Clipping:A player abandoning his post
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| Date | Sunday, August 14, 1859 |
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| Text | [Champion of Morrisania vs. Enterprise of New York 8/13/1859; junior clubs; incidentally, a “fly” match] The game, as will be seen above, was concluded in eight innings. Nine innings could have been played, and indeed the ninth was played by the Champion Club (who had the first hand in) but the result was declared by the umpire on the score of the eight complete innings, owing to the fact that one of the Enterprise players was absent when his turn came to bat, and the Champions objected to the next player taking a strike unless the absentee should be counted a hand out. To [illegible] would not consent, and the umpire decided the game as above stated. The Champion side had made five runs in the ninth inning. The Enterprise then commenced and the first striker was put out. The next striker was the missing player, and as he had been so unfortunate as not o have made a run during the game; his absence was attributed by the Champions to be a preconcocted plan on the part of the Enterprise to get him out of the way, with a view to insuring their success. We are well satisfied that in this matter the Champions do the Enterprise Club injustice. There was no arrangement of any kind made for the absence of the player in question; and his delinquency was a matter of as deep regret to the young gentlemen of the Enterprise Club as it could have been to their opponents. The delinquent party was not a member of the first nine of that club, and was only put in to supply the place of Master F. Durell, a much superior player. Having been unfortunate in all of the previous innings, the enterprising young man did not feel that he possessed pluck enough to withstand the jeers of his companions if he should again lose; and on the principle that “prudence was the better part of valor,” he scampered, unknown to any of the players on his side. This is the whole story; and we give it a place, because we are positive of its truth, and because we desire to relieve the Enterprise Club of the unjust aspersions which have been cast upon their conduct in this matter by interested parties. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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