
It was his work that had prepared for this supreme game of the whole diamond season! Over at third base Cadet Prescott danced cautiously away, yet every now and then stole nearly back. Dick was never going to lose a scored run through carelessness. "Now, good old Carter, can't you?" groaned Durville, as the Army batsman went forward to the plate.
We will imagine that our friend is a briefless barrister, but a fine, all-round sportsman; a crack batsman, perhaps, at Eton and Oxford, or one of whom it might be said: "Give me the man to whom nought comes amiss, One horse or another, that country or this Who through falls and bad starts undauntedly still Rides up to the motto, 'Be with them I will."
The batsman again set himself for a swing, and the pitcher once more tried to make a human knot; again the ball shot, this time straight and true for the plate, and as it did, William, with a volume of agonised pleading in his voice, yelled, "Mind your head." Instinctively the batter ducked and, of course, missed the ball, while the umpire dispassionately cried, "Strike two."
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