The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-19
HOW THE MONEY
WAS DIVIDED
W:
FIRST Championship Game
. Played Before a Small
H.. Crowd

N Going back to the start. the first
baseball team which won a worlds
championship was the great Provi-
senee team managed BY Fsa1k e;
league championship with eighty-four
games won and twenty.eight lost,
their percentage being $50, and aft
erward defeated the Metropolitans in
the first post-season series ever played.
Radbourne, considered one Of the most
wonderful pitchers in basebairs his
moving against the Metropolitans.
The Nets lost all three games. the
scores being 60, 81 and lip.
The mex year Pop Anson's Chicago
team. after winning the National
.eagae pennant with a 40 percentage
met st. Louis in a series of seven
aoted pitcher Clarkson. Billy Sunday.
F. S. Flint. NJ. Kelley and others. The
series resulted in a tie. as each team
lost three games and won three. The
other was a draw. The total receipts
Tor these games was $4,000. In those
days this was a rather large amount
for a series of this character. The
:r to interest the whole country as
those Of today do. A $4,000 gate at
The Polo grounds nowadays. even
though on a threatening day. would
oe considered a poor days work.
The two teams played again for the
title in 1886, the following year. and
his time the st. Louisians were sue
%. Chicago's two.
Change In 1887.
The year 1887 witnessed a change
in the matter Of gate receipts. That
rear the Detroit team. managed by ".
H. Watkins. played a series Of four
teen games. eight of which were
played on the road with a st. Louis
victories. The two teams showed in
New York. Brooklyn. Chicago, Balti-
more. Philadelphia. Boston and Wash
ington, besides in their home towns.
The total receipts for the series was
$4,000.
her Of the National league. played its
first worlds series in 1888 with the
st. Louis team. Ten games were play
ed, four in New York. four in st.
Louis and each in Brooklyn and
Philadelphia. New York won six Of
them. The total gate receipts were
s~24.3s2.1o.
In 1889 Brooklyn and New York en-
gagged in a post-season series. Of which
tai receipts were $23.62S. The follow
Ing year Brooklyn and Louisville play
ed to a tie in a seven game series. n
of them being a tie game. This series
was made up the following year.. when
Boston defeated Cleveland five games
to ono for the two easons.
81 From ,%n 1 1891 to c 1897 Play s %as he'll, held
New York beat the Baltimore team in
four games. The receipts were $751;
900. two Of the games being played in
New York. Baltimore lost the second
series to Cleveland by four games to
one. The receipts were $14.760. They
played again in 1896. This time Bal
timore took four straight. The last
year the Temple cup was played for,
in 1897, the Baltimores were again
successful. They beat Boston four
games to one. From this time until
1903 no worlds championship games
were played.
Tightening Ever Since.
its first stranglehold on the public. It
has been Eighteenth" - ever since. The
country marveled when Pittsburg and
Boston drew 100,429 persons to the
first real worlds series. which began
in 1903 under the national commits
sion. BY agreement provisions were
made whereby the players on the con-
Of the receipts as we'll as club own
ers. Eight games were played and
Boston got FIVE Of the victories. For
their part in the series each player
received $1,1S2. whereas the Pittsburg
men each received $1,316.25. The
reason why the losers received more
than the winners was because the
crowds in the smoky city were larger
than those which attended the games
in the hub.
The next title play was made in
1905, the year the Giants beat the
Athletics four out Of five. This series
drew 91,723 persons and the total
receipts amounted to $6s.435. The
players share reached a total Of $27,-
394.20. the Giants share being $780,
545.S6 and the Athletics $~6,S4s.34.
The national commissions share was
$34.170.03, New York's portion being
$17,0e5.02 and Philadelphia's $17,-
0S6.01.
The Cubs-White Sox series Of 1906,
which the sox won by four games to
two. drew 1886 fans. The total re-
ceipts were $106. $50: $~e2.4s3.30 was
split up between the two clubs and
$10,655 went to the national commits
sion. The players share totaled $780,
401.70 and OF this amount the sox
got $26.051.2s and the Cubs $s,350.42.
Out of hve games played in the
1907 series. Chicago won four. the
other being a thirteen inning tie.
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