The San Francisco call., 1897-09-27
The Toy Balloon Ball Respon-
Sible for the Visitors
Defeat.
THE "CALLS" WORK APPRECIATED.
Players Say an Increase in the Per-
oentage L Due to It's
Efforts.

Milton Besse, the Sheriff Of Santa Cruz,
appeared as manager of the Santa Cruz
nine which played the Will IL Fincks in
the yellow journals tournament At Cen
tral Park yesterday afternoon. Sheriff
Besse came up from the sea to see that the
ball-tossers got square deal. He took
active charge of the box-office, counted
the tickets and looked after the money.
Sheriff Besse is not the manager of the
team.
1--WE brought Besse along with US, said
one OF the nine, ITO protect our rights and
look after the box-office. He is onto all
the curves (the in and outshoots) of the
yellow management, ana with him in the
box we knew that we would get what
rightfully belonged 10 u.s."
Sheriff Besse kept a close watch of every
thing tnat went on in the box-office. He
was so occupied that he had little time to
watch the splendid game put by his men.
Once during the progress OF the play he
appeared on the bench, but II was only
for a short time. That box office was what
the Sheriff was after and he stayed with it.
There was Derceptible falling off in the
attendance as compared with previous
Sundays The box Office returns showed
grand-stand was SDarSeIy hIled.
Tne com peting teams played for 30 per
cent Of the gross receipts, Is per cent Tor
each nine. This increase was entirely
owing to the fight THE CALL has been
making in behalf of the players for a re-
muneration approaching just diStri ibu-
ton of the receipts.
After the game Mr.. Besse stated that
hereafter the Santa Cruz nine would re-
ceive 20 per cent OF the gross receipts.
Even this is small figure, for the splen-
did personnel of the mines is respon sible
for the popularity of the game Fight
promoters give from so to rs per cent of
the gross receipts to the pugilists, and
the National Club offered so per cent of
the gross receipts for the Lavigne- Walcott
twenty-round go. Fight promoters are at
much greater expense in putting on q
battle than is the yellow Journals base
ball management in arranging for game.
1t costs from $1,000 to $500 for fight be-
lore ticket is sold.
THE GALL" said G. ]. Wilson, of Santa
Cruz, has made great tight for the ball
able work. Twenty per cent is a small
sum. in my opinion. for the players TO re-
ceive, but it is much better than 10 per
cent. 1t will be hard, however, for The
CALL to make the management prod uce
an itemized balance sheet showing what
disposition has been made OF the large
amounts taken in. All the players in
the seven clubs are anxious to see that
itemiZed balance sheet 1t would reveal
an interesting story and would be far
more entertaining than the exploits OF
Poet Miller in crossing the Chilcoot Pass
or taking the gold cure in Dawson"
TIE great disadvantage OF playing the
game with dead and cheap ball was
strikingly illustrated yesterday. Had the
regulation ball been used Santa Cruz
would have won. Strieb, the left fielder
for the visitors, struck the ball square on
the nose three times. Had the ball been a
live one all the hits would have been
three-baggers if not home-runs. AS it was
the ball in each case was pulled down by
fislders. The regulation bali is the only
bali with which to play the game. In
Recreation Park the regulation ball W ill
be used and the patrons of the game will
see some great stick work. The i'm posi-
tion of a toy balloon bali on the public is
farce. The yellow management should
make another innovation, substituting for
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