Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-16
SPORT SNAP SHOTS
BY JACK KEENE.

Slderlng new plan Tor the division
OF the worlds series receipts in the
fall, and it is expected that the ma
tional commission will adopt the
new plan within the next few
weeks. Last years scheme OF per-
hitting the first four clubs to share
in the receipts was only an expert
ment, and although favored by sew
eral National league club owners,
it is likely to be abandoned. 1t was
the idea of John K Tener, former
president of the National league, to
give this plan one years trial. AS
it did not prove satisfactory, the
leagues will now try a new plan.
The American league has gone on
record as favoring a return to the
old conditions governing the series,
that the entire sum allowed for the
players go to the members of the
two competing clubs in the classic
The National league favors a cur
tailment of the share for the mem
bers of the competing clubs, so the
result probably will be com
promise.
The plan, which is likely to meet
the approval of the club owners and
players of both leagues, provides
that the players pool-consisting of
about 60 per cent of the receipts
of the first four games-wiII be
split so that rs per cent of this pool
shall go to the players of the two
contrasting clubs, while the remain
ing % per cent will go to the mem
bers of the clubs finishing in sec
ond and third places in the pennant
races in their respective leagues.
AS the receipts of the worlds Sc
ries this fall promise to be larger
than ever before in the history of
baseball, the officials of both
leagues favor a curtailment of the
amount which should go to the
members of the contesting clubs.
The, price of the tickets was cut
last fall to meet war conditions, but
the national commission has al
ready decided to reestablish the
scale of prices which governed the
big series Under the new plan, the
official figure that the members OF
the winning club will receive is
close to 1000 each, while the mem
bers of the losing club will get in
the neighborhood of $4,000.
The Creates total receipts ever
taken in at the worlds series was
in 1912, when Giants played the
Boston Red Sox. This series of
eight games drew a total gate of
S490,449, and the players share was
$147, 572.2S. This was not the larg-
est players pool. however, because
in 1916. when the Red Sox defeat
ed the Brooklyn club, the players
share reached $152, 8S8.5S, which is
the record of the classic. The play
ers' share in this series reached
such a high figure because of the
large crowds at the
games played at Braves field in
Boston. There was an attendance
of 41,373 paid admissions in the
second game. while in the fifth
game of that series, a record figure
for attendance at a worlds series
contest was established, 1880
spectators seeing the game. The
players, however, did not share in
this game.
Up to that time, the record at
tendance at the series was at the
opening games between the Giants
and Athletics at the Polo grounds
in 1911. At that game IS, 2S1 spec
,ators paid to see the game. While
there have been large crowds in the
Polo grounds at Army-Navy foot
ball contests, this 1911 figure is the
largest attendance that has ever
been officially reported in the
Rush stadium.
After the division of the big pool
between the Brooklyns and the Red
Sox in 1916 baseball officials decid-
I'd that the series had grown to
such great proportions that changes
should be made to meet the new
conditions. The experiment made
asst season was not successful be-
cause, on account of the war, the
series did not come up to normal
conditions. If it had, however, it is
doubtful If the experiment would
rave met with the approval of the
players.