Clipping:The Athletic Club's dues
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| Date | Sunday, February 25, 1872 |
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| Text | The “fifteen dollars” also allows the member to witness the games of the club played in this city without further charge. Suppose forty games were played to average twenty-five cents admission, the expense would be ten dollars, thus giving the purchaser of the ticket a discount of fifty per cent on all “championship” games. The additional five dollars is a very small yearly due for the privilege of belonging to the Athletic Club and having a voice in its proceedings. We have a ticket from last season with forty-eight coupons punched from it. These tickets were held by members and sold to outsiders at the cost of five dollars. This is an average of ten and a half cents to the game, and the tickets were thus made low priced in order that they would be taken up in enormous quantities. A large number were sold, but the experiment was a failure. This poor man dodge is played out. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch February 25, 1872 As we said last week this sniveling about “poor men” has got to the end of its tether. The poor men, mechanics, shopkeepers, and so on, are the very people who support the game and pay full price for seeing matches. But they do not indulge in season tickets, for the simple reason that they can only spare an occasional holiday to witness match games, just as trade or calling gets a little dull. The plain fact is that the cheap tickets of last year were mainly held by those who were able to pay more for them; and, on the other hand, those who could least afford it paid the highest rate. Apart from the benefit accruing to the club from the new arrangement, it puts all on as equal a footing as possible, while those who do buy tickets obtain a liberal discount for the use of their money. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch March 3, 1872 |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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