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SOME PROBLEMS OF CRICKET PRACTICE.
THE FOUNDATION OF SOUND METHOD..
FROM THE OBSERVER."'1-
late swings and googlies, but be content to learn how to meet the good-lengab straight" ball.
A certain crude back-play is natural to min-, indeed, we may und stand from the
reference tu the pre Hambledon er e- keters who played puddling about their are-and with watchfulness; attention to foot-work, and to the pro
proper use of the coletos pomenutim pritur deix! When left elbow, the primitive resources can cricket was young, mans a Hampshire fairly readily be developed into reasonable barn was heard to resund with bats authciency. But the forward stroke halls as well as thrashing and David purely artificial, and ein be mastered barris, whose bowling revolucionist the hy is practice, including laras den guir, and made him for years first chases of bat-drill, preferably before a looking- of all England, only attained his mastery
glass; but mastered it must le, not only by long and solitary practices at dinner
e value in defener, weare of its immediate time and after hours all the winter
but because it is the groundwork out of through. I fear that nowadays we are wach very variety of the drive is dev not so hardly, and this year at least there topei, and the drive is at ones the most has been some excise for us.
profitable, the most enjoyable, and, ob ectively, the most attractive of all, the strokes in the game,
THE COMMONEST ERRORS,
The young cricketer, at any rate, will be iteling to start, and I propose to accompany him to the nets and so if t- gether we cannot meet and master
few
What then are the chief pitfalls against of the troubles that are likely to heart him. But before he leaves home there is which the young or indeed any, batsman something to be said the boots that he has to be on the watch in trying to learn packed
away reluctantly at the end of it! First and most obvious is the failure fast August ПА attention, for unles to get the left foot aeros right on to the he is comfortably, and early diet te line of the ball, but to this I should like will be handicapped at the very outet:to add the failure to advance it far en a bowler is belpless unies, he can get a
| suré grip of the ground.
THE FIRST ESSENTIAL.
A
on
the
ough on any line at all. It is astonishing how four patanten really take fall elvan- though. sage of their length of strita, particularly in defence on turning wie Let us suppose in then arrived ar the kets, the extra is inches or foot make wicket for his opening knock, and on just all the different cohon tala in smothering the sider what is suggest themselves, break. Then Ever new the wa-eyed
Argument of not liberating the right heel, which pios
Jeg began, the stance has become
help vents the body coming throw pre
into pit of controversy, aml yez 1 carik half the weight back on that icr feeling
that a great deal of what has been stroke. Hardly less fatal is the habit of sritten is off the point. It is not the allowing the right foot to swing per in stange but the secondary" position the toe so that the cle from the wicket or that
really matters: provided that at the even first this brings the right top of the bark life the bat is straight shoulder forward in when it is not back over the stump and the left shoulder wanted and largely immobilien the left and am free to move in the stroke, arm. Holding too tight with the right what has gone before is comparar gely in-
alm- hand, especially in the form of material. The great thing is to be com- grip, is disastrous. It is the hit hand fortable as one stands at the wicket, and that must grip the l
hat and guide the an unnatural effort after called ortho dosy will probably mean taut muscle, is condition which mutil the actuni moment of impact, spell danger to and fluency of the stroke, he the other bind the less complicated the movement that leads from the first to the secondary position the better, for the more likely is the batsman then to keep his head and
In all practic, and especially in th -eye steady, and so were on accurate pic first fur-nefs of the year, the presence Fure of the balls fight for his stroke.
of someone who understands the game to indyment to work km. It is on this stand behind the rets and watch is quite account that the wrists should play invaluable. It is astonishing how new large a part in the back lift for thereby diseases crop up and told area reappear, body movement is minimised. Assuming and there are few men, and sull" fewer then that the preliminaries are satisfac boys, who are, ab'e to diagnos quickly
settled the next thing that the and correctly their own d finguracies, batsman must attend to is concen les him listen and think for himself, and, tration. In a revent and interesting book on golf I read that it was impossible for above all not be distorted andsing diffent art at the best of times, and the mind to concertente properly for more than three seconds at a tine, if that is for 1 stort
the trueness
rok. Finally, there is the bend to think of and the necessity of keeping it down over the left leg. A lordly and loftly arrogane mag, look impressive to the ring, but the sensible bowler will war come it, knowing that it will probably spell catch and bowl by the failure to watch the ball in the last fateful yard.
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at the beginning of the wason, it calls
apprenticmhip. Airca exact
so it is a
is a pour look out for the cricketer ly a year ago I happened to by as the who has to watch the bowler a catsal when Hoble came out for his Ojwn. watch a mouse from the moment ar ing practice, and watched with amaz which that gentiman begins his
ruc Per- ment in which isteret consolation was hajs the difference between a procs and deeply blended, that
that greatest of living a state and between the size of the "ob batsmen perpetrate a series of strokes jess balls"
which mouth later would have con
of
the
may admit of anxietyemned to unter Burknew any aspirant!
Concentration period. He that a
it may, he has got to do his best to to a school eleven. A fortright or so the bowler's grip, to mark where he bowl afterwards he completed his hundredth from-whether year or far from the wiik; | century in first-class cricket,
to watch the swing of his arm, And
to follow the bail throughout its fight- and after
bere the rab: a clear
ry will probably give a good enough picture of the first two thirds of the ball fight, but it is the last third that matters, and-jeter the swervers of all what hap- pens after it hits the ground. In his ex- tremely interesting chapter on Bowling
better have been called "Bow Life Book on
ACROSS NORTH POLE.
AMUNDSEN TO USE THREE SEAPLANES.
Capt. Amundsen, the Norwegian ex- lerer, who, is preparing for another
it might be Colls a story of the Polar fight, will By with his companions,
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Mr. Jephson Jam Sahib and that very great fast bow using three seaplanes, from Pisa to June, says the Home cor- ler, Inckwood. The latter bad bowled Spitzbergen one of his fastest and best break-backs; it respondent of the London Dolly Mail, had whipped across from the off, and the The machines are constructed of a new Priner was beaten when, as the very last alloy which is not affected by long im- seconil, his right leg bent across and re-mersion in the sea, and is able to with- ceived it fall in the thith.. The pain stand severe buffeting from the waves. Murely and swiftly dwindled in an inning They are equipped with British Rolls-
"You that is an immoral Roye engines: story, to recall in thee days of leg-play servo to ilustrate run rint, but in der incant by watching
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The airmen will make practice flights for a mosch at Spitzbergen, and then set out across the pole for Alaska. The A WORD FORBEACTION,
distance, 1,750 miles, îs beyond the capa? In Mr. Snaith's delightful cricket novel city of a single machine without refuel- Willow the King. Grace Trenthaming uch machine will therefore carry immarily dismisses all public cheol bat sufficient petrol for a sixteen-hour flights ting, as consisting of jolly well the one will transfer its petral to tite uthers, well going All will descend after four hours, and forward to every folly thing.
the pendulum has awang a long way in leaving sufficient to enable it to return. the opposite
player is and the young to Spitzbergen.
particularly by
The two other neroplanes will continue
Bluett of what be sees in firstiels Cricket, their flight northward, and descend after to regard back play as the only basis
of defends; even the Efaniau, so long the eight hours. One will be abandoned, and typ cal exponent of the tradition of for its fuel will be transferred to the remain- ward pay, shows in these days unmistaking machine, nud with four men aboard ablesgns of a change in method. Now the latter will attempt to reach Alaska
it
Of course true that back play has in a ten hours' fight,
the basis 110nI which some "of the
of all players have built up their
mastery; it was so with Arthur Shrew
bury. *perhaps the
greatest defensive play er of all time-did he pot, when couching the Warwickshire
plasers. for half our a day one year has
an hour
through April without ever being bowled out--and the Ja
Sahib's dictum," Play bask or hit, preeminently successful, in his our
Own cas influenced in a great degree the develop ment of his partner and confessed' pupil, Mr. Charles Fry. On the other hand, the greatest of all cricketers his told us that In cup successful and dry season there. was hardly a dy that for purposes of Jefenes
nt he cou
could
net and did not meet playing forward, and it was perhaps his greatest contribution to the art of buting that whierne before his time there were luck, players and forward players, he, welded both method into a supremely effective whole,
"In these days the practice of the leading batsmen is very far from pronouncing dr eilely for the one against the other-the "swing" has certainly encouraged the postponemrut of the stroke until the last posable moment, but against the break- ing
Tull seral of the lending now.
al batsmen, notably Hend nad emplay, even on sticky wickets, this for ward stroke very largely in defence. though admittedly the dead-bat species of it. For the young batsman I jshall always believe the truly played for- ward stroke to be the very foundation of a kound method: for a time at least he mind not bother his head very much abosti
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