Arizona republican., 1918-01-13
LESS CO|NFOR WORLD SERIES BOYS
Winners and Losers Basis Will Make Division of Spells
 Cover Many More Players This Year

NEW YORK. Jan. 12.-When the players 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 represent ed by approximately 24 players. These players have shared among them the sixty per cent and forty per cent of the players pool which has been divided on that basis to the winners and losers. As a result a sum which in the past five years has averaged s143,555 per annum has been divided among some forty eight players.
 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 thing of the past.
 According to the agreement just made by the two major leagues the players of the two competing teams will receive sixty per cent of the gate receipts of the first four games as Ill the past. Instead of sharing this sum of sixty and forty basis, each player on the winning team will receive a lump sum of S2,000 and the members of the losing club $1,4O0 each.
 After the total of these individual prize moneys has been deducted from the players share the remainder will be divided among the players compos- ing the clubs finishing second, third and fourth in both the National and American league pennant races. The hoe sic of dixric been announced but it is genrally eX- pected to be fifty per cent to the sec ond clubs; thirty to the third ana | twenty to the fourth teams in each | league.
 | With these figures to work on as | foundation for figuring it is posslpie to gauge with reasonable accuracy what the proceeds will be in the fu- ture as compared with the large amounts which annually fell 10 the share of the players who figured III | the climax of the baseball season. Es- inmates based upon the World Series
 figures of the past five years show
 that the average amount which went
 to the winning and losing players was
 $143,555. The records also show that
 the average number of players on the
 two pennant winning clubs was about twenty This makes the average
 amount to each player of the winning team about $3,5SS, while the individual share to the members of the losing
 teams has been $2,392. Against these
 figures the winning players will each
 receive s2000 and the losing players S1,400 in the future.
 Carrying the analysis further it will
 be found that the prize money to be
 awarded to the actual series players 1T
 the future will approximate $Sl,6o0
 Using the previous mentioned average
 again, the difference between this sun
 and what the two teams divided in the
 past, amounts to $61,955. This $61,-
 955 in the amount to be divided among
 the players of the second, third ant
 fourth clubs in each league at the enc
 of the season.
 If the average number of players is assumed to be the same as on the pen. nant winning clubs this would mear
 that the forty eight players of the two second position clubs would receiv, fifty per cent of the 61,955, or about $645 each. The third place club play. CTS on the thirty per cent basis would receive $3S7 and the fourth position club players, $258 each.
 To put it in other words, instead O. the players of two series clubs amounting to forty eight in all, divid ing $143,555 on a sixty and forty pel cent basis, the same sum will in tn, future be apportioned among the play CTS of eight clubs, the total number O men being approximately 192.
 No changes are to be made in tn