The reliable book of outdoor gamesContaining official rules for playing base ball, foot ball, cricket, lacrosse, tennis, croquet, etc . o be a neglected art. Not one batsman in ahundred ever thinks of studying the art of bat-ting. Headwork batsmen like Ward, OBourke,Ewing, Anson and a few others, make effortsthat way, but the majority take up their batsand go in for slugging at the ball with alltheir might, trusting to chance as to where theball will go, their single idea being to send it asfar out iu the field as possible, only a smallminority taking their stand at the bat wellposted in all t
The reliable book of outdoor gamesContaining official rules for playing base ball, foot ball, cricket, lacrosse, tennis, croquet, etc . o be a neglected art. Not one batsman in ahundred ever thinks of studying the art of bat-ting. Headwork batsmen like Ward, OBourke,Ewing, Anson and a few others, make effortsthat way, but the majority take up their batsand go in for slugging at the ball with alltheir might, trusting to chance as to where theball will go, their single idea being to send it asfar out iu the field as possible, only a smallminority taking their stand at the bat wellposted in all the points of team work at the bat,ready to match strategic skill in handling theash point for point against headwork pitch-ing from the box. In studying the art of bat-ting, an important point is that of learning thebearings of the natural swing of the bat in meet-ing the ball, and the different results which fol-low a swift and a slow stroke in measuring theforward ewing of the bat, a swift stroke meetingthe ball forward of the base, and a slow strokebackward of it. The lines of these variousstrokes are seen in the appended This point of studying up the bearings of theforward swing of the bat, combined with thepoint of facing for position, make up the art ofbatting. This facing for position isa subjectcalling for some study of the rules which governit. Just as a man stands at the bat, just so willthe regular or forward swing of the bat meetthe ball, all things, of course, being equal, viz.,the rapidity of the forward swing being in pro-portion to the speed of the delivered ball. Butthe general direction of the ball, from a regularand proportioned swing of the bat, is governedby the manner in which the batsman standswhen prepared to strike at the ball—that is, inproportion as be faces for the right, or the left. As a general rule, in order tosend a ball to the right he should face almost asif the first baseman was going to pitch the ballto him, and not to the
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