Clipping:The veteran Knickerbockers attempt a trip
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| Date | Sunday, September 19, 1869 |
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| Text | The Excelsior and Knickerbocker Clubs, of Brooklyn and New York, the latter the Nestors of the game, having had two exciting encounters together this season, in which victory perched alternately upon the banners of the two clubs, finding that a neutral ground is demanded to settle the vital question in a third battle, have selected Washington as the scene of the next conflict; and, accordingly, the two nines of the clubs will take their departure for Washington next Thursday, and on Friday the grand match is to be played on the National ground, Washington, in the presence of the elite of Washington society, and under the patronage of the prominent officials of the United States Government. Indeed we have heard that General Grant is to stand umpire on the occasion. All Knickerbockerdom is excited over the coming event, and the Excelsiors are higher in their expectations of victory than ever before. We shall send a special reporter to note the important event. New York Sunday Mercury September 19, 1869 Tomorrow night a party composed of about seventy or eighty of the members of the veteran Knickerbocker Club of New York, and the Excelsior Club of Brooklyn, will leave Jersey City for [Washington, D.C.] direct, for the purpose of playing their home and home game on the National Base Ball Grounds, and also to play games with the National and Olympics of [Washington]. New York Daily Tribune September 23, 1869 The proposed contest between the Knickerbocker Club, of this city, and the Excelsiors of Brooklyn, announced to take place at Washington on Friday last, was unavoidably postponed, owing to the inability of the majority of the members of the Knickerbocker Club to leave town in consequence of the critical position of things in the money-market, several of the Knickerbockers being in business in Wall street. It was also difficult for the Excelsiors to get off; but rather than disappoint their Washington friends they made an effort to raise a nine for the purpose... New York Sunday Mercury September 26, 1869 |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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