1816.10

Norfolk VA Cricket Club Reported

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City/State/Country:	Norfolk, VA, United States
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Text	Richard Hershberger [emails of 1/28/09 and 2/4/10] reports seeing advertisements in the American Beacon for a Norfolk Cricket Club from 1816 to 1820: "CRICKET CLUB. A meeting of the Subscribers to this Club, will be held at the Exchange Coffee House, this evening at 6 o'clock, for the purpose of draughting Rules and Regluations for the government." American Beacon(Norfolk VA), October 25, 1816. Subsequent notices were for playing times. Note: In The Tented Field, Tom Melville writes that a 1989 book has the Norfolk Club being founded in 1803 in imitation of English customs (page 164, note 10). Patricia Click, in Spirit of the Times (UVa Press, 1989), page 119, cites the October 1, 1803 issue of the "Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald" [likely then the "Norfolk Herald"] in reference to an observation [page 73] about the social makeup of cricket clubs. Query: can we find out what the 1803 paper actually says about cricket, if anything?
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Comment	The New York Clipper, Nov. 20, 1858, reports that a Norfolk Cricket Club has just been formed. Edit with form to add a comment
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