The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 17
ear tosuit his requirements. So it isbest not to cause tedious delays;as it is only when the striker hasstruck at two balls, and eithermissed or declined to run, thathe is compelled to strike at the third ball, on pain of being put Fig. 1 out; and here, too, he has the chance of being put out, if… … ball at the third attempt—and, to make sure of a hit, it isusual to strike the ball with the hand in this extremity—hemakes hot haste, as fast as his legs can carry him, to the base at No. 2, and so on, if he can**«» succeed on his circuit by way of 3, 4, and 5, without beinghit by the ball from…
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