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|Year=1815
|Year Suffix=
|Year Number=4
|Headline=Six-Hour "Wicket" Match Played in Canada
|Headline=Six-Hour "Wicket" Match Played in Canada
|Year=1815
|Salience=2
|Salience=2
|Location=Canada
|Location=Canada
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|Game=Cricket
|Game=Cricket
|Text=<p>"On the 29<sup>th</sup> May, a grant [sic] Match of Wicket was played at Chippawa, Upper Canada, by 22 English ship wrights, for a stake of 150 dollars. The parties were distinguished by the Pueetergushene and the Chippawa party. The game was won in 56 runs by the former. It continued 6 hours.</p>
|Immediacy of Report=
<p>"The winners challenge any eleven gentlemen in the state of New York, for any sum they may wish to play for. The game was succeeded by a supper in honor of King Charles, and the evening in spent [sic] with great hilarity."</p>
|Holiday=
<p><i>Mechanics' Gazette and Merchants' Daily Advertiser,</i> June 9,1815, reprinting from the <i>Buffalo</i> <i>Gazette.</i> Provided by Richard Hershberger, 7/30/2007. <b>Note:</b> It seems unusual for Englishmen to be playing wicket, and for wicket to field 11-man teams. Could this be a cricket match reported as wicket? Is it clear why a Buffalo NY newspaper would report on a match in "Upper Canada," or whereever Chippawa is? Do we know what a "grant match" is? A typo for "grand match," probably?</p>
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|Text=<p>"On the 29<sup>th</sup> May, a grant [sic] Match of Wicket was played at Chippawa, Upper Canada, by 22 English ship wrights, for a stake of 150 dollars. The parties were distinguished by the Pueetergushene and the Chippawa party. The game was won in 56 runs by the former. It continued 6 hours.</p>
<p>"The winners challenge any eleven gentlemen in the state of New York, for any sum they may wish to play for. The game was succeeded by a supper in honor of King Charles, and the evening in spent [sic] with great hilarity."</p>
<p><em>Mechanics' Gazette and Merchants' Daily Advertiser,</em> June 9,1815, reprinting from the <em>Buffalo</em> <em>Gazette.</em> Provided by Richard Hershberger, 7/30/2007. <strong>Note:</strong> It seems unusual for Englishmen to be playing wicket, and for wicket to field 11-man teams. Could this be a cricket match reported as wicket? Is it clear why a Buffalo NY newspaper would report on a match in "Upper Canada," or whereever Chippawa is? Do we know what a "grant match" is? A typo for "grand match," probably?</p>
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|Comment=<p>Upper Canada is modern Ontario, and Chippewa is just across the Niagara River from New York and Buffalo. [ba]</p>
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|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
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Six-Hour "Wicket" Match Played in Canada

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Location Canada
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"On the 29th May, a grant [sic] Match of Wicket was played at Chippawa, Upper Canada, by 22 English ship wrights, for a stake of 150 dollars. The parties were distinguished by the Pueetergushene and the Chippawa party. The game was won in 56 runs by the former. It continued 6 hours.

"The winners challenge any eleven gentlemen in the state of New York, for any sum they may wish to play for. The game was succeeded by a supper in honor of King Charles, and the evening in spent [sic] with great hilarity."

Mechanics' Gazette and Merchants' Daily Advertiser, June 9,1815, reprinting from the Buffalo Gazette. Provided by Richard Hershberger, 7/30/2007. Note: It seems unusual for Englishmen to be playing wicket, and for wicket to field 11-man teams. Could this be a cricket match reported as wicket? Is it clear why a Buffalo NY newspaper would report on a match in "Upper Canada," or whereever Chippawa is? Do we know what a "grant match" is? A typo for "grand match," probably?

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Upper Canada is modern Ontario, and Chippewa is just across the Niagara River from New York and Buffalo. [ba]

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