Cricket — Horace Gordon Hutchinson

Horace Gordon Hutchinson tarafından kaleme alınan Cricket Gece Kitaplığı eseri olarak okurlarla buluşuyor Cricket Horace Gordon Hutchinson Kitap Özeti Cricket began when first a man monkey instead of catching a cocoanut thrown him playfully by a fellow anthropoid hit it away from him with a stick which he chanced to be holding in his hand But the date of this occurrence is not easy to ascertain and therefore it is impossible to fix the date of the invention of cricket For cricket has passed through so many stages of evolution before arriving at the phase in which we find it to day that it is difficult to say when the name as we understand its meaning first became rightly applicable to it The first use of the name cricket for any game is indeed a matter entirely of conjecture It is not known precisely by Skeat nor Strutt nor Mr Andrew Lang But whether the name was applied by reason of the cricket or crooked stick which was the early form of the bat or whether from the cross stick used as a primitive bail or from the cricket or stool at which the bowler aimed the ball really does not very much matter for all these etymological vanities belong rather to the mythological age of cricket than the historical Yayınevi Gece Kitaplığı Yazar Horace Gordon Hutchinson Sayfa 390 Sayfa Kağıt 2 Hamur Boyut 13 50x21 00 cm Basım Yılı Mart 2018 Barkod 9786052883280 Kategori Yabancı Dilde Kitaplar Spor

Cricket began when first a man monkey instead of catching a cocoanut thrown him playfully by a fellow anthropoid hit it away from him with a stick which he chanced to be holding in his hand But the date of this occurrence is not easy to ascertain and therefore it is impossible to fix the date of the invention of cricket For cricket has passed through so many stages of evolution before arriving at the phase in which we find it to day that it is difficult to say when the name as we understand its meaning first became rightly applicable to it The first use of the name cricket for any game is indeed a matter entirely of conjecture It is not known precisely by Skeat nor Strutt nor Mr Andrew Lang But whether the name was applied by reason of the cricket or crooked stick which was the early form of the bat or whether from the cross stick used as a primitive bail or from the cricket or stool at which the bowler aimed the ball really does not very much matter for all these etymological vanities belong rather to the mythological age of cricket than the historical