Clipping:The state of the Knickerbocker club
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| Date | Sunday, May 2, 1875 |
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| Text | The Knickerbocker Club.–This veteran organization, under their esteemed and veteran president, Father Davis, will this season take part in a series of invitation contests with the college club nines of Yale, Princeton, Harvard, etc., something they should have done seasons ago. The Knickerbockers will play on the same grounds at Hoboken as last year, and, as hitherto, will decline to participate in any professional or semi-professional matches. They very properly ignore the gate-money business in connection with amateur playing, the club never having countenanced in any way any phase of professionalism, not that they regard the system, under honest auspices, as objectionable, but that it does not accord with their idea of amateur playing to participate in the gate money business. For this reason, while playing with college nines on enclosed grounds, they, of course, will have nothing to do with the receipts at the gate, which the leading college clubs are in the habit of availing themselves of to support the incidental expenses of their organization, just as they are obliged to do with their boat clubs. The Knickerbockers will open play at Hoboken some fine day next week, when it is to be hoped that the cheerful voice of the veteran, “poor old Jim Davis,” will once again enliven the Knickerbocker field. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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