Clipping:Boston club finances 2
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| Date | Saturday, December 27, 1879 |
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| Text | The ninth annual meeting was held Dec. 17 at the club’s headquarters, 786 Washington street, Boston, Mass. The treasurer’s report showed the net receipts [probably meaning Boston’s share of home and away receipts] the past year to have been $19,602.64. There was a shrinkage in gross receipts in 1879, from 1878, of $5,752.80, the gate-receipts of 1879 being $5,397,55 less than in 1878. The shrinkage in home receipts in 1879 over 1878 was $3,204.27, while away from home the receipts were $2,183.28 less than in 1878. There was $427.36 more received from League clubs away from home in 1879 than in 1879, but there was a loss of $2,500 in the receipts from non-League clubs in 1879 over the year preceding. The amount paid visiting clubs last season was $5,475.15; the receipts from League clubs, $6,863.41. The causes which led to the shrinkage of the receipts the past year were principally the successive defeats received by the Bostons at the hands of the Chicagos the first of the season, the unfortunate (to say the least) arrangement of the League schedule, whereby the first Boston-Providence games came in June, and, further, that Boston was forced to play twenty-four successive games with Troy and Syracuse–two of the weakest clubs. New York Clipper December 27, 1879 |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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