The times., 1898-10-19
THE WORLD OF SPORTS
Ball Season of '9S Most Disas.
trOus in Leagues History.
THREE CLUBS MAKE MONEY
They Are Boston. Chicago, and Cfn-
cinnnti-Ncw York Quits About
$4,000 Loser-Ear1 Wagner Drops
xI4OOO-orioIes Finish $4,000 on
Other sporting News.

The end OF the baseball season of 1888
finds only three clubs-Boston, Chicago
and Cincinnaii-ahead In financial sense.
The Washington Club quits about sl4VOV
loser This has been the worst year IN
wagner's baseball experience OF sixteen
years during seven of which he has been
in control of the Senators.
One OF the heaviest losers is New York.
Neither President Freedman nor Treas
urer Mccall viii discuss the disastrous
showing made by the Giants. but II IS
stated that the losses Will amount TO not
less than si0Oe0. The attendance at the
Polo Grounds was by far the smallest ever
seen there
Brooklyn has not such an expensive
team as Manhattan, bu; its losses are al
most as great 1t is the same old story
In Brooklyn every year. F. A. Abell, the
principal owner, is obliged TO pay from
SI0,000 TO $4,000 for the pleasure of owning
a club, but, like the game sportsman
that he is. he smilingly pays up and
makes plans for the next year He has
lost. IL is said, over Sl00oOo in baseball in
the last few years.
n Chicago Club stockholder places the
balance ON the right side of the ledger at
$5e,coo President Hart remarks: Il be-
Neve there Will be a big revival in inter-
est in baseball next year. The war was
big handicap this season, but notwith-
Standing that our home games were great
financial successes. The outside patron
age was not up 10 expectations"
President Pllliam OF the Louisville club
says: Token merely as a matter of dol
lars gN...-
season. How much. am not able TO say.
but the lowest estimate / would make
would he &.@4. This loss has been due TO
tbs slump iu attendance away from home,
where business feil OF % per cent. II we
had done as well away from home as we
have at home We would have made
money
The season from the Boston directors
standpoint has been fairly successful. IL
IS estimated that the MessTs. S0den. Bill
lings and C0nant viii divide between &1-
00j and $4,000, not bad seasons work.
though no doubt considerably less than
they have pooketed at the close OF some
seasons in the past.
The pas; season has been the most dis
astrous one financially IN the history of
the Philadelphia club. According 10 Col
John j. Rogers. treasurer Of the club. the
management has lost between $4,000 and
sz5.Oo9 during the past four months
hurst says that the only hope for ST.
Louis he can see Is for the Clevelands 10
20 there. He frankly states that he knows
of no man or men who Will back the
Browns for another season. and. in fact,
II looks as though the Browns Will cease
10 exist unless some angels" come to the
front. The season has not been a disas-
trous, one financially to the team. he says.
The team proper wound up the season
about 1900 TO the good, but this, and
more, too, was used up in paying old bills.
so that really the team is loser on the
season
The Cleveland club officials decline 10
state how the season has left them
financially. They have opposed every ele-
ment that usually supports a club and
hence change in management or no
club is the prospect for next year
President Watkins of Pittsburg will not
say anything about the financial results,
but from another source the owners of
the team figure that the war cost them
from So, 900 to $4,000. Watkins sees suc-
cess in the future
If Manager Hanlon of Baltimore has
Tailed up his losses he is not willing to
give the exact figures. but he makes no
bones about admitting that he has come
out at the small end of the horn The
war, the weather man and schedule
maker Nick Young stand out most
prominently in Hanlon's grievances.
Nick Young is authority for the state
ment that the Baltimore club, second in
the pennant race, lost Sl5,OO0, and that
seven clubs in the league lost a total of
S15,000 on the season.