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Rh the special purpose of making the draw stroke better. But hitherto there had been no idea of driving a shorter ball than a half-volley. Now first was developed the idea of going in to drive the ball and of forward defensive play; and therewith, as I conceive, the batsman's art became, in its principles, pretty much as Mr. Warner found it when his school coach began his education.