The sun., 1919-10-06
1919 SERIES TO Be
LUSCIOUS MELON
Losing Players Will Get About
$4,000, a Sum Greater Than
1914 Winners Received.

Luscious is the melon that will be cut
by players and eIjb owners who 'ieute
IN the worlds seriCs this fall. The re-
ceipts, even with only six games likely
to be played will eclipse the total of
any other series by a vide margin
This Increase due to the 'proGteef-
ing club owhcrs. who snot prizes for
tickets sky high. The, Increased AL
vantage for the players comes both from
the higher admission fees and from the
fact that the players will participate in
the receipts of the first live instead OF
the first four games.
The receipts for the first fcur games
are s3s4.290. IL that average can be
maintained. and there is no doubt that
1t will, through the next two games, the
gross receipts excluding the war tax.
will reach s5T6,435. The best previous
record was $490,sss, which was the sum
collected In the 1912 series between the
Giants and the Red Sox. The series
that year went the seven game limit
and one better. a tie game in Boston
making the total eight.
IL the White Sox should happen to win
two or three more games and force the
serles to the limit mark nearly double
the Boston-New York figure would bo
reached.
Players May Get s25e,3O5.
Assuming that the receipts maintain
| the average already begun, the total for
the first five games would be s4SO,362.50.
OF this the National Commission would
get its 10 per cent, $4S,O36.25, which
would leave s432,326.25 for the players
| and club owners. Twenty per cent. of
this sum. $S6,46525, would go to each
club owner. while so per cent. of It,
| $259,395.75, would make up the players
pool.
OF this s259.395.75, 10 per cent, $1e4,-
1861 would go to players of the con-
| testing clubs, while the remaining s64.-
s4S.94 would be divided so per cent. to
the Giants and the Cleveland Indians,
second placers, and 40 per cent TO the
| Yanks and the Cubs, third placers.
| The S194,546S1 of the contesting play
ers would be divided so per cent. s116.-
| 72S.09, tothe winners and 40 per cent,
$77,S1s.72, to the losers. The amount
| for the winners therefore, on the above
supposition, would exceed by nearly $780,
| 600, an average OF about 81 900 per man.
| any sum ever divided by worlds series
players before.
The next highest figure is the Sg7,-
75647 which was divided by the winning
\ Red Sox in 1916, when only five games
were played. The second highest figure
is the $Ss,543.02 divided by the same
1 Red SoX in the eight game series in
| 1912. The reason that the Ave game
| series OF 1916 was more profitable to the
players than the longer one I'm 1912 IN the
fact that Braves Field didn't exist in
1879, and the games were played on the
smaller field of Fenwa Park Each club
has twenty-four eligible men to partici-
pate, which will make the share of each
winning player A,S6367--a seasons sal
ary for "A whole team back in the dim
days OF 20.
After the fifth game the club owners
| divide 80 per cent of the receipts be-
tween them, but half of everything they
get after the fifth game must be put into
a pool which the other fourteen major
league club owners will divide equally.
SO even Connie Mack and Baker will
| horn for little something
Even IL only six games are played
! Garry Hermann and Comiskey will
profit more than 100000 each despite
| the fact that they have to kick I'm to
| the other club owners. This sum was
surpassed only in 'f912, when the share
| OF the club owners, untouched by any
| shares" for other clubs reached the
sum OF s295, 1890. That figure was at
tained only because the two contesting
club owners were able to divide between
| themselves 90 per cent. OF the receipts
of the last fve games.
Though they have to give part of their
profit to the less fortunate clubs. there
| is little indication that either Hermann
or Comiskey will be seen in the vicinity
OF any poorhouse soon. no matter how
| high coal may go during the winter.