Clipping:The organizing of the Quaker City club
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| Date | Sunday, February 24, 1867 |
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| Text | We noticed in our last that a party of experienced and first-class ball players were about organizing a new club, which will be made up of picked men, as follows:–Kleinfelder, of the Athletic; Pratt, of the Atlantic; Shane, Brown, Wallace, Weaver and Cuthbert, of the Keystone; Malone, of the Diamond State, of Wilmington, Delaware, and perhaps one from the Camden club. We were disposed to favor the organization of such a club, on the principle that “competition is the life of trade;’ but we understand that the great “D.B.” is to be the controlling spirit of the club, which fact is enough to, and will, damn any organization, political, social or otherwise, and we therefore wipe our hands of the whole affair. The Dead Beat, we learn, also, is running around and exerting himself to get players by promising them situations in the Post Office, and that one player was promised a certain sum of money, to be left for him at a certain place, if he would pass his word to play with the “new club.” Should the new organization elect as their presiding officer some respectable man, we shall give it al the aid we can in accordance with their deserts. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury February 24, 1867 This new organization, which has lately given rise to a great deal of gossip, held a meeting on Wednesday evening last, at the Humane Engine house, and a spirit of evinced, determining that the Quaker City should be in all respects a first-class, a No. 1 club. There was but one drawback in the formation of this club, which would probably have impeded its prosperity and growth, but as we learn the club is still inchoate, there is a hope that some live man may be chosen its chief executive. Tommy Pratt’s experience and reputation as a ball player guarantees that if the thing is possible the club will be an honor to our city. We have heard it said that Tommy will be off to Brooklyn ere the season is fairly opened. If any one feels disposed to make a wager on this contingency, they can be accommodated. Pratt is determined to play no longer with other than a Philadelphia club. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury March 10, 1867 |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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