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Rh run out by inches. Jack Smith, of Cambridge, W. Bury, H. M. Marshall, Daniel, of Cambridge University, and, at a later date, W. H. Game, for Oxford, were splendid specimens of long-leg fieldsmen. Game, notwithstanding that he played in the days of boundaries, was, to my mind, the finest thrower that ever lived. The old principle that you should run for the throw was not acted up to when Game had the ball in his hands near the ropes, and he was a grand catch too. The practical abolition of leg-hitting, by the wonderful accuracy of modern bowling, has robbed the game of no small amount of its æsthetic enjoyment, for, in the first place, a leg-hit is a lovely stroke to witness, as is a catch against the ropes, and lastly, prettier than any was the good throw-in.

To slow bowling in old days long-stop and long-slip were put out deep, one on the off side, the other on the on; long-leg was put square with the wicket, the chief difference being that, as compared with now, mid-on