Clipping:The Athletics put new financial controls in place
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| Date | Sunday, September 21, 1873 |
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| Text | [excerpts from a long report of the Athletic Club meeting of 9/16/1873] The trouble in the Athletic Club came to a climax on Tuesday evening last, when a meeting of the organization was held... The meeting was a very large one, and majority and minority reports were presented by the committee. The former was adopted by a vote of forty-six to thirty-two. ... The report also recommends that perfect and complete checks be placed on ticket-takers and ticket-sellers, so as to prevent the possibility of fraud; that it be an imperative rule that neither shall assist a director in the computation of vouchers against himself. It was proven that this practice had been long allowed. The report further states that in making these suggestions there was no intention of putting the brand of dishonesty on any of the club officials, but that it were best that no room be left for an exercise of dishonesty. In cases where these chance are open odium and scandal invariably follow. ... The result of the adoption of the majority report will be a decided change in the monetary transactions of the club in the gate management and in other particulars. All avenues for “picking” will be closed, and all accusations and counter-accusations, generally unjust as they are, will be put a stop to. |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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