Clipping:The championship for 1873 finally officially awarded; the judiciary committee ducks
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| Date | Sunday, January 11, 1874 |
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| Text | Hicks Hayhurst, on the 2d of this month, signed the above document [awarding the championship to Boston], after waiting a couple of months to see what action, if any, the Judiciary Committee would take in regard to the charge made against the Boston club for the alleged illegal playing of Addy. [Harry Wright also signed it; Frank McBride of the Philadelphia Club refused.] Philadelphia Sunday Mercury January 11, 1874 The Judiciary Committee met last Tuesday evening... The Philadelphias...produced documents stating that Addy had played in games as a member of the Rockford club, and was therefore not eligible to play with the Bostons in some ten or more games. A communication, however, was read from Harry Wright, protesting against any action being taken by the Judiciary Committee that should affect the Boston’s claims to the championship already awarded to them by the Championship Committee, and to the surprise of the uninitiated, the Judiciary Committee then unanimously resolved not to take any action on the matter; and... the farcical proceedings terminated. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury January 25, 1874 [from a long ranting piece] The Philadelphians persisted, and through persistence exposed the whole animus of this outrageous face. At Baltimore, on Tuesday evening last, those appointed to “thoroughly investigate all charges” deliberately refused to listen to the complaints referred to for the reason, as one of the committee confessed in our hearing, that not an idea was entertained of the tenable ground of the Philadelphians were occupying, and that “a hearing would certainly have cuased trouble.” Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch January 25, 1874 [see also PSD 2/22/1874 for affidavits from the Bostons and a rebuttal to them] |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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