Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-10-09
WORLD s SERIES
NOT PROFITABLE
To CLUB 0WNE RS
Neither Company Garnered
Enough Shekels to Pay.
Expenses, Despite Record
Breaking Receipts

New York, Oct. S,--Some OF the
10000 persons who trudged' out of
the Polo grounds after the last
game of the worlds series today
had a vision before them as they
walked-a picture OF the two sets
of club owners sitting snugly in
the counting room. snickering to
themselves and calling a moving
van to cart away their profits.
They were in the counting room
and no doubt they were sitting
down, putting on big fat cigars and
listening to the music of adding
machines-but it was about as
pleasant to them as a Turkish mel
ody in a Greek restaurant, for it is
stated unofficially that neither club
company garnered sufficient sheck-
els to pay its expenses out of the
series, one of the few times that it
has happened.
And this despite the fact that on
each of the five days that a game
was played the records for daily
receipts of previous series was
broken. Each New York club VII
receive approximately s41,21S-I
which is generally believed to be
less than it cost either club to meet
its world series overhead. Com
pared to the s10S,027 that each
operating combination took into its
Golfers last year it looks like a.
bankrupt sale.
The Chief Reason.
The chief reason is that last year
eight games were played, in which
the players took the major portion
of four. This year only five games
We're played, but only four had a
money value to any one except dis
abled veterans of the world war
and various New York charities.
All receipts of the second game,
roughly one-fifth of the total. were
given away because the powers that
be evidently thought the umpires
had made a mistake in calling the
game on the supposition that dark
ness was falling.
The Polo grounds was jammed
each day and 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 today's |
game, when 3S,551 trickled through |
the turnstiles. The total attend !
ance for the five games was 1856,
947.
The total receipts were s605.475. |
OF which $120.554, the receipts of |
the second game, went to charity.
or the remaining $4S4,921, thel
players share, including those |
of the two teams in each
league to finish second and third
IN the pennant races. was S247.-i
309.71. Seventy-five per cent Of
this, about s1S5,4S2, is to be divid-
cd among the members of the two
worlds series teams and the other
Se1,S27 to the runners up in the
league scrambles.
Giants Get Sftf..s9.
The champion Giants get SILL
2ss to be split among themselves,
but since the division is rarely
squal to all who are eligible-onel
pr two generally getting a small
3ut--ft is impossible to tell accu-
'ately what the average slice will
be. The prospect, however. is
lbout $4.470. which is far from he
ing a record breaker. though the
brief series makes 1t pretty high for
I've days work.
The losing Yankees get the ball
ance of $74,19s. which. figured on.l
! basis OF conjecture similar to that
Used in estimating the individual
Giants share. would be about
s3.225.
Each club actually gets ss2,-I
1867. but both of them must payl
lalf of that to its respective league
.reasury.
The remainder of the gate re-
,eipts, $72,591.11, goes to the ad-
sisory council, presided over byI
Commissioner Lands. 1t probably
will be enough to pay HIS salary
md tor the maintenance OF his Of
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