Clipping:The old short throw trick on a delayed double steal
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| Date | Sunday, October 8, 1871 |
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| Text | [Aetna of Chicago vs. Olympic of Philadelphia 10/5/1871] [Cope on third, Wagner on first] Wagner...started for second, and Quinn [catcher] played the old trick of throwing the ball to short stop, just behind the pitcher. Cope, who started for home, found himself taken in, and caught between bases... Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch October 8, 1871 exhibition games The professional clubs made a great mistake when the adopted the plan of making all games exhibition contests after the match series had been played; but their worst mistake always has been that of leading the public to attend a match under the supposition that it was regular when it was in fact but an exhibition game, on the result of which nothing was pending, and besides which it was a matter of indifference which nine won, no earnest effort being made by each side to win under such circumstances. It is time this class of contests was ended. They do well enough in the spring, but after the season has been inaugurated the clubs should play nothing but regular matches. In first-class and “regular” contests the public will not object to pay 50c. fee; but even 25c. is regarded as too much for exhibition games, or contests which have no important bearing on the pending question of the season, or are only played for gate-money purposes. New York Sunday Mercury October 15, 1871 ...an arrangement was made in writing between the officials of the [Boston and Mutual] clubs, whereby the two nines were to play an exhibition game in Brooklyn on October 9, and the deciding game in Boston the week following. This arrangements was duly made public by the Boston Club in that city, but not a word of information relative to the change in the programme was given the New York journals by the Mutual Club, and as no “exhibition” games had previously been played between the two clubs, it was naturally inferred that the game of the 9th was to be the deciding contest of the series, and it was so announced in this paper, and also in other journals, the result being the assemblage of an unusually large number of spectators on the grounds on the 9th inst. for this season of the year. The disappointment of the crowd when it was known that it was to be only an “exhibition” game was great, and the Mutual officials very properly came in for a considerable amount of censure for allowing the public to be left ignorant of the change. They will find that the extra gate-money taken in by this trick will be more than offset by the limited attendance at all their remaining games this season consequent upon their lack of fair dealing with the public. ... It is true that the Mutual Club did not announce this game as the deciding contest, but they took good care not to correct the impression that it was to be the last match. Our surprise is that Mr. Davidson should have been led to countenance anything of the kind, his action hitherto having been above reproach in his management of the club affairs. New York Sunday Mercury October 15, 1871 |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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