Clipping:The pecuniary aspect of a grand tour
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| Date | Thursday, April 9, 1868 |
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| Text | Base Ball Clubs now make tours for two objects, the primary one, and the only object hitherto, being to have a good time generally, and to extend the popularity of the game. The other object in view is to make the trip advantageous in a pecuniary point of view–that is, to the extend of participating in the profits derived from the receipts at the gate on occasions of matches played on enclosed grounds at the cities and towns a noted professional club may visit. Hitherto no grand tour or even club excursion has been made where the latter rule has prevailed, but this season–and it should be understood by country clubs generally that, unless a visiting club expressly disavow their desire for a share of gate receipts, such arrangement will have to be made–several such trips will be made. Last year the National Club made a tour westward, which cost the club several thousand dollars, but they neither received a cent of the receipts at the gate on any one occasion, nor allowed any club to pay their hotel expenses during the whole tour. |
| Source | American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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