Clipping:Rough play by the Browns
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| Date | Wednesday, May 11, 1887 |
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| Text | Manager Williams, of Cleveland, expresses the opinion that the rough wok of Comiskey and Welch on the ball field should be suppressed. “What right have they,” says he, “to run against a man and block him off on his way to a base? What right have they more than anyone else to bump right into a man like Welch did recently, knock him down, roll over him and then get away from him? That is not ball playing and it is forbidden by the rules. If I was an umpire I would declare a player out every time he attempts to do anything of that sort.” Comiskey's reply to Manager Williams is that all's fair in war and base ball. He says that anything to win a game, so long as there is no danger of being declared out, should be resorted to, and that if he was allowed to tie a man up by the thumbs to prevent him from reaching a base the man would be tied up. Comiskey says the charge of being a “hoodlum” does not interfere with his sleep, and that so long as he acts like a gentleman off the field he does not care what is said of him while on it. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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