Clipping:Boston Club ownership
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| Date | Sunday, December 19, 1886 |
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| Text | There are 78 shares of stock, of which number Messrs. A. H. Soden, J. B. Billings and W. H. Conant hold 20 shares each, or 60 shares in all. The remaining 18 shares are divided among nearly as many stockholders. The three men mentioned hold the club, therefore, under their absolute control. If any of the minor stockholders introduce a measure that is not favored by the great triumvirate one of them, generally Mr. Conant, calls for a stock vote. That, according to the rules, is allowed on the call of any one stockholder. That also settles the minor stockholder at once, and he is crushed by at least 60 votes to 18, though generally there are from 5 to 8 votes additional cast on the side of the 60. There is no case on record where the worthy trio failed to vote together. Whatever differences they may have as a Board of Directors, at the annual meeting they are unanimous. The Philadelphia Times December 19, 1886 minor league exhibitions banned when a championship game is going on; putting the squeeze on the St. Louis NL Club It will be remembered that the League at its last meeting agreed to permit the St. Louis Maroons to play Sunday exhibition games with minor league clubs. At the meeting of the Arbitration Committee the American Association delegates made a strong fight for, and succeeded in having passed, an amendment prohibiting minor league clubs from playing games in any city or within four miles thereof, while a championship game between National Agreement clubs is in progress, without the consent of the local club. This rule will prove of great advantage to the Brooklyn and St. Louis clubs, and particularly the latter, which can now put a most effective damper upon the Maroons' Sunday exhibition games with any but small local or independent clubs, while the Browns are at home at any rate. In fact the League permission upon which the Maroons banked largely for next season will be practically nullified. This will be another source of serious financial loss. Under these circumstances the outlook for the poor Maroons is not of the brightest, and there is just a possibility that the club may come to the conclusion to give up the unequal fight. The Sporting Life December 22, 1886 |
| Source | Philadelphia Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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