Amazing Strides in Five Years: Bowler Who Would Baffle Good Club Batsmen T is possible that there are people in this country who think that cricket as played by-women is a game with a soft ball, or that, at any rate, it spells under-arm bowling.
They would be amazed if they could see the reality.
The Women's Cricket Association of England makes no great claim for itself, So short a time as five years ago their president, Mrs" Heron Maxwell, said to me, "Our clubs could give a game to the first eleven of a boys" preparatory school—no more."
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