Clipping:Rumors of a thrown game in a hustle
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| Date | Sunday, August 16, 1868 |
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| Text | In the game between the Nationals, of [Albany], and the famed Atlantics, of Brooklyn, which has been the theme of so much discussion for a few days, came off yesterday afternoon at the Van Rennselaer Park. A large crowd attended. The result was a decided victory for the Nationals, at least so far as the figures of the score can make a victory. That score was 27 to 19. Without in anywise detracting from the great merit of the winners, the fact cannot be disguised that there is a very general opinion that the Atlantics intended from the outset to lose the game. Upon no other hypothesis can the character of their playing be accounted for. A reason given for this belief is, that a game of far greater importance was to day to have been played between the Atlantics and Haymakers of Lansingburgh and prudential considerations dictated the propriety of giving to that game greater inducements for betting than might have ensued from a victory yesterday. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury August 16, 1868, quoting the Albany Evening Journal. [Compare with NYSM 9/12/69] |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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