Clipping:Mullane charged with throwing games; the status of the Cincinnati Enquirer; Mullane's unpopularity
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| Date | Wednesday, June 23, 1886 |
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| Text | The Enquirer this morning [6/18] devotes two columns of its first page to an article charging five players of the Cincinnati Base Ball Club with “throwing” games. The only player against whom direct evidence is offered is “Tony” Mullane, one of the pitchers of the team. … If the above came from any source other than the Cincinnati Enquirer it would perhaps find many believers. As it is, the story is pretty generally received with incredulity and has fallen very flat indeed. The Enquirer has for years hounded the Cincinnati Club under all its changes of management under direct orders from the owner of the sheet, McLean, who is an ousted stockholder of the Cincinnati Club. He has been back of every scheme to injure the club; he was mainly instrumental in having the club dispossessed of its grounds in 1884; he was behind the Cincinnati Union Club, which expected to drive the Association club into bankruptcy and so signally failed, and he was behind the scheme agitated last winter to place a League club in Porkopolis in opposition. This year this warfare has been intensified by the bitter personal hatred McLean entertains for the manager of the Cincinnatis, O. P. Caylor, and by the fact that the latter is also the base-ball editor of the Commercial-Gazette the main rival to the Enquirer. In this war upon the club McLean has been ably assisted by his managing editor, Allen O. Meyers, who also has good cause for hatred, having once been expelled from the grounds for drunken and disorderly conduct. The misfortune of the club this spring has given these worthies a chance to hit the club that they have not bee slow to avail themselves of, and the paper has, ever since the opening of the season, teemed with the must unreasonable and vile abuse and the grossest personalities. Under these circumstances it is altogether likely that Mullane's personal unpopularity and his strangely poor work on the recent rip, together with his rather unsavory record of old as a contract-breaker, have been seized upon by the Enquirer people as a club wherewith to hit the club. When tripped of its plausible features the story looks fishy enough. ... The Sporting Life June 23, 1886 [See TSL 7/7/1886 for his acquittal.] |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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