New Britain herald., 1919-10-06
1919 SERIES TO BE
 LUSCIOUS MELON
Losing Players Will Get About
 $3,2OO

Luscious is the melon that will be Srut by players and club owners who Figure in the worlds series this fall. Erhe receipts, even with only six #games likely to be played will eclipse Nfhe total of any other series by a H8Wide margin.
 @ This increase is due to the ''protiteer- SAng" club owners, who shot prices for 8Aickets sky high. The increased ad- @kantage for the players comes both S%rom the higher admission fees and From the fact that the players will Participate in the receipts of the first Hive instead of the first four games, 5 The receipts for the first four games are $384,290. If that average #fan be maintained, and there is no s3ioubt that it will, through the next 1.-Two games, the gross receipts, exclud- |ang the war tax, will reach $576,435. S4rhe best previous record was $49O,- AB83. which was the sum collected in S@he 1912 series between the Giants EAnd the Red Sox The series that Skear went the seven game limit and pne better, a tie game in Boston making the total eight.
 S If the White Sox should happen to
  force the series to the limit a mark nearly double the Boston-New York Figure would be reached.
 Players May Get $259,39o. 3 Assuming that the receipts main z#ain the average already begun, the BAotal for the first five games would be H&4SO,362.5O. Of this the National Commission would get its 10 per aent., $48,O36.25, which would leave $432, ,326.25 for the players and club owners. Twenty-Five per cent. of this
 Sum, $S6,465.25, would go to each Alub owner while 60 per cent. of it, s$259, 9,395.75, woud make up the play
 8rs' pool.
 Of this $259,395.75, 75 per cent, 8$194,546.81 would go to players of 8he contesting clubs, while the re-
 anaining $64,848.94 would be divided $O per cent. to the Giants and the Cleveland Indians, second placers, and AO per cent to the Tanks and the
 %ubs, third placers
 BN The $194, ,546.S1 of the contesting Blayers would be divided 60 per cent. @116,728.O9, to the winners and 40 8er cent, $77,818.72, to the losers. M'he amount for the winners there %ore on the above supposition, would Exceed by nearly $20,000, an average Bf about $1,000 per man, any sum Ever divided by worlds series players Before.
 8 The next highest figure is the $97,- @56.47 which was divided by the win 8ling Red Sox in 1916, when only five Flames were played. The second Highest figure is the SSS, S,543.02 divid Bd by the same Red SoX in the eight ho ha 8he five game series of 1916 was more brofitable to the players than the Aonger one in 1912 is the fact that 83raves Field didn't exist in 1912, and #he games were played on the small @r field of Fenway park. Each club #nas twenty-four eligible men to par Aicipate, which will make the share
 bf each winning player $4,863.67-a Reasons salary for a whole team #pack in the dim days Cf '76.
 # After the fifth game the club Own- @ers divide 90 per cent of the receipts Mbetween them, but half of everything Mhey get after the fifth game must be #out into a pool which the other four Meen major league club owners will Mlivide equally So even Connie Mack Mand Baker will horn for a little some Mhing,
 N Even if only six games are played MSarry Herman. and Comiskey will #profit more than $1O0,000 each de- Nspite the fact that they have to kick Mn to the other club owners. This Msum was surpassed only in 1912, #when the share of the club owners, Nuntouched by any "shares" for other &clubs, reached the sum of $295, 143.4 40. 8That figure was attained only because Nthe two contesting club owners were Mable to divide between themselvs 90 Nper cent. of the receipts of the last Five games.
 M Though they have to give part of Ntheir profit to the less fortunate clubs, Mthere is little indication that either MFIerrmann or COmisRey will be seen #n the vicinity of any poOrhouse soon, Enc matter how high coaI may go dur Hing the winter.