Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1866-07-19
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BY virtue of this game and of your declining
further to contest the championship. we here
by declare the Diamond State to BIS the cham
pion club of Delaware. As such we invite
challenges from any club of this State, and we
shall extend 10 any club that visits us IS
guests the courttsies tt ct are due from gent'e-
men TO gentlemen. We now say to you and
to the public, that these courteses wers not
| extended to us at Delaware City, but that the
most offensive and rude language and con-
duct were INDUCED in towards our club and
the ladies and gentlemen of our city who wit
messed the game beth by me nbers OF your club
| and by spectators; and We consider the at
tempts openly and Extensively made and per-
| sisted in TO defame two of our members aud
the subsequent efforts through the public press
to injule tho standing and character CT Nj.
Malone, who is a resident of our city, engaged
in a permanent business, as unworthy OF
club like yours and as an injustice which you
are bound in honor to repair. The bali won
from your club Ia now Oh exhibition at the
store OF Mr.. Malone. on King street, below 7th,
and lie the champion bali II shall b9 surrea~
dered wheE won by any club of this State.
We desire further to say that we are inform
ed that in the match game with the Excelsior
Club of clifford, for the championship of the
State, your club played gentleman on your
nine who was at the time a member of
a Massachusetts club. If this be true, you
arc not only estopped to make this obj,cton
against US, but are placed in the ridiculous
position OF seeking escape from defeat by
charging a violation of rules, of which you
have been guilty.
Having given you every opportunity by pri-
vAte communication heretofore to withdraw
from your unpleasant position of unjustly and
groundlessly attacking US through tho public
jou rnsls, we shall publish this as a final re-
ply to all the allegations made By you aud as
u complete Tindication of our club. Very re.
specially, yours, DANIEL W. TAYLOR,
Sec'y D. s. B. B. @.
Ny DEAR SiR-In answer to your pointed
inquiries beg leave to state that have not
considered Mr.. F. Malone member of the
Athletic Club for more than a year. He left
us early last spring, and Joined the Keystones,
playing with that organization during tho
whole of 1865. Since then he has played only
an occasional practice game with the Atblet-
les, and, SO far as know, he is not regarded
as member. The Athletics had no intention
never contemplated playing him on their
nine this season, but he could apd would have
obtained good position on a superior nine ia
Philadelphia 10 not think any club can /,
with reason, objact to Malone as an opponent.
Respectfully, THOMAS FITZGERALD.
Philadelphia, June 10, 1865.
WiLNINGroN, July ID, 1866.
D. W. Taylor, Secretary &c..--Dear Sir:-In
reply to your inquiry would state that | have
never accepted the tender of membership made
me by the Athletic Club, that have not
signed the constitution of that club; that
have never paid any iuitiatory or other fee or
received any ticket or evidence of enbershlp,
required or allowed by the rules of said club /;
and that have not regarded myself as a mem
Der in any sense.
| wasp member Of the Keystone Club Of
Philadelphia from March 1859. to March 1856,
and played 10 their Mines 10 all match games
against the Athletics Very truly yours,
FERGUS MALONE.