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{{Clipping |Type of Date=Day |Date=4/28/1872 |Title=the St. George ground; the end of the old Elysian Fields ground |Text=<p>...the opening proceedings of the time-honored Knickerbocker Club...took place on Friday, April 26, on their new field of operations, the St. George Cricket Ground, foot of Ninth street, Hoboken. ... The new ground presents a fine turfy covering, admirably adapted for fielding purposes, and in this respect is a great improvement on the old ground–now occupied by the debris of a lumbar-yard. The club will have to purchase a tent for lady visitors on match occasions, there being no shelter from the rain except at the cricket club house. New York Sunday Mercury April 28, 1872</p> <p></p> <p>[The Knickerbockers] have recently engaged one day’s use of the enclosed cricket field foot of Ninth street, Hoboken, at the large outlay of $300 the season... New York Clipper May 4, 1872</p> |Source=New York Sunday Mercury |Submitted by=Richard Hershberger |Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings }}
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