Longwood Cricket Club

A club for cricket was opened in 1877 at Longwood Estate, a place named after the house Napoleon Bonaparte stayed at while exiled to Saint Helena.

[1] Located on the outskirts of Boston on land donated by the Sears family,[2] cricketers and baseball players put Longwood on the sports map.

George Wright combined with tennis pro Charlie Chambers in league games throughout New England and played at Longwood against Lord Harris' XI in 1891.

Wright brought the first tennis gear to Boston on his return from a baseball-cricket tour of England in 1874.

It was George Wright who deserves the credit for Longwood's broad-based sporting tradition, having excelled in baseball and cricket as a paid professional and at tennis as a promoter of the game.

The following year saw the first Longwood Bowl tournament, attracting top American players.

In 1900 Dwight Davis, then a fourth-year student at nearby Harvard University, arranged for a British team to visit Longwood and compete for what became the first Davis Cup, branded the International Lawn Tennis Challenge.