Clipping:What is a legal player?
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| Date | Sunday, July 7, 1872 |
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| Text | Section 7 of Rule V., of the Professional Rules for 1872, says, regarding legal players: “They must not have been members of any other base ball club, or have played in any match game with any other club, for sixty days prior to the date of the match they are to play in...” ... Now, when the above rule was made, it was the intention of the association to put a stop to revolving, but it was never intended to apply to such a case as the present, It is, therefore, doubtful whether the disbanding of a club does not free its members entirely, and give them an entirely new status. In our opinion, which make [sic] be taken for as much as it is worth, we think the members of the Olympic Club are not legally, entitled to play with any other club until the 28th of the present month; but if regarded as a question of equity alone, we think that, as the rule was never intended to cover such a case as this, they may be allowed to play. The men are not revolvers, and had no intention of revolving, but are only anxious to earn their bread honestly and fairly, and it does appear hard they should be deprived of the opportunity of doing so. Should the Athletics think proper to protest against Brainard tomorrow, they have a perfect right to do so, but it is hardly probably that they will. |
| Source | New York Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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