Block:English Baseball in Buckinghamshire on August 29 1857 (2)
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| Data | “Base” was among the pastimes played alongside cricket at the autumnal festival of the Chalvey and Slough Temperance Society held at Chalvey in Buckinghamshire. The main feature of the festival was a cricket match between 11 members of the society and 11 members of the Slough Mechanics' Institution Cricket Club. According to a newspaper, “during the progress of the match, the company were variously engaged at trap, base and foot-ball, &c., the larger number, however, preferring to be spectators of the match.” |
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| Sources | Windsor and Eton Express, Aug. 29, 1857, p. 3 |
| Block Notes | Chalvey was within Buckinghamshire in 1857, but was transferred to Berkshire in 1974. |
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