Clipping:Suspicions about Nolan
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| Date | Monday, September 17, 1877 |
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| Text | Mr. Brown, president of the Indianapolis club, has gone to Chicago to manage the club during the week, and as McCormick and Sullivan, pitcher and first baseman of the disbanded Buckeyes, will participate in the games, it is thought that the gifted Nolan will be held down to business. Mr. Brown will see that there is no more “funny business.” On Thursday last Nolan pledged himself to prevent the Stars and Alleghenys from getting five base hits in either game, and the fact that he kept his word rather “gives him away” in the games recently played in New York, as well as the first two games of the tournament. A suspicion begins to creep over some minds that Nolan is an “addled egg.” McCormick is as good a pitcher as Nolan and more reliable. Indianapolis News September 17, 1877 Last night the directory made a feint of investigating the charges preferred against Mack and Nolan, and passed a resolution vindicating them and exonerating them from the accusation of having “thrown” games. This is all very pretty but resolutions covering a ream of paper can not restore these players to the position they once occupied in the confidence and esteem of the public. It is difficult to understand how the directors could vindicate Nolan in the face of the fact, known to some of them, that a dispatch from one of the pool rooms at New York to that individual was intercepted not long ago and then incontinently suppressed. Perhaps the action is intended as an application of “whitewash” in order to let the boys down easy, as it seems to be very generally understood that they will not play with the Blues next year. Right here it would not be out of place to state that no club ever has prospered, and no club can prosper, in which there is an element tainted with suspicion. It is not so much a matter of good pitching as confidence. Indianapolis News September 27, 1877 Last night the directors of the Indianapolis base ball club held a meeting, at which the charges against Nolan and Mack were investigated. Both Nolan and Mack were present, and told their side of the story, and promised that in the future they would attend more closely to ball playing than in the past. The board gave the following as their action in this matter: “The charges against D. J. Mack and Edward Nolan have been fully investigated by the directors and each man examined, no evidence being adduced to justify the suspicion that they had been guilty of “throwing games. This puts both gentleman in a better position before the public, and we hope in the future that nothing needing an investigation will ever occur in our club.” Indianapolis Sentinel September 27, 1877 |
| Source | Indianapolis News |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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