Clipping:The neighbor keeps the ball
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| Date | Friday, August 11, 1865 |
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| Text | [Actives vs. Athletics 8/10/1865] Here we may say a word about a petty piece of meanness—to call it by no harsher name—which we were made cognizant of yesterday. In the rear of the grounds of the Athletics Professor Wagner, of the Scientific Institute, has his property. One of the balls, in the early part of the game, went over into his lot. He had it seized, and conveyed to his residence, where he retained it. The opinions of those present were thereupon very freely expressed, and we are sure they were in no way complimentary to the Professor. Philadelphia Press August 11, 1865 [Actives vs. Athletics 8/10/1865] Two prominent members of the Athletic were absent through indisposition, and a favorite ball used by the club was lost at an early period of the game and while the scores were nearly equal. It is stated that this circumstance affected the playing of the Athletics. This ball was knocked over the fence that separates the Athletic play ground from the premises of the Wagner Free Institute of Science. The Principal of that Institution secured the ball and resolutely declined to give it up to the owners, a circumstance which created considerable indignation, and which it is stated has been done on a number of similar occasions. Philadelphia Inquirer August 11, 1865 [Actives vs. Athletics 8/10/1865] During the game the ball by accident bounced into a pasture lot belonging to Prof. Wagner, well known as having presented an “institute” to the city, when a policeman picked it up and handed it to the said Wagner, who refused to return it to the club. We should like to know if the said policeman was attending to his duty by being in said pasture lot, or if, by accident, a gentleman's hat had blown over the fence, whether the said officious policeman would have done the same with that as he did with the ball. This might be ended seriously for the Professor had it not been for the members of the Athletic club, who prevented those persons who saw the action from rescuing the ball from him. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch August 13, 1865 |
| Source | Philadelphia Press |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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