Bowling a Mile a Minute.
Probably many leaders will be surprised learn that'll uricket ball leaves the hand of a fast bowler at a speed equal to that of an express train. Some time ago a test was made by means of electric screens of the nue of bowling ot Turner, the famous Australian bowler. It was found, as the result of a series of trials, that the ball traversed the distance between the wickets at the rate of over fifty niilci an hour. As Richardson in a still swifter bowler than Turner, it is safe to estimate his lllVhuJt spo«<l at a mile ft minute,
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Southland Times, Issue 19232, 19 December 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)
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