Clipping:A game is thrown
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| Date | Friday, October 27, 1865 |
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| Text | It will be remembered that at the time the Mutual and Eckford Clubs played at Hoboken, the latter winning, that it was rumored, and pretty strongly, too, that the game had been sold. All lovers of our national game were loth to believe such a report, and none more so than the Mutuals themselves. Even the newspaper writers, with one exception, refrained from commenting on the fact until the evidence should become so strong as to brook of no denial. The matter was referred to a committee of the Mutual Club to investigate, consisting of Messrs. Wildey, Burns, Lindsay, Brady and others, and the two first-named gentlemen have been assiduous in their efforts to ferret out the truth of the matter. It was hard to believe that any man, or set of men, could be so base as, for a paltry consideration, to entail infamy upon themselves, and discredit on the game. The Committee set to work in good earnest, wisely keeping secret their deliberations, during the investigation, until the charge should be proven true or false to a certainty, and not until now has the result become known. It has at last been learned that not a single member of the nine was the “seller out,” but three players received money to throw the game. The Committee learned all sorts of facts and fictions before arriving at the truth, and finally amid the cloud of rumor and talk, they found the clear sky of truth. How link after link was found, until the chain of evidence is complete against these men, it would not be proper to divulge. The truth is known, however, beyond possibility of doubt, and “out of their own mouth have they been judged.” The truth is secured from admission on the part of the man who paid the money, giving time, and place, and amount, as well as by one of the parties making a “clean breast of the affair.” The arrangements were that these players were to receive $100, to be divided between them, and half of all the money won. The party making this proposition, claimed that he had won only $200, and had given them half. It is said that won much more, but the price of selling an important game, according to the evidence before the Committee, is $33.33 1/3 cents per man—rather a small price for honor and manhood. Admission by one of the nine was made to the truth of the matter a few evenings since, under the following circumstances: The Committee after seeing the party who laid this scheme, visited a certain saloon in this city, and called out one of the parties accused. They there accused him of the whole matter, which at first he denied. They then told him that one of his “pals” had divulged, also telling how much each received, when the bargain was made, and that the odd dollar of the $100 was spent at the foot of Grand street for supper. So sudden was this avalanche of evidence, that this man then made a confession of the whole affair. The Mutuals intend publishing the entire affair, with resolutions, and after expulsion, they will send the resolutions broadcast through the press, and by mail, to every Base Ball Club in the country. This prompt and judicious action of the Mutuals, deserves praise, and it behooves ever lover of the game to give them their sanction and support. |
| Source | Brooklyn Eagle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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