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Evident preparations had been made either that morning or the previous night for a grand match; a large number of sods of turf had been taken up and hastily replaced on that portion of the wicket where the ball is supposed to pitch when it leaves the bowler's hand.
Full-pitches are therefore very uncommon. In cricket a bowler who delivered the ball with the action of a pitcher would be disqualified for "throwing": it is one of the laws of cricket that the bowler's elbow must not be bent.
The first ball was a miss-hit. It went behind point for a couple. The next he got fairly hold of and drove to the boundary. The third was a very simple-looking ball. Its sole merit appeared to be the fact that it was straight. Also it was a trifle shorter than it looked. Marriott jumped out, and got too much under it. Up it soared, straight over the bowler's head.
Among Alvan's gifts the understanding of women did not rank high. He was too robust, he had been too successful. Your very successful hero regards them as nine-pins destined to fall, the whole tuneful nine, at a peculiar poetical twist of the bowler's wrist, one knocking down the other figuratively, for their scruples, or for their example with their sisters.
He always counted his runs. 'By Jove, as near as that? This is something like a finish. Mike left the first ball alone, and the second. They were too wide of the off-stump to be hit at safely. Then he felt a thrill as the third ball left the bowler's hand. It was a long-hop. He faced square to pull it. And at that moment Mr John Bickersdyke walked into his life across the bowling-screen.
Yet always, even in his most cosseted and idle days, he managed to preserve the grave preoccupation of one professionally concerned with retrieving things that smell; and consoled himself with pastimes such as cricket, which he played in a manner highly specialised, following the ball up the moment it left the bowler's hand, and sometimes retrieving it before it reached the batsman.
It's part of the game. Now here's the box, where I've put this dab of marmalade, and here's the pitcher, winding up." "The pitcher would be equivalent to our bowler?" "I guess so, though why you should call him a bowler gets past me." "The box, then, is the bowler's wicket?" "Have it your own way. Now pay attention. Play ball! Pitcher's winding up. Put it over, Mike, put it over! Some speed, kid!
"Occasionally guerilla skirmishing was encountered on the road; but there was no fighting with any considerable force of the Rebels, though they had infantry and artillery at Kings and Queens Court House and about two hundred cavalry at Bowler's Ferry.
'Who was the fool who walked behind the bowler's arm? he yelled appealingly to Space. 'Here he comes, whoever he is, said Mike. A short, stout man in a straw hat and a flannel suit was walking towards them.
Lieutenant Donovan, have you heard Bowler's news?" "Sure an' if it wasn't for the fog, I would. Every word of it come to me, as clear as seeing." "Very well. Carry on a little to the south, half a league or so, and then stand out, but keep within sound of signal. I shall bear up presently. It is clearing every minute, and we must nab them."
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