Clipping:Small attendance due to unimportance of games
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| Date | Sunday, September 3, 1871 |
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| Text | The contests in Brooklyn the past week, with the exception of the Chicago match, have been very slimly attended, there being a decided falling off in the interest taken in professional contests. One cause has been the fact that no games of such importance as the Chicago match have taken place; the best patrons of the game having become tired of paying 50c. to see contests which is reality are but little else than mere gate-money or “exhibition” games. Depend upon it whenever the professional clubs will place in the field two contending nines bent upon doing their level best to win, as the White and Green Stocking [i.e. Mutuals] did on Monday last, they will come out strong in numbers to witness the match. But they don’t feel disposed to pay half-a-dollar to such contests as the Mutual and Rockford and Eckford and Cleveland games, on the result of which no important issue is pending, and there is nothing to play for except the receipts at the gate. Policy would dictate an advertised reduction in the rates of admission at this season of the year to all games not immediately bearing upon the question of the battle for the whip-pennant. When the important series of closing games, on the result of which the possession of the whip is to be settled, are to be played we shall no doubt see the games liberally patronized. But our people will no longer patronize anything in the form of exhibition contests, the same having become a played-out institution. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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