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{{Chronology Entry | {{Chronology Entry | ||
|Year=1820 | |||
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|Year Number=16 | |||
|Headline=Union vs. Mechanics - First Mention of Club Cricket? | |Headline=Union vs. Mechanics - First Mention of Club Cricket? | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
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|Country=United States | |||
|Coordinates=40.6781784, -73.9441579 | |||
|State=NY | |||
|City=Brooklyn | |||
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|Game=Cricket | |Game=Cricket | ||
|Text=<p>On June 19, 1820, the Union and Mechanic Cricket Clubs played two matches in Brooklyn. | |Immediacy of Report= | ||
<p>Posted to 19CBB by Richard Hershberger, 7/31/2007. | |Holiday= | ||
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|Text=<p>On June 19, 1820, the Union and Mechanic Cricket Clubs played two matches in Brooklyn. According to an account [a box score was also provided] in the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">New York</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Daily Advertiser</span> of June 21, "this manly exercise <em>. . .</em> excited astonishment in the spectators by their great dexterity . . . . A great number of persons viewed the sport."</p> | |||
<p>Posted to 19CBB by Richard Hershberger, 7/31/2007. Richard noted: "this is the earliest example I know of named cricket clubs, and is not mentioned in Tom Melville's history [<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Tented Field.]</span> In am 1/30/2008 email, Richard added that this game was also reported in the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">New York Columbia</span> of June 19, 1820 as having "all Europeans" on both sides. <strong>Note:</strong> does the David Sentence book cover this game? Do we know of any earlier club play; for instance, did the Boston Cricket Club [see #1808.2 above] ever take the field in 1808?</p> | |||
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| Text | On June 19, 1820, the Union and Mechanic Cricket Clubs played two matches in Brooklyn. According to an account [a box score was also provided] in the New York Daily Advertiser of June 21, "this manly exercise . . . excited astonishment in the spectators by their great dexterity . . . . A great number of persons viewed the sport." Posted to 19CBB by Richard Hershberger, 7/31/2007. Richard noted: "this is the earliest example I know of named cricket clubs, and is not mentioned in Tom Melville's history [The Tented Field.] In am 1/30/2008 email, Richard added that this game was also reported in the New York Columbia of June 19, 1820 as having "all Europeans" on both sides. Note: does the David Sentence book cover this game? Do we know of any earlier club play; for instance, did the Boston Cricket Club [see #1808.2 above] ever take the field in 1808? |
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