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English Immigrants from Surrey See Cricket, Trap Ball in IL
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Location | IllinoisIllinois |
| City/State/Country: | IL, United States |
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| Game | Cricket, Trap BallCricket, Trap Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
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| Text | "[S]ome of the young men were gone to a county court at Palmyra, [but] there was no cricket-match, as was intended, only a game of trap-ball." [1818] "On the second of October, there was a game of cricket played at Wanborough by the young men of the settlement; this they called keeping Catherine Hill fair, many of the players being from the neighborhood of Godalming and Guildford." [1819] "There have been [p.295/p.296] several cricket-matches this summer [of 1819], both at Wanborough and Birk Prarie; the Americans seem much pleased at the sight of the game, as it is new to them." [1819]
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| Sources | John Woods, Two Years Residence on the Settlement of the English Prairie, in the Illinois Country (Longman & Co., London, 1822), pp. 148 and 295-296. See also: Thomas L. Altherr, “Chucking the Old Apple: Recent Discoveries of Pre-1840 North American Ball Games, Base Ball, v. 2, no. 1 (Spring 2008), pages 32-33. Note: Tom's account includes the same quotes, but attributes them to the British lawyer Adlard Welby, and sets them in 1820. |
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| Comment | The settlement was in modern Edwards County. Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Can we reconcile the conflicts in the two attributions? Edit with form to add a query |
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1818c.5 English Immigrants from Surrey See Cricket, Trap Ball in IL"
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