Clipping:The effects of betting; rumors of thrown games
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| Date | Sunday, August 5, 1866 |
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| Text | OPEN BETTING AT BASEBALL-MATCHES.–We earnestly call upon every baseball-layer who has the interest of our game at heart to make an effort to put a stop to the custom of making open bets at ball-matches. Bets will be made; and when the investments of this kind are of trifling amounts, say for instance, not exceeding a five or ten dollar bill, no harm is done. But what we allude to, as a vital blow to the popularity and permanency of baseball, is the custom of making our leading contest [sic], especially those for the so-called championship, a means of making money by wagers of from fifty up to five hundred dollars; and of parties going about among the crowd at a baseball match with greenbacks in hand, calling out for bets, like the blacklegs at a hippodrome trotting-match. It is this betting business, in which hundreds of dollars are put up on single wagers, that has led to the purchase of players. What is to prevent a man who has a thousand dollars bet on the result of a match, from approaching a player of a match, and promising him a gift of a $100 bill, either to use his influence to “throw” a game, or to do something or other of a dishonorable character to win it. It has been done, as we all know; and arrangements have also been made to sell games for the purpose of winning bets, and that by parties who doubtless would never have been guilty, but for the temptation offered by the large sums invested. If all the reputable members of the fraternity will frown this open betting down, it will be put a step to; but just so long as it is countenanced, just so long may we expect disturbances. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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