Word: batting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Advance predictions give Eli by far the best of the returning material. The seventy-odd candidates for the Blue nine will find only two positions left vacant by graduation, those of Mallory behind the bat and of Captain O'Hearn at first base. The pitching force is especially strong with Captain Pond, Ashburn, and Scott from last year's teams. Practically the entire 1927 team has reported this year...
...likeness of a black cone. The air thinned, darkened, the sea cowered beside the ship; Jonah slept. Suddenly, the sail split from top to bottom and one mariner, huddled with the rest, called on the name of his god in a voice shrill and little like a bat's; next instant, with a great clap, the sky fell into...
...bat who sided with quadrupeds, with birds...
...miles over the sea on a strip of coconut matting 22 yards long was being played a test* match between England and Australia. The scene was set upon a sward near Adelaide, South Australia; and in the presence of thousands of people England was making her stand with the bat against the fast balls and ready hands of the Australians. Every movement of the 22 players was sent slithering through the ether to the isles of Britain...
...sped the batsmen along the pitch-too late! An alert "Kangaroo" had shot the ball into the wicket keeper's gloved hands and a fraction of a second later the ball flew off the stumps just a fraction of a second before the English batsman could shove his bat over the "popping crease" (batting line). England was beaten. Loud cheers and glad faces in Australia. Silence and long faces in England...