Clipping:Taking a forfeit to make the train
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| Date | Friday, July 6, 1883 |
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| Text | Our dispatches of yesterday told the story of a game forfeited by Harry Wright’s Providence club in Philadelphia, in the forenoon of the Fourth. They were scheduled to play in New York in the afternoon, and for fear of missing the train Harry called his men from the Philadelphia field at the end of the seventh inning, when the score stood eleven to nine in their favor. The Philadelphia club protested, and the umpire declared the game a forfeit of nine to nothing to the home club. The Providence team went to New York and were defeated, but got their share of the big receipts. The latter consideration was what induced Harry Wright no doubt to choose the forfeit rather than a possible loss of his share in the New York receipts, for he must have known that his actions gave Umpire Lane no other choice than to declare the game a forfeit. ... The wonder is that Harry did not play the game out and charter a train for New York. He could not possibly afford to lose his share of the New York receipts. Neither is the position of his club in the race such that he can afford to lose a game. |
| Source | Cincinnati Commercial Gazette |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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