Clipping:Winter ball in the South

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Date Sunday, November 19, 1871
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On the 5 th instant it is said that there were twenty-one games of base ball at New Orleans. They must have it quite severely there. A proposition to innoculate children for base ball is under consideration by numerous anxious parents and the Board of Physicians. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch November 19, 1871

In the extreme South November is the inaugural month of the championship season, and the New Orleans Baseball park is now every week the scene of contests for the championship of the South. New York Sunday Mercury November 26, 1871

pool selling on the grounds

One of the first acts at the special meeting of the association in Philadelphia on November 3, was the adoption of a rule prohibiting pool selling and open betting on the professional ball grounds of the country, a custom which was introduced this season at the Union Grounds, Brooklyn, and adopted on the Chicago ball grounds, much to the injury of professional ball playing. New York Sunday Mercury November 26, 1871

Source Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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