Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-22
Nebraska Athletic Board Delays Coach Roke After Another New Pche
TEAMS PUBLIC LIKES BEST
Attendance Figures of the Major
Leagues Show Surprises.
BROOKLYN DRAWS ON THE ROAD
Browns Play 60 More Than Fifty
Thousand More People Away
firm Home Than DO the
Cardinals.


NEW YORK. Jan. 2i.-Study Of the at
tendance figures for 1910. as provided by
John Foster. in a teams base ball guide,
Just out. reveals some peculiarlties of at
tendance and some rather surprising facts.
One OF these is the large total attendance
TO which the Boston club played on the
road. II is considerably bigger than the
home attendance. That in itself Is not un-
usual, but Brooklyn's total attendance
abroad also was bigger than that OF the
New York Americans. Boston Americans
or Philadelphia Americans. The Brook
lyns played TO a total Of 4ss.ss4 persons
abroad the 1ighlanders TO 444,799, the Red
Sox to 375.657 and the Athletics 70 452.J02.
BroOklyns comparatively large attend
ance abroad Is helped greatly by the $780,
900 persons to which the Brooklyn club
disported in New York. The Highlanders,
Red sox and Athletics each drew great
many more persons at home than the
Brooklyns. In fact. the Red Sox had the
biggest home attendance Of any club ex-
cept the Chicago Cubs. 1t Is surprising
that the Red sox should not have been a
bigger card away from home Their at
tendance st home was 721 $50 strikingly
disproportionate to their attendance abroad.
The figures show another singular thine
that the Boston Nationals played to more
persons on tho road than the Boston
Americans The Boston Nationals figures
abroad were 4l5,2O5.
Another seeming attendance anomaly was
the fact that the st. Louis Browns, al
though outdrawn nearly 2 to at home by
the ST. Louis Cardinals yet played to more
than 5000 more away from home than
the National leasuers Of the Mound city.
Tigers an Demand.
The Detroits were the biggest road card
I'm either league with the others coming In
the following ORDER; Giants Cubs. Pirates,
Brooklyns. Clevelands Athletes High
landers, Clncinnatis. Doves, White sox,
Phllies Washingtons. Red Sox, Browns
and Cardinals. The Cubs drew the biggest
combined home attendance with the others
following in this order; Red sox, Giants
Athletics, White Sox, Cardinals High
ianders. Cincinnatis. Pirates, Detroits
Phillies, Brooklyns. Clevelands, Washing
tons, Browns and Doves.
The Detroits played to nearly twice az
many persons on the road as at home
and other teams that did bigger road
than home business we're the Broollyns
Clevelands Phillies, Browns and Wash
ingtons There was less than 1000 differ
ence between Cincinnati's home and road
attendance.
Total attendances abroad for individual
clubs which went over 100000 werei
lGiants, in Chicago 1890; Cubs. IN New
York (this without a Sunday 900; Cubs
in Pittsburg. l07469; Cincinnati, in Chicago
10000; Giants, in Brooklyn, 10000; Pitts
burg. in Chicago, 14s,o40; Detroit in Bos.
ton, 1855; Detroit. In Philadelphia, $4,000
Highianders, in Boston. III, e9l; Athletics
in Boston, 21Os; Brooklyns in New York
10000 Therefore, the biggest business dom
by any team in another city was by thu
Giants in Chicago.
The principal combined home and road
business. was done by the following
clubs; Cubs. 1.2s5, ss5; Giants, 1897 O65
Athletics, l.9O2; Red sox, l.O97,ao7; Pitts
burg s264Gl; Highlanders, 94S2s9 whicl
figures show that the Giants played to tn,
biggest combined business.
In those cities that havs a team in eacl
league the combined National and Ameri
} can home attendance was as follows
Chicago, 1.2SO.l4s; New York, 1,ls2,OOO; Bos
ton, I.OO4,ss7; St. Louis sOO,s5O, and Phila
delphia, 954 "a
attendance FIEures.
The attendance totals at home AM
abroad we're as follows:
At Home-Boston Nationals. 1897 Bos
ton Americans, 72i.esO; Chicago Nationals
1850; Chicago Americans, 55l,559; Cleve
3 lands, 2s74l0; Cincinnati. 4S4,S7s; Detroits
; s7E7l9; New York Nationals. $50. 800 NeV
: York Americans, son. sos; Philadelphia Ma
! tionals $50 554; Philadelphia Americans SOS
7OO Pittsburgs. 4S2. 800; ST. Louis Nationals
5 81, 500; St. Louis Americans, 25S.O50; Wash
s ingtons 9gT a39 BrooklNns Az 236
Abroad-Boston Nationals, 4l5.2O5; Bosto
Americans. S75.627; Chicago Nationals, 547
O95; Chicago Americans, 40S5l6; Clevelands
49,, los; Cincinnati, AS, $40; Detroit. $50 SO!
New York Nationals. 6l6565; New Yor
= Americans. 444.7s9; Philadelphia Nationals
S9S. SIS: Philadelphia Americans, ASP so
Pittsburg, az. 92i; st. Louis Nationals. 500
1885, St Louis Americans 26i,1O6; Washinl