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legislation: «■ - ■ ■ j •The threat that Cincinnati will withdraw from the League In the event of any abridgment of her club’s reveuues from Sunday games or the sale of beer on the grounds at Teague games is calculatedto cause a general smile among club officers andmanagers, who without exception regard Cincinnati as a nuisance in connection with the schedule of games, and would be very glad to be spared tire necessity of ever visiting it to play a game of ball. All the other Clubs in the League keep their grounds solely for the benefitof the League, permitting no games to be played thereon excepting League games. Their aim Is to secure for the League all the base ball pa tronage of their respective communities, to divide with the League the whole of the money paid for base ball. They ailow no liqnor to be sold op tbe grounds, aud pander to no drunkard’sdepraved appetite by putting the temptation of beer before him within ebay reach at ball games. At Cincinnati the Captain of the horns team used to be ordered to slow-up between inulngB so as to allow tbe crowd to drink more beer, the profit on which was an Important source of revenue to tbe Club. Even ’now tbe beeejerktng and the Sunday games are relied on to help the Club out financially, and the present Cincinnati nine are employed very muoh as pretty waiter girls are—to increase tbe consumption and sale of beer afed swell the receipts of the Club.It is degrading, offensive, ruinous, this association of base ball and beer, and the League should Legislate against it with as much severity as It has legislated against everything that tends to bring tbe game into disrepute. Decency requires that this business of running a base ball team as an adjunct to a brewery should be sat down upon by the League.’ -Bimiiar severity should be displayed toward Sunday games on League C!u$ grounds. Such games are a fraud upon visiting clubs, in that they attract to the Sunday piay visitors who . would otherwise go to a Monday game, and surfeit aud cloy tbe appetite of the community for bese ball. The question both of Sufiday games and beer jerking is not one of morals, but of sound business policy. Base ball, outside of Cincinnati, is supported by a class ofpeople by whom these practices are regard eh as an abomination- a class of peoplewhose patronage is of infinitely greater value Indollars and cents, let alone respectability, than that of tbe element to whom beer la an attraction and a necessity. If the Cincinnati Club wants to have Sunday games and convert its grounds into a beer saioon, let it do it outside the League. There are pLonty of cities anxious to take tbe place vacated by Cinolnnatt, whose retirement would be hailed with general satisfaction.On the subject of the continuance of the five-players’agreement a Tribune reporter yesterdayInterviewed President Hulbert, the head of the League and of the Chicago Club. •“Do you think the agreement reserving players will be kept Id force!” was asked.'•I haven’t a doubt of it,” was the emphatio response“But I uotioe some signs of opposition to a renewal of the measure for next year—notably inthe case of the Cincinnati Enquirer, which* re garde the agreement as arbitrary and nnjaat to tbeplayers. . r-**.“That is all stuff and nonsense,” said Mr. IIul-
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Cincinnati Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sun, Aug 29, 1880
Page 2
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Tom P.
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