Clipping:Small attendance at the world series games; results
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| Date | Wednesday, October 28, 1885 |
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| Text | [from the Chicago correspondent] The lads can scarcely refer to it hereafter as a pleasant trip, and it may safely be relied upon that so far as the Chicago Club is concerned there will be no more inter-association games after the close of the championship season. The games amount to nothing financially, as they are recognized as exhibition games and but slimly patronized, especially as the interest in base ball games ends with the championship season. Besides, the players don't exert themselves, hence they are not a fair test of skill; discipline is relaxed after an arduous championship campaign; and last, but not least, the umpire has no control over the clubs, not having the power to enforce authority. The Sporting Life October 28, 1885 This left the record in favor of Chicago by three victories to St. Louis' two. Before Saturday's game, however, it was mutually agreed to throw out the forfeited game, leaving the clubs even at two games each, and that Saturday's game decide the series. Under this agreement the game was played and the result was an easy victory for the American champions. … The Chicago Club is much chagrined at the defeats inflicted by St. Louis, a club they under-rated, and the loss of the “world's championship,” a title which amounts to little, is yet irritating to the white-hosed lads. The Sporting Life November 4, 1885 ...Al Spalding is not a little annoyed at the idea which seems to have gotten abroad that Chicago lost the “championship of the world” to the Browns as the result of the recent series. Through some mistake it was telegraphed over the Associated Press wires, at the conclusion of the last game in Cincinnati, that by mutual consent the disputed game in St. Louis had been declared off... The game in question was never declared off, and the statement that it was so announced at Cincinnati just prior to the game is, according to both Anson and Spalding, false. In speaking upon the subject recently Spalding said to me: “The game was not declared off, and nobody would have had any authority to take such a step the series consequently stands tied, each team having three games...” The Sporting Life November 11, 1885 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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