Clipping:Opposition to double headers
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| Date | Wednesday, September 4, 1889 |
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| Text | [editorial matter] The practice of playing two games in one afternoon for one admission fee has been run into the ground this season and should receive the attention of the law makers next winter. Double games are excusable late in the season, when it is impossible to play off postponed games in any other way, but this year the practice was started early in the season and has been going on here and there ever since. The chief objection to double games is that the public is given far more than its money's worth and will gradually come to look upon a single game as either worth only half the present admission fee or to demand longer games or double games as a regular thing, even to the extend of playing these games by schedule. At any rate, by occasional double games for one admission the regularly scheduled games are cheapened by comparison, and this should not be encouraged by club owners. Far better to play postponed games in the forenoons, even to the smallest number of paying spectators, or else not play them at all. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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