Clipping:Early use of 'exhibition game'
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Date | Sunday, August 30, 1868 |
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Text | [Union of Morrisania vs. Cincinnati 8/25/1868] [The Cincinnatis] challenged the champions to play them the return-game on Tuesday, and hoped, in the weakened state of the visitors, to win a trophy from them. But the Morrisanians were too smart for that, and would only play upon one condition–that the contest should be simply an exhibition-game, and no return-match or regular match-game. Rather than not play at all, the Red Stockings finally consented to this arrangement, and on Tuesday the affair came off, resulting finally in the defeat of the champions, by a score of 13 to 12. |
Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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