Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1885 — Uncivilized Base-Ball Players. [ARTICLE]

Uncivilized Base-Ball Players.

“In many of the hotels the base-ball players are not allowed to go into the dining-rooms with their spiked shoes on. They always dress for a match before dinner, and have a way of tramping about on the carpets and over tho painted floors of the dining-rooms. The spikes in their shoes ruin the carpets, apd leave the dining-room floors full of holes. Now at some of the hotels they leave their shoes in the hallways, and go into the dining rooms in their stocking feet. Guests object to it, and so there are very few hotels who care to accommodate ball-players. The average ball player knows very little about hotel life, or how to conduct himself in a dining room. They ask for mince pie in midsummer, and want buckwheat cakes for dinner and apple dumplings for at table with hard-boiled eggs and saltcellars, and they invariably let the whole dining-room know how the game was played or how they are going to play,” went on the clerk, “and one night at our hotel two of them were playing ball with the ottomans in the parlor. "—Hotel cleric, in Philadelphia Times.