CRIP
..Tile novice in every club will beget* ting endless advice on tlikt very .contentious question-—grip! Here is what Norrie Bell, jun., singles champion.-in 1931, has to say in the matter:—'sl dislike the term 'the grip of the-bowl* just as much as Ilike'the term.'Hold-, ing the bowl.' The former savburstp'o much of clutching the .implement with the grimness of desperation.■-• -This -I consider one of the serious drawbacks' to. good play. I 'contend- : the; ibbwl should be held solely in 'the' fingers^ only the pads of the fingers touching* the tips of the thumb and little finger resting on the'corresponding discs.J>^:Ji New: South Wales critic and "aecom* plished trundler,' .*' Boomerang,":: of th« Sydney.' Beferee,' has gained- many a* herehts to his style of placing. 'th"» thumb on the top of tho bowl,'main* tabling that this grip gives better-■.con* trol. It certainly ensures a bettet "grip," but to . get • the'best result* a bowl should be handled as-lightly;.!* the fingers as possible. ■ ' : .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1934, Page 18
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160CRIP Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1934, Page 18
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