The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-02
WORLDS SERIES ID FURNISH SLIGHT
 DIVERSION FOR FALL
Baseball Classic Without Glamour of Former Years
 Still Holds Interest

New York, September 1.-Whils
 neither gate receipts nor attendance figures are expected to be broken al
 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 outstanding features are apparent which have not hereto
 fore 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 ever prevailed during the playing of a world series as exists at
 this time Under normal conditions the annual clash of the pennant winning
 clubs of the rival major leagues has each season been one of the events of the year. The play was followed each day by hundreds of thousands of baseball enthusiasts in all parts of the country. Great cities and little ham lets in isolated sections of the conti- nent have witnessed the daily gather ing of throngs before the bulletin and player boards to follow the fortunes of the competing teams. Today the mind of the public is burdened with great responsibilities and cares, and the world series at best can be but a momentary diversion.
 Under the circumstances it appears certain that while the games may be we'll attended there will be nothing like the great outpouring of fans which have each year filled the parks to ca pacity and swelled the coffers of the clubs and players. Strange to say this will make little difference to the men who will participate in the diamond
 battles for under the new system of aportioning the winners and loser S individual share of the receipts thief can secure but fixed sum, regardless of the total of the gate receipts.
 PLAYERS SHARE
 As adopted last winter by the two leagues and the national commission, the amended regulations provide that each member of the winning club shall received s2000 as his share of the world |series proceeds. while the losers ind- yidual end will amount to s1400. 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 arrangement, however. calls for further distribution of the bal ance of this 50 per cent fund among the players 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 50 per cent the residue will be divided upon the following basis: To the play CTS of the National and American league clubs finishing second in their respec-
 tive race, 50 per cent; to the third place club, 30 per cent, and to the fourth place clubs, 20 per cent
 This new arrangement does not ef- feet the club owners or the national commission, however, for the old rule of distribution still prevails. Of the 40 per cent of the gate receipts of the first four games, the national commits sion will receive 10 per cent and the club owners 30 per cent After four games have been staged the players cease to participate in the distribution and the national commission will re- ceive 10 per cent and the club owners 90 per cent. The winning and losing clubs are called upon, however, to di- vide 25 per cent of their world series share with the other seven clubs in their respective leagues.