Clipping:Attendance in Brooklyn at fifty cents admission; Sunday attendance
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| Date | Wednesday, May 16, 1888 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick's column] I see by Mr. Brunell's letter that he has been making some calculations on the basis of the alleged attendance at the Brooklyn Club's championship games this season. Let me give him a few official figures furnished me by Secretary Ebbets. It mus be borne in mind that during the eight championship games played at Washington Park from April 20, to My 5, inclusive, there were but two fine days, the other six days being cold and cloudy, and two of them attended by rain. Here are the official figures:--At the Cleveland games, 6,494; at the Athletic, 5,425; at the Baltimore, 5,989. Total 17,908. At the three Sunday games at Ridgewood Park the figures were 4,306, 5,484 and 5,045; total, 14,835. Add this total to the total at Washington Park, and the aggregate is 32,743. Double this at twenty-five cents admission, and it would require 65,486 people to have attended the eight games to have equaled the cash receipts obtained under the new fifty-cent rule, at least a third more than ever before attended the same number of games under the old twenty-five cents rule. These are facts, Mr. Brunell. Add the great improvements in the character of the attendance, and the argument in favor of the new tariff in Brooklyn is unanswerable. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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