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{{Chronology Entry
{{Chronology Entry
|Year=1780
|Year Number=2
|Headline=Challenges for Cricket Matches between Englishmen and Americans
|Headline=Challenges for Cricket Matches between Englishmen and Americans
|Year=1780
|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
|Tags=Pre-Knicks
|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." 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>
|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>
<p><u>Royal Gazette</u>, August 19, 1780, page 3 column 4; August 26, 1780, page 2 column 2; and September 6, 1780, page 3 column 4. Submitted by George Thompson, 8/2/2005.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
|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.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Also cited in I. N. Phelps Stokes,&nbsp;<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909&nbsp;: compiled from original sources&nbsp;</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
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
}}

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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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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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