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Game of Wicket Reaches IA

Salience Noteworthy
Location Iowa
City/State/Country: Clinton, IA, United States
Game Wicket
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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"BALL GAMES IN THE WEST. - It is with pleasure that we observe the gradual progression of these healthy and athletic games westward. A Wicket Club has recently been organized in Clinton City , Iowa, which is looked on with much favor by the young men of that locality."

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New York Clipper, June 13, 1857. Facsimile provide by Craig Waff, September 2008.

Also covered in Porter's Spirit of the Times, June 20, 1857

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