Clipping:Manufacturing non-regulation balls
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| Date | Saturday, December 4, 1869 |
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| Text | The leading cricket ball manufacturers are obliged to look to the interests of the game and to their reputation as first class ball makers, more than they do to any immediate pecuniary profit, simply because they know that the best made balls, and the balls best suited to the game will always pay the best in the end. The majority of makers of base ball, however, look solely to the sales; and, if they find that any particular balls sell the best, even if it be not “regulation” as to composition, they go on making and selling such balls, even to the extent of making special balls to order for clubs, and to suit special purposes. Thus, balls are made very “lively” for heavy batting nines, and others are very “dead” to suit skillful fielders, while trashy balls are made simply for sale and not for use; the result of all this that we have no really “regulation” ball in use, though some claim to be so. |
| Source | National Chronicle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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