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...five test matches, Australia had won two. These were the crucial innings. Australia had knocked up 739 runs, England 728, and the last man was in. A run was hit, off 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...
...protractedness of cricket is due to the fact that the batsman is not obliged by rule either to make a run or be put out within any given number of bowls. His prime function is to prevent the ball from striking his wicket. Interminable defensive play ("stonewalling") is thus possible-as it would be in baseball if a batter were adroit enough to foul safely off an indefinite number of pitches...
...Harvard, Gummere making top score with 79; in bowling, F. C. Taylor and Gummere were steady and effective. On the Cornell team Gregson bowled well, and was also the only one to make double figures at the bat. Cornell's score was more than equalled when Harvard's fourth wicket fell...
...badly defeated by Haverford at Haverford on Friday by the score of 306 to 59. The defeat was due to the greatly superior batting and fielding of the Haverford team, and also to Harvard's unfamiliarity with a hard turf wicker, after practice on a softer cocoa-matting wicket. Haverford caught out seven of the University team, and both Bonbright and Hopkins scored centuries, not out. For Harvard, F. C. Taylor did the best bowling, and King scored the most runs. Only two men made double figures...
...thus far, only the first,--with Mohair Cricket Club, one of the strongest clubs in the Massachusetts league--was lost. Gummere and F. C. Taylor, the regular bowlers, are swift and usually reliable. Morris and W. N. Taylor, the change bowlers, have done some excellent work, and Trainer's wicket keeping has been notable...