Clipping:Padded attendance numbers
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| Date | Saturday, August 9, 1890 |
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| Text | [from W. I. Harris's column] The denials of the falsification of figures by the Chicago Brotherhood Club have not been very loud. There has been a general denial by Secretary Brunell and a bluff about submitting the figures to the Associated Press, and Julian Hart, of Boston, has denied that he has given out any false figures. There can be no doubt that the figures given out by the Boston are correct. E. F. Stevens wrote the article, and he told me that he had thoroughly investigated the matter and was convinced that the figures, which he compiled from the original reports of the men who did the counting, were reliable. We have some proof here of their correctness. Langdon Smith, of the New York World, a Brotherhood sympathizer, is not a partisan in any sense. Mr. Smith has had much experience, and his estimate of the crowds telegraphed to the Evening World are very near the right figures. Last Saturday, at Chicago, Mr. Smith estimated the attendance to be about 3000. The Boston figures it 2058, and the official figures given out were 6612. On Monday, according to Mr. Smith, there was “a small crowd present,” and the club gave out 2371. Yesterday Mr. Smith wired from Boston “about 2500 people were present,” and Mr. Hart, who protests so much, gave out the attendance as 4537. At Chicago yesterday the figures sent out were 2228, while Charles G. Seymour, the Chicago correspondent of the United Press, says that the attendance was about 600. There are other things, but these are enough to show that Mr. Spalding's count may be accepted as correct, and the big jump in attendance at Players' League games after July 26, bears out Mr. Spalding's assertion that it was in accordance with action taken at that Philadelphia meeting. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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