Clipping:A reprise in miniature of the Wiman case
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| Date | Saturday, June 14, 1890 |
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| Text | [Galesburg tries to join the Illinois-Iowa League] The officials of the latter League were only too glad to get such a club and endeavored to get the Sterling (Ill.) club to withdraw. The latter was not willing to step out for the ridiculously low price offered by Galesburg, whereupon the League directors held a special meeting at Monmouth, Ill, without any notice to the Sterling Club, and voted Sterling out and Galesburg in and adopted a new schedule. The ground on which this summary action was taken was Sterling's alleged failure to put up the guarantee bond or pay legal assessments. Sterling, however, was equal to the emergency. An agent of the League who came to Sterling to select some of the Sterling team for the Galesburgs was promptly sent about his business and on the following day legal proceedings began before Judge Crabtree, of the Whiteside County Circuit court. The club recited the facts of the case and showed that it put up its bond April 11 and had receipts for the League dues up to June 25. Judge Crabtree therefore issued an injunction restraining the Illinois-Iowa League from interfering with or ousting the Sterling Club and notice was at once served upon the League officials. The latter held another meeting at Galesburg on the 6th inst. After a full consideration of the situation the League came to the conclusion that Sterling's position was impregnable and that it was best to make no legal opposition to the injunction. The Sterling Club was then notified that the League clubs would play at Sterling according to the original schedule if Sterling would discontinue the legal proceedings, to which Sterling gladly agreed. This seems to have ended the battle, with Sterling victorious and happy in the knowledge that individual clubs have some rights which fellow clubs must respect. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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