Clipping:A condemnation of trickery and deception; hidden ball trick
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| Date | Tuesday, August 19, 1884 |
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| Text | The most marked feature of true manliness of character is a love of fair play. It is a jewel in the crown of manhood of the first water, and without it all sports degenerate into low and dishonest struggles to win by trickery, rather than by honorable efforts to excel. A love of fair play, in fact, is inherent in the breast of every man worthy of the name, and all such men detest to see unfair play exhibited on any field whatever, but especially in games where athletic skill is the chief attraction, for in such games it is that fair play shines out at its brightest. Without referring to any other line sports, sufficient examples can be found in the arena of the National game of base ball to illustrate the nature of fair play and its opposite. When two contesting nines enter upon a match game of base ball they do so with the implied understanding that the struggle between them is to be one in which their respective skill in handling the ball and bat and running the bases is alone to be brought into play, unaided by such low trickery as is comprised in the acts of slyly cutting the ball to have it changed, tripping up base runners, wilfully colliding with fielder to make them commit errors, hiding the ball, and other specially mean tricks of the kind characteristic of corner lot loafers in their ball games. All these so-called “points” in base ball are beyond the pale of fair and manly play, and rank only as among the abuses of the game. St., quoting Henry Chadwick, Brooklyn Eagle |
| Source | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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