Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-09-28

players. while Hedges didn't. and the
fans of St Louis got the idea that the
owner of the Browns was in the bust
ness only for the coin he could make
out Of il, while the proprietor Of the
Cardinals was determined to give
them pennant winner II he possibly
could. ST. Louis was the only city
represented by two clubs in which the
National League outfit far outdrew
the American League entry.
Stand on In New York.
II was about an even stand-of in
New York patronage between the
Giants and the Highlanders. The
crowds at the Polo Grounds on Satur-
days were possibly larger than those
that journeyed to the Hilltop park for
weekend. but the daily turnouts
to see the Highlanders were larger
than those that watched the Giants
perform. The Hilltoppers probably
made more money at home this year
than ever before.
In Philadelphia the American League
had the cream Of the patronage, and
in Boston the conditions we're the
same In Chicago the Cubs drew more
persons TO their games than did the
SoX, but Old Roman Comiskey is not
complaining about poverty or poor
attendance, while G. Webb Murphy
got real peeved when he noticed the
big turn-outs at the new South Side
Park and inserted an advertisement
In the newspapers after the Highland
ers and the Sox played before a
crowd said TO have been above tho
$4,000 mark, which read as follows
Baseball-Today at 3. West Side
Park, Cubs VS.. st. Louis. Chicago is
all right as show town n you de-
liver the goods the Cubs have nc
kick on attendance
Fake Attendance Figures.
Few Vagnates announce the real at
tendance at the games, preferring "a
let the scribes guess at IL. It Is a
certainty that only one or two ball
yards-the South Side Park In Chi
cago and the Polo Grounds I'm New
York accommodate $4,000 persons.
Yet Il was twice announced in the
Chicago papers that the Cubs played
this year before crowds more than
$4,000 strong.
Should the West Side grounds in
Chicago be taxed TO their capacity at
any one of the battles to be played
between the Cubs and the White Ele-
plants some of the members Of the
Windy City troupe are likely to ac-
cuse the representatives of the Ma
tional Commission of knocking down"
after the paid attendance is announc-
ed. A ball player looks around at a
crowd that fills the grounds and over
flows on to field and reads In the pap
ers during the championship season.
that 10000 bugs turned out to see
the combat. The same crowd becomes
about $4,000 in games conducted under
the auspices of the National Commits
sion. The athlete then assumes that
the National Commission. needing the
money, has appropriated some 5000
admission fees and suggests that the
players have a representative on the
gate.
Below Expectations.
There have been mighty few 10000
crowds at games this year, but there
have been many assemblages above
the 10000 mark. No major league
club has lost money. but many of the
teams have not made as much coin
as their owners expected 10 make.
The biggest moneymalSer OF all this
year was the Chicago National League
club, with the Giants fair second IN
the older organization, followed in
order by Pittsburg. St. Louis, Gin
cinnati, Brooklyn, Philadelphia an,
Boston.
In the American League the Boston
Red SoX and Detroit Tigers probabl,
have made more money for John /
Taylor and Frank ]. Navin. respec
lively, than have the Highlanders FOL
Frank J. Farrell or the Athletics fol
Benjamin r. Shibe. Comiskey's team
has prospered at home and shared IN
some big gates on the road
Washington Does Well.
Washington has had great season
such a good one. I'm fact. that Jim
McAleer has been re-engaged as the
pilot for the next three years at an
annual stipend of $4,000 and has been
presented with a block OF stock be-
sides. The Maps have prospered, and
the only club that hasn't made a good
sized sum Is ST. Louis.