The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-04
OVER $33,50O,O00 TAKEN IN AT
 PAST SERIES

"Iicago, Oct. 4-What the World fartes means in dollars and cents to tlrn baseball fraternity can be eXen- pf1ed by the statement that before t-. present series is completed the g.-a receipts for such contests play c5 uuder the jurisdiction of the Ma t5uluI Commission will reach the inn prez=tve total of more than $3.5oO.- con. Notwithstanding recent remarks to he contrary it is doubtful if big Iea-4a baseball would have mounted tu is imposing position without the aid of the World Series.
 The battle for the championship is the logical climax for each season s peuuant races and the fact that close to two million spectators have paid almost there and a half million dol lars to witness such contests places the stamp of public approval on the play beyond cavil. Since 1905, when the National Commission began it's supervision of the World Series, II have been played and the Chicago Americans and the Cincinnati Ma tionaIs are now engaged in a struggle for the 18th championship.
 During the past fourteen seasons the attendance totaled 1915, ,494 and as games were played in these series the average attendance has been very close to 25,O0O per game. In the same period these spectators have paid in at the gate about $1.8O each for the privilege of watching the play, the aggregate gate recip pts for the 7S games being $3,429,720 in round figures, which is an average of very close to $44, ,000 per game.
 Further delving into the figures shows that the club owners have prof tied to a greater extent than the play CTS for the sums divided among the competing clubs and the leagues dur ing the past fourteen years reaches the pleasing total of $1,715, TOO, while the baseball warriors have collected S1,270,2 200. The players represented 1zventy-eight clubs or teams durins these series and ey n under fifty fifty division of the pool instead .o1 the average would have been better the customary sixty and forty split than S60.0O0 per team.
 While 1t is almost impossible to as certain just how many players fig yIred in the division of the money during the past fourteen years a fail average would be In the neighbor hood of twenty-five per club. Usins this average as a, basis 1t will be seer that about 700 players have, at ont time or another. shared in the World series pool. Until within a season Ol two it has been customary for win ming com binations to receive 60 pe7 cent of the pool and the losing team 40 per cent. On this basis some 34( players have received about $2,3 a. winners and an equal number $1,50( as losers The National Commission! average per game approximate! $438O.
 Although it is quite likely that { new record in gate receipts may b. csta blished in the present nine gam series it is doubtful If the player share will equal the record establish Cd in 1912 since the new distribution rangern ent requires that one quar ter of their pool go to the secont and third teams in each league. Tn players will share in the proceeds O five games inste~7 of four but tn deduction of 25 per cent of their poo is likely to more than counterba4anc the gain from the fifth contest re ceiDts. The club owners are also re r.llired to share more libe1ally tht season with the other nlagnates of tn league than in past years for the will divide just half of their portiol If the receipts with the clubs tha traiIed them in the pennant race o 1919.