Clipping:Fan interference 2
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| Date | Wednesday, June 15, 1870 |
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| Text | [Cincinnati vs. Atlantic 6/14/1870] It will be remembered that the “Red Stockings” defeated the so-called champions last year by a a score of 42 to 10. They traveled out to the enclosed grounds at Bedford yesterday to play the nine which they had dressed of so finely last season, and the result of the game will, no doubt, astonish very many. Eleven innings were played, and the “Reds” were defeated by a score of 8 to 7. Disinterested parties who were present assert positively that the visitors were obliged to play against the crowd, together with the opposing nine players; that the crowd interfered with them in fielding long hit balls, and that they received nothing like a fair show to win. To the initiated this is not remarkably strange, as the same tactics have been practiced at this place on previous occasions—notably when the Eckfords were playing with the soi disant champion nine last summer. The result of and conduct in this game will revive the interest in the Cincinnati nine, will also arouse a great deal of sympathy for them, which would not otherwise be engendered, and will help to swell the crowds today at the Union's ground in Tremont, and to-morrow at the Eckford's grounds in Brooklyn. New York Herald June 15, 1870 The charge in the New York Herald, that the crowd had beaten the Red Stockings, is a gross outrage, and should be taken as a personal insult by every person present at the ground. Its falsity is found in the fact that the Red Stockings themselves have acknowledged that they were beaten on their merits, and had a fair field to play the game in. The only instance known in which the ball has handled by one of the crowd was in the eleventh inning, when Start hit a ball to right field, which, if it had not been stopped and thrown to McVey, by a person who did it ignorantly enough, too, would have bounded over the bank and among the carriages, surely giving Start his home base, but which prevented him from going only as far as third base. Brooklyn Eagle June 16, 1870 |
| Source | New York Herald |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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