Clipping:Betting and beer on League grounds
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| Date | Sunday, June 12, 1887 |
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| Text | There is much complaint of open betting on the grounds in Washington and beer-selling in New York. The Philadelphia Times June 12, 1887 [from a word picture of game day at the Polo Grounds] In the good old days before Mayor Hewitt infused life into the spine of the excise law infinite beer was consumed at the Polo grounds. Now the aroma of the Dutch win is wanting in the atmosphere, but the feature is maintained so far as appearance goes by the sale of ginger pop and sarsparilla. A small army of boys issue from the inmost penetralia under the grand stand bearing trays covered with the foam-topped beverages, and they pass along in front of the hot thousands waiting the call of customers. It is a thriving trade in which everybody takes a hand. The men on the lower rows pass the full glasses up to the thirsty spectator at the top, and then pass the coin and change back and forth between the boy and the consumer until the transaction is completed. No trouble occurs about the empty glass. The consumer watched for a safe chance and tosses it into the air so that it falls into the dust below the front row, and a little later the boy returns and picks up a tray full of dusty, mud-covered glasses and takes them away to be refilled. And it may be said that if any customer finds that his ginger-pop has been mysteriously transformed to lager after passing the policeman he never complains about it, but generally orders a second supply. The Philadelphia Times July 3, 1887 |
| Source | Philadelphia Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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