Clipping:A scheme for a collegiate English tour
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Date | Wednesday, May 16, 1888 |
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Text | Manager F. C. Bancroft is working up another scheme, that of taking two ball teams to England this summer. Mr. Bancroft was in Cambridge the other day and conferred with some of the Harvard student in regard to taking a representative nine from that college and another from Yale to England, to be gone two months this summer. His idea is to play ball one day and cricket the next, and as Harvard and Yale have some good cricketers as well as ball players, there is no reason why the scheme should not be successful both financially and otherwise. And, besides, the teams would be made up of gentlemen, which would tend to boom our National game in another country. The Sporting Life May 16, 1888 Stagg, the famous Yale pitcher, has written the following letter to Manager Bancroft in relation to the proposed visit to England:--”We have talked over the scheme of going to England and have decided that Yale could not send over a nine this year. Whether Yale would consider such a project in the future I could not say. There are some difficulties with the plan aside from personal consideration.” The Sporting Life June 6, 1888 |
Source | Sporting Life |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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