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Provider of Sports and Entertainment
Dec 7, 1778
Results of Race:
With Hosts
Sr.Bugsley & Sr.Wellington
Horse Racing
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Charles II was an avid supporter and
helped to make horse racing popular
amongst the nobles.
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Provides two forms of entertainment,
betting on races and raising a
thoroughbred to victory
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Horse racing is and was the bed rock in
Britain's gambling sector, was mostly for
the nobles
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With wealth comes free time, Nobles
looked for entertaining ways to spend
time
Boxing
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Boxing like horse racing has no definitive point
of origin, it comes from competitive hand to
hand combat
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The first recorded boxing match was in
England in the 18th century.
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The rules evolved from bare knuckle fighting
with no referee and included reselling
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Boxing was an underground sport for the
lower class, involved gamboling.
Tennis
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The sports birth is a long line of evolution
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Henry VII and Henry VIII were both
enthusiastic admirers of the sport and
encouraged the spread of the game in Britain
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In the 16-17th century the game was played
inside using walls to bounce the ball off of.
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The sport lost popularity in the 1700’s but in
the 1850’s different rubber balls were
experimented with, this made the game more
exciting
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The game was then transferred to outdoor
courts, a new set of rules followed
Billiards
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Originally played outside, similar to Croquet
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Once brought inside the table was made green to
simulate the grass it was once played on
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It was played with mallets until the cue stick was
invented in the late 1600’s
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Tables were expensive and only the rich could
afford them, however there were communal tables
in towns
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With industrialization came rubber for the banks,
chalk for the cues and slate for the tables. By 1850
the table was at its current state now.
Cricket
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Started as a pass time in south east England
for sheep farmers because of the short
pasture grass
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First recorded game took place in 1646, the
game became extremely popular in the 1700’s
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The games rules were not established until
1744, there were many variations to the rules
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In the 1760’s a new rule allowing pitchers to
through it instead of rolling the ball
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The sport was spread to Britain's colonies like
India and Australia were it remains popular
Football
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Soccer is a basic game that has been played
for thousands of years in various forms
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Different cultures had variations on the game,
it was played as early as 50 B.C. China
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Many English rulers like King Henry IV, Henry
VIII and Queen Elizabeth vocalized their
distaste in the sport and even banned it at
times
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The sport gained English sanction in 1681, the
first know rules were written in 1815
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It quickly became not only Britain's favorite
sport but billions of peoples around the world
EFSN
Most Historian did not bother to record
sports and there origins because they were
seen as insignificant. So most knowledge
about sports is a blur in time with no
definitive start and little information on
ancient sports.
Stephen Mighton, Braydon Campbell