Cricket 1910

CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u n e 2 , 1 9 1 0 . TH E FU TUR E OF “ GOOG L IES .” Has googlie bowling come to stop ? Will it ever become so general as to revolutionize the game ? . . . The googlie delivery is so unnatural that a very skilful bowler tells me that he cannot make the ball pitch half­ way down the wicket. Occasionally I get young men to bowl this ball, just to. let me take stock of their delivery. So far as I can see it requires the development of certain muscles, possibly the inner part of the trioepv But one and all say that it is such hard work that they will not cultivate the googlie; and besides, theycjuld not bowl it with any degree of accuracy. Certain I am that such a ball cou'.d never be bowled at the pace of Richardson. But cannot the batsman detect the googlie ? If he cannot how did Hobbs manage to score so heavily in South Africa? Denton, too, hid no difficulty in notching a couple of centuries in the Transvaal match against Vogler, who has been recently called the greatest bowler iu the world. Evidently they could f illow the googlie. What batsman cannot distinguish an off-breaking ball from a leg-breaking ball ? In like manner, sup­ pose a googlie bowler can bowl an on-break­ ing and an off-breaking ball with apparently the same arm action, I feel tolerably certain that his delivery is not the same for both kinds of ball. Of course if he can bowl only a g >oglie, then it seems to me he had far better bowl an ordinary ofl-break ball and so spare himself needless hard work. “ W. G.” has somewhere said that he never watched t'ie bowler’s hand to discover the break. A batsman like Shrewsbury would have had no difficulties with £ooglies; he would have covered the wicket with his legs for every ball that pitche 1 off the wicket. I wish I could persuade m.vself that there is a future for googlies. The bat has too long ha l the mastery over the ball. I want bowlers to have a look-in : they have been handicapped by marl wickets. I am of opinion that on natural wickets length bowling, varied as to amount of break, will always prove successful. Our greatest bowlers, as Alfred Shaw, never broke the ball very much. Thoms told me that in the Test match at the Oval in 1882, when he umpired, Spofforth made the ball break from three to 12 inches, and yet every ball would have hit the wicket. But no English batsman could by watching his delivery detect the amount of his break. Encourage young bowlers by rewarding them as generously as batsmen.—The Bev. B. S. Holmes in the Evening Newt. THE CRICKET YEAR BOOK. ONE PENNY. CONTAINS: PHOTO GROUPS OF THE COUNTIES, KENT NOTES AND VARIA. 1 6 8 , UPPER THAMES STREET, E.C. KENT CR ICKET .* Messrs. 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