Clipping:Shaming the deserters
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| Date | Wednesday, April 2, 1890 |
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| Text | [from Tim Murnane's column] The train with the Boston men on held up when they got to Wilmington to wait for the way train and take the car containing the Phillies on as far as Petersburg. As the way train came rolling into the depot and it was given out that the Philadelphia League team was on board and would get off for dinner, it was suggested that all the men get in line where the passengers would have to pass within a few feet. Harry Stovey came out of the car in the middle of a shave and carried a razor. Dan Brouthers said he would not miss seeing Sam Thompson for a farm. “Let us hiss them,” suggested one of the boys. “Not for a thousand dollars,” sang out Mike Kelly. “Every one a gentleman,” said Billy Nash. “Look into their very souls and see them flinch,” was Jim O'Rourke's advice. “Here they come.” Sure enough, with big Sam Thompson in the lead. As he caught sight of the Boston men his cheeks turned crimson and his chin went up. He looked over the heads of the men in line, after first looking for recognition and finding nothing but a cold stare. Myers passed, but never turned his head or lifted his eyes from the platform. The color seemed to leave his face and his step was uncertain. The young players of the party looked bewildered, but the Boston men had only eyes for the deserters, as they said, and paid no attention to the inoffensive players. Clements came along with his head bobbing up and down and his face turned in the opposite direction. Schriver was an object of pity; his face changed color, and he went by with bowed head. Gleason came last, looking straight at the Boston men and a smile on his face, but the cold stare he got in return made the smile look like a ghastly bluff, and he turned color. Not one of the deserters looked back. Harry Wright and his wife came along soon after and was cordially greeted by all his old acquaintances, who had a pleasant word for the old veteran. After that the Boston men paid no more attention to the men who had sold their honor. Several of the young players of the Phillies came back and had a pleasant talk with the Boston men, and were assured that there was nothing but the kindest feeling entertained for them. This seemed to please the boys, and they were not backward in expressing their good will for the Players' League. From what I saw I am sure that the young men now going into the League ranks will soon detest the players who sold out their fellow players just as much as the regular Brotherhood men do now. The Sporting Life April 2, 1890 After a ten-minutes’ lunch the Phillies marched back, the Brotherhood men turning their backs as the deserters went by. This caused the crimson to rush to the cheeks of the ladies of the party. Phenomenal Smith, Burke, Allen and some others of the young players of the Quaker team mingled in with the Brotherhood men, saying they hoped they were not looked on as against the Players’ League. Hardie Richardson, Nash, Kelly, O’Rourke and some others assured the boys that it was the men who sold them out that they were down on, and not on the young men who were doing perfectly right in signing wherever they could do the best. The Evening Item Philadelphia March 24, 1890 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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