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|Headline=John Adams Refers to Cricket in Argument about Washington's New Title | |Headline=John Adams Refers to Cricket in Argument about Washington's New Title | ||
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|Text=<p>"Cricket was certainly known in Boston as early as 1790, for John Adams, then Vice-President of the United States, speaking in the debate about the choice of an appropriate name for the chief officer of the United States, declared that 'there were presidents of fire companies and of a cricket club.'" John Lester, <u>A Century of Philadelphia Cricket</u> [UPenn Press, Philadelphia, 1951], page 5.</p> | |Text=<p>"Cricket was certainly known in Boston as early as 1790, for John Adams, then Vice-President of the United States, speaking in the debate about the choice of an appropriate name for the chief officer of the United States, declared that 'there were presidents of fire companies and of a cricket club.'" John Lester, <u>A Century of Philadelphia Cricket</u> [UPenn Press, Philadelphia, 1951], page 5.</p> | ||
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Text | "Cricket was certainly known in Boston as early as 1790, for John Adams, then Vice-President of the United States, speaking in the debate about the choice of an appropriate name for the chief officer of the United States, declared that 'there were presidents of fire companies and of a cricket club.'" John Lester, A Century of Philadelphia Cricket [UPenn Press, Philadelphia, 1951], page 5. |
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