Clipping:Advice for touring clubs
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| Date | Thursday, August 15, 1867 |
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| Text | ...the plan laid out for this trip by Colonel Frank Jones, the President of the National Club, a plan which prohibited all entertainments by the clubs they visited, with the exception of a slight lunch at the club-rooms at the close of the game, such as the Columbus, Cincinnati and Louisville clubs had. But all suppers were tabooed out and out, and also no club was permitted to pay a dollar of the hotel expenses, although the Cincinnati and St. Louis Clubs wished to do so, and all the others would have done it had they been permitted, all being full of that hospitality which is so characteristic of the West. Of course the absence of the expensive suppers, with their accompanying temptations to dissipation, saved the Nationals from the loss of some of the games, for late hours and intemperance in eating and drinking, consequent upon these entertainments, entirely upset a man for ball play, the game as played now-a-days requiring a man to have all his wits about him to save defeat. A clear head and eye-sight, steady nerves, equable temper and good judgment are required to excel in base ball as it is now played by our first-class nines. |
| Source | Ball Players Chronicle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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