Clipping:Collegians travel to England
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| Date | Wednesday, July 3, 1889 |
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| Text | Mr. Chadwick's pet notion that the proper way to introduce base ball into England would be through gentleman amateur channels apparently has fallen into fruitful ground, and is to receive a practical trial, judging from a despatch to this effect: New Haven, Ct., June 28.--Some time ago the ball players on the Harvard and Yale College teams conceived the idea of making a trip to Europe. The plans for such a trip have now been completed, and they are to sail on July 6 by the Cunard steamship Umbria, so the report states, and are to be gone for the summer months. It is said that the boys are to be paid for their services at the rate of $20 per week, although to avoid the taint of professionalism, this is to be paid for personal expenses. … There is no truth in the report that Al Spalding has a hand in or is backing the trip, although he will doubtless watch the matter with keenest interest. Captain Noyes, of the Yale nine, said of the matter to-day:-- “We will start for England July 6, but we are not going over under the direction of an English syndicate. We intend going for the fun there is in it and also to learn to play cricket. We will join some cricket club near London, probably, and while there we will instruct the English cricketers how to play our national game, while they instruct us in the rudiments of theirs.” The Sporting Life July 3, 1889 The base ball team, composed of the best players from Yale, Harvard and Princeton Universities, which will show the English cricketers how to play America's game, sails for Europe to-day [7/6], on the steam Umbria. The team is under the management of J. W. Curtis, an old graduate of Yale University, and goes to Europe in response to an invitation from several English gentlemen who are desirous of having the game introduced in that country. It has been arranged for the team to play with the cricketers of Oxford and Cambridge universities and several cricket elevens in and around London. The Sporting Life July 10, 1889 |
| Source | The Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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