Clipping:Visit to England abandoned
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| Date | Sunday, January 26, 1873 |
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| Text | The proposed trip of base-ballists to England to show the Britishers how to play our American “national” game, has been abandoned. The trip was based on the idea that resident Americans in England, when they heard of the posed trip of Harry Wright’s eighteen ball players to the old country, would have taken some measures to promote the success of the enterprise. But here it was that Harry’s calculations were wrong. He supposed that because our resident English cricketers sought to have an English team come out here to show us how their game was played in England, that Americans in England would be quite as anxious to see the American game of ball played across the water. Unfortunately, it happens that the class of American youth who are located in England as a general thing ignore as much as possible everything American, their ambition being to be considered as Englishmen, while their custom is to copy the worst phases of Young England’s characteristics. From this cause, therefore, to expect anything like encouragement for such an enterprise as Captain Wright’s contemplated tour was out of the question. Aside from this drawback, however, there is the statement of the editor of the London Sportsman, and of Captain Fitzgerald, of the Marylebone Club, sent to us by letter, that a visit of American ball players would not pay expenses. So, in view of the circumstances, Wright has abandoned the idea of “going East” this spring, and instead he will be likely to “go West.” New York Sunday Mercury January 26, 1873 The proposed tour to England of the Boston and Athletic Clubs has been abandoned, word having been received that such a trip would not pay expenses. Both nines, however, will visit California this fall, giving exhibitions of their skill in all the principal cities en route. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury February 2, 1873 |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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