Clipping:A dispute over player eligibility
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| Date | Sunday, May 21, 1871 |
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| Text | [Eckford vs. Athletic 5/15/1871] Before the game two hours were spent in a discussion as to Chapman’s right to play with the Eckfords. The Athletics refused to play if Chapman played, for the reason that as the game was one for the championship, under the rules it would count only as a practice game. Captain Martin, of the Eckfords, then ordered his men to withdraw from the field, but the Eckford players got together and by a majority vote overrules the Captain’s decision and agreed to play without Chapman. The game then went on with Snyder in the place of Chapman, In fact the contest could not legally have been proceeded with had Chapman taken part in the game in the Eckford nine, as the fact was well known that he had played in a regular match with the Atlantics against the Boston Club, on May 8, and no umpire fit to occupy the position would have allowed him to take the field under such circumstances. All credit to the Eckford players for their repudiation of the captain’s action in the matter. Martin has not gained credit by what he did. New York Sunday Mercury May 21, 1871 [See the same issue for the Eckford justification. Note also references therein to the Atlantics having disbanded.] [See also Philadelphia Sunday Republic 5/21/71 for a similar account of the dispute.] |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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