Clipping:Professionals barred from the YMCA 2
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| Date | Sunday, February 23, 1890 |
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| Text | The Y.M.C.A. says it is is prohibited from admitting professionals to membership, hence its stand in the cases of Denny, Boyle and Rusie. These three players wanted to buy membership tickets in order to get into the gymnasium for a few weeks before the season opens. They were barred out, however. It looks a good deal like straining a point, but the same trouble has arisen at other points. Sunday was refused admission to the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium at Pittsburg on the same ground, though he is known to be in thorough sympathy with the organization. The association says it must draw the line plainly between amateurs and professionals, but it seems as though a relaxation of the rule in certain cases would be advisable. Many of the people who help support the Association, also aid in keeping up the Indianapolis ball club, and it would not be in conflict wit their wishes were the trio of players named above allowed the use of the gymnasium for an hour every morning, when there are few members o n the floor, even if membership tickets could not, under the rules, be sold them. Surely there is nothing in the rules to prevent the free use of the hand-ball court being granted them for a brief time each day during the next two or three weeks. |
| Source | Indianapolis Journal |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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