Clipping:Telegraph contract; starting time
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| Date | Wednesday, March 9, 1887 |
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| Text | A contract was signed [by the Cincinnati Club] with the Western Union Telegraph Company a few days ago, and an operatior will be at the Park to wire the result of each inning as it is played to Association cities. Games are called in Cincinnati earlier than in any other city in the country, and that prevents a posting of the results of contests in other cities. Last season the experiment of beginning play at half-past three met with so much favor that it was continued during the year. The Sporting Life March 9, 1887 layout of the press box [from the Cincinnati correspondent] Instead of individual desks in the press room, the newspaper boys themselves have suggested a series of lockers where they can keep their coats, paper and the like, and one long desk with each one’s place assigned. Out in that room, exposed to the atmosphere, good furniture would soon warp, and the new plan is just as practicable. The Sporting Life March 9, 1887 [from Chadwick’s column] There is one thing which club managers should pay particular attention to this season, and that is to see that the regular base ball reporters of the city press in each League and American city not only have facilities given them for reporting the games fully, but also that they be freed from the annoyanced they are so frequently subjected to from the buzzing of the talkative and gossiping class of members of the press, who, though reporters in one sesne of the term, are not of the class of base ball reporters who take down notes of the games for special reports of the contests in detail. I remember the last time I visted the Athletic grounds in Philadelphia that while the “regular” men were attending to make up detailed accounts of the game a number of reporters occupied seats in the reporter’s stand who had nothing to write out but mere descriptive matter, and many of them nothing at all, and they annoyed the “regulars” exceedingly by their loud “chin-music.” The “regulars” are few in number and are well known, and these should be given a place by themselves, where the “chinners” cannot disturb them. The other reporters--afternoon paper men and weekly newspaper reporters who are only there to look on and to talk--should be in a separate box. All professional clubs owe a great deal to the newspapers, and they cannot do too much in the way of providing their representatives with every facility for reporting the games. I have yet to see any model box for reporters on any club grand stand I have ever attended. There may be such a place somewhere, but I have not seen it. Here in the metropolits there are not ten regular men who are called upon to report games in deatil, and yet about thirty or forty “reporters” claim seast at the most important contests. The reporters’ row of seats at the Polo Grounds are in the way of the grand stand people, and the press box could easily be placed to greater advantage on top of the stand where the regular men could be by themselves. Matters could be greatly improved at Washington Park and at the St. George grounds in this respect. The Sporting Life March 9, 1887 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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