The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-10-06
RECEIPTS MAY
BREAK RECORD
Constantly Increasing Interest Is
Shown in Box Office Totals

New York, oct, 6-BoX office re-
cepts. barometer of interest in the
worlds series games. have scared to
dizzy heights since the Providence and
the metropolitan clubs battlcd for the
first worlds championship in 1854.
staged i'm New York. the premier fight
aroused little more than passing inter
est was slightly attended and reaped
So s,aut a harvest of receipts that the
clubs never even published the figures.
Some idea Of what they hay have been
is cleaned from the contest the next
year between the Chicago club of the
National league and st. Louis of the
American association.
Seven games were played i'm four
cities Chicago. st. Louis, Pittsburgh
and Cincinnati The fight was hot.
Chicago won three, 1t. Louis three ana
enc game was tied. Such a situation
IN this years fight for the pcnnant
would result in tremendous box office
receipts. Yet the entire seven games
,u 1855 Yielded but $1,000.
Those were the days when a seat
IN the nlrachors cost q quarter and rif-
y cents provided the best seats in the
eruds,and, Even this modest adms-
sion seems to have kept many cnthu-
siasts away from the games. Not only
This widespread enthusiasm was neg
!s.3ie IN tie contests. From thcir
humble origin admission prices nave
grown to the dignity of S25 for a box
seating four down at the edge of the
diamond in 1918 And dollar is the
least OF bills that will admit one to the
contest This buys seat i'm the
blraeugrs' stand
In Infancy Of Sport
Back in the infancy of the worlds
SERIES the man who attended a game
lett his office at the usual hour for
TIE ball game, sauntcred licsurcly
through the runwaAs TO the field ana
picked out the most advantageous seat
has could find. Generally there was
plenty of picking, Nowadays he who
must "a begins To worry the moment
'dat the day for the series is AN
Holnrrd. lie knows that he must lac
early ON the spot ON the morning of
,hc gpnc-clse someone less tardy vii,
crowd him out The nnc forms the
hight before aud surgcs into the field
t".Is h"forc the time set for the game.
'" is late the game is not for him
Ia syc.
lut he evolution from tie days OF
empty scats to the roaring blcachcrs
'"o IN" numbering grandstand, pack
eel ,o capacity. has been gradual. In
.''' "h"u ST Louis and Detroit fought
fourteen games over the pricipal part
oI the United Statcs-playing in nearly
ct o"@rh cities the box office receipts
'Imhcl up To $4,000 $4,000 a game
Was considered big money. The next
ar 'l' ten games played between
N'' York and st. Louis brought sea-
"'. l" IN" box office In 1894, first
.'"' "I the Temple Cup series, the av-
'''S' lad risen to $500 game. only
,'"I S'mcs played that year, two at
,''''l'''r' and two at New York, and
-, W, 'o'u receipts for thc sclrcs were
,'''' In 1885 five games were play
w ana The receipts fell to $ii,750.
Constant Growth
'"'i' Was no battle for the worlds |
''lil"nship pCnnant between 1898
'"' wv In 1903 the National league
'"" American league pennant- winners
''-"h tn" worlds series games as they
IN hs.Ha
NO" PLAYED. one hundred thou.
I'trS"ns--colossa figures ten
'So-Saw the eight games and
y''' more than $4,000 for the priv
49,, Ih'rc was no contest In 1904. IN
=, 'I'23 persons saw the games:
~, ~. pI''c Of tickets went up and sos
was taken I'm. The low Lowell came
"N When Chicago aud Detroit
'-"' Tor the mug SIXTY three thou
d, ''rN"ns saw the five games. |
"'''r. they paid $94.91G.
ivy, lij,225 persons paid sISS.-
w. 10 see the games; I'm 1910. 12s es2
&C.,. '"s paid $l73.9SO; in 1911 the con-
,,' '' "'i"ccn New York and Phlladel-
ma vas seen 10y 1881 spectators
HAM,. '''' FSi;'l6i AZ the box office. The
NJ ' year was 19i2, More than (,
'r OF q million persons saw the
fork Nationals and the BOSTON
"'v'ican league club in the eight
ana nearly half a million dol