Clipping:The AA debates the fifty cent admission
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| Date | Wednesday, March 14, 1888 |
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| Text | [reporting on the AA special meeting 3/5] The question of the admission rate was then taken up. Mr. Kames, of the Athletic Club, presented a resolution which provided for an amendment to Article 31 of the constitution, and which would allow the Athletics to charge an admission fee of twenty-five cents. The opposition to the resolution was strong from the start, but the Athletic delegates only yielded their ground after a struggle lasting for two hours and a half. Mr. Pennypacker, in order to strengthen the claim, produced a petition signed by 900 of Philadelphia's citizens. He also offered to give visiting clubs 30 per cent. of the 25-cent fee, or 7½ cents, and take only 15 per cent. of the other clubs' 50-cent fee, which would also amount to just 7½ cents. The rule is to give and take 30 er cent. but all propositions were met by the arguments put forward by the Brooklyn Club that base ball was the cheapest of all amusements even at 50 cents, and in consideration of the fact that ball players' salaries, rental of grounds, and cost of traveling were increasing every year it was only fair that the price of admission be increased and placed on the same basis with the League. Finally by a vote of 7 to 1 the amendment of Mr. Kames was defeated. |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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