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...close to the ground as possible, and this he manages to do without losing speed in his 'return.' In fact on the other side the return volley is immensely harder than it is in America. The advantage of this is obvious to anyone who has studied the game. The 'striker' has the advantage of having more time to 'place' his return, and the 'receiver' is at the disadvantage of not knowing until the ball has actually left his opponent's racquet where it is going. In the American style of volleying, on the other hand, as the ball is seldom...
...fire de ball at de striker's head...
...decisions of the umpire. The first poor decision was in the third inning. Ayer struck an evident foul tip which shot far over Nichols' head. The umpire, however, called it a third strike on the ground that the ball struck Ayer's hand instead of the bat. The striker said immediately after that the ball did not come within six inches of his hand. If, however, the ball did strike the batter's hand, he should have been declared out for obstructing the catcher. (See Spaulding's Base-Ball Guide for 1880, p. 113). This decision gave Ayer his second...
...concludes, "is lawn tennis. Players and manufacturers call 'rackets' 'bats.' Cricket is played with a bat, lawn tennis with a racket. 'Strokes' are often called 'points' and 'aces;' a 'service' is called a 'serve;' a 'rest' is known as a 'rally;' the 'sides' (of the net) become 'ends;' the 'striker out' is transformed into the 'non-server,' and the 'server' into the 'striker;' sometimes they are called 'hand-in' and 'hand-out,' when tennis scoring is employed, as is now universally the case. It is too much to hope that the rising generation will take a hint, and endeavor...
...after three strikes have been called on him is to stand still and not run to first base, by doing which the umpire is required to decide him out, and thereby the base-runners cease to be obliged to leave the bases from being forced out by the striker's becoming a base-runner after the third strike has been called. It is left optional with a base-runner, obliged to return to a base on a foul ball, to run or walk back to the base he left when the ball was hit, with the proviso that...