Word: gately
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...compel us to finish the games as early as possible. The second game, if played on the 24th, will be a financial success, as the park will be used by us alone and the receipts are sure to be large. The terms are, I think, fairly enough, one-half gate receipts, and one-half expenses at all games,-net receipts I mean. Please let me know if these points are satisfactory. They seem at least fair...
...several of the men played on the university in the game mentioned by the News. We were willing to play at Springfield or Providence, but not at Hartford, to reach which from Cambridge takes four times as long as from New Haven. It is obvious that the gate receipts at the base ball grounds in Providence would have been much larger than at Hartford. Yale had the choice of Cambridge, Springfield and Providence. We agreed to pay one half her expenses and divide gate money if she came to Cambridge. She chose the former, and as her choice was free...
...they were reasonably large. It is worthy of notice also, that no offer was made to pay half the expenses of our team to Cambridge, although in view of the fact that the Harvard team had no travelling expenses to pay, and yet were to share equally in the gate money, this would have been no more than fair...
...quadrangle" from Holworthy to Grays is two and a half blocks, and that its average width is only a little less than one block. A walk around this enclosure is considerably over a quarter of a mile. The width of the whole yard, from Wads worth House to the gate leading to the gymnasium, is three and a half blocks. The whole length is about four blocks. The single building of Memorial Hall and Sanders theatre is over a block in length...
...young men playing for money taken at the exhibition games, it is necessary to say a word of explanation with regard to this feature of all ball-games. If field athletics are to continue, the expense of them must be met in one of two ways, either by gate-money or by subscription. Most young men prefer to give their money at the gate, and thus to pay for what they see. If a club knows that it is to spend only what it earns, it will be stimulated, first, to play as good a game as possible; and secondly...