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| Date | Sunday, September 10, 1871 |
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| Text | [a circular to member clubs:] The time appointed for the meeting being close at hand, it is deemed advisable to address you in reference to the importance of our annual Convention and the merits and present status of our Association. During the past year the claim has been made and sedulously fostered by a few of the members of the fraternity having access to the columns of our city press that the professional clubs and interest have controlled our organization; and, in furtherance of private interests, an attempt was made last spring to form a new organization, professedly amateur in its character, with a view of controlling the game in this country. The claim, or rather complaint, of professional control made is not only untrue, but, from the small proportion which the professional clubs bear to the amateurs, is impossible if the amateurs take a proper interest in the game. The system of individual representation which the Brooklyn meeting adopted is impracticable by reason of distance and expense, unless the use of proxies is allowed, and their dangerous and subversive character was fully demonstrated at the last Convention under the old constitution—Philadelphia, in 1867—when the present legislated machinery of State and National Associations, &c., was adopted. Out of the eighty-five clubs belonging to our State Association not more than six have withdrawn. Our present organization is national in every sense, affording the best and most equitable means of regulating our national pastime; furnishing certain and thoroughly recognized laws for the government; and the creation of rival organizations is not only needless, but can only result in discord and confusion. Our next annual State Convention will be held in this city on the second Thursday (14th) of September next, at Tammany Hall, when every one of the club belonging to it should answer to the roll call. If any club be unable to send delegates it should be represented by letter, addressed to the Secretary, to whom should also be remitted the annual due, $5. The penalty for failure to do so is expulsion, and the National Constitution forbids association clubs from playing match games with any but members. The Secretary will receive he credentials of delegates, at Tammany Hall, on the mo rning of the day of the meeting. Very respectfully yours, E.B. BARNUM, President. M.J. KELLY, Secretary. |
| Source | New York Herald |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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