Clipping:Restrictions on games with outside club; too many championship games
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| Date | Saturday, January 5, 1878 |
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| Text | There is a general complaint by the press of League club cities in regard to the exacting character of the regulations adopted at the recent convention governing the intercourse of League clubs in 1878 with non-League teams. The Boston Herald makes out quite a gloomy picture for the coming season. It says, as a result of League legislation, that “the annual matches between the Bostons and Harvard University nine, which have been witnessed with so much pleasure, cannot occur in Boston the coming year. The skill of the rival Lowells and the plucky Manchesters cannot be seen in Boston; for on no consideration will they be allowed to play here. In a word, all games in League cities will be between League clubs. In non-League cities there will be games between non-League clubs, the same as last year, except that the matches will be rather of a local than an international character.” While it was certainly desirable to reduce the number of League contests for 1878–too many having been played in 1877–it was a great mistake to enact the arbitrary regulations they have done in reference to playing non-League clubs. Where would the League teams of 1877 have been, in a pecuniary point of view, but for their remunerative contests with the non-League clubs? As for the $100 guaranty and the $50 forfeit rule, that will either have to be repealed or no games will be played. The result of the League legislation in this respect has given an admirable opportunity to the advocates and friends of the International Association to place that organization on a permanent basis as the leading professional association in the county. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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