Question: J. B. Thompson was a cricketer for the club founded in what year?
Context: The Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club, was founded on September 23, 1870 by Alexander Cameron Sim, and is usually credited with being Japan's oldest sports club.  Certainly it is the oldest club founded and still running under its original name.  In 2015 the Club celebrates its 145th Anniversary with an Interport in September, at its home - Isogami Koen, in Kobe, against perrenial opponents YC&AC (see below).  The Club moved to a newly manufactured building at the end of 1870 and held its first-ever regatta on December 24, of that same year.  The Club and its members have been variously credited with introducing many sports to Japan, including Association Football, Field Hockey, Cricket, Rugby, the Crawl (swimming) and Ten-Pin bowling!  The first official football match in Japan is widely believed to have been held on February 18, 1888 between the KR&AC and its Yokohama counterpart, the Yokohama Country & Athletic Club. The Geelong Golf Club is a defunct golf club founded in 1892 and was the oldest in the state of Victoria, Australia.  It was located in the northern Geelong suburb of North Geelong and maintained an 18-hole course bounded by Ballarat Road and bisected by Thompson Road. Union, University & Schools Club is a private, social club founded in 1857.  and based in Sydney at 25 Bent Street.  The Club was formed by a merger between the Union Club and the University & Schools Club in January 2007.  Members must be nominated and seconded and the annual membership fee is only disclosed to potential members.  The Club has reciprocal relationships with other like minded clubs around the world, including the Melbourne Club, the Alexandra Club in Melbourne, the Turf Club, the Garrick Club and the Athenaeum Club, London, the Hong Kong Club, the Jonathan Club in Los Angeles and the Metropolitan Club and the Lotos Club in New York. Football Club Bari 1908 is an Italian football club founded in 1908, they are based in Bari, Apulia and plays in Serie B.  The club has spent many seasons bouncing between the top two divisions in Italian football, Serie A and Serie B. The Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) is a sports club based in Melbourne, Australia.  It was founded in 1838 and is one of the oldest sports clubs in Australia. James Bogne "J. B." Thompson (1829 – 18 July 1877) was one of the creators of the original laws of Australian rules football, one of the founders and the inaugural secretary of the Melbourne Football Club, a cricketer for Victoria and the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC), and a journalist for Melbourne newspaper, "The Argus". Federal Triangles Soccer Club, otherwise known as Federal Triangles, the Feds or FTSC, is a coed soccer club founded in 1990 by J. C. Cummings and a group of interested players under the umbrella of the DC Sports Association (the GLBT sports group of the time for the Washington, D.C. area).  The club runs several tournaments and leagues throughout the year and sponsors multiple men's and women's fall and spring teams.  FTSC also organizes regular pickup games, multiple tournaments, and other events throughout the year, including the Rehoboth Beach Classic, United Night Out (UNO, D.C. United's Pride night), and a Turkey Bowl & Thanksgiving Potluck.  FTSC is a member of Team DC and the International Gay and Lesbian Football Association (IGLFA), and has nearly 200 paying member players of its own. The Australian Club is a private club founded in 1838 and located in Sydney at 165 Macquarie Street.  Its membership is men-only and it is the oldest gentlemen's club in the southern hemisphere.  It enjoys reciprocal arrangements with other clubs of its type including; the Melbourne Club, Boodle's and Brooks's in London, the Pacific-Union Club in San Francisco, California Club in Los Angeles, Union Club and Knickerbocker Club of New York City and the Somerset Club in Boston. Boldklubben 1903 or B 1903 is a football club founded in 1903, located in Copenhagen, Denmark.  Seven times winner of the Danish championship (introduced 1913) in 1920, 1924, 1926, 1938, 1969, 1970 and 1976 and twice winner of the Danish Cup (introduced 1955) in 1979 and 1986.  Best international result: Quarter final in the UEFA Cup (1991/92) after eliminating Aberdeen F.C., Bayern Munich (6–2 and 0–1) and Trabzonspor.  In 1992 the club was merged with Kjøbenhavns Boldklub (KB) to form the current club F.C. Copenhagen to which B 1903 transferred its license to play in the Danish league.  As a note, F.C. Copenhagen won the Danish championship in its first season. The Belfry Club founded as the Germantown Academy Dramatics Society was founded in 1894 by Germantown Academy student, J. Warner Johnson, a member of the class of 1895.  The club is the oldest (or one of the oldest) high school dramatic societies in the United States of America and has produced at least one show per school year since its founding in 1894.
Answer: 1838