Clipping:Early season practice games
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| Date | Sunday, April 24, 1870 |
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| Text | The Union Club, of Morrisania, have opened play for the season of 1870, by inaugurating a custom well calculated not only to promote friendly feelings between clubs, but also to materially assist them in arriving at that perfection of play which judicious practice and training alone yield; and the custom referred to is that of opening the season with practice-matches with a leading club, in place of playing the ordinary games which have hitherto marked the inaugural proceedings of a clubs’s season. The arrangement made by Mr. Ford with the Atlantic Club to open each other’s season with games on their respective grounds has proved to be an advantageous one to both clubs, and no doubt it will be followed up each year by both. Last Thursday, the weather being tolerably pleasant, both clubs assembled on the Capitoline Grounds to play their first practice-match together, the occasion being the regular opening-day’s play of the Atlantics Club. Ordinarily these occasions attract but few spectators, and but little interest is taken in such meetings; but this year there appears to be more than ordinary excitement manifested in regard to the movements of the leading clubs; and instead of the two or three hundred people ordinarily seen gathered together to watch an opening-game, we were agreeably surprised to find over a thousand spectators present, and that, too, in spite of the entrance fee of twenty-five cents, which was charged. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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