We have a few good boatmen, -no good horsemen that I hear of,-I cannot speak for cricketing, -but as for any great athletic feat performed by a gentleman in these latitudes, society would drop a man who should run round the Common in five minutes.
"The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
He wondered whether there was as much as five pounds of the cricketing money left!
"Eric, or Little by Little"
Frederic W. Farrar
She thought of the simple preparations that had been made-the pasties, the saffron buns and the ginger beer; she looked around her at the very plain but useful garments worn by her family, her husband in faded grey flannel trousers and a cricketing shirt, Helen and Mary in the simplest blue cotton, and Jeremy in his two-year-old sailor suit.
"Jeremy"
Hugh Walpole