It may well have helped to improve his accuracy too, which has been a weakness at times. It will be interesting to see whether his overall consistency is improved during the Test series. Of course, if it aids him in not hitting the stumps with his knee then that's a positive too.The fourperson softball act, ''The King and His Court," is coming to Fraser Field on Aug. 15. Softball's answer to the Harlem Globetrotters, Eddie Feigner, or ''The King," and his court a catcher, a shortstop, and a first baseman routinely beat nineperson softball squads.

The truth of the matter is it's hard to believe you could shake a "two bits, four bits" out of the dozen or so socalled cheerleading squads that have reared their lovely heads in the NFL in the last year or so. But never mind. They've got their vinyl boots and their pompons and Niagaras of blowdried hair cascading down their backs, and you could just go to pep rallies and commit the cheers for Sunday's game t