Clipping:The difficulty of proving thrown games
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| Date | Sunday, August 23, 1874 |
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| Text | The trouble is that the club managers lack the pluck to face the music in this dirty business. They must know that one or two of their players are open to suspicion of unfair play, and yet they keep them in their employ, waiting, as they allege, for proof. The mischief of it is that actual proof is difficult to get. There is plenty of circumstantial evidence to be had, but since the Mutual and Eckford frauds of 1864 no proof has been at command, and not then would it have been had, but for the manly confession of the one least guilty in the fraud committed. The worst scoundrels are the fellows who tempt the players. We are glad to see that the public are gradually taking the matter into their own hands in this vicinity. The Mutual and Philadelphia nines have recently drawn but hundreds to their matches, when in the first part of the season they attracted thousands. Make the managers of clubs feel through their pockets that it won’t pay to have suspected or unreliable men in their employ, and the players who yield to the temptations to fraud now offered them will also find that it pays best to be honest. New York Sunday Mercury August 23, 1874 interracial play [Mutual of Washington, D.C. vs. Americus of Philadelphia 8/22/1874] These clubs played at Twenty-fifth and Jefferson yesterday. The Mutuals (colored) are the champions of the South–but, they were badly beaten (27 to 9) by the Americus (white,) amateurs of this city. ... To-morrow they will play at the same place, the Williams club–the leading Colored club of this city, and a very gentlemanly organization. The Williams boys expect to win. Philadelphia All-Day City Item August 23, 1874 [The Mutuals won 23-22 per Item 8/25/1874.] |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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