Clipping:The first victory of the season by a New York over a Brooklyn club

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Date Sunday, September 4, 1859
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[Eagle vs. Pastime 9/2/1859] ...a match was played between the Eagle Club of New York and the Pastime Club, of Brooklyn, at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, which resulted for the first time this season in a conquest for New York. Hie de doodle do! ... It was a great day for Hoboken–Friday last; and never was a club more courteously treated and well beloved by their conquerors, than was the Pastime. The Eagle folks could have hugged them to death for joy; and when all was over, they celebrated their victory in a very joyful manner. New York “ain’t dead yet!

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

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