Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-09-28
CUBS WILL MAKE
THE MOST MONEY
National League Winners
Greatest Drawing Card
on the Road
FALSE ATTENDANCE
FIGURES PUT OUT

No tremendous assemblages are eX-
pected in any ball yard this year until
the battles for the worlds honors be-
tween the Chicago Cubs and the Phila
delphis White Elephants are begun.
The fans are waiting impatiently for
the curtains to be rung down on the
two championship races and for the
staging Of the big series between
the teams that have proved to be the
best In the senior and junior leagues.
There may be an occasional big turn
out between now and October Is,
which is the day the National League
season is to end (unless Charles Webb
Murphy consents to hand M. Stanley
Robson $1,000 for letting a couple Of
games be moved forward, but most
OF the combats viii be played before
crowds anywhere from 200 to 5000
strong.
What money the major league mag
mates will take in from now on VIA
not swell their bank accounts appre-
Gladly. and they viii be just as glad
AS the athletes whom the season is
ended
When the attendance figures for
the present year are tabled up Il will
be found that moi as many fans as
usual passed through the turnstiles
OF the major league parks Probably
no club has lost money though the
Philadelphia Nationals will come out
on the wrong end. caused by the own
ers dallying with the hippodrome
business according TO Ernest Lani-
gan. There was hippodrome on
Forbes Field. Pittsburg, but Barney
Dreyfuss did not run the show. and
merely rented the park at night TO the
theatrical puryeyors. In the Quaker
City. however. Horace FogeL presum-
ably representing the Taft-Murphy in
forests. ran the show himself and
whatever money the Philadelphia ball
club made was lost in the hippo
drOme.
Cubs Pay Best
The Chicago Cubs undoubtedly Will
make more money this year than any
other National or American League |
Club The Peerless Leaders com
has been a strong attraction 1
everywhere. and If Saturday dates /
had not been lost I'm New York and |
in Brooklyn on the first Eastern trip /
a new attendance record for club /
for a season might have been hung /
up. A man who ought 20 know says |
that G. Webb Murphy and his asso-
ciates in the Windy City team will |
clear about s250O00 on the season
without taking into account the
money that will be received from the
worlds series.
In the National League the Pirates
and Giants have done fairly WELL but
neither team has drawn as II drew IN
1903, when Jupiter Pluvius was kinder
to the magnates than he was this year.
The Corsairs have done big business
on the road and played 10 fair crowds
at hdurTr The Roic groupders have
been potent box-office attractions in
Chicago. Pittsburg. Brooklyn and St
Louis. and President Brush has no
complaint 10 make OF the way the
team has been patronized at home,
though he probably signs when he
thinks of how much cash escaped by
the actions Of the Storm King in the
early part of the season.
Why Cardinals Drew.
The St Louis Cardinals made a lot
of money for their owner. NJ Stanley
Robson the Mound City fans resent
ing the actions OF Robert Lee Hedges
IN acquiring a bunch Of minor lea
guers to represent them in the Amer
ican League. The Rajahs played good
ball IN the early part OF the season,
and the four games they won from
the Giants on the first trip OF the
New Yorks to the West helped them
10 establish a clientele that they kept
almost all year.
Robson paid big money TO land