Clipping:Season tickets not honored on the final game
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| Date | Sunday, September 29, 1872 |
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| Text | The ninth, or home-and-home game for a championship series the rules say, should be played on neutral ground, and, therefore, the Athletic-Mutual and Athletic-Baltimore games of last week would have to be played elsewhere, but owing to the commendable and energetic efforts of Hicks Hayhurst, they were played in this city, thus giving our citizens an opportunity–that they would not otherwise have had–of seeing both games. As a matter of course, being ninth, or home-and-home games, the season tickets held by the Athletics’ members were not good on those occasions, and a majority of said members under these circumstances paid willingly for admission, a few, however, grumbling and being dissatisfied at being charged for admission. The discontented ones should remember that the games were played in this city only by the courtesy of the visiting clubs, and that if played elsewhere not only the Athletics, but all who wished to witness the game, would have been subjected to a much heavier expense. In consequence of the unreasonable dissatisfaction manifested, the home-and-home game between the Athletic and Bostons will be played in Brooklyn, instead of this city, as originally contemplated. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury September 29, 1872 ...the Athletic management induced the Mutual and Baltimore Clubs to visit this city and play their final and concluding games on their grounds. The arrangement was made–of course–that the ground was neutral, and all should pay admission. It is a logical truth that if the Mutuals have had four games in New York and the Athletics four games in Philadelphia, their ninth game must be played on equal terms, so far as gate receipts are concerned. It is the extreme of folly to question the justice of this action. Now, the Athletic managers, in order to have our citizens enjoy to last of these contests, arranged to play the games in this city when it was almost compulsory to have them finished in cities where the ground was absolutely neutral. The season tickets were refused at the gate, (they number several thousand,) and, in justice to the visiting clubs, the regular fee was charged. In consequence, numerous abusive and would be sarcastic letters have been received by the directors of the club, who feel so badly over the matter that in all probability the finale with the Boston Club, which could have been arranged for Philadelphia, will take place almost positively in New York. This is the fitting moral of the business. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch September 29, 1872 Much indignation was expressed at the unexpected refusal of members and press tickets at the Athletic games on Wednesday last. Many were “bling over,” and declared it a down-right swindle. We think so too, and it will have a bad effect. People who pay $15 for membership and season tickets expect their tickets to be good always, and that extra sums will not be extorted from them on a shall pretense that it is a “home and home” game, which is not any better than any other. It is mean, petty and contemptible, and deserves the reprobation of all, not for fifty cents, but because it is a breach of contract. Philadelphia Sunday Republican September 29, 1872 |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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