The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-07
SERIES PLAYERS TO
GET RECORD PURSE
Each Winner Draws 81, 881.55
and Losers Receive Sum
of $3,25+.37.

with a capacity crowd In the White
Sox park Yesterday the receipts for the
first Ave games reached the amazing to-
tai of. $4S2,l29-vand it is in the receipts
of these first Ave games that the players
interest lies.
The amount is divided differently this
year than in former series--the players
on the contesting teams being forced to
share their spoils with men on the teams
that finished second and third. Even
with this deduction the contesting play
ers will receive a record breaking sum
Each man on the winning team Will re-
ceive S4,SS155, while each losing player
will get sS,254.37.
The first cut on the receipts goes to
the National Commission. This body re-
ceives s4S.212.90, 10 per cent. of the
gross receipts OF the remaining 90
per cent so per cent, s260.349.66, goes
into the players pool. while the other
40 per cent, s173.566.44, is divided
equally by the two club owners.
Seventy five per cent. of the $780,
1896 goes into the pool for the con-
testing players, Is per cent. of 1t goes
into the pool for second place players
and the other 10 per cent. goes to the
third place men. These amounts are
s1s5.2s2.25, s39,052.45 and $26.O34.e6
, respectively.
Sixty per cent. of the s195.262,25 goe !
TO the team winning the series, while
| the losers receive 40 per cent. The
| amounts are s117,157.35 and sfS,1049O
| respectively. Each team has twenty
| four players to share in the purse. maxi
| ing each winning player entitled u
s4,SSl SIS and each loser to s3.254.37.
These amounts were undreamed of
even as recently as 1914. The greater
| prices OF admission and the participa-
lion of the players in five games instead
| Of four are the principal factors contrib
uting to the increase.
On account Of the fact that II Is not
known Just how many players will share
in the second and the third place purses
| II is impossible to tell exactly how mucn
| each man will get Assuming that there
are approximately twenty-five players
on each team to participate, each Giant
and Cleveland player will get about
$500. while each Cub and each Yank
will get about $3.50. The second place
teams divide $39.052.45, while the third
placers have a pot of $26,034.96.
And Santa Claus hasn't forgotten the
club owners. They won't get record
. breaking sum, because of the excess
profits CLEANED by the Giants and the
Red Sox owners in the eight game ser
les In 1912, hut they will receive well
over 100000 each.
| In 1Sl2 the conteSunS cluD OWneri
did not divide with the other fourteen
clubs, and the two clubs got lots o
gravy in the last four games Of tina
series. The hundred odd thousand dol
lars that the Cincinnati and the Chi
cago owners will receive this year viii
rank second, however. to the s147,571.7'
that each club got in 1912.
In to-day's game the customary II
per cent. goes to the National Com
mission. while 221a per cent. goes t.
each club owner. The remaining Al
per cent. goes in to pool to be spill
fourteen ways by the other major League
clubs. With the same average attend
ance to-day, each contesting club should
profit about $4,000, while each of tn
other fourteen clubs ought to receiv
about $4,000.
Truly this is a fitting climax to tn
greatest season of prosperity that base
|, ball has ever known.
The following table gives a line OIL
the individual shares OF all worlds serie
between the National and American
League pennant winners