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|Year=1854 | |Year=1854 | ||
|Year Number=8 | |||
|Headline=Cricket Historian Describes Facet of Current "School Boys' Game of Rounders" | |||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Game=Rounders | |Game=Rounders, Cricket | ||
|Age of Players=Adult | |||
|Text=<p>"between the two-feet-asunder stumps there was cut a hole big enough to contain a ball, and (as now with the school boy's game of rounders) the [cricket] hitter was made out in running a notch by the ball being popped into [a] hole (whence 'popping crease') before the point of the bat could reach it."</p> | |Text=<p>"between the two-feet-asunder stumps there was cut a hole big enough to contain a ball, and (as now with the school boy's game of rounders) the [cricket] hitter was made out in running a notch by the ball being popped into [a] hole (whence 'popping crease') before the point of the bat could reach it."</p> | ||
<p>James Pycroft, < | <p> </p> | ||
|Sources=<p>James Pycroft, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Cricket Field</span> [1854], page 68. Submitted by John Thorn, 1/13/2007.</p> | |||
|Query=<p><strong>Note:</strong> Pycroft was first published in 1851 [see item #1851.1]. Was this material in the first edition?</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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Cricket Historian Describes Facet of Current "School Boys' Game of Rounders"
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| Text | "between the two-feet-asunder stumps there was cut a hole big enough to contain a ball, and (as now with the school boy's game of rounders) the [cricket] hitter was made out in running a notch by the ball being popped into [a] hole (whence 'popping crease') before the point of the bat could reach it."
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| Sources | James Pycroft, The Cricket Field [1854], page 68. Submitted by John Thorn, 1/13/2007. |
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| Query | Note: Pycroft was first published in 1851 [see item #1851.1]. Was this material in the first edition? Edit with form to add a query |
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1854.8 Cricket Historian Describes Facet of Current "School Boys' Game of Rounders""
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