Clipping:Early word of the Giants to be in Hoboken or Jersey City
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| Date | Wednesday, July 4, 1888 |
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| Text | [a note from Chadwick] While at Staten Island last week I saw a veteran umpire who resides in Hoboken, and who is well posted in affairs connected with field sports in that locality, and he told me that the Metropolitan Exhibition Company had all but secured a lease of the old St. George cricket grounds, foot of West Ninth street, and that in case things go wrong in their suit with the Park Commissioners in regard to the Polo Grounds and the removal of the fence the New York Club would remove their field of operations to Hoboken forthwith. The St. George cricket grounds are very desirable for the purpose, and the owners of the property realize the fact that the advent of a club like the New Yorks to Hoboken would result in a large increase in their ferry receipts and this, to them, is a very important consideration. The cricket field could readily be made one of the finest ball grounds in the country, and with a long lease to help them, the New York Club would be enabled to put up handsome stands, and give their patrons far greater convenience, than is possible at the Polo Grounds. The field at Hoboken can be reached from down town and up town quicker than the Polo Grounds, and instead of the line hot ride in the elevated cars, they would have the cool sail across the ferries from Barclay, Christopher and Twenty-third streets. Of course, if the suit ends favorably, they will retain the Polo Grounds this season, but otherwise they will go to Hoboken in July, and anyway next year. The Sporting Life July 4, 1888 [from George Stackhouse's column] The New York nine will not be located at the Elysian Fields nor at the St. George Cricket Grounds, Hoboken. In fact the team will not be located in Hoboken at all. In case the local club is compelled to leave the Polo Grounds this season—something very improbable—the nine will play out its home scheduled games at Oakland Park, Jersey City. In case of a conflict in games the Jersey City nine might be temporarily located in Hoboken, but not the Giants. That Hoboken will furnish the future home grounds of the New York Club is all rot. Even if the team is forced to Jersey City the move would only be a temporary one the local club already has new grounds in view and they are neither in New Jersey nor Long Island. They are right here in New York. As those new grounds will not be needed for some time to come, and as they will be in readiness when needed, I have probably taken up enough space on this one topic and will drop it. The Sporting Life July 11, 1888 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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