General Poetry posted August 28, 2019 |
Given a sporting chance, it's all a game!
Fun With Words
by LisaMay
When Inspiration Visits Contest Winner
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When Inspiration Visits Contest Winner |
Author's Note:
1.) Iyenochka reviewed a poem of mine recently and said, "You're always finding ways to have fun with words!" That was the trigger to how this poem came about.
2.) The sport referred to in the last stanza of my poem is cricket.
The first recorded women's cricket match took place on Gosden Common, near Guildford in Surrey, as reported in The Reading Mercury on 16 July 1745.
The paper described it as "the greatest cricket match that was played in this part of England... between eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambledon, all dressed in white. "The Bramley maids had blue ribbons and the Hambledon maids red ribbons on their heads. The Bramley girls got 119 notches and the Hambledon girls 127. The girls bowled, batted, ran and catched as well as most men could do." High praise - albeit slightly grudging.
Women's cricket was particularly popular in Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey. Crowd trouble was not unknown, partly due to sporting rivalry and partly due to the large bets placed on games. One form of contest pitted single women against married counterparts, and prizes ranged from ladylike lace gloves to ladette-style barrels of ale!
Early cricket saw balls bowled underarm, and some claim it was actually a woman who introduced today's roundarm bowling action when, in the early 1800s, Christina Willes tried it to avoid becoming ensnared in her skirt.
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and 2 member cents. 1.) Iyenochka reviewed a poem of mine recently and said, "You're always finding ways to have fun with words!" That was the trigger to how this poem came about.
2.) The sport referred to in the last stanza of my poem is cricket.
The first recorded women's cricket match took place on Gosden Common, near Guildford in Surrey, as reported in The Reading Mercury on 16 July 1745.
The paper described it as "the greatest cricket match that was played in this part of England... between eleven maids of Bramley and eleven maids of Hambledon, all dressed in white. "The Bramley maids had blue ribbons and the Hambledon maids red ribbons on their heads. The Bramley girls got 119 notches and the Hambledon girls 127. The girls bowled, batted, ran and catched as well as most men could do." High praise - albeit slightly grudging.
Women's cricket was particularly popular in Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey. Crowd trouble was not unknown, partly due to sporting rivalry and partly due to the large bets placed on games. One form of contest pitted single women against married counterparts, and prizes ranged from ladylike lace gloves to ladette-style barrels of ale!
Early cricket saw balls bowled underarm, and some claim it was actually a woman who introduced today's roundarm bowling action when, in the early 1800s, Christina Willes tried it to avoid becoming ensnared in her skirt.
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