leather-hunting

To drop catches is to madden the bowler not unnaturally, and to lengthen the period of leather-hunting.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892 Various

But give him a good steady spell of leather-hunting, and you will know him for what he is, a mere _dilettante_, a dabbler, in a word, a worm, who ought never to be allowed to play at all.

Tales of St. Austin's 1928

Pringle, who during the luncheon interval had encountered his young friends the Ashbys, and had been duly taunted by them on the subject of leather-hunting, was top scorer with forty-one.

A Prefect's Uncle 1928

In spite of the fact that he himself was playing in the match today, and might under the circumstances reasonably look forward to a considerable dose of leather-hunting, the task of announcing the bad news to Norris appeared to have a most elevating effect on his spirits:

A Prefect's Uncle 1928

And then, when his "eye" is in, he will give the Etonians such leather-hunting as they never had before.

The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908

And then, when his "eye" is in, he will give the Etonians such leather-hunting as they never had before.

The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908

House that it required "a high standard of physical fitness," and that leather-stitching was as laborious as leather-hunting.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-12 Various 1898

a short interval of rest from our exhilarating game of leather-hunting, which had now been going on for two hours and more.

Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral