Clipping:Athletics players sue for salary; Athletic Club ownership, finances
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| Date | Saturday, September 13, 1890 |
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| Text | On Saturday a portion of the players who had consulted another lawyer, pile on the agony by entering a suit against the club. Mesrs. Freeman & Hutt brought the suit for Seward, $377; Robinson, $350, and Shafer $240. It is understood the rest of the players will begin suit at the end of the present week, unless it is plainly apparent that the club will be placed upon its feet again. … A special meeting of the stockholders of the Athletic Club was held in President Pennypacker's office yesterday afternoon to determine whether or not an assessment shall be levied and the clubs indebtedness wiped out or to throw up the sponge and quit. The following stockholders were present at the meeting:-- H.C. Pennypacker, W. H. Whitaker, George S. Horn, Thomas A. Mink, b. F. Shibe, G. M. Taylor, Richard J. Lennon, H. S. Locheim and Thomas S. Mitchell. Messrs. Sharsig, Snellenburg, Wilson and Toy were the absentees. After the meeting Mr. Whitaker said no definite action had been taken and that another meeting would be held next Monday. The club owes its players $2650, and in addition to the bonded debt of $9000, which does not mature until 1893, there is an outstanding indebtedness of $16,500. With the exception of the salaries due the players, which must be paid on Wednesday next, the expiration of their ten days' notice, none of the debts are pressing. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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