Clipping:Contemplated legal action against Corcoran
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| Date | Wednesday, January 23, 1884 |
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| Text | Manager Henderson, of the Chicago Union Club, now that he is satisfied that Corcoran intends to entrust his fortunes to his old club, proposes to push the war into the enemy’s camp and to this end he will invoke the law. In other words, he will ask for an injunction from the Chicago courts to prevent Corcoran playing with the Chicago League Club in that city at least. Henderson says his club is duly incorporated under the laws of Illinois, and that Corcoran shall not, under any circumstances, play with the League teams if process by law can stop him. He has refused to take back his advance money, and there is likely to be a hard fight, as the new association has as much money upon its side as the older organization. Chicago base ball circles are much excited over the matter, and there is considerable speculation over the outcome of the affair. It is thought that this suit will be a most important one, and that it will serve as a precedent and guide to future contemplated measures of the Union Association managers. The Sporting Life January 23, 1884 baseball not a business, players not laborers in bankruptcy When the Anthracite base ball park at Pottsville, Pa., was sold by the sheriff a few weeks ago it was bought in for the creditors of the Anthracite Association. Among the creditors were the members of the club, who claimed, under the wages act of 1872, priority to the fund realized by the sale for their salaries. They took the matter into court, and on the 14 th inst. Judge Pershing, in a lengthy opinion, decided that the management of a base ball club is not a business in the sense intended by law, and that the word laborer does not apply to players or base ball, and that their salaries do not come under the same footing as the wages of cooks, porters, hostlers, miners, mechanics, printers, milliners and others who work for hire. So hereafter, in Pennsylvania at least, ball players may class themselves in the noble army of sports. Meantime the Anthracite players may console themselves in the reflection that “sporting life is often checkered, but never dull”–we’re here to-day and gone to-morrow. The Sporting Life January 23, 1884 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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