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Date	Saturday, December 11, 1875
Text	How well honorable play in professional contests pays may be judged from the Chicago Club's appended financial exhibit of ninety-one championship games played in 1874 and 1875 with the first first-class Eastern clubs. Division of gate receipts on the basis of give and take 33 1/3 per cent., valuing all tickets at 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children: IN CHICAGO Philadelphia, 10 games; we paid them...............................$2,168 Athletic, 7 games; we paid them........................................ 2,010 Mutual, 8 games; we paid them......................................... 3,118 Hartford, 8 games; we paid them........................................ 1,846 Boston, 10 games, we paid them......................................... 6,585 Total—43 games...................................................$15,725 IN EASTERN CITIES rec'd We played in Philadelphia with Philadelphia, 10...............$1,008 We played in Philadelphia with Athletic, 9......................... 920 We played in Brooklyn with Mutual, 9............................... 1,134 We played in Hartford with Hartford, 10............................ 591 We played in Boston with Boston 10.................................. 2,136 Total—48 games.....................................................$5,789 Philadelphia, with two clubs, 19 games, $1,928 Boston, with one club, 10 games, $2,136 Hartford, average, $59. With an expense of over $30,000 during 1875, the Chicago Club closed the season with a surplus of receipts over expenses of $3,170. The club pay $2,400 a year rent and taxes for their grounds. Things are different in Louisville, where the club has their ground rent free. The Boston Club lead all others on receipts for 1875.
Source	New York Clipper
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
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