Clipping:The Excelsiors of Chicago raising money to hire professionals

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Date	Sunday, August 2, 1868
Text	[a meeting of the Excelsior Club of Chicago:] Mr. Erby...stated that the real object of the meeting was to consult in relation to the recent defeats of the Excelsiors and to see if something could not be done to retrieve the good name of the Club. He said that many of our citizens were greatly interested in the national game, and would willingly subscribe liberally towards making the club efficient. The Buckeye Club, he said, was composed principally of hired players, seven of the nine who recently defeated the Excelsiors being from the East. The Excelsiors, he said, had five first-class players in the organization–with four more of the same kind they would be all right. He was sure that fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars could be raised among citizens, as well as not, to promote the well being of the club, and he moved that a committee of three be appointed to solicit subscriptions., quoting the Chicago Tribune
Source	Philadelphia Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
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