Clipping:Boston Unions
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| Date | Monday, March 17, 1884 |
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| Text | The preliminary arrangements for the formation of a general athletic association in this city, which will have among its auxiliaries a professional base ball team, have been quietly progressing the past week, and considerable headway is reported to have been made. Within a few days a full statement of the object, policy and management of the movement is promised. Steps have been taken to obtain a special charter of incorporation from the Legislature, with a capital stock considerably over that first contemplated, namely, $10,000. Six gentlemen, all of whom are said to be enthusiastic admirers of the game of base ball, have associated themselves together and are conducting the business. Although several informal conferences have been held, yet matters have not as yet been brought to a definite head, except to mark out the plans in general. The new organization will be known as the Boston Union Athletic Exhibition Company. … It is to be regretted that at the very outset a step is contemplated which, in the minds of many who wish to see such a movement prosper and succeed, would be a serious, if not fatal, mistake. It is proposed to enter the base ball club of this athletic exhibition company as a member of the Union Base Ball Association. The gentlemen who are engineering this movement should study well the outlook before deciding to join fortunes with the association mentioned. Today the Union association is practically boycotted by the profession throughout the country. … The cause of this intense opposition to the Union association is that a feeling exists in every section of the country that it is not an honest organization; that its real object is not to foster and elevate the national game of base ball. It is openly charged in the West that the association is backed financially principally by the beer interests of St. Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago, and that it has been organized simply as a matter of speculation in which a few brewers can coin money. Sure it is that the sale of beer and the playing of games on the Sabbath will be distinguishing features of the policy to be pursued by the Union association this season. Can the Boston gentlemen connected with the proposed exhibition company afford to enter into partnership with any such element and expect to receive support at the hands of the Boston public? |
| Source | Boston Herald |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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