Clipping:Criticism of Harry Wright's leadership

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Date Sunday, August 2, 1868
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What, again, our correspondent complained of, was Harry Wright’s ridiculous action on the field, forbidding such players as Waterman, Hatfield and Brainerd to hit at only such balls as he approved. The Athletic felt ashamed to see Americans being bamboozled in their own game, and that by a Britisher. As Wright plays the game, it is English all over, or as far as he can make it so-even to the uniform. ... The Cincinnati Club, if they had any regard for their players, would see to it that the game was not played by one man, no matter how much reliance they may place in his skill, judgment and wisdom. All such nonsense as Wright indulges in about placing the men in position in the field, tends to make them ridiculous in the eyes of other clubs, particularly eastern associations, who know some little about usages, &c. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury August 2, 1868 [see also PSM 6/14/68]

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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