Clipping:Jones returned to Cincinnati
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| Date | Sunday, July 1, 1877 |
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| Text | [following verbatim reprints of letters between the Cincinnati and Hulbert, and after Jones played a game for Chicago establishing the principle of the thing] Carrying out the idea of doing what he could for the new club, President Hulbert yesterday released Jones from his contract, and the latter left at once for Cincinnati, where he probably arrived this morning. If it be true, as claimed by the cincinnati people, that they could not have gone on without Jones, and that with him they are all right, then they have much success before them, for they have Jones by this time. Chicago Tribune July 1, 1877 how crooked umpires affect the game; complaint about balls and strikes The creatures created by the League to adjudicate on disputed playing points between clubs–those at least with whom the Browns came in contact on their recent trip–were very carful not to offend the public by erroneous decisions on the bases, as by so doing their real intentions would have been too plainly manifested. ... The way in which a dishonest umpire effects his purpose can be described in a very few words. The Chicago and St. Louis Clubs are the contestants, and the former is “booked to win” in the pool-rooms. Nicholls and Bradley do the pitching. The umpire compels the former to pitch the ball exactly where the batsman demands it. The latter can strike or not, as he sees fit. If he chooses to wait he will be sent to first on called balls. When the Browns come to the bat the reverse is the case. Bradley can pitch the ball close in to the striker, or out of his reach, and never over the plate, knowing that the batsman must slash away at bad balls or be called out on strikes. Is it any wonder, then, that under these circumstances the favored team make all the base hits and their opponents none? When the game is ended and umbrage is taken at the umpiring, the argument advanced by those who stand in with the swindle is that the defeated nine lost by poor batting, willfully forgetting that the failure to wield the ash was due to the umpire’s rascality, and not from any inability to do so. The programme detailed above was carried out so thoroughly on the recent trip of the St. Louis Club as to disgust those who had previously been enthusiastic admirers of the national game. A little more of the same kind of work, and base ball will be ranked with prize fighting as a sport of the past. St. Louis Globe-Democrat July 1, 1877 |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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