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| Date | Wednesday, July 11, 1877 |
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| Text | [Hartford vs. Indianapolis 7/10/1877] [the game called after one inning] During the first interruption by the rain the gate receipts was [sic] divided and as the audience filed out they found neither return checks nor money in compensation for the unfilled contracts. The home management throw the responsibility of this upon Ferguson, of the Hartfords, and as he returns no more this season, little the Hartfords care. It appears that Ferguson, seeing the threatening rain, declined to “dress” for the game unless upon the understanding that if play began the receipts were to be retained and the home management consenting to the understanding, necessarily assumed the risk and were shouldered with the responsibility. It is a bad precedent, and patrons in the future will be more or less chary. The excuse is given that as the Hartfords already had their divide the return of the gate money fell entirely on the home club and involved a loss of several dollars perhaps $75 all told. It will be found more profitable to keep faith even if the loss had figured up $100, and it is safe to prophecy that in the game of Friday next with the Louisvilles the prejudice attaching the gouge game of yesterday will damage the receipts more than that amount. The average American likes to be gouged, but it makes him very mad if he finds it out. Indianapolis News July 11, 1877 Yesterday afternoon the directors of the Indianapolis base ball club held a meeting, and resolved to admit all persons who paid to see the Hartford game on Tuesday to the game Friday with the Louisvilles. This shows the kind of men that are running the home club. In the future “rain tickets” will be furnished when a game is called on account of rain before four innings have been played. Indianapolis Sentinel July 12, 1877 |
| Source | Indianapolis News |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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