Clipping:Chadwick changes is mind about the admission fee

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Date Sunday, October 30, 1881
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And just here comes in a special point I wish to refer to, and that is the experience of our local season in regard to the twenty-five cent admission fee, and the sale of beer, &c., on the grounds. I have hitherto been a strong advocate of the quarter of a dollar admission fee to professional grounds, but my experience under this rule at the Polo Grounds this year, has been such as to make me no longer its advocate. I am free to confess that the League rule is the best for the interests of reputable exhibitions of professional ball-playing. As for beer-selling, it has proved to be a perfect nuisance, and it will no longer be tolerated at the Polo Grounds after this year. I am fully satisfied that it is better to have an orderly assemblage of five hundred people at half a dollar than a rough, uncontrollable crowd of a thousand, or even twelve hundred, at twenty-five cents., quoting a letter from Henry Chadwick dated October 28, 1881

Source Cincinnati Enquirer
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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