Clipping:Activating the Day resolution
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| Date | Wednesday, April 16, 1884 |
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| Text | The Rubicon is crossed. Shaffer, Dunlap, Gleason, Weaver and Bradley have played in gmaes on the Union Association clubs they are engaged to and have thus placed themselves finally under the ban of the old organizations. The Sporting Life April 16, 1884 [reporting on the meeting of the Arbitration Committee] The following important resolution was adopted: Whereas the associations parties to the National Agreement have enacted legislation prohibiting any club member from employing or entering into contract with any of its reserved players who hsall, while reserved to such club, play with any other club, therefore it is hereby ordered 1 That the secretary of each association shall report to the secretary of the arbitration committee the name of any player of such association who shall have become ineligible in the manner indicated, together with the name of the reserving club; also the name of the contesting clubs and the date and place of playing of anyone game of ball, the participation in which thus renders the said player ineligible, and the secretary of the arbitration committee shall keep a record of the same. 2 That the secretary of the Arbitration Committee shall, after verifying the said report of the Association secretary, certify to each association connected with the National Agreement the name of the National Agreement club and the reserved player thus made ineligible. 3 While, under the third section of the National Agreement, the reservation of the said ineligible player to the reserving club continues, yet in view of the said prohibition against the employment of said players by said club, said player shall not, from and after the date of said certificate of the secretary of the Arbitration Committee, be counted as one of the eleven players which said club is annually authorized to reserve and employ as provided in said third section of the National Agreement. 4 Should any National Agreement club at any time after issue by the secretary of the Arbitration Committee of his certification of ineligibility of a player, as herein provided, employ or present such player in its nine, or play a game of ball with any other club presenting such player in its nine, or with any club that shall have played any club presenting such player, the said secretary shall at once notify all associations connected with the National Agreement that the said National Agreement club shall, after the issue of such notice, under penalty of summary forfeiture of all its rights and privileges under the National Agreement, play any game of ball with the said disqualified club so designated in the said notice of the secretary of the Arbitration Committee. The Philadelphia Evening Item April 21, 1884 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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