Clipping:The championship and the whip pennant

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Date Sunday, May 13, 1866
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The National Association does not recognize the title of championship... The club entitled to “fly the whip”, as the phrase is, is the one who goes through a season without losing a single game. If they do not lose a match of best two out of three, however, they can still claim the honors of being champions, as far as custom allows of the existence of the title. The success attained by the Eckford Club in 1863 is yet to be equaled, viz., the winning of every first-nine, second-nine, and amateur match the club plays during the season–a feat the Eckfords accomplished in 1863.

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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