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...Brown-A medium left-hand bowler with a considerable break; a steady bat and an excellent fielder at short slip. Belongs to the Germantown club...
...Collady-A fast overhand bowler with considerable bump, and a slow but sure run-getter. A Belmont...
...within the last ten days, at the meeting held in Philadelphia, the United States Association decided to change the law so that a batsman shall be out if with any part of his person he stop a ball, which, in the opinion of the umpire at the bowler's wicket, shall have been pitched in a straight line from it to the striker's wicket, and would have hit it. The meeting was very fully attended. It is the first time in the history of the association that it has broken the record of conservatism and devotion to English custom...
...generally supposed that the M. C. C. will accept the recommendation of the Council, and will amend Law 24, as suggested. Such action would undoubtedly be followed in this country, as many of our leading cricketers favor such a step. The effect would be to give the slow breaking bowler a much greater opportunity than he has previously had, and, for a time at least, to reduce the scoring...
...would be difficult to decide whether base-ball or cricket is the more scientific so far as the relations of the batsman and the bowler or pitcher are concerned. I note that so far as the actual contest between ball and ball is concerned, the two games seem fairly equal. Though in base-ball pitching, a more difficult scientific problem is involved, it cannot be said that the play to meet the curving ball is more difficult than the play to meet the, varying pitch and break of well-bowled balls at cricket. In base-ball curves there...