Clipping:A new generation of Knickerbockers playing match games
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| Date | Saturday, May 15, 1880 |
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| Text | “Many years ago,” when the New York Knickerbocker Club members were “young and charming,” they used to play quite a strong game. Afterwards they fell into “the sere and yellow leaf” of their ball-playing age, as it were, and resolved themselves into a committee of the whole on recreative practice on the field, and this they kept up until 1879, when time began to tell on such old soldiers of the Knickerbocker crops as “Jim” Davis, Purdy, Hinsdale, Benson, et al., and a corps of younger players began to take the places of the veterans; and now the old boys—with two or three exceptions—are no longer to be seen out on the field on practice-days. But the club does not die out from that cause; on the contrary, this year it has taken a new lease of life, and the young blood which has been inoculated into the ancient body bids fair to restore some of the old-time prestige of the club in its field-work. The fact is, the Knickerbockers of 1880 can raise a very good amateur-club team; and if they will only turn out well and get their new team into match-playing form, they ought to be able to trouble any of the regular metropolitan amateur nines to win a ball from them. On May 7 the Knickerbockers played their first club practice-match, on which occasion they had the Freshmen's nine of the Stevens Institute as their opponents. … [Stevens won 12-2] [Note: the game was played with ten men on a side, nine innings.] |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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