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From: Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake <>
Subject: Re: American sports - British Sports
Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 09:20:16 +0100


In article <>,
writes

>The game is also played to a lesser extent in Scotland,
>Ireland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Canada,
>Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. And I'm beginning to scrape the bottom
>of the barrel, when I
>include the last few !

Would that be a barrel of Guinness you are scraping? (Hint: it's easier
to pour it :).

I'll have you know that Ireland beat Middlesex in the first round of the
Benson & Hedges competition last year! The fact that they had a South
African playing for them with the well-known Irish surname of Kronje is
incidental....

Continuing the theme that genealogy *is* connected to international
sport, it's amazing how the rules of who may represent a country lead to
aspiring sportsmen/women in country A seeking out an ancestor who lived
in country B. Witness the fact that tennis player Greg Rusedski, raised
in Canada with Polish paternal ancestors, plays for Britain.
--
Barney Tyrwhitt-Drake

Drake Software web site: http://www.tdrake.demon.co.u

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