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|Headline=Ladies' Wicket in England?
|Headline=Ladies' Wicket in England?
|Year=1849
|Year=1849
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|Text=<p>"BAT AND BALL AMONG THE LADIES. Nine married ladies beat nine single ones at a game of wicket in England recently.  The gamesters were all dressed in white - the married party with blue trimmings and the others in pink."</p>
|Text=<p>"BAT AND BALL AMONG THE LADIES. Nine married ladies beat nine single ones at a game of wicket in England recently.  The gamesters were all dressed in white - the married party with blue trimmings and the others in pink."</p>
<p><i>Milwaukee</i><i>[WI] Sentinel and Gazette</i>, vol. 5, number 116 (September 4, 1849), page 2, column 2.  Provided by Craig Waff, email of 8/14/2007.  Beth Hise [email of 3/3/2008] reports that the wearing of colored ribbons was a much older tradition.  <b>Note:</b>  One may ask if something got lost in the relay of this story to Wisconsin.  We know of no wicket in England, and neither wicket or cricket used nine-player teams.</p>
<p><i>Milwaukee</i><i>[WI] Sentinel and Gazette</i>, vol. 5, number 116 (September 4, 1849), page 2, column 2.  Provided by Craig Waff, email of 8/14/2007.  Beth Hise [email of 3/3/2008] reports that the wearing of colored ribbons was a much older tradition.  <b>Note:</b>  One may ask if something got lost in the relay of this story to Wisconsin.  We know of no wicket in England, and neither wicket or cricket used nine-player teams.</p>
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"BAT AND BALL AMONG THE LADIES. Nine married ladies beat nine single ones at a game of wicket in England recently. The gamesters were all dressed in white - the married party with blue trimmings and the others in pink."

Milwaukee[WI] Sentinel and Gazette, vol. 5, number 116 (September 4, 1849), page 2, column 2. Provided by Craig Waff, email of 8/14/2007. Beth Hise [email of 3/3/2008] reports that the wearing of colored ribbons was a much older tradition. Note: One may ask if something got lost in the relay of this story to Wisconsin. We know of no wicket in England, and neither wicket or cricket used nine-player teams.

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