July 30, 1886
The glory of the El Paso Browns has reached a distant point in Indiana, and as a result of our boys’ good work against Albuquerque the following communication has reached Henry Beneke, the catcher. It is written on a handsome notehead, and will be of interest to the baseball fraternity:
Office of Little Nicol Base Ball Club of St. Louis, Mo.
Marmont, Ind. July 21, 1886.
Friend Henry – Your paper telling all about the game received. Showed it to the boys. They wanted to know if it were not possible for our club to come down for a trip of two weeks, say in the middle of August. Could you raise a purse to pay our expenses? Should think you could take in enough money at the gate to pay our expenses.
You know our record, it stands 78 games won, none lost. Tell the people about this club, what kind of boys they are and all about them. You could not strike a more gentlemanly lot of boys in the States.
Our boys are all willing to go, if they are not out anything on the trip.
You could advertise us all over your state, also in Mexico, which would undoubtedly bring large crowds to the games.
Try and work the scheme and let me know at once what you think about it. We played the crack club of Indiana last Friday at Kokomo, and defeated them by a score of 9 to 0. They can’t play ball a little bit.
Try to work the scheme and if you do get us down there we will guarantee you good ball playing.
Until I hear from you I remain,
Richard Schledgel,
Captain of Little Nicol Club.
This little Nicol nine is out spending the summer in Indiana, playing at various places and camping out on fishing excursions, etc. It is composed of the sons of some of the wealthiest men in St. Louis.
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