A "Bawl" for American Cricket

American Cricket owes a debt of gratitude to base ball. The undaunted pluck that stops and holds the fierce grounder; the strong arm which returns it to the baseman; the steady...

Nearly every young American learns base ball before cricket. When he first stands before a wicket, he is almost paralysed by the fear of losing it. Nothing corresponding to it a...

If American parents will take the time to read what the Reverend James Pycroft says in Chapter VI of his Cricket Field, which we have taken the liberty of quoting in full, it ma...

1. A match is played between two sides of eleven players each, unless otherwise agreed to; each side has two innings, taken alternately, except in the case provided for in Law 5...

Some cricketers never seem to get beyond the “beginning” period, and it is in vain to expect anyone to delight in a thing which he cannot do fairly well. If these lines can conv...

The popular demand for perfect ball playing, has developed such marked differences in England and America, that a short comparison between base ball and cricket may be of intere...

It should be constantly borne in mind that when arrangements for a match are being made, that the pleasure to be afforded by the game should be the first desideratum. A fixture...

=Bowler’s Crease.=--A lime line, one inch to one and one-half inches wide, six feet eight inches long, the centre stump being taken as the centre of the measurement, parallel wi...