Jan,
I thought you would have remembered that Plymouth was where Sir Francis Drake
played Bowls while the Spanish Armada approached! (Maybe the Plymouth Cricket
should have been called the Plymouth Bowls - or Jack, or Kitty)
Vic
Jan Eyerman wrote:
> Victor,
>
> Are you telling me that don't play Cricket in Plymouth???
>
> Jan
>
> Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
> Bill, well a pitch is where cricket (no Jan E and Pete C, not Plymouth
> Cricket)
> matches are played, and a cricket pitch is 22 yards long. Same length as a
> chain,
> which is surprising as the timing chain on my Alpine looks nowhere near that
> long.
> 10 chains to a furlong (I know it's hard to believe the imperial system used
> 10 of
> anything to make up something else), 8 furlongs to a statute mile (one of two
> miles
> used, the other being the nautical mile) and 12 furlongs to a league.
>
> All of which goes to show that the Imperial system was actually devised by
> sadistic
> schoolmasters to torture small children with problems like "If a man had
> enough
> apples to reach from one end of a cricket pitch to another, and the apples had
> an
> average circumference of 3 nails, and were priced 3 shillings, sixpence and 3
> farthings a dozen, how much would all the apples cost (including VAT)
> (allowing for
> the curvature of the earth)"
>
> Cheers and a Firkin of brown bubbly to all
>
> Vic
>
> Bill Mounce wrote:
>
> > Vic, can you now fill us in on pitches, chains, furlongs and leagues? God,
> I
> > miss the Imperial system! Bill in plain old Pennsylvania.
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