Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-02
TWELVE HUNDRED TO THE GOOD
Loss Of Three Hundred Dollars from
Previous Year.
SUCCESS IN SPITE OF BAD LUCl
Foot Ball, the Money Maker, Pulls
Others Out of Hole.
EXPENSES HIGHER THAN BEFORE
Deficit for Base Ball Higher Than
for Several seasons-Basket Ball
Looks UD-Receipts from
Games Compared.


Games Compared.
LINCOLN, Jan. overwhelmingly
: OF Nebraska athletics were financially sue
sessful for the year OF 1909. The annual
report Of the Board OF Control, issued to-
day, shows a credit balance for all Corn
h1sker sports Of S,214.S2.. This in con-
trast with the report for 1905, which re-
vealed a deficit of $S24.s2 and isan enc
couraglng sign TO the management, for 1t
!s proof that university athletics can be
made to pay despite poor success by the
various teams of the institution In play
ing their games-and the year of 1909 pro-
duced no victorious teams for Nebraska.
The total receipts for the five sprts
recognized by the athletic board-foot ball,
base ball, basket ball, track and cross
oountry-were S2S, s2O.5S and the expendi-
lures in the same branches were S22, OO6. 26.
Besides the amount placed to the debit
account OF the five sports there was a sum
Of s5,O25.49 charged to general expendl-
lures that was used in equipping the new
athletic field.
Though the receipts fer the sports In
toto exceeded the expenditures, only one
branch produced a credit balance. 1t was
foot ball; the four other sports lost money,
cross-country not even making a cent, but
causing an expenditure Of S162. 40 for equip
ping and sending a team 10 the western
intercollegiate meet at Chicago.
Foot ball brought a surplus of 81. SS9.33 for
the season, which had to be drawn upon
to pay the deficit incurred by the other
sports, amounting to 81 ,175.01. TIL deficit
in track athletics was the largest, being
$7S6. 66, or $104.57 more than 1t was In 1908.
The expenditures were much more than
they had ever been before. this being oo-
casioned by the expense of maintaining a
training table for the cinder path athletics,
a burden the sport never had been forced
to bear before last spring.
Base Ball Deficit.
In base ball the deficit was larger than
1t had been In several seasons, amounting
to S21477. In 1907 the deficit was only
1914 and in 1908 1t was but $6S.SS. The
reason for the Increased defitit Of last
year is found In the fact that the Corn
huskers had to play their games at Ante
lope park and pay tribute to the Western
league management for the use of that
ground.
Basket ball gave the lowest deficit since
1907, being behind only S12.1S. The basket
bali games at home and those on the
regular schedule made money for the Corn
huskers, but the championship series for
the premier honors in the valley, which
were played at Kansas City after the close
of the regular season, did not pay well
and the expenses of meeting the jay
hawkers there ate UP the surplus that had
been accumulated during the season,
The foot ball receipts were larger in 1909
than they were in the previous season,
although two more games were played In
1908 than In 1909. ten being on the schedule
year before last. Then, too, the games
away from home in 1909 did not profit the
cornhuskers so we'll as they did in 1908,
showing that the games In Lincoln PAID
very well.
Al omaha the cornhuskers did not fare
so we'll financially in 1903, as they did the
year before. The Ames game In 1908 gave
the Nebraskans, as their share, $2t3O.79, and
fhe Minnesota game last fall gave them
Ea,S57.72, but out of this latter sum the
s-~ornhuskers were forced to take money to
erect bleachers and transport them to Lin
coin after the game, so that they were
not Melted as much in 1909 as in 1908.
For the Ames game in19Os the receipts
were slightly less than they were last fall
at the Minnesota game in Omaha. In 1908
the receipts OF the Ames game were $6,022.65
and in 1903 the receipts Of the Minnesota
game were $6.S5O5O. In 1908 the Dletz Park
association received s91S.9 for the use
OF III field and last fan William Rourke
was given 10 per cent OF the gross receipts
for the use OF Vinton street park and this
amounted to $6S5.@. The Dietz Park as
sociati0n's share OF the receipts for the
Ames game was larger than Rourke's share
OF the Minnesota receipts, because the
former equipped the park with bleachers,
and last fall the Nebraska management
was under the expense Of doing this job.
In 1908 for playing at Minneapolis the
Gate ReeeiDts Compared.
Cornhuskers were given $3.59S7S as their
share; In 1909 for playing the same team
at Omaha they received a sum that was
only t,7S6OI less than their share at Min
neapolis, with two big cities to draw from.
Last fall when Iowa played in Lincoln
the receipts were only Sl.2S1, and for the
Kansas game here the year before were
but s2.o64. The receipts for the Kansas
game In 1908 were about 1900 less than for
the observation-disclosures game in Lawrence
the year before. The Nebraska manager
says the receipts OF the Iowa game look
mighty small In comparison with the
t6.O22.@ taken In at the Ames game in
Onaha in 1905.
The Kansas game last fall Melted the
Cornhuskers more money than the Mime
sofa game. The receipts were S,55s. less
than the Gopher game. but the expenses
OF this game az Omaha were larger than
for the Jayhawker game at Lincoln. The
receipts for the KaIsas contest were the
largest eyer taken in at q foot ball game
81 Lincoln. The exceptional interest taken
In the Kansas game was due TO the deep
rivalry between the teams and the fact
that the game settled Nebraska's cham
pionship aspirations.
AT Denver, when the Cornhuskers played
the University OF Denver, the crowd was a
disappointment. and the cOrnhuskers Sc