Clipping:Ruffians running the Philadelphia Club
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| Date | Sunday, June 7, 1874 |
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| Text | How’s This?–A Philadelphia paper of June 5, in commenting on the Philadelphia and Mutual match assemblage, says that in Philadelphia baseball among the professionals “is now in the hands of low-browed ruffians–at least it is largely controlled by them–and the respectable element of the city holds aloof. The interest in the game has not decreased in the least; on the contrary it has shown steady increase; but the respectable part of the community decline to appear in the presence of the blackguards. “These remarks apply particularly to the Philadelphia Club. The management of the Athletics is feeble enough, but it is not as coarse, as vulgar, as profane, as ribald, as shocking, as that of the Philadelphias. How can a father who loves his child permit him to go to the matches of the Philadelphia Club? How can he permit him to go within hearing or sight of the Philadelphia pavilion, where curses are heard every minute, and where gambling is as open as day?” We heard nothing of this kind when we saw the Athletics and Philadelphias play their first match. Surely things must have changed. We have nothing of that kind of conduct here on our professional grounds. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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