Clipping:Classes of amateur clubs
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| Date | Wednesday, January 16, 1889 |
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| Text | [correspondence from Chadwick] There are three distinct class of amateur clubs in the metropolis, viz:--first,, the genuine amateurs, who play their games on free grounds and for recreative exercise only; secondly, the class of legitimate amateurs who are attached to the leading athletic clubs of the metropolis, and who not only play on enclosed grounds but who also employ professional players to occupy their 'battery' positions; thirdly, the so-called semi-professional class, who play for gate money and on any grounds they can procure temporarily or otherwise, and who play either on the co-operative plan or for small salaries, according to circumstances. To these may be added the class of commercial nines, formed from the regular clerks of mercantile houses, or any employees of business firms or manufactories, these latter containing semi-professional players to a considerable extent. Each season finds the genuine amateur class more crowded to the wall than before, while the ranks of the gate-m0ney class increase year after year, the semi-professional clubs forming a reserve corps, from which the teams of the minor leagues are recruited. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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