Clipping:Suggestions of hippodroming
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| Date | Saturday, November 3, 1866 |
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| Text | We scarcely know what to make of our championship base ball matches of late, for they resemble very much those hippodrome affairs which our turfmen are in the habit of indulging in for money-making purposes. The Atlantics, of Brooklyn, have been the champions for some time. Well, they go to Newark to play the Eurekas, by whom they are defeated. The Athletics, of Philadelphia, also play a match with the Eurekas, and beat them badly; they also play a match with the Unions, of Morrisania, and beat them, too. They next play the Atlantics, of Bedford, and meet with a reverse. Then the Atlantics go to Philadelphia to play a second game with the Athletics, and this time th Atlantics are beaten almost out of sight. Right on the top of this, the Unions, of Morrisania, play a second match with the Athletics, and the Athletics are vanquished by a score of 42 to 29. We confess that we cannot understand it. Do all these clubs play as good as they can play in each and every match, or do they purposely “throw off” for betting purposes? We are afraid that “money” has much to do with this base ball muddle, and that sundry “little arrangements”–if not made by clubs–are “acquiesced” in by the individual members. New York Clipper November 3, 1866 [Atlantic vs. Athletic 10/22/1866] In this game the Atlantics had their field placed less advantageously than in the previous game. Pearce [illegible] out at right field when his position is in the infield. Smith took short field when he should have been at home at 3d. A total of 34 errors of play for the Atlantics against 10 in their previous match, and of 12 on the part of the Athletics to 42 in the first game, shows the contrast in the fielding of the two nines in the two contests. In view of the fact that the gate money was to be divided between the two clubs in this game, and that if the Atlantics had played to win, this game would have closed the series, but by the success of the Athletics another profitable match would be afforded them, there are hundreds who will not believe otherwise than that the Atlantics did not care to win the game. When clubs descend to playing ball for gate money they must expect to be suspected of just such correct doings as mark the Hippodrome trotting races. New York Clipper November 3, 1866 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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