The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

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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Talent-money

Money given to a professional as a reward for special success.

Telegraph--An apparatus for showing the state of the score.

Third man. An extra fieldsman on the offside, behind the batsman. 66 Thrown out. Synonymous with run out," provided that the fieldsman hits the wicket with the ball. The term is not used now in the scoresheet. Tice.-[See YORKER.] The term is obsolete.

Timing the ball. Hitting it at the precise moment when it can be effectively struck (see p. 454).

Trial-ball.- An obsolete term. The first ball of an innings, from which the batsman could neither make runs nor be out.

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