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|Year=1780 | |||
|Year Number=2 | |||
|Headline=Challenges for Cricket Matches between Englishmen and Americans | |Headline=Challenges for Cricket Matches between Englishmen and Americans | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Pre-Knicks NYC, US cricket clubs, | |||
|Country=United States | |||
|Coordinates=40.7127837, -74.00594130000002 | |||
|State=NY | |||
|City=New York | |||
|Game=Cricket | |Game=Cricket | ||
| | |Age of Players=Adult | ||
|Text=<p>On August 19, 11 New Yorkers issued this challenge: "we, in this public manner challenge the best eleven Englishmen in the City of New York to play the game of Cricket . . . for any sum they think proper to stake." | |Text=<p>On August 19, 11 New Yorkers issued this challenge: "we, in this public manner challenge the best eleven Englishmen in the City of New York to play the game of Cricket . . . for any sum they think proper to stake." On August 26, the Englishmen accepted, suggesting a stake of 100 guineas. On September 6, the news was that the match was on: "at the Jew's Burying-ground, WILL be played on Monday next . . . the Wickets to be pitched at Two O'Clock." We seem to lack a report of the outcome of this match.</p> | ||
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|Sources=<p><em>Royal Gazette</em>, August 19, 1780, page 3 column 4; August 26, 1780, page 2 column 2; and September 6, 1780, page 3 column 4. </p> | |||
<p>Also cited in I. N. Phelps Stokes, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 : compiled from original sources </span>(New York, Robert H. Dodd), 1926), Volume V, page 1115.</p> | |||
|Submitted by=George Thompson; John Thorn | |||
|Submission Note=Posting of 8/2/2005; email of 2/23/2017 | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
| | |Has Supplemental Text=No | ||
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| Text | On August 19, 11 New Yorkers issued this challenge: "we, in this public manner challenge the best eleven Englishmen in the City of New York to play the game of Cricket . . . for any sum they think proper to stake." On August 26, the Englishmen accepted, suggesting a stake of 100 guineas. On September 6, the news was that the match was on: "at the Jew's Burying-ground, WILL be played on Monday next . . . the Wickets to be pitched at Two O'Clock." We seem to lack a report of the outcome of this match.
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| Sources | Royal Gazette, August 19, 1780, page 3 column 4; August 26, 1780, page 2 column 2; and September 6, 1780, page 3 column 4. Also cited in I. N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 : compiled from original sources (New York, Robert H. Dodd), 1926), Volume V, page 1115. |
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| Submitted by | George Thompson; John Thorn |
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