Clipping:Claims of first nine players in a second nine match
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| Date | Sunday, October 3, 1858 |
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| Text | [Empire vs. Baltic, second nines, 9/27/1858, Baltics winning 40-27] The above result, which was quite different from general expectation, gave rise to a report that the Baltic club had smuggled several of their first nine players in the match, and thus had an undue advantage. This, we understand, is not the case. The report likely arose from the fact that several of the second nine of the Baltic have, in consequence of the absence of the regular first nine, been compelled to play on occasions when the first nine were engaged. New York Sunday Mercury October 3, 1858 The paragraph which we published last week, in reference to the first nine of the Baltic Club, for the purpose of throwing some light upon a subject to many involved in considerable darkness, has elicited the following communication: NEW YORK, Oct. 4th, 1858 To the Editors of the Sunday Mercury: In your edition of yesterday, you publish a denial of the charge against the Baltic Club, of having smuggled first-nine men into their second-nine match with the Empires. Now, although the denial had the appearance of being official, I should like you to compare your report of the above match with one a little lower down in the same column, where you will find six of the same names in a first-nine match with the Mutuals. I do not know how the Baltics manage this thing, but I can tell you how some other clubs do it. The modus operandi is simply this: The club makes out a list of what they call their first nine. It contains names of men who will not, and are not expected to play. When they come to a match they put in substitutes, and so gain a decided advantage. They are enabled to play real first-nine men in their second-nine matchs; and beside this, when their first nine is beaten, they claim to have been short. Now, sir. I am an old ball players, and take a great deal of interest in the game, and should like to see all such sharp practising done away with. Will you assist me in the endeavor, by publishing these lines, and by using your own pen to like purpose? Yours, respectfully, FAIR PLAY New York Sunday Mercury October 10, 1858 [See NYSM 10/17/1858 for Baltic’s indignant response, including the argument that it takes one to know one.] |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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