Clipping:When is a player no longer a member of a club?

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Date Sunday, August 26, 1866
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In reply to “An Old Player”, we have to state that the rules are a little cloudy in reference to the subject he desires information upon.

The rules of the game prohibiting p layers from taking part in match-games, unless they have been legitimate members of the club they play with, and “of no other club”, for thirty days, being well understood, it becomes a matter of importance to know when a player legally ceased to be a member of a club. In the first place, he must be clear of being in arrears for dues, and secondly, must have given in his resignation to some officer of the club he leaves. The question now arises, however, as to whether he is to be considered a member until his resignation has been accepted, or whether his resignation dates from the day it was given into the hands of the official of the club. In the one case, unless it was personally handed to some officer of the club, the resignation might be dropped in to the Post Office misdirected, and there allowed to lie; whereas, in the other, if the member was to be considered as such until the club he resigned from chose to act upon it, he might e kept out of the club he wished to play with for months. If any players be legally entitled to leave a club–and he is so entitled if not in arrears for dues, and every player can be charged with dues if the treasurer of the club he belonged to has not a clear record of his payment of the same on his books–we see no just cause why he should not be allowed to do so at any time he chose, and why he should not be considered as having ceased to be a member from the date of his resignation. If all clubs were to act as promptly in this matter of receiving and acting upon resignations as the Excelsiors did in the case of Crane and Pearce, there would be no trouble in regarding a player as still a member of a club until his resignation has been acted upon and accepted. But as some clubs refuse to accept resignations at times, and other purposely postpone action upon them with a view of delaying or preventing the player from playing in a rival club, we should think the fairest way would be to date the time of a player’s being a member of a club he joins form the day he handed in his resignation to an officer of the club he leaves. The next Convention will have to settle this controversy.

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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