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|Year=1854 | |Year=1854 | ||
|Year Number=8 | |Year Number=8 | ||
|Headline= | |Headline=Historian Describes Facet of 1850s "School Boys' Game of Rounders" | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Location=England, | |||
|Country=England | |||
|Game=Rounders, Cricket | |Game=Rounders, Cricket | ||
|Age of Players=Adult | |Age of Players=Juvenile, Adult | ||
|Text=<p>"between | |Text=<p> </p> | ||
<p>A cricket historian describes an early attribute of cricket"</p> | |||
<p>" . . . the reason we hear sometimes of he Block-hole was . . . because between these [two] two-feet-asunder stumps [the third stump in the wicket had not yet been introduced] there was cut a hole big enough to contain a ball, and (as now with the school boy's game of <strong>rounders</strong>) the 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> </p> | <p> </p> | ||
|Sources=<p>James Pycroft, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Cricket Field</span> [1854], page 68. | |Sources=<p>James Pycroft, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Cricket Field</span> [1854], page 68. </p> | ||
|Query=<p><strong>Note:</strong> Pycroft was first published in 1851 | |Query=<p><strong>Note:</strong> Pycroft was first published in 1851. See item #[[1851.1]]. Was this material in the first edition?</p> | ||
|Submitted by=John Thorn | |||
|Submission Note=1/13/07 | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| Location | EnglandEngland |
| City/State/Country: | England |
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| Game | Rounders, CricketRounders, Cricket |
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| Age of Players | Juvenile, AdultJuvenile, Adult |
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A cricket historian describes an early attribute of cricket" " . . . the reason we hear sometimes of he Block-hole was . . . because between these [two] two-feet-asunder stumps [the third stump in the wicket had not yet been introduced] there was cut a hole big enough to contain a ball, and (as now with the school boy's game of rounders) the 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. |
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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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| Submitted by | John Thorn |
| Submission Note | 1/13/07 |
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