Clipping:An umpire and a manager talk of selling games
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| Date | Thursday, August 2, 1877 |
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| Text | The Associated Press telegram which will be found below, in relation to Mr. George McManus, the popular Manager of the St. Louis Brown Stockings, may cause surprise elsewhere, until it is explained, but will only produce laughter in this city, where a put-up job of some such character has been anticipated ever since Mac succeeded in engaging Devlin and Snyder to play here next year. Threats have been made in an underhand way that the Lousiville folks would endeavor to get even, but just how they intended to go about it could only be conjectured, until the telegram alluded to was placed on the wires, when the plot “gave itself away,” as it were, the moment it reached here. No one in this community will look upon this charge of bribery in any other light than that of a joke. Should Mac fail to see it in the same light, he will doubtless make it hot for Mr. Devinney and the newspaper men who have allowed themselves to publish such an infamous charge without more proof than the assertion or affidavit of a man who, as an umpire, has a very bad reputation throughout the country–the Chicago Tribune and New York Mercury, among other prominent base ball journals, classing him as the tenth man of the Louisville team. St. Louis Globe-Democrat August 2, 1877 [See also SLGD 8/5/1877 for an interview originally from the Indianapolis Sentinel in which McManus claims that Devinney offered to throw the game to St. Louis.] [an ongoing dispute, from at least CT 8/5/77 et seq., between manager McManus of St. Louis and Louisville umpire Devinney over alleged discussions to sell games] ...a reporter of The Tribune has been reading the affidavits of McManus and Devinney side by side. They agree on one thing which is not creditable to either party,–that the first thing the two did after getting together was to go off into a private room and talk about selling the games which were coming off. To be sure, they disagree as to what was said, but they agree in allowing that they began bantering each other about selling out. Whether this is exactly the right thing for a manager and an umpire to do on the eve of a game may well be doubted. Chicago Tribune August 12, 1877 |
| Source | St. Louis Globe-Democrat |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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