Clipping:The state of hippodroming and revolving

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Date Sunday, November 5, 1871
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...all that is needed to assure continued success and popularity for the professional ball-playing is to preserve their class from “hippodroming” and “revolving,” both of which evils are death to the pecuniary success of professional organizations. Thanks to the beneficial effects of the rule of the Professional Association, there has been less of both these fraudulent features of professionalism this season than there was in 1871; indeed it is questionable whether a single instance of allowing a game to go by default can be shown to have occurred–certainly not in any regular championship contest, whatever there might have been in “exhibition” or gate-money games.

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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