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Show World's Series Plum Jucier This Year Than Ever Before CHICAGO, Oct. 3. While It fa yet too early to stale definitely that the world series attendance and gato receipts rdcords Mill he eclipsed during the present series hftivon the Cincinnati Nationals and the Chicago Americans. Indications point to Interesting possibilities in this direction. The grea t revival in the popularity uf baseball and the intense rivalry between the two con i pet iiti; clubs opens the way fnr new figures under tho Mgreement to play tho best f h e out of nine frames. 1'nder the former arra n cement of the best four out of seven panics the records show that tho average of the series since 1 iHVi has been very clone to six frames. This has led Shrewd judges to point out that the present Kttlle for the premier baseball title will lil;e! ,- run seven or eieht sanies before a winner is produced. Of the fifteen series piayed since 1 903 but three exceeded six iramcs. The struggle strug-gle between t he Host on Americans and the New York Nationals in was one of the two eight -Ramo series and the record holder to date for both attendance and gato receipts. With the Cincinnati park seating 30,o00 paid spectators and Comtekoy park 33, -000. the attendance for eight games would approximate some t'.li.OO, and even a seven -ga me series would bring the figures within a few thousand of the record of 2,M.9H. made in 1912. Tt is not so easy to estimate the Rate receipts, but at the present rate nf admission and charges for reserved seats and boxes, it t. appears on id ltkelv t hn t tho record receipts re-ceipts of $490,500 collected in 1912 may be surpassed. Cut More Ways. If such is the case It is doubtful, however, how-ever, t t the players of the two pennant-winning clubs will profit to the extent ex-tent that was the case when the diants and the Red Sox battled for eight frames before the lat t or team brought the conflict con-flict to a rlose in one of the most dramatic dra-matic frames In the hi story of postseason post-season play. That year the teams divided di-vided a trifle -more than $147,000, giving each of the winning Boston players $4023 and the losing Now Yorkers 2fi6fi. Tn those davs the two teams divided tiO per cent ami 90 per cont of the pate receipts of tho first four games upon a 60 and 40 per cent basis. In the present series . the distribution is far more complex and t lie mony reaches a number of destinations never thought of -seven years ago. Tt requires a public accountant well provided with Illuminating charts to trace the moneys to their final resting place. To begin with, the national rommlFslon, as usual, takes its 10 per cent first from the receipts re-ceipts of each and every game. During the first five games the players of the two teams take 60 per cent and the club-owners club-owners the 40 per cent of tho remaining' 90 per cent. Much to their regret, however, they are not permitted to keep any such lavish emolument. Of the players' pool, 25 per cent is Immediately set aside for the second sec-ond and third teams of tho two competing com-peting leagues, 60 per cent going to the runners-up to the pennant winners and 40 per cent to the third-place combinations. combina-tions. Tho remaining 75 per cent Is divided di-vided among: the actual playing teams, the world series winners receiving 60 per cent and the losers 40 per cent. The owners of the two cluba fare even worse, as they must Rive ovor f0 per rent of their winnings, to their respective leagucH to be divided among- the other clubs at a later date. After five games the players play-ers cease to participate In the proceeds, and the elubowners receive 90 per cent of the pate, which they continue to divide on a fifty-fifty basis with the other cluba. It will be seen, therefore, that, while there Is a possibility of greater attendance attend-ance and larger gate receipts than ever before, neither the competing players nor their elubowners will profit to the ex -" tent of earlier participants In world series, although the leagues and their players, as a whole, will receive more than at any period in tho past. j Records of Past. ' The following tabulation shows the world series receipts and divisions of, same each year since 1903: com- ! National i Tear., Games. Attedance. Receipts. Clubs' share. Plyrs sharo. mission, j 1 9f3 S 1 on. 4 20 $ r0, 000 $ 1 7.3S8 J 32,61 2 $ 1 1905 i 91.72:1 6S.405 3-1.170 27.394 6.S41 I 190ij 6 r,S4: 106.5."0 62,433 33,402 10.655 I 1007 S 7S.06S 101,72 3$. 622 64, 953 10,173 i IPS 5 62.232 9 l,S76 39,3ti3 4fi,l 15 9,4? I 1009 7 1.4.-.. 295 1.02 102.547 66.926 18 S:!0 i 1910 124.222 17X930 77,f.l0 79,072 17 393 I 1911 6 179.851 :!4 2,164 10,217 127,911 34,036 i 1913 8 251.901 490.449 293.S32 147.572 49 045 ! 1913 5 150.992 S2 5.9S0 15S.218 135,162 32'59S ! 1914 4 111.009 225,739 81,286 121,898 22 573 j 1915 14?.. 351 320,361 1 43.4T-0 144,900 . 32036 ' 1916 . . .7 5 162.859 385. 590 184,104 162,927 38 550 1917 6 186.654 425.878 230,401 152.8SS 42 58" , 191S 6 t 12-S.4S3 179,619 92,639' 69.117 17.961 ' Totals 86 2.015,914 $3,479,721 $1,733,095 $1,402,8:3 $341,790 Not played under national commission rules. |