Clipping:The finances and condition of the Worcester Club; staying in another year
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| Date | Tuesday, September 13, 1881 |
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| Text | The stockholders of the Worcester Base-bal Club were summoned to a special meeting to be held this evening [9/12] to get an expression of the feeling of the backers of the Club in rgard to the team for next season. Last year the Directors did not see fit to in any way consult the wishes of the stockholders in the matter, but went forward, as they were empowered under their charter of organization, and selected a team to suit themselves. It is needless to say that failure has been the result; every body knows it, and none feel more keenly the position of the team than the Directors. Hence the desire for consultation, and perhaps a change in management. Some of the directors said they were anxious to throw off the cares of looking after a ball nine, and threatened to resign. Their term of office does not expire until the annual meeting in January, but if they are to resign at all now is the time tha5 their successors may have a voice in selecting the team for next year. Of course, no one seriously talks of throwing up the sponge because the present team holds last place in the race. On the contrary, the opinion was to raise more money than in any previous year and to engage a nine as strong as money will hire. Not that the policy of fancy salaries is to be inaugurated, but of the new blood to be infused into the team, it was decided to secure reliable players and to pay accordingly. While the playing season as regards position in the championship race is concerned has been a dead failure, financially the Club will do better than last year, when it sunk $1,600. This year the loss will be inside of that amount, judging from the present condition of the treasury and the prospective profits of the games to be played, twelve in number, and all with the Western Clubs that have not been here for three months. At the meeting there was a full and free expression of opinion. It was largely attended, and voted unanimously to have the best team next year that money can hire. The entire Board of Directors tendered their resignations, but the meeting refused to accept them, and the matter goes over for another week, when it is probable the Board will be reorganized, with some new block in it. President Pratt voiced the sentiment of the stockholders when he said he would never give up while at the tail of the race, but would contribute liberally for a winning nine. The players were given twenty days' notice to-day that they would not be wanted after October 1st. The team is doing so poorly that the players will be released October 1st. Several of them have grievously abused the confidence of the management, and if they get left for a month's salary it will be serving them right. No games have been arranged for October, and as the Western Clubs have secured all the dates in New York and Philadelphia for the first twenty days in the month, there seems nothing left the Eastern Clubs but to wind up or play among themselves, and that wouldn't pay. Cincinnati Enquirer September 13, 1881 At a meeting of the stockholders of the Worcester Club to-night [9/19] the resignations of the old Board of Directors were accepted and a new Board, consisting of Hon. Charles B. Pratt, W. H. Crawford, Freeman Brown, J. P. Masona nd Fred Simester, was elected. Pratt and Crawford were on the old Board. Eight hundred dollars' worth of new stock was subscribed on the spot, and the Directors will infuse new life into the affairs. Cincinnati Enquirer September 21, 1881 |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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