Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-10-02
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
BASEBALL SERIES
All Arrangements Perfected--Time,
Place Of Games, Players and
Price Of Tickets.

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multitude Of details OF the campaign
Of 1918 between the New York Ma
tionals and the Philadelphia Ameri-
cans for worlds baseball championship |
has been prearranged. Here are the |
chief plans.
Time-Oct and daily thereafter,
except Sunday, until one club shall
have won four games.
Place-Polo Grounds, New York;
Shibe Park, Philadelphia.
First game to be played in New
York, the games thereafter to alter
nate between Philadelphia and New
York.
Tie games to be played off the next
day in the other city from that in
which the tie occurred. Thus, II the
first game in New York were to result
in tie, the game would be played off
in Philadelphia the next day, Oct. s.
Sale OF tickets to be conducted under
the auspices of the two clubs concern
ed. Unreserved seatSwill be sold at
the Polo Grounds and Shibe Park on
the day of the game, reserved seats
must be purchased for three games.
whether bought in New York or Phil
adelphia, and IL three games are not
played, the proportionate amount of
the purchase price will be refunded.
No mail orders will be accepted for
reserved seats.
Price of tickets, in New York-Box-
es, seating four, s25; upper grandstand
SO; lower grandstand 50; bleachers
81. In Philadelphia, box seats IS;
main grandstand s3 right and left
field pavilion So; bleachers 81.
Seating arrangements, p o l o.
Grounds. $4,000 resered seats, $4,000
in bleachers; Shibe Park, grandstand
and bleachers $1,000. standing room
for about 5000 more. Neither club
will be permitted to erect extra stands
on the field. Spectators will not be al
lowed to overflow on the field, and no
ground rules will be made.
Time of games, o'clock.
Umpires for the series, William
Klein and Charles Rigler. of the Ma
tional League; Thomas H. Connolly
and John J. Egan of the American
League.
Number of players eligible, twenty
five on each team.
Names of eligible players, New York
Burns. Cooper Crandall. Doyle, De-
maree, Fletcher Fromme, Grant, Her
zog, Hartley, Marquard, Wiltse. Mat
thewson. Murray, Meyers, Mclean,
Merkle, Robinson, Mccormick, Shafer,
Snodgrass, Thorpe. Tesreau, Wilson,
Schupp.
Philadelphia-Sc -Schang, Lapp, Thom-
as, Bender, Plank, Coombs. Houck,
Brown, Shawkey,. Pennock, Bush,
Wyckoff, McInnis. Collins, Barry, Bak-
er Orr, Davis, Lavan, Oldring, Strunk,
: f. Murphy. d. Murphy, Walsh, Daley.
In the event of seventh game being
necessary, the city for holding it will
be determined by the toss of coin.
In case a game is postponed on ac-
count of rain, or If for some other
cause a legal game is not played, the
teams will remain in the city where
the postponement occurred until le-
. gal game is played. This does not Of
, course, apply to tie games.
According to the rules governing the
worlds series, the National commits
sion will receive ten per cent Of the
gate receipts of each and every game.
The players of the two competing
clubs will take sixty per cent of the
remaining 90 per cent of the first four
games, the amount to be divided on
basis of so per cent to the winners
and 40 per cent to the losers.
The remaining 40 per cent of the
80 per cent goes to the club owners.
Ninety per cent of the gate receipts
of each and every game after the first
four becomes the property of the
stockholders of the two contesting
clubs.