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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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To bowl "on the spot" is to bowl a good "length" (q.v.). A bowler is said to have "found a spot," when he continuously pitches the ball on a broken patch of ground, which makes the ball break or rise unnaturally.

Square-leg.-A fieldsman on the leg-side, square with the wicket.

Steal runs. To get a run for a hit, when no run seems reasonably possible.

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