Clipping:A player felled by alcohol
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| Date | Saturday, May 3, 1890 |
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| Text | [from Edwin Ewing, the Scranton correspondent] Paddy Gillespie, the New Yorks' old left fielder, is now working in the coal mines at Carbondale, sixteen miles from this city. Poor Paddy! What a tumble he took! Had he followed the precepts as laid down by Francis Murphy he would now be a Brotherhood Giant under “Buck” Ewing. Last Summer the poor fellow, as if realizing how great had been his downfall, braced up a little and was given a trial at short stop by the Carbondale Club. His fielding was all that could be desired and he batted in his old-time form. Club managers heard of it and hopes were entertained that Gillespie would recover his lost laurels. Even then his weakness would have been forgotten, but that everlasting, mysterious craving for alcoholic stimulants returned with redoubled intensity, and, alas! Paddy fell once more. So firm a hold has the accursed wine cup got on him that to-day he is a wreck of his former self, forsaken by those who honored him when he played left field for the Giants and made the “only” Clarkson “shiver in this boots. |
| Source | The Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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