Clipping:Hints for the organization of club nines
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| Date | Sunday, January 24, 1869 |
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| Text | When engaging professionals, engage them for the entire season, and make your arrangements to pay them a regular weekly salary and not at so much a game, or by giving them a share of the receipts at the gate, the latter being a very unwise plan. Let it be plainly understood that any player becoming intoxicated on the day of a match, or habitually in the habit of drinking liquor, shall forfeit his position on the nine. ... In your treatment of professionals, let them be made to feel that they are members of the club, and not merely hired men. Some club members were in the habit of speaking to their professionals last season as if they were so many slaves. This is poor policy in every respect, and the imperious way in which some men use their brief authority shows their own smallness of mind and low character more than anything else. A really manly Captain never abuses his authority in this way. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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