Clipping:Ward's illegal delivery
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| Date | Sunday, October 13, 1878 |
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| Text | [from a letter from “Fair Play”] [Ward] seldom, if ever, occupies the prescribed lines of his position, and...delivers certainly two out of five balls above waist—many people say more than that proportion.... Boston Herald October 13, 1878 Indianapolis finances; players penniless The sorrowful truth about the financial condition of the Indianapolis Club has at last come out. When the nine visited this city recently it played a couple of games with the Shite Stockings to audiences of microscopic proportions. The few people who did attend these games wondered why the nines should arrange and play games when it was evident that the gate receipts would be little or nothing, and, if nay of the curious ones happened to seek information from those who were posted, they were told that the Indianapolis team was “froze in,”--the boys not having money enough on hand to get home with. On Oct. 18 the Directors of the Club held a meeting in Indianapolis, and the sorrowful result of their session is briefly but eloquently told in the following, from the Sentinel of last Sunday... Chicago Tribune October 27, 1878 |
| Source | Boston Herald |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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