Clipping:Claimed shenanigans to keep the championship in New York
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| Date | Saturday, July 24, 1869 |
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| Text | The Cincinnati Commercial of the 12th inst. contains the following remarks: “In our issue of June 16 we discussed the championship, and asserted that our boys would come home without it. Further, we said the Haymakers and Red Stockings could beat the then champion Mutuals the second game, as each had already won the first; further yet, we predicted that a certain New York club, yclept the Eckfords, would most probably win the championship. To all of which certain Eastern reportorial spirits took exception most gravely; yea, they fumed about it in high dudgeon. The champion Mutuals were to be sent West, to give our base slander the lie, etc. Time settles all things, even slanders. The champion Mutuals are not champions: per consequentia the champion Mutuals cannot come West. The Eckfords have received the championship, the Haymakers have defeated the Mutuals the second time, and the Red Stockings can do the same thing. Now, we take this to be strange, that people who regarded our prediction a slander and an insult should permit each point of that prediction to be realized. We overturn another remark, that the people of the country generally regard the Red Stockings as the champions, and the Eckfords owe it to themselves, if they wish to be possessed of the honors of championship, to return the visit of our boys and play them a full match this season before losing the championship. A hearty welcome will be given them, and our glorious game will be improved by an affair so eminently just. |
| Source | National Chronicle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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