Clipping:A complaint about Athletic members' seating
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| Date | Sunday, May 28, 1871 |
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| Text | To the Editor of the Sunday Mercury:–Have the members of the Athletic Base Ball Club any rights? Is there no remedy for the imposition put upon them this season? The best seats are now set aside for a select few, who are enabled to pay an additional sum of $0 per annum; and a further reservation is made, whereby an additional sum of 25 or 50c per seat is charged extra, while the members of the club are assigned seats where a more obstructed view of the game is obtained, and over this portion so assigned, no guard is kept, but all are allowed to rush pell-mell into this pavilion, to the exclusion of the members of the club, who, if they happen to arrive a little late, find every seat occupied mostly by parties having no right thereto; and they are informed, upon asking the reason, to find seats wherever they can. Is this thing to be tolerated by the members? Certainly not. If it should continue, the Athletic Base Ball Club will next season find a great decrease of its members. We hope through your journal to have notice taken of what we consider a great injustice to MANY MEMBERS OF THE ATHLETIC B.B. CLUB. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury May 28, 1871 To the B. B. Editor Evening City Item: Now that there is a little lull in base ball matters, our crack organization being out West demolishing all they come in contact with, I would like to call your attention to some of the abuses countenanced by the Directors of the Athletic Club which should be remedied, or next year the members will “grow small and beautifully less.” It is the habit of many of those entitled to members’ seats on the east pavilion, after having passed to a seat by virtue of a ticket, to get from others who are seated their tickets, take them outside, distribute to those who are not member, and thereby enable to them to pass the guard on display of said ticket, which, after getting seats in this surreptitious manner, are of course handed to the owners to do that sem thing over again if they see fit. There should be some means devised by the Directors to prevent this–as those who have members’ tickets and are a little late at a match find themselves unable to get a seat, they being filled up in the manner stated. Also, the practice of allowing women and children to fill up the members’ pavilion in the way they have been doing heretofore, is wrong, as I think a member by paying his five dollars has a prior right to said seats, and if ladies are to be accommodated, let a certain number of seats be set apart for that purpose. I have seen children, certainly not eight years old, occupying seats tot he exclusion of members of the Club of long standing, Please call the attention of the Directors to this abuse, and I know they will remedy it. AN OLD MEMBER Evening City Item September 19, 1871 |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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