James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1875
I i · I • appa.rently set beyond hope of retirement. Again the benefit of a change was exemplified forcibly during 1870, at . Canterbury. lt was in a match between North and South, and after Wjl1sb0r; SilOQokt and I had in va� tried to secure a separation of the batsmen, · Mr. W. o. · Grace took the �all and got three wickets in t:Jix balls, nQt one of which was within a foot of being straight. And this iS by no means the first time that he has perform�d as · opportullP.ly in a like manuP.r. Should,._ colt be put into an eleven for bowling, he ought to be tried the first over, as should he be good, the vecy novelty of bis style makes bim 'better than another, who may be equally excel lent, �nd should he " come off" some of the o1a players may µave their nerve shaken at seeing their predecessors fall to an unknown. I dont know of any other advice applicable to the present subject, but I have written what I think on the subject with a desire {if possible) to serve cricket and James Lillywhite. ' , • • • • • t • • J I • I ' • • . ) 'I : fJ f i f • a 1 iI - _,. • ., " .., , ., , n J • ., 1 , , �, J n ¥ 3 � � ... . • • f • I ' • , • • • • • • I • ' •
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