Clipping:A proposal to restrict what clubs can enter the championship
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| Date | Saturday, January 22, 1876 |
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| Text | In regard to the contestant who are to be allowed to enter the lists in 1876 to compete for the pennant, we have a few words to say, which, we trust, will meet with due consideration at the hands of the Convention. In the first place, we are entirely opposed to the entrance of any co-operative organization as a contestant for the emblem of the Centennial year of 1876. The clubs contesting in championship games should be regular stock-company organizations, and clubs whose standing and financial condition are such as to insure their going through the season without disbanding, and able to fulfill their obligations in playing return-matches from May to November. It is neither fair nor right, in any sense of the word, that one club should incur the expenses of a visit to the West to play games with a Western club, and share profits with them in games there played, and not have return visits paid them in due turn. … The only way to stop this is to exclude from the list of entries all organizations not likely to be able to carry out their part of the season's programme, as is the case with all co-operative organizations. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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