Clipping:One-dollar admission speculation; unannounced exhibition game

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Date	Sunday, August 15, 1869
Text	[Atlantics vs. Unions of Lansingburgh 8/9/1869] The Atlantics, of Brooklyn, and “Haymakers,” of Lansingburgh, met for the third time, this season, on Monday last, the race-course at Saratoga being chosen as the scene of the final trial for superiority. The ground was very bad, being rough and uneven, making fine fielding impossible, while the spectators crowded in on the catcher, and annoyed the right and left fielders. As a speculation, the affair did not pay as well as was expected, the charge of one dollar evidently being too high, while the races drew away hundreds who would otherwise undoubtedly have been present. ... Since the contest, it has been reported that the affair was only a gate-money, exhibition game, and that the home-and-home game will be played on the Capitoline grounds, in the Fall. If such was the case, it is a pleasure to record that the affair was not a pecuniary success.
Source	New York Dispatch
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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