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Show MB Wreck Plans of (jflhBaseball Goin- kfcsEDSERIES i&IOXSHIP GAMES fS'Gei Biggest Por-; Por-; pceipts, Accord- Wf Kfc i-The "spirit of baseball threatens to CllBtti tie National Baseball MiUtiis of games for the l llpthe Trorld between the .Builhfr American and Xa- cl dollars and cents Is Ike players again (MKiho raav take part In u&r the rules drawn up ..fBiprrrn the championship jMMfaruuly fat percentages tHriV players, hut when '.'Jtmiti to figure out their J H'Ki33ry receipts (t was -Kl Bi Demanded. (Mkcocj flays of the sum- : VBte' phj-trs paid little at- I'Jl winning games, H45on Is nearly over fH(sdble pennant winners .4HUxe getting together on "iier the chnrapionshlce In HtcHed the two cham-I cham-I tnfoubtcdly demand a lite sale receipts from fSot Play, nor the Giants are ex-Hulton ex-Hulton with the terms, felon declines to raise it than probable that the gsEpIonshlp series will mat the players get toll? to-ll? the pame3 themselves. I wy unsatisfactory ar-W ar-W games would not bo 1 ts real champlon-ife champlon-ife Grumbling. IttWC, some of those, inks, have not cx-tiil cx-tiil tho Chicago and wve been grumbling. i?je, the ployers say S to nv et any Ainerl-t Ainerl-t hiturallv thev do lor marbles,, Pittsburg teams divided most of J1, getting more than W'Umplatcd arrange-; arrange-; not hopo to realize 1 0'Jch tRIs fall. f Receipts. cUH j'vhlon of the receipts 7 are entitled aro as felfi-033 rccell8 oi the balauco $Jm& fff ,8haU for" a Sf mZn, . "?LtW0 teams, to Ew?0,1?. winner, and . iBiJ 0 the contest. flmL VI.itni deduction rlflM dually among JSjRtton Only. tSfciiH' .,ch Provides LiHifrrangcment." said one of tho Giants recently, "about all we shall get will be a championship button, nnd perhaps money enough to pay expenses. Amazing Generosity. "The generosity of the commission Is amazing. After grabbing off 10 per cunt I of the gross receipts, they let us fight it out for a division of tho 00 per cent remaining. re-maining. That includes only the first four games. Dividing Receipts. "There will bo approximately forty , players who wll share In tho receipts. , Suppose we draw SO.000 paid admissions In the first four games, although 1 do not bcllovo the attendance will reach that by 16,000 what do we got? The commission fixes tho price of tho admissions, but I hardly think they will averago moro than 64 per cent. That would be J4O.O0O. Ten per cent off for tho commission leaves WC.OOO. I Supposing a Case. "Now. suppose we should win the first ! three games nnd lose the last four: we j(get 25 per cent of the ?36.000. That would f give us JD000 to divide among twenty men about JoOO apiece. It certainly Is a most ; liberal proposition to the loser when com- pared with what the Pittsburgh got for i losing the championship to Boston. My figures give tho club owners all the best i of it, loo. j "They cut us out of the last three games i by a direct reflection on our honesty. They any there can be no throwing otr, because the incentive to win everv gamete game-te there under their plan. Well, a ballplayer ball-player la out to win every game. No team is going to lay dowh and lose four straight, because tho men would lose prestige nnd money by doing so. Why Not Divide Equally? "Why not give the players a percentage of the entlro receipts? I'll guarantee that thero will be no effort to make the eorles n tie up to the last game. Each team would like to win four straight. If possible, possi-ble, even If more money could be obtained by playing tho entlro seven." |