The winning or losing of the match may at any moment lie with him.

The game only lasts some two hours; but for the onlookers every moment of these two hours is pregnant with interest and probably intense excitement.

Here is no sleeping and dozing on the stands for hours at a time as witnessed at popular cricket matches.

Time is too valuable in America for that, and men's brains are too restless.

At a ball-game the sight of a man slumbering on the benches is inconceivable.
Sea-fishing also attracted me very much.