Clipping:Restoring the Atlantics' reputation

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Date Friday, July 1, 1864
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[Atlantics vs. Empires 6/30/1864] This game with a Club from whom the Atlantics have been so long estranged, is but the beginning of a series of matches by which they purpose relieving themselves from the odium that has been unjustly attached to the club from the action of club-followers and outsiders at their prominent matches, such as their last game with the Excelsiors and the one they had with the Mutuals at Bedford last season.

The Atlantics, for the first time since their organization, have now a ground that is under the control of the club to the extent of preserving perfect order and decorum on match days, and affording all contestants as fair a field as they could desire to have, and having possession of such a ground they desire that their opponents on the occasions referred to, and in fact all clubs that may have had cause for complaint in the games played on the old grounds, to come forward and afford them an opportunity to show them that the Atlantic club have ever had the will as they now have the power to show their adversaries a fair field and no favor in every contest in which they engage. With this object in view, they challenged the Empires and Gothams, and also the Excelsiors, and as the Empires have responded so we trust all others will.

Source Brooklyn Eagle
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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