Clipping:A fake team scam
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| Date | Monday, July 9, 1883 |
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| Text | Jack Remsen, of the Ft. Wayne club, is engaged in a very small piece of business. He came down here last Saturday with what purported to be the Ft. Wayne Club, to play the Kentons, in Covington. The game came off, and to everybody’s surprise resulted in the crushing defeat of the visitors. The announcement was then made that believing they had an easy thing of it, the Ft. Waynes had brought their change battery only, but had telegraphed after the game for their regular pitcher and catcher to be here on time of the game yesterday. Luckily the rain prevented a continuance of the fraud. In short, there were but two of the Fort Wayne team in the city Saturday, Remsen and Yot. The rest were a lot of non-descripts picked up by Remsen and brought here merely to get money, none of whom knew the first principles of ball playing. Yet the management of it all had the impudence to go further and publish the game, with the names of the regular Fort Wayne team in the report. The Fort Wayne team–mark you, gentle reader–were in Indianapolis all day Saturday up to 11 o’clock Saturday night, and the Fort Wayne Club got seventy-five dollars guarantee from the Indianapolis club for a game, which the rain prevented. If the game with the Kentons yesterday [Sunday] had come off, it would have been as great a deception on the public as that of Saturday. The Kentons are between the horns of a very bad dilemma. They have either willfully deceived their patrons, or were most woefully imposed upon. If the Kentons can not distinguish between professional players and a lot of rag-tag and bob-tail, they are most verdant indeed. But if they “stood in” with Remsen in this deception upon their patrons, no condemnation of their action can be too strong. We should be most happy to publish any explanation that will let either the Kentons or Mr. Remsen out of this bad box. |
| Source | Cincinnati Commercial Gazette |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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