Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-30
CHANCE NEW RECORDS IN
 WORLD SERIES
(By Frank c. Menke.)

1 NeW York, Sept. 29.-The fractur-
 Ing of the records for single game at | rhdance and receipts-those art aoout the only marks the coming world series combatants can shoo at. The performers in the other years since 1903, when the world series
 began, have hung up some records
 that never can be beaten and others that never may be equaled.
 The Red Sox, by using the new Braves park, probably will smash the single game attendance mark that was made in New York on October
 l4. l911,. when 3S,281 fans paid $77,-
 5o9 to see the Giants win to l victory over the Athletics. But only
 hy such a procedure does it seem
 possible that any record busting can be done. '
 The new park of the Boston Ma tlonals seats 43,50O normally and may
 he increased to 45,000 before the ser ies begins. With the Hub City de- lirious with baseball fever every seat undoubtedly will be sold. The re- caipts ought to total over $9O,00O.
 It is highly improbable, however. that the Red Sox-Phillies series will establish. new record for total at tendance and total receipts. simply because the Philadelphia park will seat only about 1S,OO0 normally and about 22,OOO with the extra seats ln- stalled for world series purposes.
 1912 Series Made Many Records.
 The record for attendance. as well as tine record for receipts, was made during the 1912 series between the Red Sox and the Giants. The series went eight games, one being tle, and in every game except the last, the big parks in New York and Bos- ton were damned. The total attend ance at that series was 23l,9OI ana tho total receipts $490,449. That was an average attendance of over 3l,0Oo per game and average receipts oI nearly s62,O00.
 One thing that is certain about the cannot be played in new re- sord time The Braves did that little stunt last year when they wallopad the Athletics four times in row. The record, of course, can be tied but that seems very unlikely.
 7. Back in 1912 the Red Sox and Gl- ants, by playing an eight-game series, hung up the long-series record--a mark that some day may be tied, but may never be beaten. The 1903 ser ies-the first of all-went to eight ames but that was when the first rule governed the series. Since then it's been first our in seven
 n,, ,oo5 saries was uniuue-and ,lsn a record maker--inasmuch as ,yery game brought about a shut-out The Giants won the first to. 0. the Athletics the second 3 to 0, the Giants the third, 1ourtn and fifth by the scores Of ) to U. l to and 2 to 0.
 The scoring record was made on October 2e. 1911, when the Athletics cave tho Giants 13 to beating in inc concluding game. That smashed +he old record of 12 to , made by the Athletics on October 20, 1910, against Inc Cubs in the third game of the series.
 1912 Best Year.
 The iuiciest melon ever cut by the world series winners-and losers was in that memorable 1912 series The Red Sox players divided total of $76,746.37 and the losing Giants got $51,164.24. The smallest receipts were from the 1908 series when only I a trifle over $50,000 was taken in although the attendance was over I 100, ,O0O. That was because the regu- liar season prices prevailed.
 | No series was played in 1904. The
 Boston Red Sox and the New York Giants won the respective pennants l but New York refused to play the IRed Sox, claiming they were "minol
 lcaguers."