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title: '"Grand match between the Kinderhook poney and the Ohio ploughman", April 1836'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/grand-match-kinderhook-poney-ohio-ploughman-harrison-1836/
description: 'Billiards cartoon: Harrison, under a portrait of Washington, makes a stroke while Webster and Clay bet on him; Van Buren, with Jackson at the table''s far…'
section: Collection
---

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# "Grand match between the Kinderhook poney and the Ohio ploughman", April 1836

Billiards cartoon: Harrison, under a portrait of Washington, makes a stroke while Webster and Clay bet on him; Van Buren, with Jackson at the table's far end under a portrait of Napoleon, is told he is finished. Tells: a founder's portrait set over one candidate and a conqueror's over the other's patron, and prominent backers announcing 'Harrison wins the game'.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[Balloon, Harrison] Now for a six stroke.
[Balloon, Webster] Now's your chance Harrison. There is a tide in the affairs of men as Shakespear says.
[Balloon, Clay] I'll go a cool Hundred Harrison wins the game
[Balloon, sixth man] I'll bet a cookie he dont make the hazzard
[Balloon, Van Buren] He's more likely to hole himself General!
[Balloon, Jackson] By the Eternal! Martin if Harrison holes you and gets a spot ball on the deep red it is all day with you

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1836, by H.R. Robinson, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States of the Southern District of New York
GRAND MATCH BETWEEN THE KINDERHOOK PONEY AND THE OHIO PLOUGHMAN
Published April 1836, by the proprietor H.R. Robinson, 48 Cortland St New-York
```

Read from the 1,536-px master scan; the copyright line is small and read at 3x magnification.

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