Clipping:A question of college eligibility
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| Date | Saturday, May 31, 1879 |
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| Text | There is trouble in the college baseball camp, and it all grows out of the fact that Ernst and Tyng are the most effective battery ever presented in the field by a college club. There being no special college authority or regular baseball association of the college clubs to give “official utterances” on occasions when disputes occur in the championship arena, it follows that the clubs do pretty much as they like in putting in players. Both Ernst and Tyng are collegians who have practically retired from college work, and thereby are supposed to be inelgible to enter the lists as players in the championship matches. The editor of The College Chronicle says: “The point involved is this: that though the return to the nine of Mr. Ernst, who has since graduation been in good faith a member of the Harvard Medical School, may be merely a matter of taste, the return of Mr. Tyng to the Harvard Law School, in order thereby to obtain a technical right to play on the nine, is in effect a breach of intercollegiate comity. ... |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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