Word: buckland
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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That the 'break' at cricket is fully-as hard to meet as the 'curve' at base-ball, was shown at Philadelphia on the very same occasion when our cricketers made such poor play with Fothergill's curves. For Mr. Buckland's bowling proved altogether too much for the best of the base-ball batsmen. Again and again did these players, keen to track the ball curving through the air, fail to follow the break of the ball from the ground, nearly every ball going past the bat, though it had seemed to them that with such...
...Holyokes will play a practice game with the Reserves at 3 o'clock this afternoon at Buckland Park...