South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-09-01
FEDERAL CLUBS
FIND Low PRICES
DRAW The FANS
New Proposition Has Not Been
Found Wanting--KidS Man
eye to Find Loose Dime
and Watch Games.

NEW YORK, sep - .b,.
= month Of experiment, II Is lo 'rjces to
the reduction Of admissl IN r1at with
"a. .i tro5era1 league parks mas NJ ~
the -, response Throughout -
az - c{rc5Iit. The recelpts % -
49, bave doubled-and III 20
-la, riDIed-since the so-Cait
80 baseball became oPei' g tho
eSl Htto,,.arl, continues TO be one % - -
,,orv hest examples OF o1fore If
r,-tced baseball has done, 20 600
bacane operative "a 0'VUU u -, The
Deesi I On sunday was big. On ele
c 80, e,,,dav that the new plan We
Us - force 10000 paying rams jan n
Pue m. - urav into the park. On .iiS S
-, 4 Sunday-Aug. l7th-IlIe -
a~oy,,d totalled 19,5OO ana OH 80,
~ 92nd. 2O.O34 fans pald autilis US
despite the -act thal 'i0
threatening ali day. -. Fans
III -.,.s,,,,sI. prices Bring New an.
eTtireIv new crop of fans Is O
10 harvested by the reds a. d rrbe
nf tho lower admission prices. 10
tioachers where the admission 80,
,,eod TO he % cents ana W me- - Nv,
- 10 cents are peOpled IN ll5 IL mo
.1(fds''-lovers of basepdll
never could anoro 10 P"'
can afford a dime. 49,, M ,,-
n 40 old-time bleacherlteS nav ~
- f,to the PAVILION where an ou1-
To-, &c % cents will get them - 10
geaf hat used to cost o. I,ld
+ir,e navillionites also have auV aIi' "a
srt,,,, felt able in the past 10 pay
- g. n seat at the ball game DuC
- didn't feel able TO pay OUT
,ts Cor the chOicer grandstand sea.
So tbav sit in the grandstahu-IOi
so cents. I-vorvyybere.
over nearly a month SIeCSIi' -
+fstics gathered By the feueIaI ie" -
eecia1s covering all the CLUBS III INC
iIl,,it chow lust what il showed dur
- no FIRST week that the new Pidli
- ia oneration-that although lhS
Sr,ission prices have been reduCeu
L[,,+ 90 per cent the attendance mas
increased from SO to 100 per cent
High prices-thats what 80
the matter with baseoall' eSo7 y
Harry Sinclair owner OF the NeWai
t+ode and the man who Launched the
liver nriced baseball plan. reach-
"a this conclusion ouly after a lot OF
studv over the siuation-and the re-
suit Of the innovation so lar' Dedl
me out" ..-.. t,,so.
1T is so absurd for organized base
ball, and for rare few OF the spJt :,
ing writer's, 10 take the view ina 10,
lower prices will cheaper baseball,
How can it cheaper the game i.
doesn't affect the playing ana II
doesn't affect anything but the pocket
hook of the fan-and it affects thai
only in a way that is pleasant for the
fan"
Sinclair Raps High Prices.
"For many wears the fans submit
led tameIv TO the hOldup of the base
.baU magnates They paid the bie
prices demanded because up to lasi
wear the country was prosperous Bu'
as soon as the EurOpean war came
throwing hundreds of thousands OF
fans out of work, and reduction III
the salaries of thousands more, the
fans ceased TO go to the parks. They
couldn't afford TO pay the prices de-
manded.
Conditions were nearly back Il
normal when the 1915 season opened
But the fans wouldn't come back
Why? For the simple reason tina
they awakened during the latter par
Of 1914 to the fact that the then pre-
vailing prices for a MAJOR league base
ball entertainment was all out of pro
portion TO the pleasure derived.
In other words, the majority o
fans concluded they weren't gettinl
their moneys worth-and the!
weren't
The prices that prevail Throughout
the Federal league now are. in GU
minds. fair and equitable prices. The.
are prices within reach of all. An,
right now III utter a little prophec,
the prices that prevail in our leagu
now are the prices that organized
baseball will be forced To adopt be
fore the 1917 season opens"