Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-07-02
LEAGUE
Will end SEASON
with A Profit
Sloufeds Out Drawing Car
dinals and Pittsburgh
Feds Beating Pirates.

(By Frank &. Menke.)


league, as whole, has fine chance
at this writing to clear expenses this
season. Several clubs N he league
will show profit at the eEI of the
year if the ATTENDING: to date is main
tanned to the end of the season.
Thc biggest surprise in the finan
cial way has been tho support given
this season to The st. Louis and Kan
sas City clubs. The Fedsral moguls,
during the winter, decided to drop
kansas City from the circuit. They
did drop it but had to pick it up again
upon orders from the courts grant
ing ths plea of the Kansas City stock
holders.
From the opening OF taia 1915 sea,
son to June 20. the Kansas City Fed
erals drew larger total crowd than
| Fey cid all last season. Fac's anu
figure: to back up this statement
were shown to the writer recently
The Kansas City Fsds drew $4,000
Sunday crowd recently and during
enc series drew about $4,000 paid
fans.
Kansas City has been up in the
fight LES year it was in the rut.
That the fans love a winner and will
not support a loser is proven in thu
lease of Kansas City which lad besl
termed 1.-THE worst baseball town in
the country"
The ST. Louis Feds furnish he next
large st surprise. So far lin the 1915
scason-a period of less than II
weeks-the st. Louis Feds have play
Ior Of foy
than they did during the entire 1913
and 1914 seasons.
st. Louis began moving in a up
ward direction about six or eight
weeks ago and the st. Louis fans
Ifaking due cognizanca of the fact,
have been supporting them nobly.
, The Sloufeds play to thousands at
home now where they played to hun
J dreds before
Out in st. Louis there's a sor; OF
Boost tbs Cardinals" plan in opera
ton. And Bob Hedges, owner of the
Browns, is trying to lure fans 20 ais
park through tn, ms dium of adver-
Using schemes. Despite this. the
Cards and the Browns in hons pat
ronage during the past six weeks.
The Pittsburg Feds claim they are
outdraws tas Pirates in Pit sburg.
They say they are perfectly willing to
produce sworn attendance statements
If Barney Dreyfus will do likewise
and that the comparison VIII show
the Feds patronage in Pittsburg
greater than that of the National
leaguers.
Buffalo and Baltimore aren't doing
as well this year as they did last but
that is to be expected. with both
teams in the cellar. Brooklyn is doing
lat least Is per cent better than last
year. end tbs attendance has increas-
ed gradually since the Season op;ned.
/ Newark supported its new club roy
ally during the early part of the sea-,
son. Then the team stunned and he
attendance. naturally, did likS wise,
but Newask's early attendance re-
ceipts were stable enough to place
the balance on the right side of the
ledger and only tae almost us'sr lack
of patronage during the balance of
the season can swing the balance to
| the losing side Practically every
| club in the Federal league is oper-
| ating at less cost than in 1914. Some
clubs have chopped off as much as
$25, 900 from their expense bills. Very
few of the clubs are carrying any
Nrore than % OR % men. The aver
age was from % to ~ last year.
Many players who signed up one year
contracts at fancy figures are not in
the federal league this year
The schedule of the Feds this year,
is more compact than was last years.
1'hat means saving in trsvallins
and hotel bills. The Fed magnates.
nsw the game last year wasted a
lot CT money. Last years experience
showed them thei~ errors-and they
are not duplicating them this year
| With increased attendance pre-
vailing quite generally throughout
the circuit, and win operating 'ex-
pens'cs cut to miniT UNI, it GER
tainly locks as if the 1915 season will
he far better one financially for the
Feds than was 1914.