Clipping:Charges and counter-charges of biased scoring
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| Date | Saturday, June 7, 1890 |
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| Text | [from J. H. McDonough's column] [quoting Caylor] “Talking about scoring, let us look at the game at Brotherhood Park, this city, played last Tuesday. The official scorer, who is also the Press reporter, gave Ewing's team 16 hits and 4 errors, and Al Johnson's team 3 hits and 4 errors. The World made it 16 and 4 for Buck and 3 and 5 for Johnson. These are the two organs of the Brotherhood. All the other city papers, which are non-partisan, scored it 14 and 3 and 3 and 7.” Simply because the World and Press gave the Players' League a fair show in matter of news they were dubbed the Brotherhood organs, while the other dailies are called non-partisan. Permit me to say that it is non-partisanship with a vengeance. There are no strong National League shouters in America than the base ball editors of the Star, Sun, Tribune, Journal, and Times. They do not even condescend to attend Players' League games. They get scores, it is true, and while I do not wish to reflect on their scorers, I must say that they are not always fair. These scores for the papers I have mentioned are furnished by two men, who work in harmony, so that there is practically no difference in all the scores. One is a young fellow, named Vila, who is in the employ of John B. Day. He never scored a professional game before this season, knows very little about the game and is anything but a competent critic of base hits or errors. The only requisite he has for the position is a good strong voice and a disposition to shout for the League on the slightest provocation. I suppose he was selected as combination scorer owing to his earnestness in marking up errors and because of his deep-seated antipathy to the base-hit column when Brotherhood men are concerned. And this is the fellow we are to be measured by. May the good Lord protect us from any more comparisons of that kind. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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