Clipping:An experimental game with no coaching
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| Date | Wednesday, June 15, 1887 |
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| Text | [Philadelphia vs. Boston 6/10/1887] [from the Boston correspondent's column] Harry Wright is a great hand for trying new notions and he wanted to play one of his games here this week with no coaching. Manager Morrill and Captain Kelly were willing to see how the thing would work, and so this afternoon's game was played without a bit of coaching, save when a man would forget himself for an instant, and shriek out something from the bench. It was a real nice, quiet, easygoing game, but there was just the element lacking which brightens up the play. It isn't natural for a ball player to sit quietly on the bench and hold Quaker meeting. In a ball game we want every point of the game played, and you don't get them all without some coaching. I am not making a plea for such childish prattle as Shock and Kreig, of the Washingtons, keep up, but legitimate, honest coaching, such as Kelly Morrill and Burdock do for Boston; Anson, Pfeffer and Williamson for Chicago and so on. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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