Clipping:Detectives follow Phillies and Pittsburgh players
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| Date | Thursday, July 7, 1887 |
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| Text | Detectives have been shadowing the players of the Philadelphia and Pittsburg Base Ball Clubs for several nights, and in consequence of evidence that has been collected against several of the players of both clubs they are to be released and other men will take their places. The important changes are to take place next week. Detectives watching ball players is the very latest novelty in connection with the national game, but things have come to such a pass that the managers have found it absolutely necessary to have their men watched, so that they can account for bad playing and get rid of players who spend their nights in carousing. The Phillies received two weeks’ pay last night and three detectives and Manager Harry Wright shadowed them all night, and in several instances the suspicions of Manager Wright were confirmed. What he has learned will lead to the release of probably two outfielders, one baseman, a change catcher and another all-round player. It has been an open secret among men about town for the past month that several members of the Philadelphia team have been drinking hard, and it has also been know, as their records show, that they have played wretched ball. These men stayed up last Sunday night to welcome the Fourth of July and two of the players didn’t go to bed at all. On the Fourth they played two games with the Pittsburg team and both clubs played wretchedly. ... Harry Wright went to the head of a well-known detective agency near Fourth and Walnut streets and told the detective what he wanted; that he had reluctantly come to the conclusion that some of the Philadelphia players were playing poor ball because they were dissipating. Then Manager Wright told the detective what he wanted done. The ball players were to be shadowed and when they were caught in a saloon having a good time Manager Wright, who was to be sent for so that he could see with his own eyes just who the men were and what their condition was. The detective agreed to undertake the job and he put two other men on the case to work with him. Several of the Phillies have been watched when they were not on the field playing. How long they were to be watched is not known, but the detectives were still shadowing them at midnight last night. The same detective was employed by President Nimick and Manager Phillips, of the Pittsburg team. On the night of the Fourth and on Tuesday night the majority of the Pittsburg team were followed wherever they went and four of them are known to have been caught drinking. Two were caught by President Nimick and Manager Phillips. That was on Tuesday night. It wad been arranged that some of the Phillies were to show some of the Pittsburgers the town. As it rained all day Tuesday the Pittsburg players had a dull time of it lounging about the Girard House, where they were stopping, but it cleared up at night and the players prepared for stealing away quietly after dark. L [The gory details follow.] |
| Source | Philadelphia Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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