Clipping:A dispute with a telegraph company and a spite fence
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| Date | Sunday, July 25, 1880 |
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| Text | An amusing controversy is going on between the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company and the Troy City Base Ball Club. Until yesterday the former, which has several contracts to send the score of each game by innings, was allowed a seat in the reporters' stand, and was paid for all messages sent by the Troy Club. The Directors, having leaned that clubs in other cities were remunerated for admitting an operator, asked the manager of the telegraph company to rank all messages on club affairs. The request was refused, and when the operator reached the ground yesterday the Directors declined to allow him to attach his instrument. The operator was equal to the occasion, and leaving the ground, climbed a pole and tapped the wire. The manager was so pleased with the operator's exploit that a seat is to be rigged on a convenient pole. To prevent a successful issue of the operator's device, the Base Ball Directors have ordered a large canvas, which will be stretched on two poles, and so fixed that it can be moved to any desired point on the ground., quoting the Syracuse Herald |
| Source | Cincinnati Commercial Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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