Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-10-05
ATTENDANCE FIGURE FOR PRESENT SERIES
 MAY REACH 275,O00

! MAY REACH 275,O00
 Chicago, Oct. 4.-While 1t Is vet to oails to atdLe ueIlniLcIy that the world sefIeS aLtenuauce aud gate re 1 cclpto ICcUruo Will Dr uciIpsed dur Ing the present SerleS OeLWeen the ! Slnclillatl NallUilais ana Lne CnI- caSo AiheticdnS nnuIcallonS pomt to , lHteftstu1S posslDllluleS Ill this ulrec- IlOn. he great reVlVal Ill the po- pularlty ot Daseoau ana the intense liVaIfy DetWeen tile two competing clups opens the way Tor new 1IgureS 1 ulutf lne agreement to play Jnr pest 4lVe out oI nIne games.
 Ondef tile former arrangement of the best four out OI seven games the iecoluS snow that the average or i the series since IJUo has been very close to SIX games. InlS has led shreWd judges co point out that the present pattIe tor the premier base ball title Will lkeIy run seven or eight games before q winner Is pro- duced. Ol the 1l1teen serles played
 
 games. he struggle between the Boston Americans ana the New York Nationals Ill 1912 was one of the two elght-game series and the record holuer to-date TOT both attenaance and gate receipts.
 May Be 275,000.
 With the ClnclnnaUI park seating 33,OOU spectators ana Comlskey park 5o,UUU the atUenQance tor elght games would approximate some 2lo,- OU0 and even Seven-9ame series would bring the figures within few thousand of the record of 251 ,9U1 made III 1912. 1t IS not so easy to estimate the gate receipts but at the present rate of admission and charges for reserved seats and boxes, 1t appears quite likely that the record recelpts of $49O,OO0 col lected in 1912 may be surpassed.
 Ii such is the case it Is doubtful, however, that the players of the two pennant winning clubs will pro1At to the extent that was the case when the Giants and the Red Sox battled for eight games before the latter team brough the conflict to close in one of the most dramatic games in the history of post-season play. That year the teams divided a trifle more than S147,000 giving each of the winning Boston players $4,022 and the losing New Workers $25666. In those days the two teams divided 60 percent of 90 percent of the gate receipts of the first four games upon 50 and 40 percent basis.
 Other Teams Share.
 In the present series the distribu- tlon is far more completed and the money reaches a number of destina- tlons never thought of seven years ago. 1t requires a public accountant well provided with Illuminating charts to trace the moneys to their final resting place. To begin with, the National commission as usual takes it's 10 percent first from the receipts of each and every game. During the first five games the play CTS of the two teams take 60 per- cent and the club owners the 40 percent of the remaining 90 percent.
 Much to their regret, however, they are not permitted to keep any such lavish emolument. Of the play ers' pool 25 percent is immediately SCC oSIitS IOL GllC SSCOIu dIlu teams of the two competing leagues; 50 percent going to the runners-up to the pennant winners and 40 per cent to the third place combinations. The remaining 75 percent is divided among the actual playing teams, the words series winners receiving 60 percent and the losers 40 percent. The owners of the two clubs fare even worse as they must give over 50 percent of their winnings to their respective leagues to be divided among the other clubs at a later date. After five games the players cease to participate in the proceeds | and the club owners receive 90 per cent of the gate which they continue to devide on a fifty-fifty basis with l other clubs.
 Past Results.
 It will be seen, therefore, that while there is possibility of great CT attendance and larger gate re- ceipts than ever before neither the competing players nor their club owners will profit to the extent of earlier participants in world series | although the leagues and their play CTS, as whole, will receive more than at any period in the past.
 The following tabulation shows the l world series receipts and divisions of same each year since 1903: Year Game Attendance Receipts | 1903 8 100,420 $ 50,000 1905 5 91,723 6S, ,4O5 1906 6 99,845 106,55O 1907 5 78,068 101,728 1908 62,232 94,976l 1909 7 145,295 1SS,302 1910 124,222 173,98OI 1911 6 179,851, 342, 2,164