Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-12-28 | Page 29 | Expect Increase in Gate Prices

EXPECT INCREASE II GATEPRICES Twenty-five Cent Admissions Admis-sions May Be Abandoned by Some Clubs. Baseball admissions will probably be raised by some of the clubs next season. If certain major league club owners are able to exert sufficient Influence with their business partners this winter, the Rale of 25-eeut admissions will be abolished abol-ished In lU'.'O and tho other prices will be raised. It has been piedleted by Insiders In-siders that the standard rates of admission admis-sion to the big league ball parks will bo 00 cents, 1 and $1.M the club owners believing that some such change In the tariff will he necessary to meet the de- i manda of the players for Increased sul-j sul-j arieis. Trivet ing and hotel expenses I have been almost doubled, loo, thereby , providing other heavy burdens which the baseball promoters must curry. There is somo doubt whether or not thw clubs In New ork and Chicago! would adopt a higher Hcale of admissions. I The attendance at the l'olo Grounds and I at both parks In Chicago usually Is so j large that handsome profits are certain. 1 ittsburg, 1 et roil. Cleveland and Urook - i lyn also could make ends meet under the! present tariff, but in the other cities, It is argued, there are too many quarter j seats. I 1'hiiadelnhla, for Instance, has two ball clubs that can make no money to spesk of so long as tho 23-eent tariff prevails. Washington. St. Louis and tho Boston Nationals are in the same boat. Cincinnati Cincin-nati was a big money maker this year in spile of a predominance of quarter patrons, pa-trons, but this was entirely due to the wonderful playing of Fat Moran's champion cham-pion Reds. Tho owners of the Brooklyn club were pioneers at Increasing the "rates several yei-s ago. They wiped out the i!6-cent ti'.'Vets, charged 0 cents admission to the uncovered bleachers and railed off tha first eight rows of seats in the grandstand grand-stand at $1 each, the others selling for 75 cents. As a result of these changes, the 1 trook lyn club averages more money per head t ban any other major league concern. The Brooklyn magnates, therefore, there-fore, have set an example that now is regarded favorably by other club owners.