Clipping:Some of the IA clubs cut out from the herd

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Date Sunday, April 7, 1878
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[reporting on the NL 4/1 – 4/2/1878] As was expected and previously announced, there was quite a delegation of officers of outside clubs present to confer with the League about games. It was not to have been expected that they would have been such infinite fools as to have taken part in the crusade which some of the papers had been trying to carry on against the League; but it was agreeable to find that they were not even balky or stubborn. They wanted League games, and were ready to do what was fair to get them. In the same way, the League was willing to accommodate the strong, honorable, and deserving clubs, while it had no wish nor intention to affiliate with the riff-raff, which, to put the matter plainly, forms more than a majority of the International Association. Thus believing, it was agreed in the League meeting to treat only with the five best Clubs outside, viz.: London, Buffalo, Syracuse, Rochester, and Lowell. To this list the Springfields were afterwards added, at the request of the Eastern delegates, making six clubs in all. Delegates from three of these six were present, and with them certain other representatives of outside clubs with whom the League did not care to come to any agreement. Messrs. Townsend, of Syracuse, Whitney, of Rochester, and Baker, of Buffalo, representing three of the best clubs outside the League, were invited to talk over the matters in dispute, and an earnest but agreeable conference was had. The result arrived at was put in form of the following document [agreeing on gate split and games at NL parks only after 9/14, with no guarantee]. … The International Association was composed of some strength and much weakness. The latter element hoped to live off the former and to be carried along by it; but now that the strong clubs have made their own bargain, the other fellow must fuss along as they best can.

Source Chicago Tribune
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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