Clipping:Failure to observe the thirty day rule
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| Date | Saturday, April 3, 1858 |
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| Text | One clause of the constitution [of the NABBP] gave rise to considerable discussion, although only one gentleman–Dr. Jones–made any very strenuous objection, and finally voted against it. 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. He stated that the rule had often been broken or evaded during the last season–both parties consenting–for this among other reasons: players deemed necessary to the match were absent–say on both sides–and rather than lose the chance of playing the game, substitutes, not belonging to the clubs matched, would be permitted to play by courtesy. 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. 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–and the rules receive a strict construction. ... 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. 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. Let this law be strictly enforced, and gentlemen who interest themselves in out-door sports, or who feel any esprit du corps 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. 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. |
| Source | Porter's Spirit of the Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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