Clipping:An assessment of the Staten Island experiment; Metropolitan finances
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| Date | Sunday, June 13, 1886 |
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| Text | It is generally accepted here [New York] that Mr. Erastus Wiman’s base-ball venture is not only a financial failure, but that it hasn’t done Staten Island the good he hoped for. When he first got the idea that he would like to be a base-ball club owner, he looked around for a clever man to turn things for him. Mr. George F. Williams had just severed his connection with the New York Herald, whose fight with the newsdealers he had managed, and Mr. Wiman engaged him. Twenty-five thousand dollars in cold cash was paid for the Metropolitan Club, to say nothing of the expenses of the law suits that followed the purchase. Then Mr. Williams started in to make the greatest base-ball grounds that the world had ever seen. They are beautiful grounds, and when they were completed Mr. Wiman footed the bill with a little check for $51,000. Mr. Wiman has expended more money than this, but lately there has been much reticence regarding the workings of the club. When Mr. Williams was told that the Metropolitan Club’s home dates interfered with the New York league clubs, and that the Metropolitans would suffer, he remarked: “I guess that it will be the New York Club that will suffer.” But he was woefully out of the way. At the last game played at Staten Island by the Metropolitans there were fewer than 400 spectators present. Then, there is no reliance to be placed in the Metropolitans’ playing. They have no steadiness, and there is every chance that they will continue to snail along at the end of the American Association’s line. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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