Nature . acquaintancewith the game itself, and a deli-cacy of judgment which must beparih inborn and strongly de-veloped by practice. We are nottold what proportion of photo-graphs taken were failures, but the beauty andclearness of the 600 here shown prove that is a master hand in the art of taking action-photographs. Where almost every picture is admirable, and illus- 1 • Ore.,, Batsmen, their Methods a\ trates some essential part of a particular stroke, itis not possible to choose for reproduction any thatmight be regarded as representative. \Y. G. Grace,for example, is shown in t
Nature . acquaintancewith the game itself, and a deli-cacy of judgment which must beparih inborn and strongly de-veloped by practice. We are nottold what proportion of photo-graphs taken were failures, but the beauty andclearness of the 600 here shown prove that is a master hand in the art of taking action-photographs. Where almost every picture is admirable, and illus- 1 • Ore.,, Batsmen, their Methods a\ trates some essential part of a particular stroke, itis not possible to choose for reproduction any thatmight be regarded as representative. \Y. G. Grace,for example, is shown in twenty-six different atti-tudes, and all have some lesson to tell. In thephotograph reproduced we have the finish of an on-drive, in which the turn of the bodv has aided power-fully in giving full effect to tile stroke. The eves are. still looking at the spot where the ball was when itwas struck. The whole series of photographs provesthat all great batsmen follow the ball with their everight up to the moment of striking. It is this whichgives precision, just as in golf. Ranjitsinhji is figured in twentv photographs, andit is in the comparison of these with the attitudes ofother cricketers that the limitations of the method of November 23, 1905] NA TURE instantaneous photography appear. Except in a fewlasts there is no appreciable difference between hisattitudes and those of others; the characteristic styleof Ranjitsinhji depends upon the rapidity of thesuccessive movements which go to make the completestroke, and this is necessarily lost in the momentarypicture. One verv characteristic poise of body isgiven in the eighteenth of the series of pictures ofthe Indian cricketer. Here we have the finish of thewill known leg-glance. To quote from Mr. Frys
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