Clipping:Fifty cent admission too high; also hurting Hartford and Philadelphia
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| Date | Saturday, September 2, 1876 |
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| Text | [Boston vs. Mutual 8/25/1876] Though a good game might fairly have been anticipated, and a close contest, the attendance was limited to a few hundred spectators. The weather was hot, to be sure, but that would not have kept a crowd away. The fact is—and the League clubs may as well realize it at once and save further pecuniary loss—the times are such as will not admit of the fifty-cent admission fee. Retrenchment is the order of the day in expenses, especially in those incurred for amusement. In view of this important fact, the sooner the club-managers come down to the old-time charge of twenty-five cents admission, the sooner they will replenish their now depleted treasuries. Now and then a match game will draw two or three thousand people at half a dollar admission, but, as a general rule, that charge this season has kept away thousands of people. It has worked this way on the Mutual Club's grounds, and with even worse effect in Hartford and Philadelphia, and even Boston has followed suit. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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