Clipping:Rumor of hippodroming, the Atlantics duck out of a game
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| Date | Tuesday, October 1, 1867 |
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| Text | Upon the settlement of the difficulties between the Athletic and Atlantic Clubs a few weeks since, an agreement was entered into by the two clubs that, after the playing of the third and deciding game of last year's series, a new series should be commenced, the first game to be played in Philadelphia on the 23d ult., the second on the Atlantic ground on the following Monday, and the third, if one were necessary, also upon the Atlantic ground, on the 7th of October. It was agreed in writing, we understand, that these games should come off upon the dates and at the places specified. The first game was duly played and won by the Athletic Club by the score of 28 to 3, the one sided character of which is only explained by the friends of the Atlantics upon the supposition that in order to secure two games upon their ground and the accruing gate money, they intentionally lost. Last week the Atlantics played three other games in Philadelphia, in the last of which, their catcher, Mills, broke a finger, and is at present unable to handle a ball. AS to play another game without his services might result in the loss of their honorary championship, the Atlantics telegraphed on Friday last that they would be unable to play upon yesterday; but the Athletics conceiving that in consenting to play three out of four games this year upon their adversary's ground they h ad yielded as much as they felt inclined to, responded with a demand that the game should be played, and the intelligence that they themselves would appear ready to play as they had contracted to do. Accordingly, they were upon the ground yesterday, duly equipped. The Atlantics, fearful of defeat in their crippled condition, and feeling themselves uncourteously treated, resorted to an unworthy artifice to save themselves from defeat. They selected nine of their worst players to represent them, and openly avowed that they could play in such a manner that it would be impossible for the game to be finished, by improving every opportunity for delay and refusing to put their opponents out. This scheme had the desired effect. The Athletics considered that to enter upon such a contest would belittle them, and declared that all games between the clubs were off. The facts tell their own story, and we do not care to comment upon them. |
| Source | New York Daily Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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