Clipping:The new Cincinnati Club owner; suspension of Sunday games in Cincinnati
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| Date | Wednesday, March 17, 1886 |
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| Text | The suspension of Barkley does not cause near the amount of comment as the stoppage of the Sunday games does by Mr. John Hauck, the new owner of the Cincinnati Club. Some of the largest audiences that ever attended ball games in this city were the ones that attended the games played on Sunday. Mr. Hauck claims that it will be more money in his pocket by the end of the season, it is true that managers are looking after the golden shekels, but how it will be more in his pocket by stopping Sunday games, is a hard matter to solve, as the audiences at Sunday games are persons who cannot attend the games during the week. They will probably see their mistake before the season is fairly on, and the public will again have the pleasure of seeing Sunday games. Sporting News March 17, 1886 The surprising news that the Cincinnati Club will play no Sunday games this season ins confirmed by the omission of Sunday dates from the championship schedule. The news fell like a bombshell not only in Cincinnati, but in base ball circles generally, it has always been argued and accepted as a fact that base ball in Cincinnati could not be made to pay without Sunday games, and this was one of the main arguments against transfer to the League. Under the circumstances Mr. Hauck's experiment will be watched with great interest. … Mr. Hauck can hardly be different from the ordinary run of Croesuses, and we take it that he has entered the base ball business for the money there may be in it, not for love. In fact he was forced into it by peculiar circumstances, and is therefore bound to get his money out again if possible. Public sentiment in Cincinnati is divided on the Sunday question. Mr. Caylor tries to make it appear that the change in the club's policy has met with the greatest favor, and received the endorsement of the very best classes of the supporters of the game. The local press, however, with the single exception of Mr. Caylor's paper, fails to see how the club can be made to pay without the Sunday games, which are the best attended, and whose patronage is chiefly derived from that portion of the working community which cannot find time or means to attend the games during week days, and the general opinion is that Mr. Hauck will probably see his mistake before the season is fairly on, and the Cincinnati public will again have the pleasure of seeing Sunday games. … It seems to us, however, that in one respect Mr. Hauck's experiment is not such a foolish one as appears at first glance. Sunday ball playing in Cincinnati and St. Louis will be stopped by law sooner or later; in fact, rather sooner. Public sentiment seems to be slowly, but surely, changing on this subject, and steps are everywhere in the West being taken to legislate against it. Mr. Hauck, by his action, forestalls any measures the Cincinnati Law and Order Society may have contemplated, thus apparently yielding to the law and public sentiment voluntarily. At any rate no better time could be selected to decide the question whether Cincinnati does or does not want Sunday base ball. The so-called respectable element will now have a chance to come to the front and show that its influence and patronage amount to something and is worth chiefly catering to by making up to the club in increased week-day attendance for the loss of the Sunday revenue. The Sporting Life March 24, 1886 [N.B. The club did play Sunday games after all.] |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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