The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-22
FATHER OF WORL DIS SERIES MAYBE
H0N0RED BY BASEBALL MAGNATES

went west and made phenomenal
strides in the business world. His I'M
firing energy, agile brain and splendid
business judgment lifted him from The
ranking of poor boy to the rating of
a millionaire in less than twenty years.
In 1891 Temple purchased the Pitts
burg club and continued as owner I'M
til the end of the 1893 season. Then
he reluctantly sold back the club to
the original owners. Temples bust
ness associates declared they needed
his whole cooperation and that base
ball was distracting him quite shame
fully, indeed"
Originated Worlds Series.
1t was in the fertile brain Of Tenn
pie that post-season series idea was
born, which later developed into the
world series battles which are the blue
ribbon events of each baseball year.
Back in 1894, before there were two
major leagues, Temple advocated a
post-season between the first and ssc-
ond teams in the National league. At
lsh1ng second always tried to abb its
failure to win by recounting the list
of misfortunes which it had encoun-
tered during the year.
"If the breaks hadn't been against
us, we'd have won" was their wall
We've got better team by far than
the aggregation which finished
ahead
And SO Temple offered a trophy to
be cCntended for after the close of
each season between the first and Sec
ond place teams. The battles became
known as the Temple cup series. The
series was the best four out of seven
games. Temple made the condition
that the magnates were not to share in
the receipts, the total to be divided
between the competing clubs-6o PER
cent to the winner and 40 to the loser.
The first series was played in 1895
between the pennant winning Balti-
mores and the second place New York
ers. The Giants romped through to
victory in four straight games.
Series Ended in 1898.
The Temple cub series remained .he
banner event of baseball until after
the 1898 series. Then it was charged
that the Baltimore and Boston play
ers, competing that year had agreed
secretly to draw out the series to seven
full games and split the receipts so so.
This was the cue for the magnates to
order the abandonment of the series
in the future. They had soured on it
after the first contests because they
noted, with some dismay, that the re-
ceipts were large, and it caused them
poignant grief to know they weren't
sharing in them. The reports CT hip
podroming in the 1888 series was the
excuse they had been looking for.
They ordered the cup returned to
Temple and the Temple cup series be-
came thing of the past.
After peace was made in the base
ball world in 1908. the magnates de-
cided upon the worlds series. It was
patterned after the Temple cup series
with only a few notifications. One
was that the magnates were to share
in the profits and the other was that
the players were to share in the re-
ceipts of the first four games only. this
being done to prevent any interna-
tional street ching of the series by the
players.
But Temples post-season Champion
ship series born in 1894, was the
original world series thought, and he
has been called THE Father of the
World Series''-a title that he justly
deserves