The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-01
Whether Giants Win or
WhetherM ackmenCop
Players w orr Suffer.
WORK VERY HARD,
But RETURNS ZIG
Receipts of Worlds Series Will
Break All Records With Fair
Weather - Comparing Play
ers, Man for Man, Gives
Little Real satisfac-
ton.
ny GUS ,rALpERT.

III pbs MALUERT.
How would you like TO be 4 member
'of the 1911 world series contenders?
This is ono phase of the great base
Dali war TO be settled during q siege
OF seven days beginning at the Polo
Grounds on Saturday, October Ia when
Inc Giants. winners OF the champion
,ship In the National League. viii be-
gin 10 battle for world honors with the
,Athletics, present holders OF tho title.
(which will appeal to all
me National Commission provides for
n series OF seven games. but 1t is very
ihire9uent that that number Is re-
iauired. Last year the Athletics need
cd just fire games TO tame the Cubs. In
seven years OF play only once has the
entire number OF games been played.
Nhat was in 1909, when Pittsburg and
detroit were the contenders: The re-
ieeipts reached highwater mark then an
aggregate OF 1925 people paying a
total admission OF slss.302 90 to SEQ
ahe games, Last year, with only I'VE
games played. l2i,42l fans went
through the turnstlles and they paid
,Sl74.ooe for the privilege. When this
was split UP Il was found that the
National Commission had received s1T.-
Hos.o3; each OF the clubs {si.226.4U
while tho players took as their Bit
che tidy sum of S7s,07le3. AS there
were exactly t~enty-three players on
each team. and as the winning team
received GO per cent. and the losing
- per cent of the total. the Athletics
each carried away in their stocking
32,os2.7s. while tho poor Cubs go,
only $i.375is, And at least on two
lnut Of the Ave days OF play. the crowd
was held down by bad weather.
Not bad Days Work.
Going little further into the stats
tics OF the games last year. IL will be
found that each OF the Athletic play
ers was paid at the rate OF s4l5 day
and the Cubs at the rate OF 1875 a day.
Pretty nice compensation when each
ray's work was completed in little more
than two hours.
In the very nature OF things the
crowd will be larger this year than
last In the first place the combined
population OF Philadelphia and New
York is far greater than the combined
population of Philadelphia and Chica-
go. UnQuestionably the country out
side OF the two cities is far moro popu-
2ous than the country surrounding Chi
cago. The further fact that II is but n
short ride from Philadelphia to New
York is going to Keep many OF the
visitors in the two cities. These visit
tors could not see all of the games were
they split between the East and the
West. Conservative estimators say
that at least 100000 people vii see
the games II as many as FIVE are play
fd but this number viii be considerably
Increased should the entire series be
necessary Under these conditions the
players share will be augmented, espe-
cialiy because the number of eligible
players will be less than last year.
Now comes the question as to which
team Will enjoy the lions share of the
spoils. VIII 1t be tho Giants or the
Elephants? Il you are able to pick the
winner you can make more money than
the players Even so astute a Judge of
players as Hughie Jennings Is unwIll-
sng to give an opinion The best he
will say Is that 1T Is a gamble. Com
parsons are always odious in ,neasur-
ing the ability of ball players where
but scant opportunityis given TO gauge
the relative playing strength of each,
but these comparisons are always made,
sometimes with disastrous results, as
when the majority of writer's last year
predicted that Johnny Killing would
show up Ira Thomas, the backstop of
,the Athletics.
Pitchers VIII Figure.
It is going to be series OF pitching
huels. say the wise ones. That's Just
what they said last year. but when
Brown was moved down and IL re-
l,nained for Cole to win the only game
won by the Cubs there was wild
rush for the rear on the part OF the
prognosticators. Now 1t is Matty and
Marquard against Bender and Coombs
!But both Connie and McGraw have
hittins teams, and, somehow or other,
theories as TO the ability of pitchers
seem to lose out when the willow Is
being welded with telling effect.
In 1905. when the Giants defeated
Fhe Athletics four out OF five games.
bt is said that Ban Johnson. who was
very anxious for his team to win, sug-
gested that Mac have the assistance of
Clarke Griffith. whose word was then
lconsidered the final say in baseball
matters. Connie would have none of 1t.
TT have a hitting team" he replied
when the suggestion was made. "The
men are not hitting now and they are
losing. If they hit they will win"
They didn't hit and the Giants won out.
Last year similar suggestion was
made and Mack's reply was the same.
but his team did hit and tho Cubs
Suffered.
Comparison of Players.
Getting back to the comparison of
khe mon. 1t looks as IL the Giants had
Nhe better of the argument at frst.
Fred Merkle Is bctter than Jack Nc
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