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<p>On 9/122018, John Zinn replied to a 19CBB posting from Bob Tholkes as to the likelihood that this game was played by modern rules:</p> <p>--</p> <p>"Bob,</p> <p>The evidence, such as it is, as follows:</p> <p>By the date of this game (10/23/1855), there were four white clubs in Newark playing the New York game. Two of them had played a game in May that used other rules or some hybrid, but over the summer, it was clearly the New York game.</p> <p>While there is evidence (all of it retrospective) that non-New York games were played in New Jersey before 1855, there is no evidence of there being any organized clubs doing so.</p> <p>Based on this, I think it's reasonable to believe that a group of Newark black residents formed the St. John's Club following on the example of their white counterparts to play the New York game.</p> <p>John"</p>
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