Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-03
NORWICH BULLETIN, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1913

made money since Brush and McGraw 1 formed up, but mainly through force l of circumstances. They have the best 1 city in the country, and have been unl- formly successful McGraw has won four pennants in that time, and has been in the thick of the fight every other year. Consequently the Giants have played to great crowds.
 Money at Chicago.
 Both Chicago clubs have been money makers, though not~so great to the same thing that made the Giants a success. The Cubs have been four-time pennant winners and three times winners of worlds champion ships. The White Sox have been pen
 nant winners and always in the fight, though the receipts have shown a fall
 ing off in the past few years. Then.
 too, both Chicago clubs have had the
 advantage of Sunday baseball, which
 has given them their greatest crowds
 No other city in the country has had
 such a combination tending to make
 money for 1t.
 Pittsburgh though not as large as
 New York, Chicago. or Philadelphia,
 has been a uniform money maker,
 though even at that the great Forbes field in Pittsburgh has not been paid for. Pittsburgh has made it's money because it has won a number of pen- nantS and has been i'll the first three nine out of ten years. Then 1t has always enjoyed one of the most sane and satfsfa ctory business manage ments under President Dreyfuss that any club in baseball has experienced. This has been model for other clubs to follow and has added many dollars to the earnings of the club I
 Athletics in Bad Now.
 The Philadelphia Athletics have league for ten years and have won four pennantS and two worlds cham pionships. While occupying their old field, on ColuInbia avenue, they made occupied their handsome new quar- ters-for four years-though they have drawn tremendously, they have not paid a dividend Connie Mack admits this. The burden is too great to permit much of a margin.
 Washington of the American League made money last year for the/ first 1 time in ten years, and then only be- l! cause the team was in the running l for the pennant almost all season.
 Brooklyn has made some money l for ten years because of it's | large, population and it's proximity to | New York. in addition to the fact that l it has been well handled. Now, how ever, with its three quarter million dollar plant 1t will have to be an out right winning team to hope to make the interest on the investment.
 Detroit has made some money, though not a great deal, in spite Of the frequent winning of American League championships Detroit earn ed because it had some great attrao- lions such as Jennings and Cobb and was a fine road team. drawing better away than at home The St, Louis have lost money as a reg liar thing and so has Cleveland
 The St. Louis Nationals have earned l little money in the past few years because the team has been revived md kept in the running for most of he season, making it 3, good road at traction. Then, too. the Sunday ball las helped. Garry Herrmann's Gin ,innati club has not been money maker, though it might show a slight margin of profit.
 A business Proposition.
 The moral IS obvious. The days when major league baseball could be maintained as a sport pure and jim ,le are past. It has reached a com nerciaI stage, where the maintenance if a club in either the American or he National leaoues involves ques- ions not of thousands but hundreds f thousands of dollars during a sea- on r