Clipping:Gross receipts and season tickets
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| Date | Tuesday, November 4, 1884 |
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| Text | I have just had a row, quiet one, with them [Providence] in regard to division of receipts in their last game here. Bancroft wanted $200 guarantee to play off their postponed Championship here. I offered him one half of the gross receipts, and he finally accepted our terms. The weather proved bad and the crowd was small, and in settling up Bancroft insisted that he should be paid half for all the season and complimentary–press–tickets, some 68 in all, @ 50¢ admission. I said no, that we would give him half of the gross receipts, and no more. That gross receipts meant the revenue received from cash admissions to grounds and grand stand for that game. He refused to settle and went off. I sent check to Providence for the amount due them. The Sec., W. C. Chase, claimed a balance as per return of tickets taken as furnished him by Bancroft. I have written him that my agreement was that Prov. would receive ½ gross. That season tickets were not gross unless there was an understanding to that effect. I have not heard from him since, but they may bring the matter up before the Board at the Annual Meeting. [from a letter from Harry Wright, writing in Philadelphia, to Frederick Long dated November 4, 1884] |
| Source | from a letter from Harry Wright, writing in Philadelphia, to Frederick Long |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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