Salt Lake Herald | 1907-07-14 | Page 22 | Losing Season for Baseball

LOSING SEASON FOR BASEBALL Too Much Rain Has Cut Wide Swath in Receipts of the National Game Estimated on a conservative basis the extraordinary weather conditions which have prevailed this year have cost the club own lB ot of the two major leagues alone the sun sum of to say nothing or of the host or of minor league and Independent ent clubs which have suffered proportion proportionately proportionately to their size Up to Wednesday there had been post postponed postponed In the National league games and In the American league forty nine games making a total ot of an even games lost on account of bad weather A lI m br of these games have been played of off on open oen dates or as double doubleheaders doubleheaders headers but allowances are made for those In this estimate and doubleheaders never attract twice as many people as a single game would under similar condi conditions conditions There Is a wide difference be between between tween the losses of winning clubs and the losing clubs In the race but taken as a general proposition the rec records records show that is 15 a low figure for forthe forthe the average attendance per game for tor a major league club Value of Postponed Game GameOn On this basis a conservative estimate or of the value of each postponed game would be 2000 In mone money which in Itself would mean as the major r leagues losses by postponed games alone this year As stated some ot of this has been made mad up by playing off games but not enough to exceed allowance made for mistakes In the estimate Approximately the same number of 01 games have been played b by both leagues this year but that number is close to xo iO In each circuit or 41 games for both It Is not too strong to say the poor weather conditions under which the great majority ot of these games have been played have kept tile the average receipts below normal b by at least OO per game The games which have been played under weather conditions which did not affect attendance been so few they could almost be counted on ones fIngers It must be remembered OO represents only a little over Oer a 1000 people at major league prices On a basis of decrease In patronage for tor each game played over could be added to the lost by postponements That would make a total or of lost but deducting 25 i iper per cent to allow for what few favorable conditions have prevailed and for double headers it will wUl be seen the original esti estimate estimate mate of Is a low one