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Updated: June 1, 2025
What did I do with that score-sheet, by the way? Oh, here it is." He drew it from an inner pocket of his jacket, and with it a blue envelope which fell to the floor. He picked it up, with a chuckle. "Look at this, Clint. I found it in the mail and nearly had heart disease. Too well do I know those blue envelopes and Josh's copper-plate writing! Catch it.
Nothing succeeds like success; and once fairly started on a sequence of big scores, the cricketer goes on day by day piling up runs and vires acquirit eundo. Perhaps "being in form" does not depend so much on the state of the digestion as on the state of the mind. Anxiety or excitement, fostered by over-keenness, usually results in a blank score-sheet.
There were only four of us; two specials, Wallis and myself, a news-agency reporter, and a local man. "Stott takes first over," remarked Wallis, sharpening his pencil and arranging his watch and score-sheet he was very meticulous in his methods. "They've put him to bowl against the wind. He's medium right, isn't he?" "Haven't the least idea," I said.
But he let the thing go. "Very well," he said. Twenty minutes later, Hargate was looking some-what ruefully at the score-sheet. "I owe you eighteen shillings," he said. "Shall I pay you now, or shall we settle up in a lump after we've finished?" "What about stopping now?" said Lord Dreever. "It's quite fine out." "No, let's go on. I've nothing to do till dinner, and I don't suppose you have."
Clint went over to the courts one afternoon before practice in the hope of seeing his room-mate perform. But Amy was dashing around with a score-sheet in hand and the matches in progress were not exciting. "Who's going to win?" asked Clint when Amy had subsided long enough to be spoken to. "Or, rather, who's going to get second place?" "Second place? Why second place?" asked Amy suspiciously.
On the match being resumed at two o'clock, with four hundred lines on the score-sheet, he had played a fine, free game during afternoon school, and Mr Dexter, who objected to fine, free games or, indeed, any games during school hours, had increased the total to six hundred, when stumps were drawn for the day.
and reference to the score-sheet, which is still preserved among the records of the County Club, shows that six of the seven wickets were clean bowled. The Eleven had no second innings; the match was drawn, owing to rain. Stott has told me that the Eleven had to bat on a dry wicket, but after making all allowances, the performance was certainly remarkable.
'Show you the score-sheet if you care to see it. In the second innings 'Oh, you began a second innings? 'Yes. We also finished it. We scored rather freely in the second innings. Ten was on the board before the fifth wicket fell. In the end we fairly collared the bowling, and ran up a total of forty-eight. Norris took a seat, and tried to grapple with the situation. 'Forty-eight!
But no batsman can experience that supreme emotion of 'something attempted, something done', which comes to a bowler when a ball pitches in a hole near point's feet, and whips into the leg stump. It is one crowded second of glorious life. Again, the words 'retired hurt' on the score-sheet are far more pleasant to the bowler than the batsman.
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