Clipping:Charges of a thrown amateur game
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| Date | Sunday, August 23, 1874 |
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| Text | As for the case of the Keystone nine in their game with the Nameless at Brooklyn last Tuesday, the decision of the umpire, John J. Burdock, speaks for itself, and that was as follows: “I do hereby decide the game between the Nameless and Keystone Clubs played this day a draw, and all bets off.” Evidently the fellows who dipped their hands in this dirty, mean business are green “hippodromists,’ for the work was too clumsily done to deceive even the blindest. Twenty-four errors were made in the six innings’ play by the Keystones, and of these the most numerous and palpable were those made by Conlin, the two Fallons, McCabe, and Ledwith, the others making but three. If the Keystone Club is a regular organization they owe it to themselves to take prompt action in this matter, or be debarred from play hereafter on either the Union, Capitoline, or Prospect Park fields. No reputable club will play with the Keystones until they clear themselves from the stigma of this charge. New York Sunday Mercury August 23, 1874 ...Mr. Burdock came over to the reporters’ stand, and remarked: “Talk about hippodroming! I never saw anything so bad as this;” and he further stated that if they didn’t stop he’d leave the ground. The secretary of the Keystone Club (C. Sands) has issued the following manifesto: “The Keystone Baseball Club, of New York city, at their meeting last night made a searching and thorough investigation of the charges of ‘hippodroming’ preferred against their members, and the meeting totally exonerated them from the aforesaid charges, thus hurling back the calumnies which the last few days has attached to them.” New York Sunday Mercury August 30, 1874 |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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