Clipping:UA allegedly recruiting players under contract
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| Date | Sunday, January 6, 1884 |
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| Text | When the Union association was started its originators announced, with a considerable flourish of trumpets, that it should wage an unceasing war upon the reserve rule, but that it should strictly recognize all existing contracts between clubs and players. The mask has, however, been thrown off, and hereafter all pretenses of honesty and fair-dealing made by that organization will go for naught. Among the players signed by the Cincinnati association club for next season was Mountjoy. That player has informed the manager of his club, first by telegraph and then by letter, that he has been offered $2300 by the Cincinnati Union club, if he would break his contract with the old club. Deagle, another Cincinnati association club player, has also been approached by parties representing the Union club of that city and efforts made to have him break his existing contract. These instances are sufficient to show that the Union association means to ruin the good name of professional base ball, and, as far as it can, to sow discord and corruption in every one of the old organizations. |
| Source | Boston Herald |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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