Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-01
EXPECT SMALL
ATTENDANCE At
WORLD SERIES
Players Share Limited Under
Regulations; Leading Teams
in Each League Will
Participate.

New York, Aug. 3l.-While neither
gate receipts nor attendance figures
are expected to be broken at the
coming world series, base ball fans
throughout the country are certain
to watch the daily returns with more
than the usual interest owing to the
changed conditions under which the
series will be played. Two outstand-
ing features are apparent which have
not heretofore been faced by either
the players or the magnates at any
time in the history of the base ball
classic.
No such national or international
crisis has ever prevailed during the
playing of world series as exists at
this time. Under normal conditions
the annual clash of the pennant-win-
ming clubs of the rival major leagues
has each season been one OF the
events of the year. The play was fol-
lowed each day by hundreds of thou
sands of base ball enthusiasts in all
parts of the country. Great cities
and little hamlets in isolated sections
of the continent have witnessed the
daily gathering of throngs before the
bulletin and player boards to follow
the fortunes of the competing teams.
Today the mind of the public is bur-
dened with great responsibilities and
cares and the world series at best
can be but momentary diversion.
Under the circumstances it appears
that, while the games may be we'll at
tended, there will be nothing like the
great outpouring of fans which has
each year filled the parks to capacity
and swelled the Golfers of the clubs
and players. Strange to say, this will
make little difference to the men who
will participate in the diamond bat
ties, for under the new system of
apportioning the winners and losers
individual share of the receipts they
can secure but a fixed sum, regard.
less of the total of the gate receipts.
Players Share Limited.
As adopted last winter by the two
leagues and the National commission,
the amended regulations provide that
each member of the winning club
shall receive $1,000 as his share of the
world series proceedes, while the
losers individual end will amount to
$l,400. The total of these sums will
come from the usual 60 per cent of
the gate receipts for the first four
games of the series. The new ar
rangement, however, calls for fur
ther distribution of the balance of the
60 per cert among the rlavers of the
three clubs which finish the pennant
race of both leagues, respectively,
second, third and fourth.
After the money apportioned to the
players of the two competing teams
has been deducted from the original
90 per cent, the residue will be di-
vided upon the following basis: To
the players of the National and Amer
ican league clubs finishing second in
their respective pennant race, 50 per
cent; to the third place clubs, 30 per
cent, and to fourth place clubs, 20
per cent.
This new arrangement does not
affect the club owners or the Ma
tional commission, however, for the
old rule of distribution still prevails.
Of the 40 per cent of the gate re-
ceipts of the first four games. the Ma
tional commission will receive 10 per
cent and the club owners 80 per cent.
After four games have been staged
the players cease to participate in
the distribution and the National COM
mission will receive 10 per cent and
the club owners 90 per cent. The
winning and losing clubs are called
upon, however, to divide Is per cent
of their world series share with the
other seven clubs in their respective