Clipping:Charge of faking lameness to get a release
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| Date | Sunday, April 15, 1883 |
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| Text | One of the chief players of the Columbus Club was Smith, the first baseman, who played last year with the Troys. Our correspondent at Columbus makes the startling announcement in a dispatch below that Smith claims to be lame and wants his release. The initiated will look upon this as a trick until the truth of the lameness is established. This man has been guilty of playing a similar game once before for which he was suspended. It behooves the Columbus Club to not let themselves be trapped. Their course is clear—namely, not to release Smith, but to suspend him until his disability be removed. If he tells the truth such a course will be no hardship to him, for he could not play elsewhere if his arm be too sore to play at Columbus. The Columbus Club may possibly lean toward a release in order to get back their $200 advance money. But they should bear in mind that if his money be paid back it will not come out of Smith's pocket, but out of the pocket of some club, which has made him a larger offer. The members of the tripartite agreement can not afford to allow any of their clubs and a tricky player to bend the intents of their ratified protection rules. If the Columbus Club ignores Smith's request for a release, he will, no doubt, recover the use of his arm before May 1. |
| Source | Cincinnati Commercial Gazette |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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