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I h From Page 4 Canada's national game in 1867. Beers wrote, "as cricket, wherever played by Britons, is a link to their home, so may lacrosse be to Canadians." Canadians." In raising what had been the relative relative minor sport of lacrosse to a kind of patriotic prominence and expanding expanding the number of summer team sport options, he contributed to cricket's decline. Baseball's progress in Canada is equally instructive and again we return return to Bowmanville. John Squair who was bom in Bowmanville in 1850 says that, "so far as I remember remember we did not, during my early youth, play baseball or football." Baseball's strongest centres in Canada Canada in the 1850's were in the area west of Toronto. Baseball was introduced into Cobourg Cobourg in the early 1860's by vacationing vacationing Americans who crossed Lake Ontario by boat from Rochester. Rochester. From Cobourg, the game spread throughout the County of Northum- berland-Durham, the jurisdiction within which Bowmanville was located. located. By 1865, the village of Newcastle Newcastle had a successful team, the Bea vers. Players were drawn from Daniel Daniel Massey's manufacturing company. Some sense of baseball's more egalitarian character was an 1868 story in Bowmanville's Canadian Statesman of ball playing at a local picnic. In nearby Newcastle that The Brookdale "Roses," of Bowmanville, Intermediate "A" Ontario Baseball Champions for 1951. year, two nines of the local Beavers club, under William Tamblyn and local storekeeper John Templeton, played a match on the day celebrating celebrating the Queen's birthday. There was no suggestion that cricket might be more appropriate. When it came to sports, cultural arguments mattered little. Baseball had likely been played in Bowmanville for at least a few years before 1869 given the Statesman's Statesman's reference to the apparent reformation reformation of the old Live Oaks. At a Dominion Day celebration, they defeated defeated a factory team from the Upper Canada Furniture Company 49-9. Newcastle and Bowmanville played a spirited series in early October October of 1868 won by the Beavers. A year later a juvenile squad, the Victorias, was formed in Bowmanville. Bowmanville. That same year, a third major summer sport, lacrosse, was organized organized in town with the local team travelling to Rochester. In 1870 with time running out on cricket's prominent place in the summer sporting calendar, an attempt attempt was made to re-establish the game in town under the chairmanship chairmanship of lawyer Robert Armour, a victim of the real estate collapse in 1857. In 1872, The Statesman noted, noted, "There having been no cricket ground in Bowmanville for a number number of years, the noble game is almost almost unknown here now." At a fireman's picnic at the drill shed grounds in Bowmanville in that 1872 summer, teams from Hamilton, Cobourg, Oshawa, Port Hope, Lindsay, Napanee, Port Perry, and Belleville competed in a variety of competitions from baseball baseball to bands. In mid-August, Bowmanville's junior squad, the Victorias, played the second nine of the Toronto Dauntless club. Samuel Burden from Bowmanville umpired the match which the visitors won 32-30. The result was telegraphed back to Bowmanville and a large crowd gathered at the train station to wel- Continued on Page 6 w ' TRADITIONS AT HOOPER'S JEWELLERS FOR HALF A CENTURY! 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From 1869-78, bicycle and foot races were popular. The foot races went so far as to give out cash prizes for the tip finishers. Although small in comparison to today's standard, top prizes would be worth anywhere anywhere from $25430 a race. Apparently, the races attracted attracted many of the working class people from the town. Many of the workers would gamble among each other on the outcome outcome of the races, with hopes of picking up a little extra money. There is also some brief literature literature on rifle shooting clubs in the town. Militias were formed from some of these, and they used the rifle shooting to sharpen sharpen their ability. Irani! Finish Canadian Jewellery Group Co-operative Association You Can Trust © Against f onnto The following is a story that appeared in the Toronto Globe, dated July 16,1855. The game "between the Darlington Darlington and Toronto cricket clubs came off as notified in in our columns on Friday last, but unfortunately, was not played out. The Darlington men won the toss and took the innings, but managed to score only 48, which looked well for the Toronto Toronto club, who made 85, being 37 ahead of their friendly opponents. opponents. Each party having now had an inqing, lunch was announced, announced, and the two clubs, together together with several visitors, sat down to a substantial cold repast, repast, provided by Mr. Seels of King St. After lunch the umpires call "Play!" The Darlington men again went to die wickets, and so well did they bat (especially that staunch cricketer and good fellow, Mr. Sutton) that notwithstanding notwithstanding the splendid bowling bowling of Messrs. Pickering, Parsons, Parsons, and Jolincs, a score of 131 was the result of the inning, which lasted until sun-down, so that the Toronto Club had no opportunity of going in that evening. evening. The Darlington men could not remain over another day, having to leave by Saturday's boat at eleven o'clock a.m. The game stands as drawn, though perhaps the best of it might Ik? said to be with Darlington. Darlington.