Clipping:The Syracuse Stars disband; their finances
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| Date | Saturday, September 20, 1879 |
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| Text | Last week we had to comment on the failure of National teams. This week the League falls into line in this respect, much to the disgust of those people who had declared that the disbandment of a League team was something entirely out of the question; but the Syracuse Stars, after fighting hard against bankruptcy, went under on Sept. 10. The Stars have struggled hard for months, with alternate success and failure, under the disabilities of poor field-captaincy, inefficient management, and an inharmonious team. All these drawbacks weighed down their energies and disheartened them in their struggles in the present race. But they bore up well until an opposition attraction in the shape of the rival teams of the State Democratic factions, who selected Syracuse for their series of games for the political championship of New York, came into town, and they succumbed. The disbandment of the Syracuse Stars throws out of the championship record every game except the first six games the Starts played with every other club in the arena. ... The salaries of the nine, it is said, were p aid up to Sept. 15, leaving the directors losers to the amount of $2,500. The Stars had played 70 championship games this season, winning 22 and losing 48. Now, but 42 of these games will be counted, the Bostons and Cincinnatis being the greatest losers by the Stars’ disbandment, each having five victories less to their credit, Providence four, Cleveland three, and Buffalo and Chicago each two. The Cleveland and Providence nines have two. The Cleveland and Providence nines have each two, and the Bostons, Chicagos and Cincinnatis each one defeat less to their record. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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