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SLOW BOWLING COMPARED WITH FAST.
is Clarke as slow, practically, as they respectively appear. With Wisden's straight lines, it is far easier to calculate where the ball will pitch, than with the curved lines and dropping balls of Clarke; and when Wisden's ball has pitched, though its pace is quicker, the distance it has to come is so much longer, that Clarke, in effect, is not so much slower, as he may appear. Lillywhite and Hillyer are of a medium kind; having
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