The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-02
BREAK NO RECORD
Crowds and Gate Receipts To
Be Below Normal.
Random Is Interested in War
First-Then Baseball.
GAMES TO Be WELL ATTENDED
But There Is No General Out
pouring Expected.
Commission Decision Has Set
Specific Amounts for Players.

New York, Sept. 2.-While neither
gate receipts nor attendance figures
are expected to be broken at the COM
ing world series, baseball fans thru
out 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
the history of the baseball classic.
No such national or international
crisis has ever prevailed during the
playing of a world series 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 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 CONT
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
momentary diversion.
b. Under the circumstances 1t appears
certain that, while the games may be
well attended, there will be nothing
like the great outpouring of fans
which have 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 dia
mond battles for under the new sys-
tenn of apportioning the winners and
losers individual share of the receipts
they can secure but a fixed sum, re-
CARELESS of the total of the gate re-
ceiptS.
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 $4,000 as his share of
the world series proceeds, while the
losers individual end will amount to
$1,400. The total of these sums will
come from the usual sixty per cent of
the gate receipts for the first four
games of the series. The new arrange
ment, however, calls for a further dis
tribution of the balance of this sixty
per cent fund among the players of
the three clubs which finish the pen
nant 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
sixty per cent the residue will be
divided upon the following basis: To
the players of the National and
American league clubs finishine
second in their respective pennant
race. fifty per cent; to the third place
clubs, thirty pers cent and to fourth
place clubs, twenty per cent.
This new arrangement does not af-
feet the club owners or the National
commission, however, for the old rule
of distribution still prevails. OF the
forty per cent of the gate receipts of
the first four games, the Nationa
commission will receive ten per cent
and the club owners thirty per cent
After four games have been staged the
players cease to participate in the
distribution and the National commits
Fsion will receive ten per cent and thu
club owners ninety per cent. The
winning and losing clubs are called
upon, however, to divide TWENTY-FIVE
per cent of their world series share
with the other seven clubs in their
respective leagues