Clipping:The Mutual Club is expelled and reinstated
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| Date | Sunday, November 15, 1868 |
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| Text | [reporting the New York state association’s convention, debating the Mutual Club and the Devyr affair:] The findings [of the Judiciary Committee] in the Mutual case were approved, and the club was declared to have forfeited membership: but, on motion of Judge-Advocate Belton, was immediately reinstated, there being only one dissenting vote. New York Dispatch November 15, 1868 ...the action of the [Judiciary] Committee in virtually expelling the Mutual Club from membership of the Association was sustained by a vote 38 to 23, several of the delegates absenting themselves when the vote was about being taken, from lack of moral courage to face the music in support of the organization it is the interest of every club in the State to sustain. ... After the Mutual case had thus been disposed of, the club punished for its flagrant violation of the law, and the action of the State Judiciary Committee very properly sustained, ...by vote of the Convention the Mutual Club was reinstated to membership, the vote being nearly unanimous... ... The effect of the indorsement of the action of the Judiciary Committee, and the consequent expulsion of the Mutual Club, is to render null and void every game played by them from the date of the publication of the decision of the Judiciary Committee up to the period of their reinstatement as members of the Association by the Judiciary Committee [sic]. This, of course, affects the championship question materially; but we presume that as the Atlantic Club, through their delegate, have disavowed all intention to claim the title on any such grounds, no doubt other clubs will do the same, and hence it will be safe to consider the Mutual Club still the champions of the United States, that matter being something the National Association intends to ignore. A delegate did ...try to introduce the subject of the championship, but the Convention would not listen to it for a moment. New York Sunday Mercury November 15, 1868 |
| Source | New York Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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