Identifier: opalsagatesorsce00bart (find matches)
Title: Opals and agates : or, Scenes under the Southern Cross and the Magelhans : being memoirs of fifty years of Australia and Polynesia : with nine illustrations
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Bartley, Nehemiah, 1830?-1894
Subjects: Gold mines and mining -- Australia Prospecting -- Australia Australia -- Description and travel Australia -- History Oceania
Publisher: Brisbane : Gordon and Gotch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hatcame in with an innocent-looking, easy sling, and which, as soon asthey touched the ground, appeared to suddenly alter both theirminds and direction in a most insidious manner. At 240 p.m. the Australian lads took the field again. Spofforthscountenance beamed with the prospect of fun to come on thatwicket, and he and Garrett bowled to Leslie and C. T. Stud. Leslievanished, after making 8; Palmer replaced Garrett, and got atStudds wicket; 2 for 45. Steel came on, made 6, and Murdochcaught the ball as it glanced from the leg before the wicket, just ashe was begining to send Spoflbrth to leg in a very ominous style(3 for 55); and now the dangerous Read came on. Barlow ambledout for a run, after hitting one of Spofforths, and No, I wont,Barlow, shrieked Read, with a wholesome respect for his wicket;87 were now on the board, spite of Spoflbrth being so unplayable,you know, on a wet wicket; and, once more, it looked (as far asthe poor old Rule of Three went) like 300 for England, when—
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TOMMY HORAN BOWLS. 257 happy thought! Tommy Horau, of all people, was put on to bowl, alow rise being now the medicine prescribed for John Bull, by Aus-tralia. Tommy placed his field with a solemn deliberation andaplomb which fairly convulsed some of the spectators. What afarce, said the knowing ones. But T. H. knocked Readswicket down first ball, and he ought to have stopped at this grand•record of one ball, no runs, one wicket. Barnes, a much moredashing professional bat than Barlow, followed, and his unbowlablemate was ejected by means of a catch, and Tylecote filled the vacancy.Barnes got his leg in front of his wicket, or, at all events, betweenit and the ball, and was recommended to retire. Bates joinedTvlecote, and the former average, of 3 for 87, was now much diluted,and reduced below proof strength. Horan continned to bowl, on awicket that suited him well. Tylecote sent one of Spofforths uphigh, and Bonnor ran in some fraction of a mile to keep his appoint-ment with the bal

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