Clipping:No entertainment planned for the upcoming convention
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| Date | Saturday, December 7, 1867 |
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| Text | The annual session of the association will be held in Philadelphia Dec. 11. At the last meeting, Col. Moore, Hicks Hayhurst, and the other Philadelphia delegates, made promises of what the clubs of that city would do in case the association would meet there. A dinner at the Continental and other civilities were mentioned as likely to result from this compliance with their desires. The matter was pretty well managed by the colonel and his brother delegates, and they finally got what they asked for. The time for the meeting is drawing nigh, and we have yet to hear the first note of preparation for the event. The New York clubs failed to provide a suitable reception for out of town delegates last season, but we look for better things from Philadelphia. New York Clipper December 7, 1867 An effort is on foot, we learn, to provide an entertainment of some kind for the delegates to the Ball Convention, which meets this week. The Typographical Base Ball Club long since asked the co-operation of the fraternity in arranging something of the kind, but unsuccessfully, the Commonwealth Club alone responding to the invitation. The interest in base ball and the Convention in this vicinity is about as flat as it is possible to conceive after so brilliant a season. The Convention, we fear, will find its occupation gone if Chadwick, the great American ball player, be permitted to introduce a few more rules such as it is now difficult to interpret. Several of the papers published in other cities intimate that the approaching National Convention was induced to hold its session in this city through the promises made the last Convention by prominent Philadelphians, that in case the Convention assembled in Philadelphia there would be a big feed and a good time generally. The papers in question express disappointment over the blank prospect. We wish, ourselves, it had been otherwise, though not that we regret that the gourmands of the body conclave will be disappointed. We like to see our city extend hospitality to visitors and endeavor to make them feel at home while with us. But so far as the approaching Convention is concerned, the matter had been interrupted through the selfishness of the Gotham delegates and players who, whenever our city or its clubs’ interests were concerned, have been subjected to all manner of trifling and insults. The entertainment business is well enough in its way, but the Yorkers, over their disappointment at the loss of a spree, are citing that Col. So-and-So and Mr. Somebody else promised that if the Convention would meet here, so and so would be done. These gentlemen, in the fulness of their hearts, probably did promise something of the kind. But they are not responsible for the want of interest everywhere felt in ball circles. They cannot create an interest that others have already destroyed. That would be an impossibility. The lethargy felt in ball matters, in this city, is solely chargeable to a few individuals who pretend to hold the reins, and who are at present busily engaged in undermining what it took years to erect. The parties to whom we allude do not reside in this city. Where they belong, it would be hard to determine. The Keystone Club, of this city, proverbial for its hospitality, was permitted, by the Atlantic Club, on a recent visit to New York, to gad about unattended, hunting up their own amusements, and providing their own entertainment. This, however, is the Atlantic’s method of doing the largest amount of good. The Keystone boys have, in the past, spent their last dollar upon the Atlantics, but such is the game at p resent. So sunk is it in selfishness, that the Atlantics would permit what we have related. We are glad, then, that there will be no merry-making. Let the lines be drawn tighter, if possible. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury December 8, 1867 |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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