Clipping:Cummings's delivery; how to bat it

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Date	Saturday, May 18, 1872
Text	[Boston vs. Mutual 5/8/1872] Harry Wright was next, and, being too shrewd a hand to be victimised by Cummings’ deceptive curved line balls, waited for a fair one, and not getting it, took his base on called balls. When Cummings pitches swiftly and gets in his horizontal curves, the ball either goes beyond the reach of the bat or too close to the batsman’s body to be fair; in both cases, all the batsman has to do is to wait and watch, and not be tempted to bat at these apparently good balls, for they leave the pitcher’s hands in a line which makes them took all right, but half the time they curve in. Like a shooting ball in cricket, the curved line is a chance affair, and it only needs close watching to nullify its effect.
Source	New York Clipper
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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