Clipping:The Allegheny Club collapses; guarantee system
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| Date | Tuesday, June 11, 1878 |
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| Text | The Allegheny Club, of Pittsburg, have collapsed and disbanded, which was to have been expected from the nature of things. It was a co-operative concern with no backing, and has been the most unsuccessful of all the Internationals. To understand the reason why the Club should burst now, it is only necessary to know the International guarantee scheme. It is that the home club shall pay the visitors at least $75 per game out of the gate money, or, if there be not so much gate money, then the home club must make it up out of its treasury. The Alleghenys went on a trip through New York and New England, getting their $75 per game right along, and living off it. As soon as they got on their own grounds they had to pay guarantees. This they couldn't do, and so they collapsed. Judging from reports, International audiences in many cities don't reach $75 very often. Chicago Tribune June 11, 1878 The Alleghanies were organized by a few parties, headed by one Fullwood, an irresponsible youngster of Pittsburg, and, starting from home with but eight men, picked up one here and one there, played more than twenty games with International clubs, receiving each game $75, or an amount aggregating $1,600, out of which he paid for salaries and traveling expenses about $600. on Fullwood's return home he declared the Alleghanies to be disbanded, thus dishonorably failing to meet his engagements with the clubs that paid him guarantees, and netting a cool $1,000. we think that the International clubs should make an example of this man. Chicago Tribune June 23, 1878, quoting the New York Sunday Mercury |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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