Clipping:Cracking down on Sunday baseball in Cincinnati
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| Date | Thursday, August 15, 1889 |
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| Text | [dateline Cincinnati] The Superintendent of Police having notified theatrical and base ball managers that Sunday performances and base ball games will not hereafter be permitted, Manager Stern to day [8/14] called on Mayor Mosby to ask permission to play the remaining four games that are scheduled here for Sundays. The Mayor made a positive refusal and told him that real bona fide arrests of managers and players would be made on the sport if games were attempted. The theatrical managers all say they will not oppose the law, and most of them are glad of its enforcement. They say they can make more money by six days performances during the week than by seven. All they want is assurance that all will be served alike. St. Louis Republic August 15, 1889 [The game was attempted, stopped in the fourth inning by the police. SLR 8/26/1889] The law which prohibits Sunday ball here is a state enactment, and the announcement that Brooklyn and Cincinnati would play at Hamilton next Sunday has stirred up some of the inhabitants of that place. The Tri State League club has played there all the year on Sundays without interruption from the police authorities, but the announcement of the invasion of the association clubs has created, in the language of a special telegram from that place, “general indignation that butler County should be selected as a county where the law can be violated with impunity,” and it may be that the authorities will interfere with the game and prevent it from taking place. The Sheriff is being urged to use his authority and call out a posse, if necessary, to prevent the game. Taken altogether the situation looks rather squally for the crowd of Cincinnatians who are going to Hamilton to violate a law that they are compelled to obey in their own city. The base ball park is out of the city limits and this prevents the city authorities from taking cognizance of the matter. Just how mad the Sheriff is cannot be told at this writing. St. Louis Republic August 22, 1889 Two more Sunday games are scheduled to be played here [Cincinnati]. This week President Stern said that he would transfer the St. Louis contest booked for October 13 here to the Mound City for half the gate receipts. The other game on the 6th belongs to Louisville, and it may be played there also. There is nothing new in the Sunday question. Amateur games are permitted, and a collection is taken up at the Cincinnati Park. The liberality of a Sunday ball crowd is illustrated by the fact that at the last game $311 in coppers was taken in. St. Louis Republic August 22, 1889 The Cincinnati and Louisville base ball game scheduled here [Cincinnati] for Sunday was not played, the municipal authorities forbidding. There was an effort yesterday to secure an order from the courts forbidding the Mayor and the Chief of Police from interfering with the players, but it was refused. St. Louis Republic October 7, 1889 |
| Source | St. Louis Republic |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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