Clipping:Bootleg game reports by telegraph companies

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Date	Wednesday, June 1, 1887
Text	Very few people understood yesterday why a stretch of awning had been run across the front of the [Cincinnati] ball park, cutting off a view of the diamond that had been obtained from the third story of a building on an adjacent corner. The Western Union folks have the contract for sending away the score by innings from the grounds, and the Baltimore and Ohio folks stole a march on them and got the same information by peeping over the fence from a room next to the roof of the building mentioned. A wire was run in the apartment rented and the Western Union folks were thus outwitted. It took them some time to discover the game, and the awning was brought into use to block it. The Baltimore and Ohio people, not to be outwitted, now send a messenger boy into the park, and after each inning he drops the result to another boy on the other side of the fence, and the operator gets the information a couple of moments later.
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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