Clipping:The veterans of the Knickerbockers issue a challenge

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Date	Sunday, July 23, 1871
Text	The old “vets” of the Knickerbocker Club are spoiling for a match with a Brooklyn nine of their age or any other nine no professionals. They would like to polish off an old Excelsior nine, or an old picked nine of vets of the Eagle, Empire and Gotham clubs. Any young fellows ranging from forty-two to fifty-seven years of age, who are either active or honorary members of an amateur club, and who think they can whip the vets of the Knickerbockers, can be accommodated with a match at the shortest notice by addressing veteran James Whyte Davis, 42 Clinton place, or Brother Pundy, at 142 Bowery. Miller, Cameron, Bixby, Howe, Williams, Culyer, Thorne, Russell, Yates and others of the old-time ball-tossing crowd will please make a note of Davis’s challenge at once. Don’t let these Knickerbocker fellows bluff you in this way, but go for them at once. Where’s P. O’Brien, Ed. Russell, and others of the old Brooklyn vets? Bring out the fathers of the game.
Source	New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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