Clipping:The AA fifty cent admission to exclude the rough element
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| Date | Wednesday, May 2, 1888 |
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| Text | [from an interview of Byrne] The right kind of people and the people we want for our patrons will be more attracted to the sport as they see the roughest element excluded per force of prices. Don't misunderstand me—I do not refer to the laboring classes by this latter phrase, for they are the people we want to benefit by furnishing relaxation—a kind of labor-to-refreshment-benefit—but we do want to exclude the tough and the rowdy whose presence is degrading to a gentlemanly sport, and has been handicapping its success financially with the respectable portion... The Sporting Life May 2, 1888 Chadwick resigns from the Clipper; its reporters and editors [from Chadwick's column] By the time this reaches you you will have learned that I have resigned my position on the Clipper. Having accepted an editorial position on the Outing magazine under its new management, I found that it became necessary to give up my writing on the Clipper, as my magazine work would not admit of my doing both. So I had to decide which I would attend to, and as the magazine writing suited me best, I left the old paper, after thirty years of editorial work on it. In fact, though I did not take editorial control of its base ball columns after Frank Queen's death, Mr. Garne taking entire editorial charge then, and when he resigned his position, a year ago, the dramatic editor, Mr. Fynes, took editorial charge. The veteran Al. Wright is still on the paper, and Will Rankin has been engaged to do the local reporting. I take pride in being able to state that during the whole thirty years of my Clipper work I have never penned a line for the paper—or any other either—which could not be openly read out aloud in any family circle. The Sporting Life May 2, 1888 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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