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Osbaldeston Witnesses the Tom Cribb Prize-Fight — Inter-Sport Crossing, 1818
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1818-04-07
On 7 April 1818, two months before the cricket season opened, George Osbaldeston attended Tom Cribb's prize-fight exhibition on Hounslow Heath alongside Lord Byron and the bare-knuckle champion's other backers. Osbaldeston himself stripped briefly to spar three rounds with Cribb's understudy. The episode is a piece of the Regency cross-discipline sporting culture and a glimpse of cricket's place within a wider sporting elite.
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