The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 114
or life. Experience has made these accessories as perfect as theycould well be. They are also usually made of mock buckskinleather, and the palm of the hand is cut away so as to allow afirm grasp of the handle of the bat, a strip of elastic fasteningeach to the wrist by means of a button. On the… … Fig. 8. 102 THE POPULAR RECREATOR. the two hands. Obviously, in holding the bat, the back cf theleft hand is exposed to the bowler, so that almost every part iscovered, the hoop of india-rubber preventing many a nastycrack in the neighbourhood of the wrist. As the thumb ofthis hand is guarded by…
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