Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-12
AMUSEMENT COMP ANY
GIVES UP BASEBALL.
Because Of Small Attendance the
Sunday Season Here Has
Been Discontinued.
NO GAME NEXT SUNDAY
Crowds Of from 700 TO 800 Not
Large Enough to Net Stock
holders Any Money.

Because of deficient attendance the
Perth Amboy Amusement Company
has decided to discontinue the games
at Amusement Park on Sunday after
moons. and the game for next Sunday
with the Atlantic City team has been
cancelled. Professional baseball here
on Sunday is, thus, now in state
of innocuous desuetude, and it will
remain a dead letter for the remain
der of the season, unless there should
be an apparent change in conditions
which would seem to warrant them
in putting on a game.
One of the men connected with the
MANAGEMENT epitOmized the situation
this morning in the following terms:
1--WE have not been having the
crowds we expected and the receipts
have not been large enough to ena-
BILE us to make any money. We have
i. not lost anything, but neither have
we made anything. In discussing the
matter with the manager of the team,
Mr.. Hughes, the conditions were
plainly brought out and it was realiz-
ed that no money could be made un-
less larger crowds attended the
games. Mr.. Hughes suggested that he
could secure a less expensive team
to represent Perth Amboy, and that
would also cut down the guarantee
expenses. as correspondingly poorer
visiting teams would be brought to
opnose the locals. But we would
rather have no games at all than
cbeapen the calibre of the teams, as
we do not feel that it would be right,
and that scheme surely would not
draw even as large crowds as nave
been attending the games. The game
with Atlantic City has been called OH,
as have also the other games booked.
and there will be no more games, at
least not for while"
The management has been bring
ing good teams here this season and
some of the games were the equal OF
any ever witnessed on local grounds,
hut there have. not been as many fans
Passing through the gate as are re-
uilisite to make the park a paying
venture. The stockholders have not
seen any prospects of making any
thing and, rather than continue 1t on
that basis, they have called the games
off.
The same state of affairs has exist
ed in Plainfield this season, and the
poor patronage at the games every
Saturday has caused the directors to
waver. Following the statement made
last week by the Plainfield manage
ment, as told in the NEWS, there was
a better attendance at Saturdays
game with the Cuban Giants, and a
game was booked for this Saturday
when the Elizabeth Invaders will
play, at Plainfield. The Plainfield
Saturday team is the same as the
Hoboken Sunday team.
The local management secured a
fine team this season, made up of
players from the Trenton Roeblings
and teams of the Delaware Valley
League, which play every weekday.
The Roeblings' games two and three
times each week are we'll patronized
by the Trenton fans.
The discontinuance of baseball at
the park will be a great loss to the
trolley company, which ran special
cars to accommodate those who at
tended the games. The inability to
attend baseball game or to get a
drink on Sundays in town will drive
to Tottenville even more than went
last Sunday and put many dollars in
the Tottenville liquor sellers Golfers.