Word: oporto
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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When the English residents of Lisbon and Oporto started cricket in Portugal years ago, the new game excited great wonder among the natives, the Portuguese people, who find no pleasure in athletic sports or in muscular exercise generally, being puzzled at the idea of wealthy people engaging in such laborious work. On the occasion of the first match at Lisbon between the two clubs, the Lisbon Journal thus reported...
CRICKET-MATCH.-Tomorrow there was to have come off an interesting game of cricket between the cricket clubs of Lisbon and Oporto. The object of the formation of these societies is the playing of the game of cricket-match, an active, running, driving, jumping game, which only can be played by a person having a good pair of legs and in a climate where warmed punch is found insufficient to keep up the animal heat. Does the reader know how to play a game at cricket-match? Two posts are placed at a great distance from one another. The player...