1855.15

2000 Demurely Watch Englishmen-heavy Cricket at Hoboken NJ

Salience	Noteworthy
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Location	Greater New York CityGreater New York City
City/State/Country:	Hoboken, NJ, United States
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Game	CricketCricket
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Age of Players	AdultAdult
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Text	"A Game that few Yankees Understand "The scene at the Cricket Ground at Hoboken, for the last three days, has been worth a long ride to see . . . . "[A] most pleasing picture. It had a sort of old Grecian aspect - yet it was an English one essentially. Nine-tenths of the immense number of visitors, we guess from the universal dropping of their h's were English. But it is a game that a Yankee may be proud to play well. It speaks much for the moral effect of the game, though we were on the ground some three hours, and not less than 2,000 were there, we heard not a rough or profane word, nor saw an action that a lady might not see with propriety. It costs three cents to get to Hoboken and for thousands of New-Yorker there can be no greater novelty that to watch a game of cricket."
Sources	New York Daily Times, vol. 4 number 1168 (June 15, 1855), page 1, column 6. Posted to 19CBB on 9/11/2007.
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Submitted by	Craig Waff
Submission Note	Email of 9/11/2007
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