Clipping:The amateur Staten Island Club
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| Date | Sunday, July 27, 1873 |
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| Text | ...the Staten Island Club, on their prettily located field near the ferry landing at Quarantine...participate every week in amateur contests with their brethren of the metropolis and vicinity. This new club, by the way, already numbers nearly two hundred members, and socially it ranks with the highest club in the country. Of late, too, they have materially strengthened their baseball nine with accessions from the ranks of noted amateur ball-tossers of Brookly, among whom may be named that amiable youth Worth, the modest Dollard, the reticent Clyne, and the old champion “pitchist,” Joe Sprague. These, with other amateur experts, have so strengthened the Island team that they have recently been able to “get away with” such nines as the Knickerbocker, Arlington, etc., in a way that rather astonished the city nines, and they do not propose to allow any more “Olympic games” to be played on them. New York Sunday Mercury July 27, 1873 umpire abuse in Philadelphia; the umpire runs to third to better see the play [Baltimore vs. Athletic 7/21/1873] In the Quaker City, the Baltimore nine met the Athletics, and after an exciting contest requiring thirteen innings to settle the question of victory the Baltimores won by one run. The umpire [Michael Hooper of the Maryland Club] made an adverse decision against the local nine, and in consequence came in for gross abuse at the hands of the gambling crowd, who had bet high on the Athletics. The result was that another umpire has vowed that he will never act in Philadelphia again. As Swandell, Burdock, Hooper, and Ferguson have arrived at the same conclusion, the Philadelphians will soon be unable to get any square man to serve them. New York Sunday Mercury July 27, 1873 [Baltimore vs. Athletic 7/21/1873] McMullin came from second to home, and McGeary, went for third, but was put out. McMullin had been in several seconds before McGeary, but the umpire, upon being appealed to by the Baltimore, decided his run did not count. Clapp and Murnan having been the first two out and McMullin the third. The amazement of the crowd at the decision which was so glaringly erroneous as to be ludicrous, can scarcely be imagined. It speedily took the shape of indignation, and had there been the slightest suspicion that it was intentional there would have been serious trouble. Each one has his version to give, and ours is that McMullin had crossed the home plate and turned, and was looking back at the play of McGeary, who did well, and troubled his opponents to touch him. The umpire had run down toward third to watch the play, and, therefore, says that McMullin did not get in. Now, had he said he did not see him get in it would have beendifferent, buthe is in the bad position of declaring that he saw McMullin ten feet from the home plate, and running in when McGeary was put out. Philadelphia Sunday Republic July 27, 1873 |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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