Sporting clubs [ Associational culture / Clubs & Societies ]
… gambling. Although there are claims that the Star and Garter was the first cricket club, it is best seen as a meeting place for noblemen and gentlemen, who were looking to organise the rules of the games, rather than as a formal … Received opinion was for a long time that the club was formed some time in 1751 because of a mention in print of a meeting of the Club in the Autumn of 1751 ( General Advertiser , November 19, 1751). But mentions of The Jockey Club meetings as early as 1729 have been found in newspapers, 3 proving that it was already in existence by then. Richard …
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