Clipping:The Atlantics to field a 'volunteer co-operative nine'
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| Date | Sunday, March 26, 1871 |
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| Text | The chances are now that [the Atlantics] will play only a volunteer co-operative nine this season. They offered Cummings $1,800 for his services as pitcher for the season, but he did not accept; and not obtaining the pitcher they wanted, no further effort was made to get up a salaried nine. Last season the nine received $1,300 each as their share of the gate money, and that too not under the best management. The club have yet plenty of good material from which they can select a good nine, and it is to be hoped that they will at once organize a volunteer team for the season. Their career with a volunteer nine cannot be much more successful than it was last season with a nine having a record of seventeen lost games, the greatest number the club ever lost in a single season. Chapman has been sent for by the Athletics, and Hall has been offered a position on the Cleveland nine. At the last meeting of the club the new headquarters were decided upon, Mr. Samuel’s Assembly Billiard House being the place selected. Judge Buckley, the new President, wanted to make Campbell’s Niagara House in Court street, their headquarters, and Mr. Samuels seconded the motion; but the club voted against the proposition; whereupon Judge Buckley tendered his resignation. Why not accept the offer, and elect that worthy old player, Peter O’Brien, as President? Under such auspices the Atlantic Club would be restored to its former position very quickly. New York Sunday Mercury March 26, 1871 In the opening part of the season of 1864 the Atlantic Club were in a more demoralized condition than they had ever been before. They had been defeated by the Eckfords two years in succession, and their old prestige of success had almost deserted them. Yet in 1864 they went through the season without losing a single first-nine game, and they flew the whip-pennant the three following years. Once more they are found occupying a position similar to that of 1864 as regards their disorganized condition; but then they had men in the club who had pride and energy enough to make a plucky rally. Now, however, it would really appear as if, in the place of men competent to reorganize the club under circumstances likely to develop creditable business tact and enterprise, they had a set of officials utterly unfit for the positions they occupy, for, with ample material at command wherewith to form a strong playing nine, scarcely an officer of the club is to be found willing or competent to render willing aid to rally round the old victorious banner of the club. All the professional clubs want to see the Atlantics in the field this season, and all are ready to make matches with them, if the officials of the club will only give them a chance to do so. New York Sunday Mercury April 9, 1871 |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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