. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. g-v. SAN" FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1886. Sporting Notes. There is no out-door game in the world that is one-half so cosmopolitan as Cricket. Its home is in England, but early in life it was transplanted with her sons in Australia, where it has became indigenons to the soil. Iu Canada it also pros- pers. Baseball overtops it in the United States, but in Phila- delphia the game has become thoroughly acclimated. It is one of the fashionable games in the New England states, and is popular in New York, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis. In Chi
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. g-v. SAN" FRANCISCO. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1886. Sporting Notes. There is no out-door game in the world that is one-half so cosmopolitan as Cricket. Its home is in England, but early in life it was transplanted with her sons in Australia, where it has became indigenons to the soil. Iu Canada it also pros- pers. Baseball overtops it in the United States, but in Phila- delphia the game has become thoroughly acclimated. It is one of the fashionable games in the New England states, and is popular in New York, Baltimore, Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis. In China and Japan the game is played regularly by Englishmen, and in the shadow of the loft y-Hiniilayas matches are often played. In Ceylon it has taken root, and many of the islands of the Indian Archipelago have their cricket clubs. Every large city on the coast of South America sees a cricket match at least once a week. Under the painted shadow of the pyramids, in the face of the world's oldest civilization, the game is kept up. The heat of the West Indies does not deter the lovers of the game from following it. Parsees and Brah- mins play in Bombay and Calcutta, and the Aborigines of Australia have played matches on thegreenswards of old Eng- land. Iu California the game has had an uncertain life for many years. In the early 6fries, Marysville and Grass Valley vied with San Francisco in having jovial cricket matches. But last Saturday for the first time for many years, certainly for the first time un record, two matches were played in the city. The most interesting being between the captains, offi- cers and apprentices of the British merchant ships in port. The game was not very scientific, but it showed how thoroughly the love of it is imbedded in the Anglo-Saxon heart. Captains, first officers and boys, for the day, could fancy themselves at home at school, with the hopes and doubts of life pressing upon them or urging them into the wider world. Here on the cricket field they
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