Niagara Club of Buffalo v Excelsior Club of Rochester on 4 October 1866

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Date of Game Thursday, October 4, 1866
Location Auburn, NY, United States
Home Team Niagara Club of Buffalo
Away Team Excelsior Club of Rochester
Score 26 - 28
Description

Part of the Auburn tournament.

Sources

Evening Courier & Republic, 5 October 1866, page 3

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Comment

The Evening Courier & Republic (October 8, 1866, page 3)has this article on the Auburn tournament:

 

THE BASE BALL TOURNAMENT AT AUBURN.

THE ROCHESTER CLUBS NOT SATISFIED.

The Niagara Base Ball Club of this city, returned home Saturday morning, having in their possession the Silver Ball, which was the second prize of the Tournament; Mr. Atwater having with him a prize bat, won by him as the best pitcher. The ball is on exhibition at Dickinson's jewelry store, No. 200 Main street, although the Rochester people claim that it ought to be on exhibition in that city.

In our statement on Saturday, announcing the withdrawal of the Excelsior and Pacific Clubs of Rochester, from the Tournament, we were unable to assign the reason for such action, but we have the solution of the problem in the following, which appears in the Rochester papers:

At a meeting of the Pacifics and Excelsiors, held Thursday evening, the following resolutions were adopted and ordered forwarded to the Judges:

To the Committee of the Auburn Base Ball Tournament:

GENTLEMEN: At a joint meeting of the Pacific and Excelsior Base Ball Clubs, held at Auburn, Thursday evening, Oct 5th, the following was adopted as the sense of the meeting:

That, by the playing of the clubs, in vanquishing all the opposing clubs with whom they have played, they have become rightfully entitled to the first and second prizes, for the preference of which they stand ready to contest, in accordance with the regulation of the Committee. They, therefore, in view of the announcement that that is not to be the result, would most respectfully present their claim to a fair distribution of both prizes, as the records of the several games show.

It was further resolved that unless the Committee so award these prizes both the clubs go home, conscious of the fact that the Base Ball reputation does not suffer by the lack of the actual possession of the trophies of success. In furtherance of this claim we would question the justice of awarding the individual prizes before the tournament is concluded. We question, also, the justice of awarding a prize to a club who have won but one game in preference to a club who have won, and lost none.

H. C. Daniels, Secretary. F. PORTER, President.

The contest for the gold ball lay between the Pacifics and Excelsiors, but these clubs claimed that whichever won the first prize, the second or silver ball would fall to the other. The decision of the judges was that only in the event of the Excelsiors beating the Pacifics by one tally, and no more, could the silver ball be awarded to the latter; otherwise it must be awarded to the Niagaras. This did not suit the Rochester boys, and they accordingly retired.

Our Rochester cotemporaries are in trouble about this matter, and one of them alleges that their boys complain bitterly of the treatment at the Tournament; and that they received no decent treatment from any of the clubs present except the Knickerbockers of Albany, who are gentlemen."

If the Knickerbockers were the only gentlemen there, we have misunderstood the characters of the men composing the Niagaras of this city-that's all.

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