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Atlantics Are Challenged to Play MA Game for $1000 Stake, But Decline
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Location | Greater New York CityGreater New York City |
| City/State/Country: | Brooklyn, NY, United States |
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| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
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| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | [A] "In a long talk with "Bill" Lawrence, who put up the money for the Upton-Medway game, and himself a player on the mechanics Club of Worcester, he tells me that just before the war - he thinks in 1860 - he went to New York with Mr. A. J. Brown (now dead), of Worcester, and challenged the Atlantics of Brooklyn to come to Worcester and play the Uptons for 1000 dollars; the game to be the "Massachusetts Game" and not the "New York Game," which was the game played by the Atlantics. The winner to get the entire $1,000; the loser nothing. After a good deal of consideration the challenge was not taken up by the Atlantics, on the ground that the players could not spare sufficient time for the practice requisite for such an important match; the officials of the Atlantic Club at the same time scoffing at the idea that could beat the Uptons or any other Club." [B] In a posting to 19CBB on 7/31/2005 [message 4], Joanne Hulbert reports on four articles from the Worcester Daily Spy that record the rumor of the "great match game of base ball," as well as a return match in New York if Upton wins, and the Atlantics' turndown, "probably on account of the expenditure of time and money . . . as well as to their objection to playing by any but the New York game." |
| Sources | Letter from Henry Sargent, Worcester MA to the Mills Commission, June 25, 1905. Worcester Daily Spy [July 16, July 17, July 17, and August 4.] |
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1860.10 Atlantics Are Challenged to Play MA Game for $1000 Stake, But Decline"
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