Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-10-07
Results of World Series to Date.

No series 1891. 1898, 1898 to 1902. 1904.
From 1884 t. 1890, National League VS..
American Association. 1894 to 1897, Tenn
pie Cup series.
Box office receipts, barometer Of in
terest in the world S series games, have
scared to dizzy heights since the ProVi-
dence and the Metropolitan Clubs batted
for the first worlds championship in
fight aroused little more h passing
Interest. was lightly attended n reaped
SO scant a harvest of receipts that the
clubs never even published the figures.
| Some idea Of what they may 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 in four cities,
Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Gin
; three, st. Louis three and one game was
tied. Such %asituation in this years fight
for the pennant would result in tremen-
lous, lex office receipts. Yet the entire
seven games in 1885 yielde dbut $1,000. s
Those We're the days when a seat in
! cents provided thet best seats in the
glandstand. Even this modest admission
seems to lave kept many enthusiasts
away from the games. Not only this.
widespread enthusiasm was negligible in
the contests. From their humble origin
admission prCcs have grown to the dig
nifty of SO for a box seating four down
at the edge Of diamond in 1913. And "a
dollar is the least of bills that will admit
one TO the contest. This buys q seat in
the bleachers' stand.
Back in the infancy Of the worlds series
the man who attended a game left his
office at the usual hour for the ball game
sanntered leisurely through the runways
to the field and picked out the most ad-
vantageuous seat he could find. Generally
there was plenty of picking. Nowadays
he who must go begins to worry the
moment that the day for the series is
announced. He knows that he must be
early on the spot on the morning of the
gamc-else SCmeone less tardy will crowd
him cut The line forms the night be-
fore and surges INTO the field hours be-
fore the time set for the game. If he is
late the game is not for him to see. .
empty seats to the roaring bleachers and
the laundering grandsMnd. packed to
caracity. has been gradual. In 1887 when
st. Louis and Detroit fought fourteen
United States-playing in nearly a dozen
cities the box office receipts climbed up
to $42, geo. Three thousand dollars a game
was considered big money. The next year
and st. Louis brought s24 1862 to the box
office. In 1894, first year of the Temple
Cup series, the average had risen to
$1,000 "a game. Only four games We're
Elayeu tnat year.. tWO at baltimore, and
two at New York, and the total receipts
for the series were $4,000. In 1895 five
games were played and the receipts fell
to S1t.75t.
There was no battle for the worlds
championship pennant between 1898 and
1909. In 1903 the National League and
American League pennant- winners began
the worlds series anne as they are o
played. One hundred thousand persons
colossal figures ten years agc-saw., the
eight games and paid more than $50. 0oC
for the privilege. There was no contest
in 1904. In 1906. 91,723 persons saw the
games; the price Of tickets went tip ant
s6S 4h5 was taken in. The Tow level came
in 1893 when Chicago and Detroit fought
for the flag. Sixty-three Thousand per-
sons saw the five games. However, they
paid s9A. 070.
III 1909. 145, 295 persons Maid s18s. 1902
to see9the games; in 1910. 1874, 222 persons
paid S173 $50: In 1911. the contest be-
tween New York and Philadelphia was
seen byte ,S51 spectators who left S342, !
164 at the box office. The banner year
was 1912. More thar q quarter of q mil
lion persons saw the New York Nation-
ais and the Boston American League
club IN the eight games and nearly hall
La million dollars-S490, 449-was taken In
lat the box office.