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Many bowlers and it advan- tageous to drop their left shoulder as they are about to deliver the googly, to ensure A long hop from a fast or
the hand is in its "turned in" medium paced bowler can be
position when the ball in de (a good ball, but from a Now keep the palm upwards spinaer
Telivered, and to keep the wrist a erime! The HOPPY!" it is and spin the ball upwards makhatsman invariably pulls it to This is the first indoor meeting ing it rotate right to left, leg the "on" side of the wicket held In Britain since 1039. spinning it with the third finger where the fielders are few. And is sponsored at Mac's own a few dozen times in movementa suggestion. Whlist in America like this and you will begin to last year, he competed in an in-"feel" the leg break. The action door meeting in Washington and for the leg breaks, is the basic realised the enormous value to
that the left action, except British athletes of staging such shoulder need not be kept so events in Britain.
high at the moment of delivery,
TOO SHORT A SEASON
Now stand at the wicket in
He pointed out that the the bowling position, with the English climate allows only a bowling arm ready to begin its short outdoor season, about five upward swing-prior to swing- months. Athletes may devate ing up to the delivery position. winter months to road work, or Make sure the hand is facing up- even cross-country running, but wards, writ slightly cocked, and position right they suffer from a lack of com- keep it in this petitive track racing. Mac hopes through the upward swing. that indoor meetings will end' this defect.
Britain's Helsinki hopes are high if Balley can strike form.
REVERSED
Stop at the delivery point, For if he does, there is not a You will see that the position is man in the world to touch him.
now reversed. The wrist has Sports witers have run out dropped, the back of the hand upwards-note, by the of superlatives in trying to aces
is held loosely describe him. He has at different way, the wrist
of
The leg-spinner turning the ball from right to left will, course, have the majority of his fielders on the off-side. He must then bowl his off-side field, keeping the ball up the batsman, and pitching the middle of off stump.
LEARN THE “GOOGLY"
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All good log, break bowlers should become adept at ginger
able to bowl spin-be
"googly" or "wrong 'un." This is the off break bowled with a leg break action and provided this is bowled sparingly and
with forethought, can cause batsman's downfall by the
It will require a great deal
leg of practice to bowl the spinner and googly well, but, bellave me, once you have be- com come its master · caucket be- interesting comes much more
and greater hun than before. One list tip. Remember alow bowler'e variation
the
when
the batsman is hitting out at you. Bowl the ball a
Little
higher, a little wider, and spin It away from him-Good luck.
Steeplechaser Disley To Train
making him play for a break, In Snowdonia
to
It is always worth the log- spinner's while to be able bowl the googly, it only to have the batsman constantly ball. It makes him less certain
Flyer, the Black Flash, and the be turned over to impart spin. Sepia Streak. But Mac, of the The wrist is held loosely in in his judgment when pre
order to "ip" the ball out paring to attack the "tweaker.”
times been termed the Trinidad and the third finger is ready to expecting and looking for this Steeplechase in the Olympic
pearly white teeth and flushing smile, knows that endeavour, not adjectives, wina races, and he is going at it as hard as he can.
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of the hand. This "Alpping" of
John Disley, Britain's hope for the 8,000 Metres
Games, should be one of the fittest competitors at Helsinki,
He is already training, six
will conduct his training. In Snowdonia, the Welsh mountain district.
the ball helps to impart spin.
One of the best googly bow- Having seen and understood lers I played against WIS the mechanics of the action, go Cedl. Pepper, who toured Eng days A week, and at Easter, through it again and deliver the land and India with Australian Services team in 1945. In the first Victory Test that year at Lord's he was having a good spell with the ball, and our chaps could not pick out his googly.
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Country Jokels
ES OU THE RIGHT ROÃO ALL BOUT
BUT SHE OLD POOL). ; AINEKSONS, THE
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There, he will run up fourteen mountains, each more than 3,000 feet, wearing only running kit, and rubber-soled boots..
This 25-mile mountain run is called the "Three Thousander" and Disley almis to. beat tho record time, which is 7 hours
Sitting as 1 "behind his arm" in the pavillon,' I soon! spotted it ani chided our players on falling to auch an 27 ming obvious ball-going to great lengths to explain how Pepper bowled it, and how easy it was
to pick it out..
Came my turn to bat
and taco Pepper. The first -four- balls bowled were at the stumps, and were duly played back to the bowler in the inid- tle of the bat. The next pitch- cd well outside the off stump..
I was playing for a leg break, let it go past, when it Imune-
diately came back off the plich
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