Clipping:Lucas intended to sign the Cleveland players; the price
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| Date | Friday, January 16, 1885 |
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| Text | Lucas will certainly not get any of the Cleveland men, and it is openly reported here that he will not pay the $2,000 balance due the Cleveland Club from the late deal. Cincinnati Enquirer January 16, 1885 Mr. Lucas, it now appears, really did buy out Cleveland, and actually paid $500 down when the club resigned from the League, and is to pay $2,000 more when he is sure of membership in the League. Lucas also claims to have made an agreement with Vice President Howe that he was to have first choice of the players, and he charges that Mr. Bulkley and Manager Hackett acted in very bad faith when they made the Brooklyn deal. The Sporting Life January 21, 1885 Brooklyn signs the Cleveland players; keeping them sequestered It is a fact that the seven Cleveland players—Kreig, Smith, Philips, Hotaling, Pinkney, Harkins and Bushong—have been kept in strict confinement at the Weddell House, watched by Byrne and Hackett both by day and night so close that when a gentleman from Cincinnati, who chanced to spend a day or two in Cleveland on other business, came near one of these players they were at once ordered to retire to the respective rooms. … Von der Ahe's, Lucas' and Thorner's presence here in not adding any to the quietude of the Brooklyn representatives. Such a gathering of base-ball managers as are here at present to guard these valuable men has never been known in the annals of base-ball. Cincinnati Enquirer January 16, 1885 President McKnight, of the American Association of Base-ball Clubs, arrived in this city this morning, to be present at the signing of the players of the late Cleveland Club with President Byrne, of the Brooklyns, and also to determine what action the association will take in the proposed amendment which the League desires made to the national agreement. President Von der Ahe, of the St. Louis Club, arrived last night, and will to-morrow sign Bushong. Cincinnati Enquirer January 17, 1885 The scene about the Weddell House [in Cleveland], as the hour approached when the players could legally be signed, was a weird one. The players dozed about in chairs while Manager Hackett paced up and down the floor, holding his watch in his hand waiting for the hands to reach the midnight hour. Hotaling and Phillips were not present, and both President Byrne and Mr. Hackett exhibited some nervousness on that account. When midnight came Manager Hackett walked down to the corner where the boys were sitting, and said: “Come, boys: you can sign now.” all present followed, and in ten minutes more all had affixed their signatures to their contracts. Twenty minutes later Hotaling came in and he was quicly signed. Still the big first-baseman did not come. An hour and a half crept slowly by when the door was slowly pushed open and the blonde countenance of Bill Phillips appeared. Manager Hackett grasped his hand and led him to a table upon which his contract lay. Phillips seized the pen and wrote his name in a sweeping hand across the bottom. This completed the task. The players shook hands, said their good-byes and went to bed. They had been at the hotel for five days for the necessary time to elapse. Cincinnati Enquirer January 19, 1885 |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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