Clipping:Playing against an expelled player
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| Date | Sunday, July 3, 1881 |
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| Text | The officers of the Eclipse Club, of Louisville, are very much chagrined at the predicament they are placed in through having played in a game in which Jones, expelled last year by the League, took part. The Louisville people had arranged with Boston and Worcester to receive those clubs there this week and next, but by League law neither club can play the Eclipse team. A dispatch of inquiry by the Worcester Secretary to President Hulbert received a reply to the effect that for any League club to play in Louisville would be a rank stulification [sic: probably should be nullification] of the League. Louisville has been made the innocent victim of Cincinnati's despicable meanness in this matter. The management of the Cincinnati team in which Jones played knew perfectly well that Jones was an expelled League player, and that by playing against him Louisville would be placed under the ban. Cincinnati laid the snare with eyes wide open, and Louisville walked into it with eyes fast shut. But the plea of ignorance on the part of Louisville will not and should not avail. Evasions of League law would be constant if the penalties could be thus avoided. League expulsions are matter of public record, and while Louisville is most unfortunate in having unwittingly offended, the League can do no less than enforce its code in the premises. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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