Clipping:Cricketers try to hit pitching
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| Date | Friday, October 8, 1886 |
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| Text | Manager Harry Wright and Treasurer John I. Rogers, says the Philadelphia Record, took the players of the Philadelphia Club out to Nicetown to see the cricket match and before the commencement of the game Ferguson, Casey and Titcomb gave the members of the English team a few points on curved pitching. Several of the election witnessed Thursday’s Philadelphia-St. Louis ball game, and, while they expressed themselves as well pleased with the exhibition, they could not understand why the players batted so poorly. Mr. Rogers, who sat with them to explain the game, intimated that the lack of heavy batting was due more to the excellence of the pitching than to the weakness of the batsmen. The Englishmen evidently didn’t see it that way, for they no sooner got sight of the ball players yesterday than they expressed a desire to try their hand at hitting a drop curve. A base ball bat was produced and Key, who is considered about the best bat of the team, prepared to knock the cover off the ball. Ferguson gave him a good wide curve with a quick drop on it, and the cricketer fanned the air nearly a foot from the ball. “Fergy” then gave him a fast in-shoot and Mr. Key missed again. Half a dozen balls were delivered before the cricketers could even touch one. Casey and Titcomb also delivered a few balls, and Buckland and Rotherham took a hand in the batting. The cricketers now understood why ball players are such poor batters. Buckland was much interested in the pitching, and got Ferguson to show him how to hold and deliver the ball for the different curves. He says he will practice them, and try to adapt some of them to bowling. Some of the ball players trying batting Buckland’s bowling, and they had no better success than the cricketers had at batting base ball pitching. St. |
| Source | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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