Clipping:Two proposals for a championship system
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| Date | Saturday, December 4, 1869 |
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| Text | [from “A Veteran”:] Let the Atlantic be recognized as champions, and for this let them be taxed a beautiful devised streamer or “whip” pennant, which shall be recognized as the symbol of championship, to be given to the club defeating the champions in a series. During the winter, not later than March 1st, let each club send a delegate or representative to the Atlantic club rooms, and let there be a drawing, that is, in one box place a lot of numbers equal to the number of clubs desirous of contesting less one (the Atlantics), and in another box place slips containing the names of these clubs then draw as in a lottery. If 1 was drawn from one box and the slip containing the Cincinnati club from the other, that would show that the Atlantics were to meet that club first. So on through each number drawn, showing what turn the club plays, supposing the Haymakers draw 2. Now let it be arranged that all games must be played within 10 days of each other, and if the 10 th day comes on Sunday, let the 9 th day be chosen. Let the first game commence about the middle of June, on the grounds of the champions, the second game would then (if the Red Stockings drew the first chance) have to be played at Cincinnati within ten days, the third if such be necessary, within tend day s of that, the choice of grounds to be tossed for at the conclusion of the second game. Now, suppose the Red Stockings won, then the Haymakers would have to go there to play the first game, and if they in turn won, they would have to play the club drawing 3. So on through the numbers, the winners of the last series to be acknowledged champions for that season. ... [from “Daisy Cutter”:] Let each State Association recognize the right of its members to arrange games for the State championship outside of the State organization, said games to be concluded and the State championship decided before the 30th of June. That would cause the clubs to early arrange their nines and take to practice. Then let there be a sectional championship–say of New England, the Middle States, the Southern States, and the Western States. The sectional championship to be played for by the State champions of their respective sections, these games and the sectional championships to be decided before the 30th of September. Then, before the 15th of November, the champion nines of the four sections to contest for the championship of the United States. The winning club to receive a pennant only, an honorary symbol of no great money value, with the word Champion in conspicuous letters, with the right to fly it until the succeeding champion contest decides its further guardianship. Then we would truly have an American champion nine, without the wretched cavil and intrigue accompanying the present arrogant assumption of the National championship by our local clubs. |
| Source | National Chronicle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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