The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-10-01
WORLD SERIES BONUS
IS VERY ATTRACTIVE
New York Giants and Chicago White Sox
Are to Receive Several Thousand
Dollars From Coming
Games.

| New York, Oct. 1.-The biggest finan-
cial bonus of the baseball year is to be
distributed soon in the form of a division
of the gate receipts of the world series
games of l9l7. When the New York
! National and Chicago American league
PLAYERS receive their share of the money
paid in the form of admission charges by
the thousands of spectators who will at
tend the contests, they will be able to
deposit to the credit of their bank &C
counts sums larger than the yearly in
come of many of the fans who will wit
ness the play.
The players will not be the only ones
to profit, however, for the club owners
and the national commission also come
in for a percentage of the receipts, which
are expected to exceed quarter of a
million dollars this season. Under the
rules of the latter body, which have
governed the world series since 1905, the
division is made in the following man
ner: The national commission receives
10 per cent of the receipts of each and
every game played by the contending
clubs; the remaining 30 per cent of the
first four games is divided upon basis
of two.thirds to the players of the con-
testing clubs and onethird to the club
owners. With the playing of the fourth
game the players cease to share in the
receipts and the two clubs involved di
vide the receipts equally, after the ma
tional commission has taken its 10 per
cent The players share of the world
series funds are apportoned upon ba
sis of 80 per cent TO the winner and 40
per cent to the loser, while the two clubs
as corporations are required to contrib
ute certain amount of their portions
to the leagues of which they are mem
bers
That these sums are not to be consid-
cred lightly, even in the present days of
extraordinary financial operations, may
be realized when it is stated that the re
ceipts of the l3 series played since 1908
have aggregated S2.s74, 224. OF this huge
amount the players have received l,lS0,-
1923. the club owners Sl,4ll ,l56, and the
national commission 1892 242. The rules
governing the series specify that each
club shall name in advance of the play
the men who are eligible TO participate
in the games. These players each re-
ceive one share of the winning or losing
teams percentage with certain arrange
ments for groundkeepers, mascots and
others connected with the teams in
minor capacity.
Some idea of the sums that fall to the
share of the players who engage in the
world series may be gained from glance
at the records of preceding struggles.
The largest amount went to the mem
bers of the Boston Americans, who
PLAYED and won the eight game series
from the New York Nationals in 1912.
That wear each regular member of the
Red Sox received S4,024. The next high
est amount was $3.50, also captured by
the Boston Americans of last season as
result of their defeat of the Brooklyn
Nationals The smallest sum received
since 1903 by the individual members OF
a winning team was l,l42, by the New
York Nationals in the series against the
Philadelphia Americans in 1905. The
Chicago Nationals hold the minimum
losers record with $439 when the Chi
cago White Sox won the title in four out
of six games in 1906