Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-10-09
CLUB OWNERS LOSERS
ON 1922 CLASSIC
Their Earnings This Year Re-
semblc Bankrupt Sale. Com
pared TO Last Year.
IRy AssncIatnI press-

NEW YORK, oct. s.--Somc of the
10000 persons who trudgcd out Of
the Polo Grounds after the last game
Of the worlds series today had 4
vision before them as they walked.
picture Of the two sets OF club
owners, sitting suugvly in the count
ing room. Suickcring TO themselves
and calling moving van to cart
away their profits.
They We're in the counting room
and no doub; they were sitting down.
putting on big. rat cigars and listen
ing to the music OF adding machines
but IL was about as pleasant 20
them as Turkish melody is in a
Greek restaurant.
II Is stated unoficiaiiy that neither
club company will get enough shekels
10 pay its expenses out Of the Sc
rieS. one OF the few times that il
has happened.
And this, despite the fact that on
each OF the five days that Il game
was played. tho record for total re-
ceipts of previous series was broken
Each New York club viii receive APP
proNiinately Si,2S0-wh!ch is gem
orally believed To- te less than IL
series overhead. Compared to the
$loS.o27 that each operating cOmbin-
alton took 10 its Golfers las; year II
looks like a bankrupt sale
The chief reason l. that last year
eight games We're played. in which
tho players took the major portion
81 four. This year only I'VE games
were played, but only -four lad a
money valu" TO any one except dis
ahled veterans of the World War
and various New York charities. All
receipts OF the second game. rough
~ one-hfth of the total. were given
away by the powers that Ire cyi-
| IDENTIFY thought the umpircs had made
mistake in calling the game on
the supposition that sun was going
down
The Polo Grounds was jammed
each day. Today police prevented
people from leaving elevated and
subway trains who couldn't show A
ticket TO the Enclosure. The great
est paid attendance was at todav's
game. when 3S.55l trickled through
the turnstiles. The total attendance
Tor the five games was 1854.
The total receipts were SGO5.i75. Of
which sl20.55i. the receipts OF the
second game. went to charity. OF
the remaining SiSi,a2l. the players
share. including those members OF
the two teams in each league TO
finish second ana third in the pen.
nant race, was $2i1.3O9.-l. seventy
hve per cent Of this. about SlS5.ISo
is to be divided among the members
OF the two worlds series teams, and
the other s6l.S27 - the runners IN
IN the league scramhicS.
The champion Giants get Slll.2S9
10 split among themselves. hu, since
the division is rarely equal To all
who are eliGihle-onc or two gen
orally getting a small cu;-it is inn
possible to tell accurately what the
average slice VIII be. The prospect
however. is about s+.470. which is
far from being a record breaker
though the shortnesS of the series
makes 1t pretty high for five days
work
The losing Yankees get the bal
ance OF S74.l9S. which. figured on a
basis "i conjecture similar t. that
use in estimating the individual!
Giants share. would be about
$3,225.
Each club actually gets $S2.I3G57
bat both of them must pay half of
that 10 its respective league treas
ury.
The remainder Of the gate receipts.
s1@.59l.ll. goes TO the advisory coun-
Gil. presided over by Commissioner
Lands. 1t probably Will be enough
10 pay his salary and for the main
tenancc of his Office