Clipping:The games that draw spectators; a proposal for differential pricing
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| Date | Sunday, May 12, 1872 |
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| Text | The season has progressed far enough to show pretty conclusively which matches of the professional arena the general public are going to patronize and which they are not. The attendance at the Union Grounds on Wednesday and Thursday proves the fact that the patrons of the game have become indifferent to the class of contests in which the “co-operative” nines take part, certainly so far as paying a half-dollar entrance fee to witness them. In Baltimore, Philadelphia, and in this city, where thousands have paid their half-dollars to see the “regulars” pitted against each other, scarcely as many hundreds have been present at the co-operative contests. On Monday the Troy nine played the Atlantics before about three hundred people, and the next day played the Eckfords before a still fewer number. On Tuesday the Bostons played the Atlantics before about two hundred, and on Thursday played the Eckfords before an assemblage numbering fewer hundreds than there were thousands at the Boston and Mutual match of the day before, although under the circumstances of the close game the Eckfords gave the Troy nine on Tuesday a better attendance might have been anticipated. But apparently the strength developed by the Reds in their contest with the Greens was such as to make a one-sided game with the Eckfords almost a foregone conclusion. In view of these facts it becomes a question affecting the interests of the co-operatives whether it would not be wisdom to established a rule for the season, making the charge to all the regular contests for the championship, between the six regular nines, had a dollar, and the charge for games between regulars and the co-operatives or between co-operatives themselves but twenty-five cents, with ten cents admission for practice-games with amateur nines. With such a regular tariff it would be found to pay better for both classes, and it would certainly be more satisfactory to the public. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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