The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-13
Started 90 Years Ago Grows
Yearly In Popularity.
Baseball Commission Arranges
All of the Details.
PLAN SATISFACTORY.
Division Of the Gate Money Was
a Serious Problem.
How 1t Is Arranged and How
Clubs and Players Fare.

Chicago, Oct 13.-Some % years ago
the first worlds series was played
when the st. Louis Browns. winners of
the association honors. defeated the
Chicagos, and again the following
year duplicated their then unheard of
feat. In 1887 Detroit got the baseball
laurels supreme. It was during the
big four" regime.
Then followed series after series,
gradually the play becoming more pop
ular until the exposion of the Ameri-
can Association and finally in 1900 the
reorganization of it in the name of the
American League. The Boston Ameri-
can League club was twice winner of
the honors. New York Giants won
It once, defeating the Philadelphia Ath-
letics in 1905. In 1906 the White Sox
defeated the Cubs in that memorable
series. Last season Detroit fell before
the -prowess of Chances men.
Pilots of the pennant winners who
guide their clubs through a nerve-rack-
ing season attending to their players
every want, lie back and rest during
the worlds series. for every detail is
taken from out of. their hands during
the worlds series. Four years ago af-
ter the failure of New York and Bos-
ton to meet in worlds series frey
baseball's national commission, that all
powerful board consisting of Garry
Hermann, Harry Pulliam and Ban
Johnson, handed out an edict which
stated that they and they alone would
attend to the driving of the worlds
play.
And the plan has been eminently
satisfactory, dispoSing at once of the
various rumors and arguments of foul
play from player and spectator, which
was so wont to arise in series gone by.
Following Immediately the action of the
commission in taking over the series
this annual play became immensely
more popular.
The division of the gate money of
the worlds series is as follows:
Ten per cent Of all the receipts go to
the national commission for expenses.
Last season in the series between De-
troit and Chicago this amounted to-
more than $4,000.
OF the 80 per cent remaining-in the first
four games-the players receive go per cent
and the club owners 40 per cent.
After the first four days the total
amount taken in-barring the 10 per cent
belonging to the commission-goes to the
owners of the two clubs
The club owners share is always equal
~ divided regardless of results.
The players share is divided on the basis
OF 60 per cent to the winners and 40 per
cen. to thu losers.
An innovation this season Is the rule pro-
hlt6itinS CLUB 3t owners from oeTi1g
as provided in the rules. 1t was back in
1908 that the Pittsburg Pirates though de-
feated for the all-chamD ionship by the
Boston Americans, Jared better financially
than did their rivals through the generos-
ity OF their owner, who added to the play
ers' share the entire amount belonging to
the club. When the Athletics lost to the
Giants in 1905 they. too. were given the
club owners share together with what
was legitimately coming to them.
In 1906 Comiskey. the big hearted owner
of the Chicago White Sox gave his play
ers Sic, 900 besides their regular share for
winning from the Cubs. President Yaw-
key OF the Tigers last season handed the
losing Tigers $4,000 for their valiant SER
rIaNnFg fhaYfl-
selves something likt $4,000.
The Cubs share OF the receipts last
season was something like So, 600 and |
to make $4,000.
The wisest ruling made by the national |
commission was that the players should |
share only in the first four games. AS |
four victories decide the championship |
this regulation prevented any talk OF |
needlessly prolonging the series on the |
part of the players for the sake of better /
Ing themselves financially