The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-10-25
SEVENTH WORLDS SERIES
Nationals Have Won Four and Amer
leans Three-1910 Attendance

Nationals Have Won Four and Amer
leans Three-1e1o Attendance
The victory of the Philadelphia Ath
letics ever the Chicago Cubs Sunday
closing the worlds series, brings the
highest honors in baseball to the Am
erican League for the first time since
1906, when the same Cubs lost the
series to Fielder Jones White Sox. As
in the present instance, the Cubs
went into the series strong favorites
over their American League rivals,
and wise baseball prediction was bad
lily shatterd when the White Sox took
four of the six games played. In 1907
the Cubs regained their prestige by
taking four straight games from De
troit, after the first game had ended
in a tie, and in 1908 the Cubs again
defeated the Tigers, winning four OF
, the five games played. Last year
Pittsburg kept the worlds title in
National League society by taking
four out of seven games from De-
troit.
The series just closed is the sew
enth between the two major leagues
as they are constituted at present,
and the National League has been vic
torious four times against three for
the American league. Boston and
Pittsburg began the present system
of interleague series in 1903, and at
that time the clubs decided on nine
games. Boston brought the first
championship to the American Leag-
ne by winning four straight games,
after losing three Of the first four
.nlayed In 1904 when the New York
Nationals and Boston Americans won
in their respective leagues. New York
declined to MAY a series, and that
winter the National Commission made
q ruling that the winning teams of
the two leagues should meet each fall
in series Of seven games, or until
one team had won four games.
The New York Nationals and the
phiiadelnhia Americans were the
first teams to compete under this ar
rangement, and the National Leag-
uers had an easy time. winning four
out Of five games. This series was
featured by five shutout games. In
1906 the Chicago White Sox, after
breaking even in the first four games
with the Cubs, won two in succession
thereby taking the series. In 1907
the Cubs and the Detroit Tigers plav-
ed five games. The first resulted In
a tie score, to 3, and the Cubs won
the neyt four, allowing the Tigers no
more than one run in any game. In
the 1908 series the same teams met
Eve times. Detroit winning the third
game and Chicago the other four.
Last year. when Pltsburg won in the
National League and Detroit captured
IT'S third successive flag In the John
son organization, the series went the
entire seven Games Pittsburg won
the first, third and fifth and Detroit
took the second. fourth and sixth. In
the nlavoff ihePirates BANKED the TT.
GERS 10 q.
The total attendance at the five
games lust PLAYED nv the Cubs and
Athletics was 124219. This does not
break the attendance record estab-
'ished last year by Pittsburg and De.
troit 145,295. but It is 1000 better
than the attendance OF the first five
games last year. The total receipts
amount to s174.0OO which is $4,000
less than the total receipts for seven
games last year. The players share
nj the receipts this year surpasses the
best previous figure by more than IL.
600. Bv an arrangement made this
year the Cubs and Athletics were able
to share in the Sunday receipts. The
amount OF money which goes TO tho
two teams is s79071.93 of which
amount the Athletics get 60 per cent
or SS1.62S.77. According to the Nat
ional Commission, twenty-three mem
bers OF each team are eligible Il
share in the Drize money so the indiv
idual share for each Philadelphis
plaver will be s2062.74 and for each
Chicagoan s1.375.16. Each club own
er win receive $3S,765.0S and the
National Commission gets s17soS OF