Clipping:The condition of the Mutual Club
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| Date | Saturday, November 27, 1875 |
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| Text | The business of managing profession nines admits of no half-way measures. The enterprise must be gone into boldly, or not at all, as no other line of policy will pay. The best and most reliable material as to players should be obtained. It is for this reason that the half co-operative style of running professional nines turns out to be such a failure. The Mutual Club has never yet been a stock-company organization, and until it is those who invest in the business of engaging the club players cannot expect to run the machine successfully. Last season some of the players were paid regular salaries, and other were remunerated differently; and the result was that the team was practically undisciplined. … That some mysterious influences were at work in governing the play of certain members of the nine admits of little doubt; and this greatly interfered with the profits of the club's gate-receipts, as the public came to regard the team as unreliable for earnest work. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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