Clipping:A denunciation of curve pitching
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
 |
| Add a Clipping |
| Date | Saturday, January 5, 1884 |
|---|---|
| Text | During the holidays a meeting of representatives from the faculties of the chief colleges met in New York to discuss athletics. This convention arose from Dr. Sargent's visit to the various colleges and was called by the Athletic Committee of Harvard. There were present Prof. Norton and Dr. Sargent, from Harvard; President McCosh of Princeton; Professor Richards of Yale; Mr. Goodwin of Columbia and many other presidents and professors. After a long discussion on athletics, in which every one seemed to be agreed that professionals and professionalism should be rigorously excluded from college athletics, it was decided to appoint a large committee and who should draw up a series of rules regulations by which all college athletics should be controlled. Professor Richards of Yale was made chairman of this committee, and Dr. Sargent is Harvard's representative on it. Harvard Crimson January 5, 1884 During the recent convention of representatives from Harvard, Yale and other colleges to consider the subject of athletics, one of the speakers unbosomed himself thus: Athletics have come to the pass where they are no longer fair and open trials of strength and skill, but on the contrary, as at present conducted, they train the young men to look upon victory as the rewards of treachery and deceit. That this is the case, anyone who has seen the game of baseball as it is played by the so-called best college nines will at once admit. For the pitcher, instead of delivering the ball to the batter in an honest, straightforward way, that the latter may exert his strength to the best advantage in knocking it, now uses every effort to deceive him by curving–I think that is the word–the ball. And this is looked upon as the last triumph of athletic science and skill. I tell you it is time to call halt! when the boasted progress in athletics is in the direction of fraud and deceit. New York Clipper January 19, 1884 |
| Source | Harvard Crimson |
| Tags | |
| Warning | |
| Comment | Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Edit with form to add a query |
| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
Comments
<comments voting="Plus" />