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"He [James Garfield, 20th president of the USA] was full of animal spirits and he used to run
out on the green almost every day and play cricket with us. He was a tall,
strong, man, but dreadfully awkward. Every now and then he would get a
hit on the nose, and he muffed his ball and lost his hat as a regular thing.
He was left-handed too, and that made him seem all the clumsier."


[reminiscence of Rev. J. L. Darsie when he was a student at Western
Reserve Eclectic Institute, now Hiram College, in Ohio, and Garfield was
the school principal. Chicago Tribune, June 18, 1880, p.3]
 
Re: USA president Garfield as cricketer

"Manliness was one distinguishing feature of his [Garfield's] character, and
he strove to inspire the young men of the institution [Eclectic School]
with like habits, as also of self-reliance and courage. They were
encouraged in athletic exercise, foot-ball and cricket the games in which
he excelled, and in which he personally superintended their efforts."

(Chhicago Tribune, Sept. 20, 1881, p3)
 
USA president Arthur and cricket

The president [Chester A. Arthur, 21st president of the USA] rose at
9 o'clock to-day, enjoyed his breakfast an hour later, after which he was
an interested spectator of games of cricket and tennis in the rear of
the hotel [Hotel Kaateskill, upstate New York].

(New York Times, Aug. 8, 1884, p.5)


"The President felt greatly refreshed by the drive, and on returning watched
from the rear varanda [sic] a game of cricket."


(New York Times, Aug. 10, 1884, p .1)
 
Re: USA president Arthur and cricket

mate, please keep the president stuff in one thread, thanks.
 
Timmy and His Wonderful Thoughts

From WC website:

"a ticket to the Party Stand will guarantee the holder...musical entertainment
before, during, and up to one hour after the match, a meal combination
(including drink) and up to eight beverages of choice."


400,000 WC tickets still unsold.
 
Re: Yank party animals...WC party stands

Stop spamming the board with your same complaints over and over again!
 
Re: Yank party animals...WC party stands

Do I have to keep locking threads on here?
 
Yank said that?

"for though baseball is a more exciting game it lacks the picturesqueness
of cricket, and in no branch of it does it involve so much science and
variety as does the art of a first-class batsman in the older game."

[New York Times editorial, Sept. 30, 1891, p.4]
 
Re: Yank said that?

I don't know. But posting quotes from over 100 years ago and using them to try and convince other posters on BigCricket that today's America is still interested in the game doesn't make a lot of sense.

It also doesn't help when they are constantly spammed on this board.

Thread closed.
 
baseball Hall of Famer prefers cricket

"As a player I [George Wright, star 19th century baseballer
who also played cricket. Inducted into Baseball Hall of
Fame, 1937] prefer cricket. As a spectator I am for
baseball. There is really more science and enjoyment for
the player in cricket. There are a hundred points in batting
that one has to bear in mind and the avoidance of a
difficulty or the accomplishment of a pet stroke gives
much pleasure to the player. I do not think the
spectator has much of this pleasure. Give me cricket to
play and baseball to watch." (Chicago Times, April 17,
1889, p.3)
 
Re: baseball Hall of Famer prefers cricket

this will be the place to read all of timmys obscure findings from previous centuries and his opinions.
 
cricket preempts "Field of Dreams"

"The Independence [Iowa] Cricket Club played a match with the
Dyersville club, at Independence, in July 1858. Dyersville won the game with
but one wicket down [sic]. It was a very close and exciting game."
(Harry Church, History of Buchanan County, Iowa, and Its People, p.588)



[Dyersville, Iowa, was where the 1989 movie Field Of Dreams with
Kevin Costner was shot. The Dyersville baseball field used in the film is today a mecca
for baseball enthusiasts]
 
Yanks once clamored for cricket

"Some 4,000 admirers of cricket have signed a monster petition to the
Park Commissioners asking for better facilities for playing the game
at Central Park."

(New York Times, March 6, 1896, p.6)
 
Baseball going somewhere; cricket nowhere

See former major league baseballers Ken Holtzman,
Ron Blomberg, and others working to start up a
baseball league in Israel. Do we see any former
first class cricketers from Australia or anywhere else working to
build a cricket league in Yankland?
 
great American authors and cricket

Louisa May Alcott:

"She listened with intense interest to an account of some exciting
cricket match, though...'stumped off his ground', and 'the leg hit for
three' were as intelligible to her as Sanskrit." (Little Women)



Ralph Waldo Emerson

"football, cricket, archery, swimming...are lessons in the art of power."
(The Conduct of Life)



Herman Melville:

"I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer...that's more than
ye, ye great gods every were. I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players,
ye pugillists...I will not say as schoolboys do bullies."
(Moby Dick)
 
Re: great American authors and cricket

AHH, Timmy I see you are well read, a man after my own heart. Ive spent the last 1.5 years, since I discovered Cricket revisiting all the greats, fitzgerald, hemingway, Wilde, Wolfe, Joyce, Serling etc.. After all Cricket is far more than a game, it is a way of life, that everyone could use a lesson in.

But the best book I have read is "Beyond A Boundary" by C.L.R James. You probably have already read it but if not, I highly recommend it.

Also, While I was I was on an Errol Flynn kick (books & movies) I found out about the Hollywood Cricket Club back in the day. Must have been a wild place to be in the clubhouse considering the rouges gallery of members that were there. I actually sent the HCC ( still In existence) a couple of emails requesting a T-shirt but guess what, never got a reply. Oh well
 
cricket was to be USA national pastime

"And we are happy to be able to say that within the last three years America
has taken this matter [cricket] into such serious consideration that ere
long it will be ranked as a NATIONAL GAME...Yes, we would say to the rising
generation...join a cricket club and...spend a few hours in the week in one of the
most exhilerating, gentlemanly, scientific, and amusing exercises known at
the present day." (Philadelphia Press, June 21, 1858, p.2)
 
Re: Group D - Ireland v Zimbabwe

Play a few extra overs and decide the game, like extra innings in baseball. This tie BS is a relic
of the Victorian era.
 
excitement in stands; not at turnstiles

Wonder how WC attendance is going. Still see rows and rows
of empty seats on all the Cricinfo photos, even in matches
between full members.
 
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