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| Date | Thursday, September 11, 1879 |
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| Text | President Hulbert signed a contract with the mangers of the bush street Theater, San Francisco, to send the White stocking team on amonth's trip to California, leaving here [Chicago] October 3d and playing games on the way at Omaha, Dubuque, Denver and Salt Lake. Cincinnati Enquirer September 11, 1879 The Cincinnati Club will, in about three weeks, set their faces toward the Occident and start for California. It will not be the present Club which is going, but the members of the Cincinnati Club reorganized. … Manager Bob Miles, of the Grand Opera-house, is one of the parties who is engineering the scheme. He has closed the contract with the Cincinnati Club, and is now endeavoring to secure the Providence Club...to go with the Cincinnatis. Just how long Miles' contract lasts is not known, but our reporter was informed some time ago that it was the intention of the Cincinnati management to play the team on the Pacific slope all winter, and return in time only for the opening of the League season next year. For this reason the team which goes to California has been carefully selected, with the understanding that the team will be retained as a whole for the League race of 1880. Cincinnati Enquirer September 16, 1879 The Providence team yesterday “went back” on Bob Miles and signed with Jack Haverly for a trip to California, this winter. A day or two ago George Wright, by telegraph, promised Miles that if his Club should win the championship he would engage with Miles to go with it to California in company with the Cincinnati team. Yesterday Mr. Miles received a dispatch from his Boston agent, stating that the Providence management refused to sign the contract unless the money, $1,700, was deposited. Mr. Miles immediately deposited that amount in bank here, and notified the agent accordingly. Last evening his agent telegraphed back that the Providence management had gone back on their word, and had signed with Jack Haverly for $2,000 and a condition that they should be required to play no games on Sunday. Our reporter had a talk with Manager Miles at the Grand last evening, and there was blood in his eye. … He has the bulge on Haverly & Co. from the fact that he has secured the exclusive use of the San Francisco grounds for five weeks, from the 10th of October to the 15th of November. If the Chicago and Providence teams expect to play any6 games before November 15th, they will have to play them outside of San Francisco or open new grounds. Cincinnati Enquirer September 24, 1879 Secretary A. G. Spalding, of the Chicago Club telegraphs to this city that the Chicagos will not go to California. The contemplated trip was tripped up by Bob Miles, who secured the exclusive use of the San Francisco Grounds for five weeks. The Providence team will stay at home for the same reason. The Cincinnatis and companion team will enjoy the California monopoly. Cincinnati Enquirer September 28, 1879 The Cincinnati Commercial of Sunday contained a paragraph to the effect that Secretary Spalding, of the Chicago Club, had telegraphed President Neff, of the Cincinnatis, stating that the White Stockings were not going to California, because Miles, a Cincinnati theatre manager, had leased the San Francisco grounds. Inquiry of Mr. Spalding yesterday developed the fact that no such telegram had been sent, and that the White Stockings will leave for California at the close of the present week, playing one or more games in this city before their departure. Mr. Kelly, who arrived from San Francisco last Saturday, and who will manage the nine during the trip, says that the story relative to the hiring of the San Francisco grounds by Miles is without foundation. He (Kelly) has secured the grounds, and also those at Oakland. Chicago Tribune September 30, 1879 The few remarks dropped in this column Thursday were not meant to cast any reflections of unfairness on Manager Miles' part in his negotiations for taking the Cincinnati team to California. Every body knows “Bob” to be as square a man (figuratively speaking) as lives. His only trouble with the California scheme was that he could not find out what it was he was negotiating for. He first wanted to take the Cincinnati Club as it existed during the season; but Jim White and Gerhardt wouldn't go. Then it was proposed to engage the team for next season, and take it out to the Slope. But nobody seems to know when that team is to be engaged. Next it was proposed to “fake” a team for the occasion. If any body can get a ball Club to California that man is Miles. He has already spent about $700 in the enterprise, and thinks he'll succeed at last. Cincinnati Enquirer October 4, 1879 [see Cincinnati Enquirer November 16, 1879 for financial results] |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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