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TO YELL ABOUT Baseball Attendance Records Rec-ords Show Salt Lake Is Far and Away Ahead of Philadelphia PHILS PLAYED TO AVERAGE OF 5000 With Population Fifteen Times Greater Than Ours, Quakertown Had Only Twice as Many Fans The first year of Pacifi Coast league baseball n 6alt Lake was a success That has already been Fail so often that it has become tr te The reason for repeating t at all s that the farther the 1915 Eeason sljps into the past the more e idence a cumulates that bait Lake proved itself some baseball ; town some baseball town Just now we have n m nd the poor majors An article in the New York Times reveals a cond tion ot affa rs that wh le no doubt unsat efactory to the majors s nevertheless somewhat gratifying to us and whollv for selfish reasons Whether the majors made money or lost t is n a large wa none of our bus ness and scarcely any ot o r concern But there s a great t uth m the 1 nowledgo that o are do 1 g bette than the othpr fellow c en though the other fellow be do ng wretchedl;) It s a part of the thing we call human nature to row Perhaps it is not a noble act to row oi er some body or somethng m m sfortune yet nob e or ignoble there s satisfa t on m that crow the more so when you are engaged in the same field of endeavor as the crowee No doubt t is a reversion re-version to the cave man so to do but sometimes it s pleasurable to be ca e mannish Philadelphia Figures All of wh h leads up to or rather back to the art cle n the Tew ork Times. One paragraph in that art cla reads The Phillies drew more people at home than any other Ph ladelph a National league ever d d They averaged 5000 persons a day dur ing the week and had some excel lent Saturday crowds On two oc ca ons dur ng the year they had more than 16 000 paid adm ss ons Th s never occurred be fore in the history of the Phila delphia club A d p into the figures relat ng to populat on show that Ph ladelphia at the t me of the most recent census had 1,549 000 inhab tants The same book shows that Salt Lake had 9 7 No doubt Salt Lake has grown since then An estimate which will be held by many to be too conservat ve altogether would give th s town 100 000 persons Even a census enumerator should be able to find that many Aside from cast ng Tip batt ng averages we lay no claim to arithmetical expertnesB but by long and arduous use of pencil and paper, we am e at the conclus on that Philadelph a has a populat on fifteen t mes greater than that of '-alt Lake An equally conser at ve est mate places the mternrban populat on of Ph ladel ph a on a like bas s Salt Lake's Showing Salt Lake last season played to '01 000 patrons The park was open ninety t mes to permit the plaving of ninety four games Therefore we End that our average was about 2500 persons per game half as many as Philadelph a had On several occas ons 10 000 per t sons jammed the r way nto Majest c park No doubt the boasted lb 000 of Philadelph a would ha e gone to the local lot had there been even a re mote chance of finding accommodat ons I So wh le Ph ladelpnia has a popula t on fifteen times as large as that of ' Salt Lake a champ on Nat onal league (.club drew only twice as many fans as d d Salt Lake with a club that was not a pennant contender unt 1 the last two weeks of the season C en a- popula t on s m lar n number to that of Ph la delph a Salt Lake would have played to approximately 40 000 baseball fan3 every day Project ne the figures one finds that Salt Lake s attendance was equ alent to every man, woman and ch Id go ng twice to the ball park dur ing the season Had the same rule app ed in Ph ladelph a more than 3 000 000 persons would ha e watched the Ph 11 es dur ng the season In v ew of these facts and figures therefore there seen s to be just alt tie excuse for that ca e mann sh feel ing doesn t there? How They Fared The art cle in the T mes is an nter esting review of the financ al s de of the season It follows There are a lot of people in this old world who are of the op n on that the dwners of baseball fran ch ses n the major leag es espec all the atonal and American leagues, com n o e no e each sum er than is turne 1 out by the U ted States m nt There s no -justification for such an op nion nothing could be far ther from the truth There was a t me when baseball was a good paying propos t on and that t me may come aga n but the last four years have been lean ones and there w 11 be n ore lean ones befo c the e will be a fat o es The e a c o e io ng on than e la ng 1 e The sea on ot 1 wa a ad one the 191 season wasn nuch better The rush of the Bra es from last place to first in 1914 was (Continued on Following Page) SresWezioT ce to chortle . 1 (Contlnnod from Preceding Page) the only th ng that saved the a tional league that year This dash enabled every club to pick up more money than would ordinarily go into the coffers for it awakened a lot of bottjed np enthusiasm Close Race for Flag From an artistic standpoint the 1915 race of the National league was the best la its history True there have been closer finishes on one er two occasions bnt neer be fore were all e ght clubs in the running for the pennant down to the last month or the season. Vet with this even race but four of the clubs came through on the right side of the ledger These fonr were the eastern clubs Baseball clubs in the west with the excep-t excep-t on of the Chicago White Sox, the Detroit Tigers and the St Louis Federals lost money The Phi M es cleaned p $ 1 000 as their share of the worll s series. Qf this amount one fourth must be deducted for under the Nat onal league rules one fourth of the world s series money goes to the other seven clubs in the league On the playing season the Phils made about $25 000 If the Phils had played the same game in lfto8 that they did this year the elob would have earned about $200,000 That is the d (TeTence n the vears and the enthusiasm Fixe years ago such a race as was shown this year would have had the bugs dippy but this year it only attracte 1 the fans is spots On each one of their thro west era trips the Ph Hies lost money Not on one of the three trips did the elnb make enough money to pay the railroad fares and hotel bills let alone salar es The Phils did well it home but a lot of the profits of the games went to make up the defio ency ncurred in the games abroad What Phils Drew The Phillies drew more people at home than a y other Ph ladelphia National league team ter did They averaged fiOOO persons a lay during the week and ha 1 some ex cctlent Saturday crowds On two occaiins during the rear the had more than IrtOOO pa d a I ss os au 1 the coats were sold o t once p o os o the worl 1 s ser os This no or oou r ed beforo n the history of the ol b Out of the world s series receipts also the I ill es had to pav tor sneo al tra ns oto vOnch w " flirther f t down the profits The earn ngs w 11 be tr mmed to such an extent that so dividend w II be declared this 5 ear The reason for th s s that the cl b lost heawly last season and the i roflts of this car w 11 go toward n eet ng the losses of last rear and the notes ht n nst bo mot later If the Ph Is oo Id have olajed to somo peo le In the west they wo Id ha e had a good year I am nlonsh p teams don t always pay The Athletles dropped about itO 000 last vearrith a winner Thev dropped the same amount this year with an eighth place club Losing $100 000 in two years is no ioVe The (Hants cleared about $50 000 on the playing season This sn t a h ge amo nt for tie Giants but it Is Ann for n tailender I s ally the (Xante profits have run p to itnn 00 Ben das the profits tho Olants oolle t WOOnn each ear from th" New lork American leagi e ol b for the se of the Polo groun j This makes a nice nest egg Iat vear the Giants cleaned p aho t $40 000 on tho ear incl 11 g tho world s series This year the profits w 11 roach about $1S 000 which Isn t much on a million dol lar plant Ciood for Robins Brooklyn finished abo t $80 000 ahead This Is the first tin e that Fbbets has pllotnd a money maker In Bva vears The Cubs w II lo well to o I e en on the season The arlinals Prates nnd Reds lost an where fron $2 0 ( to $40 U0 each n the season If it hadn t lo for the s rts of the cl bs at 1 fferent times d ring the year the losses would have been ouormo a Th gs nro not m ch d fferent n t n e nn oag r If I g ol The I I no Ire t ha 1 ts first s x oars nnd Ih r t v, I cl oo II Ro I So lea ol p iln $100 n o o onH n g h p os II vho n n s I gl n g x la (Is 1 e h I K d I r I hn 1 I I o n arh ho n Id t ho oi,u lsr season Na u s and 'akev s iroflts w 11 rcaih $ 5 t s sa d The Tigers had tl e r best ear at hone and abroad Conmkey Loses at That om skej h oago eared abo t $V 000 b t tho season ill he a loss to bin he i of the purchase) of la kson oil ns and others lie II be at oast M 000 be)i nd on tho vear when these fellows are paid for Al) the othe clu s lost mone The New York cl 1 lroppei abo t $15 000 le land $50 001 and St Loils $lj) 000 When one dehea nto these fgi res no roaBon an le d sco ere I for Ban tohnson s I lowing h s 1 ru about tl e lor Us failing to 1 aw an eople II t two of the Fed era lis lost mone The Brook 1 n Polerals lost aho t $100 000 on ho onso tl o largest n o nt o I To 1 d t d aw at I n o n iih on I an 1 had a h gh m n o I Bait ro si o nbo t l no to the bad Newn k 1 roko o en be a se of the H nds ro ds and Buffalo barel g t hr gl I s g h cngn a I SI I a nl e o o a so tho (.1 n 1 o a h Isn Ph I l. 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