Clipping:Cincinnati players' off-season jobs
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| Date | Sunday, February 12, 1888 |
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| Text | A large majority of the Cincinnati players have been actively engaged the past winder in some vocation and but two or three have been die. There is probably not another list of players in any city ate are as independent of base ball as a means of livelihood as the members of the Cincinnati Club. Reilly has spent the winter in this city and htough not as busily employed as he might have been doing to the Strobridge fire yet he has done considerable work for Eastern lithographing firms. McPhee who is a book keeper by occupation is unable to seek employing in this line as he would only be able to maintain such a position for but four or five months at best. He has spent the greater portion of the winter months in California nd while he has not made any money yet he was able to cover expenses. Fennelly has a prosperous grocery business at Falls River, Mass., which nets him each year more than he can make in the base ball profession. Carpenter as a rule devotes the winter months entirely to hunting and fishing. Tebeau has a family to care for, and since he left Cincinnati in the fall he has been employed as a clerk in a railroad office in Denver which has proved quite remunerative. Corkhill has devoted his time very profitably since the season closed in looking after the interests of his grocery store at East Camden, N.J. Nicol though he has not made a fortune yet has won a host of friends and more than covered his actual living expenses as Superintendent of the Gallipolis Gymnasium. Little Nick if very grateful for the many favors that were showered upon him while there and wishes to extend to the people of Gallipolis through the columns of the Commercial Gazette his appreciation of the courtesies shown him. Elmore Smith has spent most of his time in this city and has been quite actively employed in caring for the welfare of a rapidly increasing family. Tony Mullane like McPhee tried the California venture but quite about $300 lower on the trip though in health he is greatly improved. Hard has been employed as a compositor in one of the daily newspaper offices of this city. He is only a beginner, but if he perseveres he will have a very remunerative position when his base ball days are numbered. Colonel Billy Serad spent the winter at his home in Chester, Pa., and from all reports he has been living off his income of last season. Viau spent the winter in California and says he is considerably out of pocket on the trip. Keenan as a dispenser of cocktails at the bar of the Hoffman House in Indianapolis has had a very profitable winter and also had a little time each day to devote to indoor practice in gymnasium. Baldwin has been living with his parents in Newport, Ky., and from all reports has been behaving himself. Kappel passed the winter months at his home in Philadelphia, and has been assisting his father in his Carptenter’s business. O’Connor is in St. Louis and but little can be learned about the young man’s movements. Cincinnati Commercial Gazette February 12, 1888 . the Brotherhood contract and the $2,000 limit [from Caylor's column] It is just dawned upon the outside world that the Brotherhood, so far as their supposed greatest victory is concerned, were neatly trapped by the big-headed League men. Let, me, whoever, drop a word in Ward's ear, and he may depend upon it that I am right. That pretense of the $2,000 enforcement of the limit rule in the promulgation of contracts is fraudulent. I know it was not practiced by the American Association last year. Secretary Wikoff approved a number which had over $2,000 marked in the instrument. I think Nick Young's books would show a similar state of affairs if they could be uncovered. I agree with Ward that it is not fair to evade an issue which the League pretended to meet honestly. It cannot do base ball any good. The Sporting Life February 15, 1888 [from the Washington correspondent] When I dropped into League headquarters Thursday I found President Young engaged in sending out his weekly budget of contracts approved. I asked him if he had read John Ward's letter on the subject of League contracts, in which the latter claims that the full amount paid each player should appear in the contract. Mr. Young answered that he had read Mr. Ward's communication, but did not think it required a reply from him. Said he:--”The National Agreement, which is the law of base ball, is too plain on the subject to need comment. There stands the $2,000 limit clause, which prevents me from approving any contract setting forth a larger amount. It may be true that the $2,000 limit is practically a dead letter, but so long as it remains in the National Agreement I will decline to approve any contract not drawn in accordance with that instrument.” Continuing, he said he entertains the highest regard for Mr. Ward, and considers him a credit to the base ball profession. In this case, however, he has made a bad break, for he knows perfectly well what is provided for on this subject in the National Agreement. The Sporting Life February 15, 1888 |
| Source | Cincinnati Commercial Gazette |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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