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|Headline=Cricketer Experiments with Round-Arm Bowling
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|Text=<p>Says John Ford:  "Tom Walker is said to have experimented with round-arm bowling."  John Ford, <u>Cricket: A Social History 1700-1835</u> [David and Charles, 1972], page 19.  Ford does not give a citation for this account.  <b>Caveat:</b> The <u>Encyclopedia Brittanica</u> on Nyren's estimate of about 1790 for Walker's innovation; <u>A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information</u>, Eleventh Edition,  (Encyclopeida Brittanica Company, New York, 1910) Volume VII, page 439, accessed 10/19/2008, as advised by John Thorn, email of 2/2/2008..</p>
|Text=<p>Says John Ford:  "Tom Walker is said to have experimented with round-arm bowling."  John Ford, <u>Cricket: A Social History 1700-1835</u> [David and Charles, 1972], page 19.  Ford does not give a citation for this account.  <b>Caveat:</b> The <u>Encyclopedia Brittanica</u> on Nyren's estimate of about 1790 for Walker's innovation; <u>A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information</u>, Eleventh Edition,  (Encyclopeida Brittanica Company, New York, 1910) Volume VII, page 439, accessed 10/19/2008, as advised by John Thorn, email of 2/2/2008..</p>
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Says John Ford: "Tom Walker is said to have experimented with round-arm bowling." John Ford, Cricket: A Social History 1700-1835 [David and Charles, 1972], page 19. Ford does not give a citation for this account. Caveat: The Encyclopedia Brittanica on Nyren's estimate of about 1790 for Walker's innovation; A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, Eleventh Edition, (Encyclopeida Brittanica Company, New York, 1910) Volume VII, page 439, accessed 10/19/2008, as advised by John Thorn, email of 2/2/2008..

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