The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-10-05
CHAMP
GAMES GET
MUCH Coin
CASH REGISTER RECORDS
SHOW INTEREST IN WORLD
SERIES CONTESTS

lice in the annual worlds champion
ship series OF baseball games can be
desired than that furnished by a
glance at. the financial results, a
statement OF which is officially an
nounced at end of each post season
competition for the coveted title and
flag Through the box office it's pop
ularity can easily be measured. Com
pared with the meagre returns at the
initial series in 1884 the enormous
crowds registered by the clicking
furnishes show that by leaps and
bounds the attendance in recent years
has assumed such gigantic proper
tions that there Is no telling what 1t
may amount to in years to come.
The first championship games be-
tween the Providence "Grays" and
the Metropolitans may have been only
lightly attended and there is nothing
on record to show what the receipts
amounted to for the three games then
played, as providence won three
straight. The following year, how
ever, when seven games were played
in four different cities, Chicago, St.
Louis, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, the
financial result was about $4,000. That
year the fight was hot one between
the Chicago Nationals and the Ameri
can Association Club OF st. Louis,
and one can hardly imagine what
would be the yield just now If such
a series were possible over similar
circuit.
In 1903 when the first series was
played between the pennant winning
teams of the National and American
leagues, eight games brought a lit
tie over $4,000. There was no con-
test in 1904 sbut year later there
was an advance in the price OF ad-
and s6S,405 was taken in for
five games at Philadelphia and New
York but the attendance fell to 81 ,723
as compared with over 100000 two
years previously. The attendance
dropped to $4,000 in 1908 for the Chi
cago-Detroit series, but the receipts
jumped to nearly $4,000
A marked increase in attendance
and receipts was registered in 1909
when 145l295 persons paid s1SS,302
to see the seven game series between
and Detroit Philadelphia
and Chicago played five games in
1910, before 124.222 persons with gate.
receipts OF sl73,9sO and this amount
was almost doubled the following
year when 179,S51 persons contrib
tied $342. .l64 to see the Philadelphia
md New York series of six games
This was mighty jump but it was
sclipsed in 1912, the banner year for
and financial results. The
Boston Americans and New York
Nationals played eight games, one of
hem resulting in tie. that year !
md 1t was estimated that a quarter OF
million spectators saw the protrac-
ed series, which drew $490,449. This
normous increase was, OF course due
o the extra games that were requir-
d but last year when only five
'ames were required to settle the
supremacy between the
iiants and Athletics s325,9S0 was
aid In with an attendance or 151,
DO. The average receipts per game
l 1912 was s61.306. while the average
lst year was increased to S65,I96.
Each OF the winning players on the
inning side in 1903. the first year
nat the series was played under the
Dnditons which now prevail. receiv-
! Sl3l625 and each OF the losing
layers got Si.1S2. In 1912 the Bos-
IN winners received S4,022 each and
le New York losers were handed I
'.566 each. Last year each player OF
Ie Athletics got a winning portion
<S.2i6.36 and the losing share for
lch New York player was s2.164.22
The basis upon which the worlds !
'ries receipts are divided is as fol-
VS.: The National Commission re-
ives 10 percent OF every game. The a
ayers of the two competing clubs /
ceive 60 pencent of the remaining
percent OF the first four games /.
ayed. The sun is divided SO per d
Mt TO the winners and 30 percent to e
e losers. The remaining 40 percent 5
the 20 percent OF the first four 7,
mes goes 70 the club owners. % :
rcent Of the receipts OF every game
ter the first four becomes the prop s
u OF the stockholders OF the two T,
ntesting clubs. lC