Clipping:The status of the Atlantic Club
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| Date | Saturday, January 28, 1882 |
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| Text | We lately had an interview with Manager Wm. Barnie of the Brooklyn Atlantics, and the information derived from him in regard to the movements of the Atlantic Club management for the coming season is of sufficient interest to professional baseball readers to make special mention of the interview. We asked him what he intended doing in the matter of placing a new Atlantic nine in the field for 1882. Barnie's response to sundry queries on the subject showed very plainly that he was in a rather doubtful position as to where he would be found in April next, whether as a member of the American Association—the convention of which he attended as a delegate—or as a member of the League Alliance. Secretary Williams has written to know from him what his intentions are, but as yet he cannot satisfactorily reply. One of his objections to entering the American Association is the rule which gives to each club the whole of the receipts from matches played on their own grounds, substituting the payment of a fixed sum—sixty odd dollars a game—in lieu of the customary division of receipts. On the other hand Manager Barnie is debarred from any benefit accruing from his becoming a League alliance Club member by the fact that the Metropolitan League Alliance Club has entire control of the district of country which extends four miles from the corporate limits of the City of New York, which law deprives him of League Alliance membership in the City of Brooklyn. As regards joining either Association, it will be seen that Barnie is on the horns of a dilemma. He will await events until March, by which time things will have developed themselves more satisfactorily than exists at present. Barnie has, however, prepared himself to enter upon the coming campaign of 1882, and as a preliminary has engaged a very fair team, which will be materially strengthened as occasion may require. He has choice of three grounds, one of which—located on Long Island—will enable him to join the League Alliance without interfering with the Metropolitan Club's district. The management of the latter club was last season taught by some costly experience that there was no club which attracted such a paying attendance to their matches with the Metropolitan team, as did the Atlantic nine; and as this season the promise is not very good for any rival local club being organized to give the Metropolitans paying games, it should be their policy to afford Manager Barnie every assistance. Were this done, it would unquestionably be pecuniarily advantageous to both teams. Under any circumstances, Barnie says, he will have an Atlantic nine in the local field for 1882. New York Clipper January 28, 1882 Manager Barnie recently addressed a communication to President McKnight, announcing the withdrawal of the Atlantics from the American Association. In assigning a reason for this action, Barnie said that he could not raise money enough in Brooklyn to warrant him in remaining in that city any longer. It appears now that he was rather too hasty in his action, as he writes that within the past few days matters have loomed up wonderfully, and the chances are that he will remain in the City of Churches. He is said to be negotiation for a ground adjacent to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and easy of access from all parts of that city. New York Clipper February 18, 1882 The Brooklyn Atlantics left the American Association for two reasons; one was, that if it remained in it it could not play games with the Metropolitan or Philadelphia clubs; and secondly, because of the clause giving to the home club all receipts at the gate, which rule is death to clubs intending to go West to play and also to clubs coming East for the purpose, as the $65 they are allowed will not pay traveling expenses. Brooklyn Daily Eagle February 21, 1882 Manager Barnie has concluded to engage the Union Ball Grounds for the use of his Atlantic nine the coming season, and he has arranged with Mr. Cammeyer to occupy the old field every week day this season except Saturday, on which day the grounds are to be solely at the command of commercial nines as last year. Brooklyn Daily Eagle March 1, 1882 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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