View source for Clipping:Failure to observe the thirty day rule

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|Type of Date=Day
|Date=1858/04/03
|Title=failure to observe the thirty day rule
|Text=<p class="p1">One clause of the constitution [of the NABBP] gave rise to considerable discussion, although only one gentleman&ndash;Dr. Jones&ndash;made any very strenuous objection, and finally voted against it.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>The gentleman contended, that the rule requring all the players in a match to be members of the club they play with, and to have been so for thirty days previous, to be ambiguous and opn to malpractice or evasion.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>He stated that the rule had often been broken or evaded during the last season&ndash;both parties consenting&ndash;for this among other reasons: players deemed necessary to the match were absent&ndash;say on both sides&ndash;and rather than lose the chance of playing the game, substitutes, not belonging to the clubs matched, would be permitted to play by courtesy.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>Dr. Jones pressed his objections with much pertinency and force, as he desired to do away with the abuse which these courties, on the part of opposing clubs, lead to.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>He desired to have it made a law of base-ball play, that no substitute should be allowed under any circumstances; but that, whenever a match was made between two clubs, the game should go on under the rules&ndash;and the rules receive a strict construction.</p>
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<p class="p1">We are fully of opinion that when a match is made for either base-ball or cricket, it should be considered on the P.P. principle, required by the Jockey Clubs in England and the United States.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>The party of base-ball or cricketers who failed to bring their regular players on the ground, should be the losers, and no substitutes should be allowed, by consent or otherwise.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>Let this law be strictly enforced, and gentlemen who interest themselves in out-door sports, or who feel any <em>esprit du corps</em> of the clubs they are attached to, will be on the ground to take a hand in case of a deficiency or of the absence of a crack player.<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>Indeed, we should consider it more creditable for a club to have played a losing or an up-hill game with the loss of a crack player of this own club, than to win one with the borrowed aid of an outsider.</p>
|Source=Porter's Spirit of the Times
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
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