The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-15
Masnatss Easily Could Have Pro
!, Ionsed Series Had They
Merely Wanted to
Make Money.
RECEIPTS WERE SMALL
Not Since 1910 Have Receipts For the
Worlds Series Been 40 Low
a. They Were This
Year.
BY Hal Sheridan,

SSAASSSA AoA LAG OA4lSu Z 1000sJ
NEW YORK. Oct. 15-The carpers
who have insisted that baseball Is
crooked and that the annual battles
for the championship OF the world are
manipulated to draw large sums of
money from the public may now hunt
their holes. II they can't fnd them.
they may be aided by low murmurs
Of those who declared the Boston
Braves did not have class and have
now crswled in and pulled the hole in
after them. The victory OF the Braves
over the Athletics was a great thing
for baseball In more ways than one.
1t placed upon the highest pinnacle q
team full of life and all OF the human
elements which 90 to draw the admir-
alton Of the public. The Athletics are
great team but in their stolid bust
ness like Unconditional ways there is
little to arouse such enthusiasm as Is
stirred by the fighting, tearing tactics
o. the Braves.
The Braves thus brought back the
old yell and whoop to the game, but
above all their four straight victories
demonstrated they went into the SER
les with the Athletics to win and not
to pile up vast sum OF money in the
Golfers of the National commission.
The players do not share in the
receipts after the fizst four games so
that had the series been drawn out to
five, Blk or seven games, the national
commission and the club owners would
have been the gamers. In the tenth
inning of the third game 1t certainly
appeared as though the series would
60 i've games. The Braves were lick
ed but they didn't know 1t. Then
they tied the score. In the eleventh
It was SO dark the ball was followed
only with the greatest difficulty. Um-
pire KLEIN would have been fully JUS
titled In calling the game on account
Of darkness. Such action would have
made q NTH game necessary but the
two teams were kept at 1t and in
the twelfth, Joe Bush uncorked his
wild throw to third on Moran's bunt,
Mann raced across the plate and the
Braves needed but one more victory
to clinch the championship and end
the series. Had the main idea Of
baseball magnates been to get as
much money as possible out OF the
series they never were offered a bet
ter chance than in this game 1t
virtually rested with the umpires, as
darkness took control of the game out
of the hands of the players. Calling
the game when the score was tied
would have sent the series into five
comes with a chance Of more.
Neither the players, the club owners
or the national commission got ~
much out of the series as IL usually
shaken down. They might have made
more, not only If the series had lasted
longer, but IL the first two games had
been played in Boston. The winning
of the toss by the Athletics cost
everyone concerned hundreds Of dol
lars as Fenway park can seat well
over 10000 more people than Shibe
park. When 1t was suggested that
temporary bleachers be erected in cen
ter field at Boston, Captain Evers Of
the Braves, promptly, vetoed the
plan. 1t would have meant at least
81, 900 more to the Boston players, bu
Johnny declared he would not tax,
chances on a cramped field just to ge
| some additional money.