Clipping:Proof of no hippodroming
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| Date | Sunday, September 3, 1871 |
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| Text | [Chicago vs. Mutual 8/28/1871] The most costly defeat sustained by the Mutual Club this season was that received at the hands of the Chicago White Stockings... But especially it was costly in the sacrifice of the fifth game of the [series[ which it entered, inasmuch as had the Mutuals been successful the fifth game in Chicago would have attracted 10,000 people at least. There is one consolation, however, resulting from the contest, and that is that it has given the lie to the current rumors about the leading professional clubs “throwing” games for gate-money purposes, and in this respect the victory is a double triumph for the White Stockings; for, pecuniarily, they had every temptation to allow the game to go by default in order to insure the fifth and deciding contest of the series on their own ground. Instead, however, they preferred victory for the club flag, and they creditably achieved it after fighting a good up-hill game, and under circumstances which were calculated to demoralize an undisciplined nine like the White Stockings. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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