Clipping:Charley Masons' PL exhibition team; cancellation; plays a national agreement club

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Date Tuesday, April 8, 1890
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Charley Mason, ex-manager of the Athletic Club, brought his Philadelphia professional to town yesterday expecting to play the New Yorks limited. He was greatly surprised when told that telegrams had been sent him to the effect that the game had been canceled. Manager Mason told a Sun reporter that he had collected a team for the sole purpose of playing the different Brotherhood clubs during the exhibition season. After that the team would be disbanded. He claims that he brought his team from Philadelphia by an agreement made some three months ago, and that he received no telegrams canceling the date. He further says that he has gone to a good deal of trouble and expense just for the sake of the Brotherhood in getting a very clever fielding team together fully uniformed, and guarantees that they will play a fair game of ball. … One Wednesday and Thursday the team are billed to play the Brooklyn (P.L.) on Friday and Saturday the Bostons; then they go to Buffalo and Pittsburgh, and return home and disband. New York Sun April 8, 1890 [N.B. At least some of these games were played.]

[the Philadelphia Professionals play the Atlantic League Washington Club] [from an interview of Nick Young] It looks very much as though the Washington Club has been guilty of a direct violation of the national agreement by playing that game on Sunday with the Philadelphia professionals. Col. Rogers first called my attention to this game and I immediately telephoned Walter Hewitt to find out what he had to say about the matter. He replied that he did not know that the professionals were ineligible, did not know that they had played Brotherhood clubs. Further inquiry brought out the statement from Mr. Sullivan that even he did not know he was violating the agreement. He does not seem to have read the newspapers. Hewitt things that the Board of Arbitration ought to devise some scheme of notifying clubs of the teams which are not parties to the agreement, so as to put them on their guard; but that would be impossible; it would be much easier for the managers to keep a lookout for these things and they should be willing to do so if they have the principles of the national agreement at heart. I do no well see how the Board of Arbitration, to which the matter will be referred, can refuse to accept Mr. Sullivan's statement that he did not know what he was doing, although there has been a clear violation. There will probably be some such verdict, 'not guilty, but don't do it again,' rendered in the case. It seems to me a rather humiliating thing for a manager to confess that he does not know what sort of team he plays against. New York Sun May 9, 1890

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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