Clipping:Infield playing in; aggressive base running
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| Date | Tuesday, June 29, 1880 |
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| Text | [Worcester vs. Chicago 6/28/1880] [Kelly at third base, Williamson at second base, no outs] With the infielders playing well inside the base lines, Williamson took long ground, actually getting two-thirds of the way to third base; so that when Anson hit Corey [shortstop] a difficult bounder which he did well to stop and send to first ahead of the striker, Williamson ran like a deer for home close behind Kelly, and two earned runs were scored, where ordinary base-running would have produced but one. Chicago Tribune June 29, 1880 keeping secret the identity of the Cincinnati Club official scorer In one particular Mr. Thorner has caused considerable dissatisfaction—i.e., in suppressing from every one the name of the official scorer, his idea being that the players, in their anxiety for many base hits and few errors, would give the scorer, if they knew him, no rest. The Commercial reporter has unearthed the young man. His name is Jacob Harmon, and he is a resident of West Eighth street. Cincinnati Commercial June 29, 1880 With a spasmodic jerk the young man who writes the base-ball matter for a morning contemporary broke out yesterday, and suddenly made a vicious, malicious attack upon President Thorner of the Cincinnati Club. [a discussion of the secret of the official scorer ensues] ...this young man, who so suddenly wants Mr. Thorner removed, wanted to know who [the scorer] was, and fretted his weary brain about it. Many were his demands to be told and threats what he would do if he were not told. He was plainly informed that it was a secret, and part of the business of the Club to keep it secret, the reasons being explained to him. But, boy like, he must know or he would do dire damage through his paper to the Club. Why he wanted to know he could not tell. It could not benefit, him, for no newspaper in the United States is publishing scores as they are officially made up. He became so persistent, however, that one of the Directors stuffed him with confidence, and named a person who probably never in his life visited a base-ball park. This “discovery” was proclaimed by him in his paper one day this week, with a flaring head-line and a boast that the Secret was a secret no longer, and that he had done great things in making this discovery. Selah. But the same day he learned how cruelly he had been hoaxed. Thus nettled, he went to President Thorner again at the conclusion of the game Wednesday and finally--”once and for all”--demanded to know the name of the official scorer, threatening that unless he was so informed he would next morning, through his paper, make war upon Mr. Thorner. The latter replied: “Mr. S., you can not black-mail or bully me. I have told you time and again that you are demanding a business secret, which I can not reveal, and explained why. If you make war on me I can not help it, but I will not be scared into doing what I deem my right not to do.” Cincinnati Enquirer July 2, 1880 All the Cincinnati dailies save one have been repeatedly assured, at and since the opening of the season by the officer delegated with authority to appoint the official scorer, that his appointee was not a newspaper man. For some time there was a lingering suspicion that Mr. O. P. Caylor, of the Inquirer, was the selection. Although often questioned on the subject, he emphatically and persistently denied that he held that position. Club matters having reached a culminating point yesterday he was cornered, and finding no outlet of escape, faced the music, and confessed that he had lied. The confession perhaps was partially due to the failure of an effort to obtain money from the Directors for his services. That this effort was made is stated on the authority of two of the Club Directors, who added, however, that they were in ignorance as to the scorer's name. If the board has the proper amount of backbone, it will cut loose from newspaper scorers and choose an outsider for the purpose. The Commercial has more ammunition in reserve. Cincinnati Commercial July 4, 1880 [from a card from George Herancourt] I never said to Chas. Scanlon nor to any person else that O.P. Caylor or the official scorer had tried to obtain money from the Cincinnati Ball Club or the Directors for his services or for any other reason. Cincinnati Enquirer July 5, 1880 [from a card from C. T. Blackburn] I did not say to Mr. Scanlon or any one that Mr. Caylor or the official scorer had made an effort to get money for his services; the subject was never mentioned to me, except by Mr. Thorner, who said he ought to be paid, although it had been agreed that no pay should be given.] Cincinnati Enquirer July 5, 1880 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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