Evening journal., 1914-09-29
MANY PLAN TO SEE
THE WORLDS Series.
But No New Records Likely
to be Hung Up This
Year
Braves
CERTAIN WINNERS

Now that il seems practically settled
that the Philadelphia Americans and
the Boston Nationals will be- Ditted
against each other in the annual battle
ior the baseball championship OF the
world, fans throughout the country are
anticipating a memorable struggle for
the supreme honors. There has already
been great rush for tickets to the
games Ia both cities. But IL is hardly
likely that any attendance records will
be broken this fall.
Interest IN the outcome of the series
viii be intense OF that there is no
possibility of doubt and each park will
be- packed TO capacity until the winner
is established. But the total figures on
attendance will be kept down because
OF the fact that the Boston park is
small in comparison with those where
the past championship battles have been
played. But there is no doubt that
more fans viii see the games than If
New York had won in the National
A struggle between the Athletics and
Giants would be repetition OF past
performances. There would be no new
faces; no new thrills; simply a battle
between teams that all Of the fans
know like book But they don't know
Boston. The Braves have been dark
horses Outside of few cities they
are unknown quantities. Especially so
in American league towns.
The world series games in Boston
win be played at Feuway park, the
American league field, where the Braves
have been playing since the attendance
so increased as to make their small
field Of little use. But Fenway park is
small when compared with the Polo
grounds or Shibe park, and this win of
necessity limit the attendance in
Boston. World series rules prohibit
fans from standing in the outfield and
There win be no tickets sold after all
seats are filled
The largest crowd ever seated in
Philadelphia was for the first game of
the 1910 world series when the Chi
cago Cubs met the Maclmcn. The at
/ tendance was 26,S9l. The biggest
crowd ever entertained at Fenway park
was 34,6S3, for the fourth game be-
tween the Giants and Red Sox, ir 1912
On Labor day, this year. the Giants
land Braves played TO $4,000 in tn,
morning and about 10000 in the after
noon, but that included fans STANDING
IN the field The grentest crowd thai
ever witnessed world series game wa
in New York city ON Oct. "a. 1911. wheI
3s.2Sl fans paid S77.350 to see the first
game between the Giants and the Ath
letics. The smallest crowd to attend
battle for the championship Of the uni
verse was 6.2l0, registered in Chicago
for the fifth and deciding game between
the White SoN and the Cubs in l00S.
10 The greatest total attendance anl
receipts for any world series was il
1919, when the Giants and the Red So,
played eight games before the Red So'
finally won the championship.
But, at all events, there will be
tidy sum collected this fall for divi0iol
among the clubs and the players. an,
no matter how hard the winter may b.
or how cold there will be enough ma
yuma slowed away in the pocket o
levery participant to buy coal aud keel
the wolf away from the door II i
not likely that there win be much suf
fcring among the players who share il
the proceeds.