The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-07-09
Looking EN- Over
With
JACK KEENE

The club owners and players OF thr
two major leagues arc now consider
lns new plan for the dlvislnn Of thc
worldh series receipts IN the fan, and
" ls expected that the national com
mission viii adopt the new plan within
the next few weeks. Last ysarA scheme
~ permitting the flrst four clubs TO
share In tho receipts was only an 81.
pertinent and although favored rs aeN-
eral Natlonal club owners. 10 ir likely
10 he abandoned II wns the ,lca ~
John X. Tencr. former president ~ the
National league. to give this p.nn
Quo years trial As II did not prove
satisfactory. tho leagues win now try
new plan.
Tho American league has gone on
record hs faNOIing return tp tuu
Old conditions governing the series,
that the entire sum allowed Tor the
players 20 to the members ~ the
= two competing clubs lu the classic.
Tho National league favor. q cur
taDmsnt ~ IN" share Tor the menl.-
bers OF tho COMPLETING clubs So 'he
result viii probably be "a compro-
mise.
The plan which Is likely 70 meet tho
approval OF the club owners and players
OF both leagues. provides that the play
srs pool--conslsting Of about 60 per.
cent of tho receipts Of tho fust four
games will hs split no that IS percent
OF this pool shall go 10 the players of
the two con'estlnk clubs. while the
remaining q percent viii 40 20 the
members Of the clubs finishing In Ser.
ond and third places In the penuant
rsces In their respective leagues
As the receipts of the worlds
series this fall promise to No hrgcr
than ever before In the history ot
baseball. the officials ~ both
leagues favor curinlment ot the
amount which should go TO the
members Of the cou'nstlng clubs. &
The price OF the tickets was Gu, last
fall 10 meet war conditions. but the
nutiona commission has already de
cidsd TO rc-establish tho scale OF
prices which governed the big
series Under tho new plan. tho
oslicial figure thA, the members Of
the winning club viii receive II
ciose TO -. 900 each. while the mem
hers OF tho losing club will get In %.
the neighborhood % $4,000,
Tho greatest total receipts ever taken
In nj the worlds series was In 1912.
when the Giants played tho Boston Red
so.. THIS se1ie, ,,sd sd s,sh! g zane. re, ,, drew
erx share was tlii.51e ~. This was
not tho largest players pool. however.
because IN 1915, when the Red Sox de.
feated the BROOKLYN club. the players
share reached tlb2. .sss5s which is the
record for the classic. The players
share n this series reached such a high
fluure because of the unusually lnrge
crowds ut the games played ut Braves
field In Boston. There war an attend
-<1nce OF ii.a73 paid admissions in the
second game. while In the fifth game
Of that series n record figure for at
tendance at u worlds series contest
was established. i262o spectators see
Ing tho game The players, however,
did not share In this game.
Up TO that time. the record at
tendance at the series wns nt the
opening game between the Giants
and Athletics at the Polo grounds IN
1911 A. that game 3s. PSI Spec
tntofs paid to sec tho game. while
there have been large crowds In the
Polo grounds at army navy foot
ball contests, this 1911 figure In the
largest attendance that has ever
been officially reported In tho Bush
stadium.
After giho division OF the big pool
between the Brooklyns and the Red
fox In 1915 baseball officials de-
cided that the series had grown to
sueh great proportions that changes
should he made to meet the new
conditions. The experiment made
last season was not sucpSsful be-
cause. on account Of the war. the
serie- did not come up 10 normal
conditions II II had. however II II
doubtful II tho experiment would
have met with the approval Of the
players.