Clipping:Indianapolis games banned from Cincinnati pool rooms for game throwing
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| Date | Thursday, August 1, 1878 |
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| Text | People who have depended on pool-room returns in this city for news of games in which the Indianapolis Club figure will hereafter have to wait for newspaper dispatches. All the pool-rooms in this city have refused to sell pools on any game in which the Indianapolis Club takes part. The cause of this move seems justifiable, and is this: Tuesday several Indianapolis men, and among them the keeper of a pool-0room up there, came down to Cincinnati with pockets full of money and backed the Chicagos recklessly, making bets as low as $100 to $40 on the Chicagos; this, too, right upon two defeats of the Chicagos at the hands of the Hoosiers. Before the game ended the Indianapolis betters grew so reckless in their odds and bets that ever body dropped, and pool-selling on that game was closed entirely, though the loud-mouthed concentric fellows still bellowed out their bids and fluttered their money against the Indianapolis Club. Another queer feature of their betting was that they could name every inning in which the Chicagos would score or would not score. The pool-room proprietors concluded they had their fill of the Hoosier Hippodrome, and refuse further to allow a bet for or against them. It may be well to state here that the Enquirer's doubt of the honesty of the Indianapolis Club was not founded on jealou8sy, as some wild people charged. And we say now to our readers what we have already said, that the Indianapolis Club will not doubt win some games during the rest of the season—they will find it necessary to do so—but the Enquirer has no faith in the pretended earnestness of the Club. The management may be all right, but the team itself is N.G. There has been on our table for several weeks the following communication from a responsible party: [a letter to the editor from Cincinnati date July 10, 1878] “I notice in your edition of Monday last a communication concerning the Indianapolis and St. Louis nine and pool tickets, and I write to say that after the Fourth of July game I saw one of the players looking over a number of pool checks—at least that is what they looked like. He was in a carriage with four others, and was sitting between two of the players, with his back to the driver.” The writer has it from another responsible party that in one of the last Indianapolis-Cincinnati games played in this city a well-known member of the Indianapolis team, who was laying off that day, stood under the Grand Stand during the progress of the game and openly bet on runs and the result of the game, putting up money as the bets were made. It is not at all improbable that should the management of the Indianapolis Club wish to investigate these charges they can find the parties with whom the bets were made. The Club's duty under the rules is plain and forcibly laid down in section 5, Article 5 of the League Constitution as follows: “Any player, under contract with a League Club, who shall, without the written consent of such Club, leave its its service, or who shall be proved guilty of offering, agreeing, conspiring, or attempting to lose any game of ball, or of being interested in any pool or wager thereon, or of any dishonorable or disreputable conduct shall at once be expelled by such Club.” Cincinnati Enquirer August 1, 1878 We can now state that it was Nolan whom we alluded to some time ago as the player who last Fourth of July stood under the grand stand and boldly bet and put up money on the result of the game. If necessary, the men who bet with him will testify to the fact. The good of base-ball needs the expunging of all such players from the ranks of professionals. Cincinnati Enquirer August 13, 1878 |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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