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Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Full-pitch or Full-toss

-A ball which hits the bat or wicket without touching the ground.

Get up. A ball "gets up" which rises abnormally high from the pitch. Mid-wicket. - Another name for mid-on mid-off, standing close up. or No-ball. A ball improperly bowled. [See LAWS 11, 13, 16, 17, 48A, and 48B.] Notches. An old name for runs, which used to be scored by notches cut on a stick.

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