The Ladies' Guide to Cricket

1d nmnrt. tap wit h a good deal of wrist-work put into the bat wide), is held horizontally. When this bnI is properly the ball dies like lightning between point (No. (i) and slip (No. 4. Diagram.) There are varieties of the out —one hit called the harrow-drive (from the famous school hearing that name) being in reality not a drive at all hut a sort of forward cut__the ball going between cover point (No. 7) and mid-off (No. 8), Run it.out means, run fast and make the most you can for the hit—while ‘ a good three,’ I think, explains itself, saving your gentle irony. But see ! they have run two more for the throw —another technical term—which occurs when a fields­ man, in returning the ball to the wicket-keeper or bowler (or it may be in trying to throw down the w'ickct), makes the ball travel too far and too fast ; in which event the batsmen go on running until the ball is again secured and properly returned. You may have heard the cry “ back-up” used in the field. It is a warning to the scouts to be]ready to save an overthrow by placing themselves in the line of the throw, so as to stop the ball if it pass the wicket. Runs from overthrows are added to the hit which caused the blunder. Stanley’s cut for three •with the twro resulting from the overthrow will therefore appear in his score as a ji ve. Miss L istox : “ Then if you throw a ball to Mrs Chester and I run behind her to stop it if she misses it, I am ‘ backing up? ’ ” L over : “ Precisely so, but the expression back-up is also used in another sense, i.e ., when the batsman who .is not the ball runs out of his ground, just as the ball leaves the bowler’g hand, in order to be some yards nearer the opposite wicket in case a chance of a run should occur. But lie must be careful not to leave bis ground before the ball is delivered, since the bowler sometimes feigns to bowl, and, if the batsman ‘ backs-up,’ at once puts him out by knocking off the bails. Some consider this a mean trick, but it is perfectly fair and a justifiable check upon the too-anxious run-getter.” M rs . C hester : “ Isnot Mr Whaler caught out? He hit that ball which the bowler caught, and people are applauding, yet be is not out after all, for be is going to receive the next ball.” L over : “ You were deceived, as many aro at first, by what is called a bomb-ball—that is, a ball which touches tho ground immediately after leaving the bat, and with such force as to bound up into the air. This hit, if caught, does not put the biitemen out, the bull having touched the ground, but that is often a nice point to decide. Ah! Winder is out though now - l.b.w . (L.B.W. ), that is, leg before wicket. In trying to make another of his tremendous leg-hits, lie has missed the bull, and the bull bus hit his leg. How’s that ? the bowler has atked the umpire. Out, is the reply. Whaler does