, 1890-10-07

ICopya1ght BY American Press Association
A few days more and the championship
season will be over. Then will come the
series for the championship Of the world,
and after hat the anuual meetings Of the
leagues and a reorganization Of the lines
of buttle for 1891. The pennant winners
are Boston in the Players league, Brook.
Ign in the National league and Louisville
in the American association. The ques'
tion now bothering the managers quite as
much as the cranks is what clubs viii play
for the worlds championship. The events
soon to take place will answer the question.
although il looks now as IL the Louisville
people would stand by the National agree
ment and play the Brooklyns. 1t looks 50
because Of the long series OF exhibition ar
ranged by the Boston Up. L. club. Il may
be, however, that that club has been
merely making a bluff, and has already
made arrangements, as 1t is claimed by
some people who ought TO be in n position
to know, to play a series with Louisville.
Another thing which should develop
soon Is the nature Of the big bomb which
the Players league representatives have
promised shall be thrown at their oppo-
nents. 1t is suspected that the bomb won't
go off, because it was connected with tho
deal for the purchase Of the Cincinnati
club by the Brotherhood, a deal which mp
pears to have miscarried. To a man up a
tree il looks as II Stern and Sterne, the IN
related but astute owners Of the Cincinnati
club, have been playing n game OF bluff
with the Players league welfare commit
tee in order to gain time and expose the
would-be purchasers to ridicule, and show
the public that they arc quite as willing to
buy clubs and players as the old league
ever was While Messrs. Bruhell and John
son have been hunting the Jack o. Lantern,
Messns. Stern and Sterne hAve been en-
gagged in securing the lease of the only
property in Cincinnati already fitted up
for n ball grounds, so rs TO make IL necos.
sary for the Players league TO invest n
large sum of money should they decide to
start an opposition club in Cincinnati IL
does not appear to me that Mr.. Stern ever
intended to sell out, and hat the National
league thoroughly understand his position
and have approved OF his course.
There will be a golden opportunity now
for the philanthropists who backed the
Boston Players league team to show their
love for the players, and incidentally 20
keep the contracts they made with them.
They claim that the gross profits OF the
club have been $4,000; that $4,000 OF this
hhs been used to pay for balance on the
plant above the original capital Of Se0.OoO,
and that with running expenses and the
plant all paid for there will be a net profit
Of $4,000. Now ! do not believe this state
ment and | think I can show wherein IL
is exaggerated; but il it is true there is n
nice little sum 70 be divided among the
ball players II such profits have been
made il Is obvious that the club Is bound
under its contracts to give $500 to a prize
fund to be divided among the winning
teams as originally agreed upon. The
club has no right to take from its profits
any money to cancel capital stock.
aAftar all arnapEaa for fnnpnoInpy aVtgb
corporation have been paid, sala-
ries OF players paid, all profits
over and above these expenses hall be
divided-2,500 to the prize fund, $4,000 to
the stockholders- Thesecoad SlO,-
600 Of profits goes to the players pool, aud
the next $4,000 shall be divided equally
between players and stockholders"
Such. In brief, are the requirements OF
the contract. and the officials OF the club.
II they made the statements attributed to
them, will have to make good to the plny-
ers or acknowledge that they AVE mis-
stated the results OF the season.
II is, of course, impossible for an outsider
to figure accurately the profits OF any club.
but 1t is possible to approximate them. 1t
will be admitted that the Boston Up. IL
club, and for hat matter no club in the
country, has not underestimate the at
tendance at their games in the figures they
nave gwen out IOT pu"DllchtlOn.
1t is generally believed hat all the clubs
nave exaggerated. Allowing that they
rave been truthful, we fiud that the total
attendance at Boston has been 1893, 59I
Allowing that 80 per cent. OF these paid IA
extra quarter for grand stand privileges,
the gross receipts were Sill ,3i6. or this
the home club got s55,65s. Add to this for
preseason exhibition games, say 5000.
and the total home receipts were col, 65s,
The attendance at the Boston teams gamea
abroad, according TO the official figures, not
counting its last series at Buffalo, Cleve-
land and Pittsburg, which would not swell
the total very much, was 1904. or these
so, $50 were at Pittsburg and Philadelphia
at a 25 cent tariff. Reduced TO dollars and
cents, allowing 80 per cent. for grant
stand, this attendance produced S65, S21.
Boston's share was $50, 9i0. Boston's
total receipts for the season, then, were
se4.oS Deducting from this its share OF
assessments for umpires and extraordinary
legal and other expenses, the net receipts
were about $4,000 in round numbers. The
ordinary expenses OF the club at a low esti-
mate reached at least $4,000. so that the
surplus on their own figures could not
exceeded $4,000, And the Boston
Up. L. club is the only Brotherhood or
ganization that finished with u profit.
The total receipts of the New York (P. L.
club at home and abroad will not aggre-
gate, according to official figures, more
than $4,000, barely enough to pay ex-
penses- The Chicago Up. H. club will show
about the same financial exhibit as the
New York club. The Philadelphia club
will finish s25. 600 in the hole, and all the
others will be heavy losers.
These estimates are based on the official
and when it is considered how
these figures have been boosted in nearly
every city there is room to doubt that even
the Boston club has more than cleared it.
self on the season. The National league
club have not done much better financially, |
and win, with the exception OF Boston,
Brooklyn and Cincinnati,
prove to be heavy losers. The exact cost
Of the baseball war of 1890 will probably
never be known, but it has been severe
on both sides to make the nagnates
averse TO a renewal of the conflict in 1891.
It may be that when the balance sheets are
struck that the array OF losses will serve to
the capitalists Of both sides together
In n compromising spirit
At present, however, there are no indi-
cations of a compromising spirit that ooh
at all healthy. ". l. HARRIS
The Pulpit and the stage.
Rev. +. NJ. Shrout, pastor United
Brethren church. Blue Mound, Kan,
says: Il feel it my duty to tell what won
ders DIR. Kings New Discovery has done