Clipping:Fitzgerald has second thoughts about a Europe tour
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| Date | Sunday, April 12, 1874 |
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| Text | We find a great many of the Athletic club–perhaps a large majority–are opposed to the trip to Europe. The argument runs in this way: The club is already in debt. Under the most favorable circumstances this debt cannot be paid before the time for starting. Now, shall we borrow money to send our servants to Europe on an experimental pleasure trip, which may result disastrously, especially when we need their services at home? Remember, the Athletic club is an incorporated body, and the President, the Vice Presidents, and the members are individually and collectively responsible for its obligations. The ten are the servants of the organization, and they are bound to obey every proper order. Therefore, if the club says to the players, you shall not go abroad this year, that ends all controversy and settles the matter finally. For ourselves, having originally proposed the European trip, we are in favor of it, if it can be carried out profitably and honorably. But, the members say, the club must minister to our pleasure and pride. We subscribe to see the club play here, not in Europe. The trip will cut us out of two months of entertainment, when we are most in need of entertainment... Let it be remembered that the players and the officers are the servants of the club, and are bound to do the bidding of the majority of the organization. Philadelphia All-Day City Item April 12, 1874 [a letter from “Good Sense”] Will you spare me a corner of your paper to ask the Athletics to pause? I am an amateur Base Ball player, and I have visited England (although I did not go professionally as Mr. Spaulding did). I am quite sure the visit will be a failure. They have no money to take them over, nor to make a success. They must not think that merely landing there will create an interest in a game that is unknown in the country. The show wants more working than a theatrical company. How are they going to do it? If I should get up a cricket match in a field next to their base ball grounds, I should have spectators while they have none! If they are going to borrow money they will get into the hands of speculators, who will consider the most important part of the business, is the swallowing of the oyster, while the players will get the shells. Philadelphia All-Day City Item April 12, 1874 |
| Source | Philadelphia All-Day City Item |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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