Clipping:Sunday baseball outlawed in Cincinnati
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| Date | Wednesday, August 21, 1889 |
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| Text | [from Ren Mulford's column] The superintendent of police having notified theatrical and base ball managers that Sunday performances and base ball games will not hereafter be permitted, Manager Stern to-day called on Mayor Mosby to ask permission to play the remaining four games that are scheduled here for Sundays. The Mayor made a positive refusal, and told him that a real, bona fide arrest of managers and players would be made on the sport if games were attempted. The club has four more Sunday games to play, and has arranged to play Sunday's scheduled game with the Columbus team, on the grounds in Ludlow, In Kentucky, on the line of the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway. The stands will not hold more than 1000 people, and the grounds can only be reached by train. Three specials will be run over the road that day. The grounds are a pretty poor apology for the present park. New stands may be built, but that is a question for adjustment later on. The Sporting Life August 21, 1889 [from Ren Mulford's column] The suppression of Sunday ball, while feared, was rather unexpected, and it was the result of a demand that the Owen law be enforced without favor. One of its provisions brings Sunday theatricals and base ball on the same ground with the Sunday saloon. Theatricals and the saloons were abated, but base ball continued to be played, and the only disagreeable feature was the regular Sunday night arrest of Manager Scnmelz and his Monday morning appearance in the police court. A double-leaded “defi” that Heuck's intended to ignore the Sunday law is generally charged as being responsible for the screws which the Mayor has put on both the theatres and base ball. It has been years since these sleeping laws have been enforced in this erstwhile “wide-open” city, and under the new regime Cincinnati joins New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Baltimore, and other cities—quite as prosperous—in reserving the first day of the week for rest, without accompanying fire works, beer and other etceteras of an amusement line. If Cincinnati—no one doubts its ability to shine in such society—is debarred from wearing a League crown, then it is absolutely certain that new grounds will be opened for Sunday games in Kentucky. Cincinnati, with League ball and advanced prices, can live without Sunday games and make just as much money as the Association team does now. The Sporting Life August 28, 1889 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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