Clipping:A description of the crowd; delegations from out of town
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| Date | Sunday, October 21, 1866 |
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| Text | [Athletics vs. Atlantics 10/15/1866] From 9 o’clock in the morning until near 4 in the afternoon, the tide of people flowed to the grounds, and at 3, P.M., the estimate of a veteran of the Potomac army, well versed in numbering large bodies of men, was that there was not less that from twelve to fifteen thousand people within the inclosure. No better arrangements could have been made to insure a fair field for the contest. The scene presented from the scoring-table, during the intervals of the game, were at once novel and picturesque. At the close of each inning, those of the crowd who occupied low seats would get up and stretch themselves, the movement making quite a wave of heads around the circle. As special good plays would occur in the game, out would come the white pocket-handkerchief, and at one time the novel sight was presented of the waving of some three or four thousand of these flags of truce, the appearance being that of a gathering of gigantic white moths on the field. ... The visiting delegations from distant parts of the country surpassed all previous occasions. From St. Louis, Nashville, and Richmond, on the South; from Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland, on the West; Portland and Boston, on the East; and from the Green Mountains of Vermont, on the North, came delegations of admirers and exemplars of the national game. Among the Vermonters present were a party from St. Albans, including W. H Farrar, A. G. Safford, and Captain Lewis, who, after playing in a match on Saturday, left home to see the model-players. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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