Clipping:Advance billing and the gate split
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| Date | Sunday, January 5, 1890 |
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| Text | Under the new order of dividing gate receipts, as adopted by the National League, at its last annual meeting, visiting clubs will next season receive 40 per cent. of the gate receipts. This is an item well worth looking after, and the Cincinnati Club will see that its interests abroad do not suffer by reason of neglect. With that end in view, the club will engage an advance agent, who will go ahead and bill the Reds like a theatrical troupe. The wall paper to be used is now in the hands of the designer. Long John Reilly has the contract, and up in his little room on the eighth floor of the Smith Building he is engaged daily getting out the paper. Yesterday he was busy fixing up a big three-sheet poster of Nicol, the spry little right-fielder of the Cincinnati team. Little Nic shows to advantage in the position of a professional sprint-runner waiting for the pistol shot to “get off the mark.” Reilly will make designs of all the other players under contract to the Cincinnati Club, and the dead walls of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago and other League cities will be plastered over next season with life-like portraits of McPhee, Holliday, Carpenter, Beard, Earle, Baldwin and other members of the Cincinnati Reds. Who would not be a base-ball star and be billed in flaming letters like a three-ring circus? |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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