The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-10-11
large RETURNS
FROM BASEBALL
ESTIMATED 100000 FANS WILL
wITNTSS WORLDS CHAMP
IoNsHiP SERIES GAMES
THIS YEAR.

baseball men who are financially in
terested in the forthcoming series be-
tween the Cubs and Athletics have
estimated that If seven games are re-
less than 100000 paid admissions will
be recorded by the turnstiles. Such a
record would afford a marvellous con-
trast to that of the first worlds SET
ies-between the Providence and Met
yopolitan teams i'm 1SS4-when fewer
than 5000 people were present in the
entire series.
The climax i'm both attendance and
receipts i'm a post season championship
series was reached in 1909 when 1884,
4i4 people paid $1SS,30250 to see the
seven games between the Pirates and
Tigers.
No very great attention was paid to
the worlds series until 1887, when the
Detroit and st. Louis teams-winners
i'm the National league and the Ameri
can association respectively-not only
played Is games for the championship,
but played a number of them on the
road, plan that many fans believe
could be revived with great success
now.
If the series between the Athletics
and Cubs could be extended to 20
games-eleven victories being requir-
ed to win the championships could
be arranged to play at least one game
L.. Al N oil ri m Ia mo
jor leagues, leaving the concluding or
deciding games To be played in Chica-
go and Philadelphia.
The fans of Cleveland as we'll as
of all other cities not In the running.
would surely turn out in enormous
numbers To see the battle between the
a.nts of the masterful Mack and the
mighty Chance.
Following the series between the
Metropolitan and the Providence teams
i'm 1884 came the clash between the
Chicago Nationals and the st. Louis
Browns i'm 1885. Six games were play
ed, the series ending i'm a tie.
The real interesting fact about this
series of 1885 is that the players share
of the receipt amounted to exactly
$I1.70 for each man.
Last year the % Pittsburg players
divided $i0.154 and the 20 Detroit
players $26,769.
Real worlds championship series
real In point of worldwide interest
big crowds and big receipts. were in
augurated i'm 1908, when the Boston
Americans beat the Pittsburg Pirates
in five out of eight games, each Bos-
ton player getting s1,1S2 and each
Pittsburg player S1,S16-President
Dreyfuss turning over the Plttsburg
clubs share of the receipts to his men.
There was no post-season cham.
pionship series in 1904, but in 1905 the
Giants and Athletics played five games
before 91,723 people the receipts be-
ing $6s,436.
Subsequent series for the champion
ship-up to 19O9-have all been enor-
mously profitable. In 1906, when the
Cubs and Sox fought II out-all six
games played in Chicago-the attend
ance was 99,S46 and the receipts $780,,
$50. In 1907 the Cubs and Tigers
played five games-one a tie-before
7SO6S people. The receipts were $101,-
727, In 1908 the same two teams play
ed another five-game series, the at
tendance reaching total of 62,232,
while the receipts were $94,975.
Dipping into history for another
comparison between the old days and
the new II is found that in 1888 the
Giants and Browns drew $24,362 in
gate money for ten games. and the
Giants and Brooklyns $16.362.1O for
nine games in 1889.