Clipping:Playing too many exhibition games
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| Date | Saturday, June 30, 1877 |
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| Text | There is no question among experts about the fact that the Browns have some as fine “timber” as can be found in the business. Properly managed, they could hold their own against any club in the League. The principal cause of their recent defeats lies in the “penny wise and pound foolish” policy of crowding too many games into a limited space of time, and continuous travel on the railroads night after night. The best managed clubs never–or very rarely–play on two successive days–always allowing one day to intervene for rest. No club should be allowed to travel all night and play next day. A good night’s rest before a game is imperatively necessary. The Browns have played their regular championship games, and filled in their “off days” with running away to play some little country club in order to make a few extra dollars for the managers. If the truth were only known, such practices lose more than they bring them. Exhausted and travel-worn and bunged up, they are beaten by the first-class clubs, and hence people will not turn out to see them play. More, too; by such practices they become easy victims for third and fourth rate clubs, and no lover of the game likes to go to see a professedly first-class club play that has been beaten by so many inferior nines. If they would spend their off days in wild practice and in familiarizing themselves with the grounds upon which they are to play championship games, they would come nearer winning the pennant, and people would turn out in greater numbers to see them. St. |
| Source | St. Louis Globe-Democrat |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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