The mirror., 1923-10-11
WORLD SERIES
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consisted of three games and Providence,
with Charlie Radborn as its pitcher, won
them all.
What the receipts of this series were we
do not know, but the series of 1885 was
played between Chicago and St. Louis for
a purse of $1,000, which was contributed
by A. G. Spalding and Chris Won der Abe.
As each club won three games and there
was one tie, the purse was divided.
These championship games continued
through the season Of. 1890. The largest
total receipts of which we have any record
was the $4,000 taken in in 1887 in the
Detroit St. Louis series. The expenses
were $4,000 and the balance of $4,000
was divided equally between the two teams
in spite of the fact that Detroit won ten
games to four for St. Louis.
In 1891 the Brotherhood war broke up
the series and finished the American Asso-
citation as a major league. In 1892 the
National League season was divided into
two parts and the winners which were the
Boston and Cleveland teams, played post
season series. The two-part season was
soon abandoned.
In 1894 William c. Temple, who had
been president of the Pittsburgh club in
1892, donated trophy known as the
Temple Cup, to be played for by the
National League teams finishing first and
second. These games, therefore, really
were not in the nature of worlds series,
as one of the contesting teams already had
won the championship of the league. But
they were much more sporting than the
previous series where the receipts were
equally divided. In the Temple Cup series
the first club to win four games got sixty
FIVE per cent of the net receipts and the
losers the other thirty-6ve per cent.
One thing which this series tended to
prove was the uncertainty of baseball. In
1894 the Baltimore champions, with such
players as Gleason, Esper, Robinson,
Brouthers, McGraw, Jennings, Kelly,
Brodie and Keelcr, lost four straight
games to the second-place New York club,
which had Rusie and Meekin pitching for
it. And the following year Baltimore,
which was again the champion, lost four
games out of FIVE to the second place
Cleveland club, which had Young and
Cuppy as pitchers.
In 1896 Baltimore, for the third time
champions, beat Cleveland four straight
games and the following year, finishing
second, beat the champion Boston club
four out of five. 1t is fact worthy of
notice that the old Orioles were contenders
in every series for the Temple Cup. And,
moreover, the year they beat Boston that
club had Nicholes, Klobedanz Stivetts and
Hickman pitching, Bergan and Camel
catching, Tenney, Lowe, Long and Collins
in the in6eld, and Duffy, Hamilton and
Stahl in the out6eld. After this the
National League abolished the series.
This brings US to the modern worlds
series. In 1899 there was financial de-
preston in baseball which probably was
due to the conditions growing out of the
Spanish American war. The National
League decided upon policy of retrench-
ment. Instead of a twelve-club league it
formed itself into an eight-club league by
dropping Cleveland, Washington, Bal
timore and Louisville.
Ban johnson, who's was at that time
running the Western League, saw his
chance and organized the American
League, with teams in Cleveland, Chicago,
Boston, Baltimore, Detroit Philadelphia.
St. Louis and Washington. In1902 New
York was substituted for Baltimore and
the following year the American and
National Leagues signed peace treaty
known as the New National Agreement