Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-10-02

limit was played only once because
it required only four victories by one
Of the ~contenders to terminate the
affair. >
The big financial difference between
the longer and the shorter worlds
series Is caused by the fact the play
ers share in the receipts OF only the
number of games required to win the
big pennant. That means they par
games in a even game contest in
stead Of five under the nine game
regime. 1t means a considerable diff
ference to the club owners, too, but
the fans are not interested in what
the promoters get, only in the cmol-
uments accruing to their heroes
among the athlets.
Cloudy 1918 Series.
The last worlds series of the sew
en- game variety played under nor
NAL conditions was that Of 1917 be-
tween the White Sox and the Giants.
The affair between the Cubs and Red
Sox in 1913 was conducted under a
cloud on account OF the war depart
ment's. order to curtailt he season OF
a "non-essential pastime." Conse-
~quently the attendance and receipts
were subnormal.! The 1913, 1919.
1920 and 1921 worlds series were Of
the nine game species. ~
Of comparison exists in the fact con-
ditions governing the distribution Of
the coin have been changed since
1917. In that a the players pool,
although restricted to a percentage
OF the receipts OF the first four games,
was divided wholly among the play
ers of the two competing teams. The
following year, 1913, the new deal
was put in force whereby the players
of the teams finishing second and
third in each major league were cut
extent. That change produced the
almost forgotten strike OF Red sox
and Cubs in Boston which added to
the discoloration of the eye already
blackened by the war department.
The conditions whereby the first
three teams In each league. will
share in the worlds series coin will
exist this year. Allowing for this
change it is possible to produce a
vague idea Of what that extra game
included in the players pool amount
ed to by comparing some Of the fig
ures of 1917 and 1921.
Comparisons Z Pools.
The total attendance in 1917 was
1864. >Last fall it was 269, 976. 1t
required eight games for the Giants
to lick the Yankees in 1921 and only
six for the White Sox to trim the
Giants in, 1917. That accounts for
some Of the big difference in. attend
ance and receipts. The coin takenMin
at the 1917 series totaled $425,878
and that was more than doubled last
fall when the gross receipts amount
ed to $900,233. The fact that the
latter series was two games longer
than the former does not account for
all that difference. but the prices
years before.
,Thetplayers' pool in,1s17 amounted
to 3152,S8S and last year it was $780,
522, or nearly twice as much, al
though it included a percentage of
only n more game than in 1917.
The White Sox's aggregate share OF
their series with the Giants amount
ed to $9l,733, or a little more than
$500 for each of the worlds cham
pions of that fall. The Giants share
of their contest with the Yankees last
year amounted to $131,645 and their
Individual shares were over IS ,O0O.S
The defeated Giants in 1917 splita
purse of $61.155, which made little
more than $2,50O per man. Last fall
the Yankees divided $e7,766-only
$4,000 less than the winners share
OF the 1917 series-and their indi-
vidual. shares amounted to nearly So
500. That Is, the losing athletes last
fall prof1ted nearly as much as the
winners did in 1917, although the
players pool was shared BY, four
teams which did not cut N in 1917.