The Germantown Cricket Club 
boys in cricket. The 
trophy room in the club 
house contains cricket 
magazines and news¬ 
papers, thus sustain¬ 
ing the interest of the 
young members. The 
walls are paneled in 
oak and have the 
names ol juniors who 
have played on Inter¬ 
national matches, and 
the names of winners 
of batting and bowling 
averages, engraved up¬ 
on them. An inscrip¬ 
tion on the walls of the 
trophy room reads as 
follows:—“This tro¬ 
phy room, dedicated to 
the Junior members 
of the Germantown 
Cricket Club,was built 
THE BALLROOM 
ging the juniors to become famous cricketers. 1 he 
older members give their experiences, and tell 
anecdotes about cricket as they played it when boys. 
After dinner the prizes of bats and balls are awarded, 
with a few words of encouragement to each 
recipient. On these occasions the balconies are 
filled by the mothers and sisters, who watch the 
juniors busily putting away the dainties placed be¬ 
fore them, and after the speeches receive their laurels. 
On the Wissahickon side of the grounds a well- 
proportioned grand 
stand given by Mr. 
Thomas Pratt McKean 
is always well-filled at 
International cricket 
matches and Interaca¬ 
demic football games. 
The largest crowds 
were in attendance 
when Lord Hawks and 
Prince Ranjitsinhji 
brought their teams 
over from England. 
Before the Franklin 
Field was used for 
football, Pennsylvania- 
Princeton football 
games were played at 
Manheim. In the last 
few years Association 
football has taken 
hold in America, 
THE BOWLING ALLEY and Manheim has 
A. D. MDCCCXCVI 
by the children of 
Edward M. Davis, Jr., as a memorial of their father 
who was twenty years president of the Young 
America Cricket Club of Germantown, the first 
club in the United States to establish junior mem¬ 
bership A. D. MDCCCFXVI.” 
Every year the seniors give a dinner in the main 
club house to all junior members who have played 
on first or second junior elevens. These dinners 
are eagerly looked forward to and speeches are 
made by'the original founders of the Club, encoura- 
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