Clipping:NL-AA conflict and expelled players
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| Date | Sunday, May 7, 1882 |
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| Text | The Buffalo game arranged for next Monday (to-morrow week_ may have be to declared off on account of the Troy complication. Troy is now playing with the Detroits, and the Buffalos have played against the club. If Troy is expelled by the Athletics, the under the Constitution of the American Association the Cincinnati Club can not play the Buffalos or any other club that plays against the Detroits with Troy in the nine. As yet the Cincinnati Club have received no official notice of Troy’s expulsion, and until they do there can be no objection to the Cincinnatis playing the Buffalos in this city. Cincinnati Commercial May 7, 1882 The Cincinnati Club yesterday received official notice from Secretary Williams that the Philadelphia Athletics had expelled John Troy for breach of contract. The club at once telegraphed to Manager O’Rourke, of the Buffalo Club that if his team played against the Detroits with Troy in the Detroit team they would be prevented by the American Constitution from playing in Cincinnati next Monday. Cincinnati Commercial May 12, 1882 The expulsion of Troy by the Athletics will, probably, cut off the Detroit Club from any games in New York this season. If the Metropolitan or Atlantics should play against the Detroit Club they could not play against the American or American Alliance Clubs. They have games arranged with Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, St. Louis and other American clubs, and it is not likely they will allow the Detroit folly to deprive them of these games. Cincinnati Commercial May 12, 1882 Manager Jim O’Rourke wrote to Browning, of the Louisvilles, and tried to get him to desert his club and come to Buffalo. Browning took the letter directly to the President of the Louisville Club and turned it over to him, although the wily Jim had cautioned him to keep mum. O’Rourke offered as an inducement “advance money.” He probably didn’t know that Browning’s mother could buy him and the whole Buffalo Club without hurting her bank account. It is about time that such men as Soden, of Boston; O’Rourke, of Buffalo’ and Banesoff, of Detroit, were shown up as the kind of men they are. The Association Club players get their money regularly, and that’s more than League players can say. Cincinnati Commercial May 12, 1882 Secretary Williams, of the American Association, has by suggestion, written to the Metropolitans, of New York, and Atlantics, of Brooklyn, notifying them of the expulsion of John Troy, by the Athletics, for breach of contract and also that he has been employed by the Detroit Club. Mr. Williams (officially) warns these clubs, that if they play with the Detroits all games arranged between them and Association clubs must, under the Association Constitution, be declared off. The Metropolitans have dates arranged with the Cincinnatis, the Pittsburgs, and nearly every Association Club. It is probable that Detroit will thus be debarred from playing in New York. If the Metropolitans do not play against the Detroits they can play any other League club, and still play their American club games. Cincinnati Commercial May 13, 1882 dueling official scores The following paragraph appeared in a recent issue of the Dispatch: “Some talk was occasioned yesterday among lovers of the game by the difference between the Dispatch Allegheny score and that printed in some of the other city papers. The score printed in this paper was the official record of the game which will be sued in making up the playing averages. All bets on home runs, errors and other features of the game will be governed by the score printed in the Dispatch.” The object of our contemporary is to cast discredit upon the scores published in this paper, as it is the only one, besides the Dispatch that obtains the full scores specially by telegraph of games in which the Allegheny club is a contestant. H. D. McKnight, President of the Alleghenys, is authority for t he statement that the scores published in this paper are official, and to emphasize his statement the following was received last night in reply to a question from F. H. Wright, official scorer of the Cincinnati club: “Your scores are official.” Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette May 9, 1882 |
| Source | Cincinnati Commercial Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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