New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-08
MUCH GOLD TO PLAYERS.
Winners in the Worlds Series
May Earn 81, 900 Each.
ALL RECORDS IN DANGER
Two Leagues Now in a Tie at
Four Flags Each for High
est Honors of Baseball.

The worlds series between the Giants
and Red Sox which starts at the Polo
Grounds this afternoon will break the ex-
listing tic between the American and Ma
tional League In the number OF cham
pionships won. Each organization has
captured four remnants in the eight
series played, the total attendance for
the contests running up 10 ssl. sG4 and the
receipts TO 81, 81. $50 20. Forty-sev games
have been played Of which the National
League contenders have won twenty-four
and their opponents twenty-five, one
game ending in a tie.
All records for attendance and receipts
were broken in the series between the
Giants and Athletics last year. when 17e. sci
fans" paid S42364 80 to see the games
With larger seating capacity at the
Boston grounds than at Shibe Park, in
Philadelphia, new figures ought 10 be
set this year. The players on the winning
team picked UP 81. coo apiece and the losers
got $500 each last season. II would not
be surprising II the winners share ran
UP 10 1900 each this year
Although there were many so-called
worlds championship games played early
In the history OF baseball, the first be-
tween the American and National leagues
came In 1865, when the Red Sox won five
out OF eight games from the Pittsburgh
Pirates. The Giants won the National
League pennant iE 1904, but John T.
Brush, because his bitterness toward the
American League had not died down, re-
fused to play the Red Sox for the title.
In 1906. however, the difficulties were
patched up by the national commission,
which took charge. and the Giants de-
feated the Athletics in four OF the five
games played, Mathewson winning three
Of them. In 1906 the two Chicago teams
met. the Cubs going down to defeat at
the hands Of the White Sox I'm four out Of
six games, although the Cubs had one
of the greatest baseball machines ever
developed and set a new mark OF 1l6 VIC
tories for season. a record which has
never been equalled.
Only five games were necessary TO decide
the championship In 1907. when the Cubs
and Detroit Tigers met Chicago winning
four straight victories, the first game
being a thirteen inning tie. The same
teams battled again in 1905. Chicago win
ming four out Of five The following year
Pittsburgh and Detroit had a bitter strug-
gle for honors. the series going the full
limit Of seven for the first and only time
in history before the Pirates were de-
clared the winners. In this series Babe"
Adams defeated the Tigers In three
games
The Athletics and Cubs hooked I'D I'm
1910, Philadelphia winning with ease, TAX
Ing four out OF the five games played.
Last year the Athletics were again sue
cessful In their struggle with the Giants
winning four out Of six games. The first
five games were the hardest fought and
best played of any worlds series contests.
| Two OF them went to extra innings, the
Athletics taking eleven innings TO beat
Matty In the third game and the Giants
beating Coombs and Plank I'm ten innings
In the fifth. These two games are the
only extra inning games ever played In
worlds series, with the exception OF
the thirteen inning tie that the Cubs and
Tigers fought out in 1901 The sixth game
last year ended In rout for the Giants
In Philadelphia.