Clipping:A lager saloon at the Athletics ground?
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| Date | Saturday, August 1, 1868 |
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| Text | We hope Mr. Joseph Fraley Smith, President of the Athletics, will prevent the establishment of a Lager Beer Saloon on the ground of the club. Such an institution will do much to demoralize the club and the game, and will prevent ladies and gentlemen from visiting the enclosure. We don’t object to lager, but a ball ground is not the place to sell it. Philadelphia City Item August 1, 1868 the Atlantics cut of the gate, renege on a game ... On the 18th of July, by the letter of their [the Atlantics] Corresponding Secretary, they positively agreed to play the Excelsiors, of Rochester, on the 28th, remarking; “It is customary with the club to receive fifty per cent of the gross proceeds of a match.” To this an answer was returned immediately by the Excelsiors, accepting the challenge on the terms proposed. They did not say to the Excelsiors, however, that, doubting the integrity and honesty of other clubs, now that their own reputation was becoming so questionable, they in Syracuse (a plan which they undoubtedly adopt in other places) stationed one of their number at the gate to count the tickets, that they might be assured the ticket sellers returned the right amount of funds received. However this may be, upon the strength of the positive arrangements made by the correspondence above referred to, the members of the Excelsior Club have been to a good deal of expense to prepare for the match, and were greatly surprised on Saturday to receive the following very cool dispatch: BROOKLYN, N.Y., July 25. To John. W. Gothout, Secretary Excelsior Base Ball Club: We have two matches here next week. Have made no arrangements to play you there on Tuesday. Signed, J. C. CHAPMAN, Director. Now there can be but one explanation for such conduct; either the club is afraid to meet the Rochester and Buffalo boys, or else they have transformed themselves from a first-class ball club into a second-class hippodrome, and are only willing to play at such places where the gate money promised to be abundant. If the former, they should certainly be dropped from the national Association; and if the latter, they are unworthy the fellowship of first-class clubs, and should be ignored by the public generally. New York Dispatch August 2, 1868, quoting the Auburn Morning News July 28, 1868 |
| Source | Philadelphia City Item |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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