Early baseball in Australia/Game 1

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-	From Protoball Entry #1855.29 – Even the Australians Are Bothered by Sunday Baseball
-	“Sabbath Desecration. – A correspondent requests us to call attention to the practice of a number of boys and young men, who congregate in Mr. Wilkinson’s paddock, near Patrick and Murray Streets, on Sunday afternoons, for playing at cricket, base-ball, &c., making a great noise, and offending the eyes and ears of persons of moral and religious feeling.”	+	|Pagetext=From Protoball Entry #1855.29 – Even the Australians Are Bothered by Sunday Baseball
-	Colonial Times [Hobart], Saturday, September 22, 1855, page 3. Posted to the 19CBB list November 21, 2009, by Eric Miklich. Subsequent comments from Bob Tholkes and Richard Hershberger [11/23/09] led to conjecture that this form of “base-ball” arrived Down Under directly from its English roots, for in 1855 American presence was largely restricted to the gold fields. Note: Hobart is on the northern coast of the island that has been known as Tasmania since 1856.	+	"Sabbath Desecration. – A correspondent requests us to call attention to the practice of a number of boys and young men, who congregate in Mr. Wilkinson's paddock, near Patrick and Murray Streets, on Sunday afternoons, for playing at cricket, base-ball, &c., making a great noise, and offending the eyes and ears of persons of moral and religious feeling."
-	From Protoball Entry #1857.17 -- Base Ball in Melbourne?	+	Colonial Times [Hobart], Saturday, September 22, 1855, page 3.  Posted to the 19CBB list November 21, 2009, by Eric Miklich.  Subsequent comments from Bob Tholkes and Richard Hershberger [11/23/09] led to conjecture that this form of "base-ball" arrived Down Under directly from its English roots, for in 1855 American presence was largely restricted to the gold fields.  Note: Hobart is on the northern coast of the island that has been known as Tasmania since 1856.
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-	Phil Lowry has information on a 3-inning game in Melbourne, Victoria on February 21 or 28, 1857.  The score was 350 to 230, and rules called for a run to be counted each time a baserunner reached a new base.” Posting to 19CBB by Phil Lowry 11/1/2006.  Note: We seek sources for this item.	+
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-	Protoball record 1857.7 from [http://retrosheet.org/Protoball/chron.htm Protoball project]	+

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Location	Australia
Year	1855
Month	9
Date	22
City	Hobart
Country	Australia
Was NY rules baseball	Doubtful
Played by	Unknown

From Protoball Entry #1855.29 – Even the Australians Are Bothered by Sunday Baseball

"Sabbath Desecration. – A correspondent requests us to call attention to the practice of a number of boys and young men, who congregate in Mr. Wilkinson's paddock, near Patrick and Murray Streets, on Sunday afternoons, for playing at cricket, base-ball, &c., making a great noise, and offending the eyes and ears of persons of moral and religious feeling."

Colonial Times [Hobart], Saturday, September 22, 1855, page 3. Posted to the 19CBB list November 21, 2009, by Eric Miklich. Subsequent comments from Bob Tholkes and Richard Hershberger [11/23/09] led to conjecture that this form of "base-ball" arrived Down Under directly from its English roots, for in 1855 American presence was largely restricted to the gold fields. Note: Hobart is on the northern coast of the island that has been known as Tasmania since 1856.