The Washington times., 1910-09-26

! tween the Chicago Cubs and the Phila-
delphia White Elephants are begun.
/ The fans are waiting impatIentIy for
( the curtains to be TUng down on the two
championship races and for the staging
of the big series between the teams that
hive proved TO be the best in the senior
ard junior leagues There may be an
/ coca siOnaI big turnout between now and
/ October ID. which is the day the Ma
JiOnal League season is TO end CUnIess
| Charles Webb Murphy consents to hand
N Stanley Robson 5000 for letting a
couple of games be moved forward. but
most Of the cOmbats viii be played be-
fore crowds anywhere from 2o0 to 500
strong
What money the major league mag
mates viii take il from now on will
not swell their bank accounts appreci-
ably. and they viii be just as glad as the
athletes when the season is ended.
When the attendance figures for
the present year are tabled up IL viii
be found that not as many fans as
usual passed through the turnstiIes
OF the major league parks. Probably
no club has lost money. though the
Philadelphia Nationals viii come out
'ers dallying with the hippOdrome
business. according TO Ernest LAM
san in art New York Press There
was a hippOdrOme on Forbes Field.
Pittsburg, but Barney Dreyfuss did
not run the show. and merely rented
the park at night 10 the theatrical
purveyors- In the Quaker CITY how
ever, Horace Fogel, presumably rep
resentIng the Taft-Murphy interests,
ran the show himself. and whatever
money the Philadelphia ball club
made was lost in the hippOdTOme-
Cubs Pay Best.
The Chicago Cubs undoubtedly viii
make more money this year than any
ether National or American League
Club The Peerless Leaders, COM
bination has been a strong attraction
everywhere, and II Saturday dates
had not been lost IN New York and
in Brooklyn on the first Eastern tTip
a new attendance record for a club
for a season might havs been hung
up A man Who uJSht TO SnOw say ;
that 9 webb Murphy and his 2SSO-
ciates IN tisc Windy City team viii
clear about S25e,e00 on the season
without taking into account the
money that viii 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
10 the ma gnates than he was this year
TIE COrsairs have dCce a big business
on the road and DlEyeu TO fair crowds
at home. The Polo ErOunders have
been potent box-Off1Ce attractions in
Chicago. PittSbuTg, Brooklyn and St
Louis, and President Frush has no COM
plant 10 make Of the Way the team has
been DatrOnized AZ home though he
probably sishs 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 q lot Of
money for their owner NJ Stanley Robi-
son the Mound City fans resenting the
actions of Robert Lee Hedges in &C
u,Iirir- 2 bUn-h Of minor IeaSuers to
represent them IN the American League.
The Pajahs played good ball in the early
part OF the season and the four games
they won from the Giants on the flrst
trip of the New Yorks 20 the West help
ed them to establish a clientele that they
kept almost all -year-
Robson paid big money to land
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 II, while the proprietor Of the
Cardinals was determined TO give
them a pennant winner II he possibly
could. St. Louis was the only city
represented by two clubs in which the
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the American League entry
Stand OF In New York.
It was about an even stand-Off in
New York patronage between the
Giants and the Hfghlanders. The
crowds at the Polo Grounds on Satur-
days were possibly larger than those
that jourReyed TO the Hilltop park for
weekend, but the daily turnouts
TO see the HighlandeTs were larger
than those that watched the Giants
perform The HiiltOpDers probably
than ever before.
In Philadelphia the American League
bad the cream OF the patronage, and in
Boston the conditions were the same.
In Chicago the Cubs drew more persons
TO their games than did the Sox. but
Old Roman Ccmiskey IS not complain
ing about poverty OF poor attendance.
while g. Webb Murphy got real peeved
when he noticed the big turn-outs al
the new South Side Park and inserted
an advertisement IN the newspapers
after TIE Highlanders and the SOx
played before a crowd said 20 have been
above the 32,OO0 mark. which read as
follows:
"BasebaII-Today at ;. West Side Park.
Cubs vs. St. Louis Chicago IS all right
as a show town II you deliver the goods
the Cubs have no kick on attend
ance."
Fake Attendance Figures.
Few magnstes announce the real at
tendance at the games, preferTing to let
the scribes guess at it. It is certainty
that only one or two ball yards-the
South Side Park in Chicago and the
Polo Grounds in New Tork-accommo-
date 1890 persons Yet II was twice an
nOunced in the Chicago papers that the
Cubs played this year before crowds
more than $500 strong
Should the West Side grounds in Chi
casO be taxed to their capacity at arv
one Of the battles TO be played between
the Cubs and the White Elephants some
Of the members Of the Windy CITY
troupe are likely to accuse the represen-
tstiveS Of the National Commission OF
knocking down" after the paid attend
anCe is announced. A ball PLAYER looks
around at q crowd that fills the grounds
and OVeTfOWs on to field and reads in
the papers during the championship
season. that 5000 bugs turned out to
see the combat The same crowd be-
comes about 22.0o0 in games conducted
under the auspices OF She National Com
mission The athlete then assumes that
the National Commission needing the
money, has appropriated some 5000 ad-
mission fees and suggests that the play
ers have a representative on the gate.
Below Expectations