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Date	Sunday, June 18, 1882
Text	[Athletic vs. Cincinnati 6/17/1882] [The field is in poor shape after a heavy rain] ‘When was their [the Cincinnati Club] surprise, at 1:15 o’clock, to hear that Manager Simmons insisted on playing the game. The sun had but a little before burst through the clouds, and there was no certainty that it would not rain more before night; still Manager Simmons said he guessed the game must be played so, mud or no mud. It was whispered around that he understood White could not pitch a wet ball, and he thought the Athletics had one chance to down the Cincinnatis. Manager Snyder finally agreed to play, against his will, however. It was now nearly 2 o’clock, and the news of the game must be gotten over town some way, and that right soon. The banner at Hawley’s was run out across Vine street. A bulletin was put up at this place also, announcing the game would be called at 4 o’clock, Manager Simmons consenting to this to give an extra hour to the grounds to dry up. An express wagon was called into use and sided with muslin placards announcing “game at 4 o’clock.” A band of music was an impossibility in the short time required to make the announcement, and by hard labor a drum and fife quartette were at last secured, put into the wagon, and the news was in this way run around town between 3 and 4 o’clock. It was the best that could be done, and even under these discouragements every body was surprised to see the attendance so large. Fifteen hundred and twenty-five people paid to enter the grounds, which the guarantors made fully sixteen hundred. The grounds were very soggy, and made running an uncertain amusement.
Source	Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
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