Word: batsmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your chat about batting batsmen, TIME, July 29, p. 41, reminds me of a story that Dan Logan tells. It may interest TIME-readers...
...clear crack of willow bat on cricket ball, watching their more athletic colleagues play the youngsters of the Royal Naval College. The cadet eleven ginined happily in their spotless white flannels and played close. They had just caught a grizzled Lieutenant-Commander leg-before-wicket, and the present batsmen, for all their massive shin guards and bushy eyebrows, seemed easy. Suddenly at a whispered word from the sidelines the long-white-coated umpire stopped the game and announced...
...England had 417 and Australia 397. When Australia had completed its second inning, the tourists went in to bat on a wicket that after a rain and five days of play was ridged and torn so that it favored the bowlers; it did not seem possible that the English batsmen would be able to reach 332 runs to win. Jack Hobbs gave the visitors their start; shortly after the interval for tea, he was bowled out with 49; Herbert Sutcliffe continued with Jardine and the day's play ended with nine wickets to fall...
...century of the present series, batting for six hours and 15 minutes. The wickets fell faster when he was removed. As the afternoon lengthened, it at last seemed likely that England would pass the Australian total. Finally, Geary, the bowler who in an earlier test had retired five Australian batsmen in 18 overs, made the winning...
...purpose of the game, offensively, is to knock down with the ball either or both of two loose-balanced wickets which it is the batsman's business to defend. When one of the batsmen knocks the ball away from his wicket, he may exchange places with the other batsman, thus scoring a run. The procedure of scoring does not greatly differ from that used in two-old-cat; but cricket is unique among all games for profound, untechnical and subtle reasons. Its rhythm, the pace at which its climaxes are reached and at which they disappear, is slower than anything...