Clipping:The host club's responsibility for crowd control
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| Date | Sunday, July 29, 1866 |
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| Text | [Unions of Morrisania at Hartford, Connecticut 7/26/1866] ...they found a numerous assemblage of spectators occupying the field... The Ground Committee were not at hand to attend to their duties, and it was therefore some time before the field could be cleared even sufficiently to allow of the game being commenced–the members who volunteered being too few to be of service–and when play was called, there was anything but a clear field being presented, other [sic] to the right or to the left. ...when [the umpire’s] decision did not suit the ignorant portion of the crowd, they hissed or otherwise commented on the decisions in a manner we did not quite expect to see in a New England city; and besides that, undertook to decide points for the umpire, and of course always in favor of the local organization. The Charter Oaks tried their best to suppress these demonstrations, but they could not control the assemblage at all. The action of the crowd was in such striking contrast to the Norwich assemblage in the Uncas match, that all of the Unions noticed it. We thus comment on the matter with a view of inducing other clubs, on like occasions, to make some special effort beforehand to see that due courtesy is shown the visiting club by the local assemblage. It can be done on all occasions by a united effort. But if, out of a club of a hundred members, all the heavy work is left to be done by those who volunteer to do it, while the majority play spectators, it is not to be expected that either good order or any fair field will be shown the visiting club. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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