Cricket Club Votes to Admit Women
<i> Associated Press</i>
MANCHESTER, England —
The Lancashire County Cricket Club has voted to allow women members, ending a ban that endured since the club’s foundation in 1864.
The club announced over the weekend that the men had voted 2,046 to 961 for the change, which will allow women to watch matches with them in the pavilion and play an equal role at meetings.
The vote leaves only one other British cricket club, Middlesex, that does not permit women members.
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