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|Text=<p>"'Three times and out' is a maxim of juvenile players at cricket."</p>
|Text=<p>"'Three times and out' is a maxim of juvenile players at cricket."</p>
<p><u>Maine Gazette</u>, November 20, 1821; submitted by Lee Thomas Oxford, 9/2/2007.  <b>Note:</b> What can this reported rule possibly mean?  Were beginning cricketers given three chances to hit the bowled ball in ME?  John Thorn, email of 2/3/2008, points out that three swings was sometimes an out in wicket, and that the <u>Gazette</u> may have erred.</p>
<p><u>Maine Gazette</u>, November 20, 1821; submitted by Lee Thomas Oxford, 9/2/2007.  <b>Note:</b> What can this reported rule possibly mean?  Were beginning cricketers given three chances to hit the bowled ball in ME?  John Thorn, email of 2/3/2008, points out that three swings was sometimes an out in wicket, and that the <u>Gazette</u> may have erred.</p>
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"'Three times and out' is a maxim of juvenile players at cricket."

Maine Gazette, November 20, 1821; submitted by Lee Thomas Oxford, 9/2/2007. Note: What can this reported rule possibly mean? Were beginning cricketers given three chances to hit the bowled ball in ME? John Thorn, email of 2/3/2008, points out that three swings was sometimes an out in wicket, and that the Gazette may have erred.

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