Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-01-09
WORLDS SERIES
IS NOT WHATIT
WAS YEARS AGO
This Will be Realized From,
Financial Standpoint when
Pot is Divided.

New York. Jan. a.-When the PLAY
ers who actually participate in the
world series of 1918 come to divide
their share of the gate receipts of
that baseball classic they will realize
that. financially at least, the series is
not what it once was.
In recent years the pennant winning
club in each league has been epre-
scented by approximately "a players.
These players have shared among
them h sixty per cent and forty per
cent of the players pool which has
been divided on the basis to the win
nerS and losers. As a result a sum
which in the past five years has aver
aged $143,555 per mum has been
divided among some forty-eight play
ers.. =, Ts
200 Will Get Share
In the future close to two hundred
players will receive a portion of the
players pool. Under this system the
days of large individual gains by the
members of the world series cham
pionship team are a thing of the past.
According to the agreement jus,
made by the two major leagues the
players of h two competing teams
will receive sixty per cent of the gate
receipts of h first o Il am as in
the past. Instead of sharing this sum
on a sixty and forty basis. each player
on the winning team will receive a
lump sum of $4,000, and the mem
bers of the losing club $1,490 each.
After the total of these individual
prize moneys has been deducted from
the players share the remainder will
be divided among the players conpos-
ing the club finishing second. third
and fourth in both the National and
! American League pennant races The
basis of this division has not as vet
been announced but it is generally ex-
rected to be fifty per cent to sec
end clubs: thirty to the third and
tTenty to the fourth teams in each
league.
Foundation for Figuring.
With these figures to work or as a
foundation for figuring il is possible
to gauge with reasonable accuracy
what the proceeds will be in the fu-
tue as compared with the large
amounts which annually fell to the
share of the players who figured in
the climax of the baseball season
Estimates based upon the world Sc
RES figures of h past five years sho y
tina the average amount which wen!
TO the winning. and losing players was
si43..55. Thesrecords also show that
the average number of players on tho
two ennant winning clubs was about
twenty four. This makes the average
urnount to each player of the winning
team about 1888, while h indi-
losing teams has been 1892. Against
these figures the winning players viii
fcacl, receive $4,000 and the losing
PLAYERS s1,400 in the future.
Carrying the analysis further it viii
be found that the prize money to be
awarded to the actual series players
in the future will approximate $751;.
cnn Jv,:-r xLo -~4~;D,,- -,1~tSn~aG
average again, the difference between
this sum and what the two teams
divided in the past, amounts to $751;
955. This $61,955 is the amount to
be divided among the players of the
second, third and fourth clubs in eac1
league at the. end of the season.
If the average number of players
is assumed to be the same as on the
pennant winning clubs this would
mean that the forty-eight players OF
the two second position clubs would
receive fifty per cent of the $61,955
or about $645 each. The third place
club players on the thirty per cen,
basis would receive 1887 and tho
fourth position club players $25s
each
Eight Clubs to Pay.
To put it in other words, instead
Of the players of two series clubs
10 1QFty-elSnt III all, III
viding $143,555 on a sixty n forty
per cent basis, the same SUI will il
the future be apportioned among tho
players of eight clubs, the total NUM-
Der of men being approximately 1872
No changes are to be made in thu
system Of distribution used to allot
gate receipts to the pennant winning
club owners or the national commits
sion. The stockholders of the worlt
series clubs will divide equally theil
share Of the receipts which have ver
aged $159,4S2.97 during the past five
years, after deducting twenty-five pei
cent or $39,87O for the other league
clubs. The national commission will
also receive it's full ten per cent share
Of the gate receipts which has aver
aped S33 $40 during the same neriod