Clipping:Beer and Sunday games in the Northwestern League
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| Date | Wednesday, January 16, 1884 |
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| Text | [reporting on the NW League meeting of 1/9/1884] The six old clubs which sent delegates found that the six new clubs were in favor of Sunday playing, and also in favor of local option in the matter of beer selling on the grounds of the several associations. The Milwaukee delegate opened the ball on the beer question by declaring that the sale of beer was vital to the success of the Cream City Club. St. Paul, Minneapolis, Stillwater and Terre Haute fell into line, and the older members, seeing that the tide was against the, voted with the majority. Every club in the League is now authorized to sell beer or spiritous liquors in its grand stand. Until this season the League has strictly insisted on the observance of Sunday, the penalty for Sunday playing being expulsion. Milwaukee proposed that clubs to allowed to play Sundays. The town of Quincy, Ill., made a feeble protest, but the delegates voted 8 to 2 to authorize Sunday playing. The Sporting Life January 16, 1884 The League did well in rescinding the restrictions against Sunday playing and the sale of beer. The experience of the American Association shows that in that section of the country these two features may be made most profitable sources of revenue to the club, thus helping many a weakling along without injury to the morals of any one, puritanic talk to the contrary notwithstanding. The Sporting Life January 23, 1884 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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