New Britain herald., 1919-10-07
SERIES PLAYERS ID
 GET RECORD PURSE
Each Member of Winning Team
 Will Receive &,881.5O

With a capacity crowd in the White Sox park yesterday the receipts for the first five games reached the amazing total of s4S2,129-and it is in the receipts of these first five games that the players interest lies.
 The amount is divided differently this year than in former series--the players on the ccntesting teams being forced to share their spells with men on the teams that finished second and third. Even with this deduction the Contesting players will receive a rec ord breaking sum. Each man on the winning team will receive S4,SS1.55, while each losing player will get $3,- 254.37.
 The first cut on the receipts goes to tho National Commission. This rody receives $4S, ,212.9O, 10 per cent of tho gross receipts. Of the re- maining 90 per cent 60 per cent $260,349.66, goes into the players pool, while the other 40 per cent, $173, 566,44, is divided equally by the two club owners.
 Seventy-five per cent of the s260,- 3+3.66 goes into the pool for the con- testing players, 15 per cent of it goes to the third place men. These amounts are s195,262,25, S39,o52.45 and S26, ,034.96 respectively.
 Sixty per cent of the $195, ,262.25 goes to the team winning the series, while the losers receive 40 per cent. The amounts are S117,15735 and S78,104.90 respectively. Each team has twenty-four players to share in inc purse, making each winning play CT entitled 10 s4,SS1.55 and each loser 10 S3.25437.
 These amounts were undreamed of even as recently as 1914. The great CT prices of admission and the par ticipation of tho plaTo"r in five games instead of forr arc the principal fac tors contributing to the increase.
 On account of the fact that it is nGt known just how many players will share in ,hr second and the third !Ila e purses it is impossible to tell exactly how much each man will get. A&Su2rtuG nCt there are approximate Iy twenty-five players on each team to participate. each Giant and Cleve- land pEly|>@ will get about $500, while ea~l. Cub and each Yank will get about $550 The second place teams divide 39,052.45, while the third
 
 And Santa Claus hasn't forgotten the club owners. They won't get a record breaking sum, because of >Sthe excess profits gleaned by the Giants and the Red SoX owners in the eight game series in 1912, but they will re- ccivc well over S10O,OO0 each. . Tn 1912 the contesting club owners did not divide with the other fourteen clubs, and the two clubs got lots of gravy in the last four games of that series. The hundred odd thousand dollars that the Cincinnati and the Chicago owners will receive this year will rank second, however, to the $147,571.70 that each club got in ,1917
 \ In yesterdays game the customary 1Q per cent goes to the National Commission. while p 1-2 per cent goes to each club owner The re- maining 45 per cent goes in to a pool to be split fourteen ways by the oth- CT major league clubs. With the same avcrago attendance today, each COntesting club should profit about $21, 1000, while each of other fourteen ,Ciub& ought to receive about $3,000.
 Truly this is a fitting climax to the greatest season of prosperity that baseball has ever known