Clipping:A League game in Brooklyn
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| Date | Saturday, August 3, 1878 |
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| Text | [Milwaukee vs. Providence at Brooklyn 7/26/1878] The League clubs of Milwaukee and Providence visited Brooklyn, N.Y., July 26, to play one of their championship games, by way of experiment, to see if it would pay to play others there. The situation in the metropolis, as far as the pecuniary success of professional nines is concerned, is a peculiar one, and it ought to have been studied out well before the managers of these two clubs arranged their game. It appears that the meeting was a hurriedly arranged one, and, as it wanted the requisite public notice given of it, it proved to be a pecuniary failure, not over three hundred people being within the inclosures; besides which, the outside crowd was not double that–a fact plainly showing how few people new of the match coming off. The clubs divided about a hundred and twenty-five dollars between them, when, if two weeks’ notice had been given of the meeting, a couple of thousand people would have been in attendance. The fact we have to relate in connection with this meeting will scarcely be credited; but the story has to be told, and it is this: Just before the game was to have commenced, the managers of the two teams, in view of the comparatively slim attendance, decided to withdraw the teams from the field and not to play the match, simply because by doing this they could return by the 5 P.M. boat to Providence, and thereby save the additional expense of taking the evening train. That the crowd present would be disappointed was of no account, compared with the saving of a few dollars; so they proposed to Mr. Cammeyer to act in the matter; but this plan Mr. Cammeyer would not submit to. In his extensive experience he had seen almost every variety of managerial blunders and objectionable proceedings, but this capped the climax, especially as coming from two League Association clubs. The result was that he managers were compelled to keep trust with the public, and the game was played out. The receipts more than offset the loss sustained by remaining and acting a proper part, but the stigma remains. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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