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One of the Earliest Public Notices of a Cricket Match?
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | HolidaysHolidays |
| Location | |
| City/State/Country: | London, England |
| Modern Address | |
| Game | CricketCricket |
| Immediacy of Report | Retrospective |
| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
| Holiday | Easter Monday |
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| Text | "Of course, there are many bare announcements of matches played before that time [the 1740's]. In 1700 The Postboy advertised one to take place on Clapham Common."
Note: An excerpt from a Wikipedia entry accessed on 10/17/08 states: "A series of matches, to be held on Clapham Common [in South London - LMc] , was pre-announced on 30 March by a periodical called The Post Boy. The first was to take place on Easter Monday and prizes of £10 and £20 were at stake. No match reports could be found so the results and scores remain unknown. Interestingly, the advert says the teams would consist of ten Gentlemen per side but the invitation to attend was to Gentlemen and others. This clearly implies that cricket had achieved both the patronage that underwrote it through the 18th century and the spectators who demonstrated its lasting popular appeal." |
| Sources | Thomas Moult, "The Story of the Game," in Moult, ed., Bat and Ball: A New Book of Cricket (The Sportsmans Book Club, London, 1960; reprinted from 1935), page 27. Moult does not further identify this publication. |
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1700.1 One of the Earliest Public Notices of a Cricket Match?"
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