Clipping:How people try to get in free; counterfeit tickets and scalpers; barbed wire
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| Date | Sunday, September 2, 1888 |
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| Text | Secretary Brown of the Chicago Ball Club has many laughable experiences to relate about the devices people employ to gain admission to the games. “The worst class of cranks,” said he, “that we have to deal with are the ones to whom we issue free tickets. They will send over for half a dozen or a dozen tickets for a game, and I f something happens which prevents them from attending they forget to return the pass3es. Consequently we lose the sale of so many good seats. Sometimes some enterprising young man will get hold of tickets that are exactly like ours and stand on the streets a block or so away selling them for half price. If the rascal is caught he will claim that a friend who couldn't attend gave them to him to sell. Others will come to the gate claiming they lost their tickets and ask to be let in. they say they are regular patrons and plead plaintively to be admitted. Once in a a while a boy will come along carrying a bat which he declares belongs to one of the players and that he was sent to get it. As soon as he gets into a far corner of the bleaching boards he forgets to deliver the bat. The small boy, the emblem of genuine Americanism, will get in some way, no matter how many strings of barb wire and policemen you place along the fence. I often receive requests for passes from aspiring young captains of amateur teams who say they will hire the grounds some day to repay it. I have these beats down pretty fine down, and few of them get in. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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