Clipping:Boston can't compete with the Western clubs on salary
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| Date | Saturday, August 7, 1875 |
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| Text | [a letter from James White:] Since my decision to play ball in Chicago next season has become known, several articles have appeared in the Boston papers conveying the impression that I was under obligations to remain another season with the Boston Club, and I deem it my duty to define my position in the matter and correct erroneous impressions. A day or two before starting on our late Western trip, I met Mr. Apollonio at the club-rooms, at his request, and the conversation that ensued was in substance as follows: He desired to close a contract with me for a one or three-years' engagement, urging as his reason for so early an engagement that I was about going West, and might receive some flattering offers for my services there; that the Boston Club were desirous of retaining me with them, but gave me to understand in plain terms that they salary list was as high as they could afford to pay, and, to use his own words, “they could not and did not propose to compete with 'fancy' Western prices.” The only promise I made him, or anyone else, was to the effect that I would not receive or open any negotiations with any club managers on that trip, which promise I have kept to the letter. Nearly a month after my return from this trip, during which time nothing further was said to me, I met the management of the Chicago Club in Boston, who offered me the “fancy” price that the Boston Club did not propose to compete with, and, under these circumstances, I did not feel like forcing the Boston Club, as they claim others have done, to pay me any “fancy” price. New York Clipper August 7, 1875, et al. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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