The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-02
WORLDS SERIES
HOLDS INTEREST

NEW YORK. Sept 2.-While neith-
er gate receipts nor attendance figures
are expected to be broken at the
coming World Series, baseball 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 baseball
classic
No such national or international
crisis has even 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 baseball 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 bulle-
tin and player boards to follow the
fortunes of the competing teams. To
day the mind of the public is burdened
with great responsibilities and cares
and the World Series at best can be
but momentary diversion
Under the circumstances it appears
certain that, while the games my be
we'll attended, there will be nothing
1i1o tho IF
which have each year Tiled the parks
to capacity and swelled the Golfers of
the clubs ard players. Strange to say
this will make little difference to the
men who will participate in the dia-
mond battles for under thenew sys-
tenn of apportioning the winners and
losers individual share of the receipts
they can secure but fixed sum, re-
CARELESS of the total of the gate re-
ceipts.
AS adopted last winter by the two
leagues and the National Commissions
the amended regulations provide that
each member of the winning club shall
receive $4,000, as his share of the
World Series proceeds while the los
er's individual end will amount to
$1,400. The total of these sums will
come from the usual sixty percent of
the receipts for the first four games
of the series. The new arrangement.
however, calls for a further distribu-
ton of the balance of this sixty per-
cent fund among the players of the
three clubs which finish the pennant
race OF both leagues respectively; sec
ond, third and fourth.
After the money apportioned to the
players Of the two competing teams
has been deduced from the original
sixty percent the residue will be d.
vided upon the following basis: To
the players of the National and Ameri
can league clubs finishing second in
their respective pennant race, fifty
percent; to the third place clubs. thir-
ty percent and to fourth place clubs.
twenty percent.
This new arrangement does not eff
feet the club owners or the National
Commission, however. for the rule of
distribution still prevails. Of the
percent of the gate receipts of the
hrst four games, the National Commits
sion Will receive ten percent and the
club owners thirty percent. After
four games have been staged the play
ers cease to participate in the distri-
button and the National Commission
Will receive ten percent and the club
owners ninety percent The winning
and losing clubs are called upon, how
ever, to divide twenty-five percent of
their World Series share with the
other seven clubs in their respective
leagues.