Clipping:Professionals and amateurs
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| Date | Saturday, January 29, 1870 |
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| Text | Prior to 1869 it had become apparent that amateur players had been year by year gradually losing interest in their clubs, and almost in the game itself. The reason of this was that the palm of superiority had for some years been monopolized by clubs employing players who were compensated either by pay or office for their services in the field, but who claimed to stand on the same footing as amateur players, as that enjoyed by the legitimate amateur clubs. The result was an ostensible equality of position as players, but in reality quite the reverse: for the clubs having professionals had time to devote to practice and training, whereas the really amateur clubs had not; hence, though they entered the arena as equals, the one party were practiced and the other were not. Under this condition of things it was not to be wondered at that the effect of the continued defeats sustained by amateur clubs in their contests with professionals should be demoralizing, of that amateur players should lose interest in the game. |
| Source | National Chronicle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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