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Boston Clubs Play for Cigars
Salience | Noteworthy |
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Tags | Pre-modern RulesPre-modern Rules |
Location | |
City/State/Country: | Boston, MA, United States |
Modern Address | |
Game | Massachusetts GameMassachusetts Game |
Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
Age of Players | AdultAdult |
Holiday | |
Notables | |
Text | "The Aurora Ball Club and Olympic Ball Club will play best 3 in 5 games at Base ball on Tremont street mall on Friday next at half past 5 o'clock for 10 boxes of Havana Cigars. The public are invited to be present. A sufficient force will be in attendance to prevent confusion." [Full Item] |
Sources | Boston Herald, September 7, 1853. |
Warning | The rules for this match are not known. |
Comment | Four years later, the Olympic Club's written rules show similarity to the Dedham rules for the Massachusetts Game that appeared in 1858. Best-of-three and best-of-five formats are later seen in matches in MA and upstate NY; the "best-of" format may have been common in the game or games that evolved into the Mass Game. Edit with form to add a comment |
Query | Was a form of unpleasant "confusion" anticipated? Like what? Do we know any more about the Aurora Club? Edit with form to add a query |
Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
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Submitted by | David Nevard, |
Submission Note | October 4, 2014 |
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