The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-04
BASEBALL RECORD
IS THREATENED
World Series May Have the
Largest Attendance and
Receipts of History
SERIES OF 1912
DREW BIGGEST CROWD
Receipts That Year Were S4e0,5O0-In-
dividual Players Received Large
Sums-Distribution for Present Sc
ries More Complex.

CHICAGO, Oct. 4.-While it is yet
too early to state definitely that the
| World Series attendance and gate re-
ceipts records will be eclipsed during
| the present series between the Cincin-
natl Nationals and the Chicago Amer
leans, indications point to interesting
possibilities in this direction The great
revival IN the popularity of baseball
and the intense rivalry between the
two competing clubs opens the way for
new figures under the agreement to
| play the best five out of nine games
| Under the former arrangement of the
best four out of seven games the rec
| ords show that the average of the Sc
ries since 1908 has been very close to
six games. This has led shrewd Judges
to point out that the present battle for
the premier baseball title will likely
run seven or eight games before win
ner is produced. Of the fifteen series
| played since 1903 but three exceeded
six games. The struggle between the
Boston Americans and the New York
| Nationals in 1912 was one of the two
eight game series and the record holder
to date for both attendance and gate
receipts.
With the Cincinnati park seating 49,
900 spectators and Comiskey park So
600 the attendance for eight games
would approximate some o75.00o and
even a seven game series would bring
the figures within a few thousand of
! the record of PSI ,901 made in 1912 It
4 not RI 1a+a RI wa
ceipts but at the present rate of admis-
sion and charges for reserved seats and
boxes, it appears quite likely that the
record receipts of $490,500 collected in
| 1912 may be surpassed.
/ IF such is the case it is doubtful.
however, that the players of the two
pennant winning clubs viii profit to the
extent that was the case when the Gil
ants and the Red Sox battled for eight
games before the latter team brought
the conflict to a close in one of the
| most dramatic games in the history of
post-season play. That year the teams
/ divided a trifie more than $147 900 Civ
| ing each of the winning Boston play
ers $4,022 and the losing New Workers
! $2,566. In those days the two teams
divided 60 per cent of 90 per cent of
| the gate receipts of the first four games
upon go and 40 per cent basis.
In the present series the distribution
| is far more eomplexed and the money
reaches number of destinations 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 u.s.
ual takes its 10 per cent first from the
receipts of each and every game. Dur
| ing the first five games the PLAYERS of
| the two teams take 60 per cent and the
/ club owners the 30 per cent of the re-
naming 90 per cent.
| Much to their regret however thew
are not permitted to keep any such Law
/ ish emolument. Of the players pool
| 25 per cent is Immediately set aside for
the second and third teams of the two
competing leagues; go per cent going
/ to the runners-up TO the pennant win.
ners and 40 per cent to the third place
combinations. The remaining rs per
cent is divided among the actual play
/ ing teams, the World Series winners re-
4 ceiving 90 per cent and the losers 40
4 per cent. The owners of the two clubs
i fare even worse as they must give over
4 so per cent 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 partici
pate in the proceeds and the club own.
ers receive 80 per cent of the gate
1 which they continue to divide on a fif
ty fifty basis with the other clubs.
1t will be seen, therefore, that while
there is a possibility of greater attend
ance and larger gate receipts than ever
before neither the competing player:
nor their club owners will profit tt
| the extent of earlier participants il
World Series although the leagues and
their players, as whole, will receiv,
more than at any period in the past.