Clipping:Suppressing telegraph bulletins of games

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Date Saturday, February 27, 1886
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Messrs. Lucas and Von der Ahe have come to an agreement that they will shut down on the system of bulleting down town the score of the games played at the Union and Sportsman’s Park the coming season. The base ball men argue that the practice of posting up the score at convenient down-town stands not only prevents people from being present at the games themselves, but often causes confusion in wrong impressions gaining prevalence that a certain club has won a game when, in fact, it has not. It is doubtful, however, whether both gentlemen will stick to the proposition, as it is argued that any one who takes the trouble to look at a bulletin will see the game whenever he can. St.

Source St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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