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Show BASEBALL PROFITABLE WHEN SPORT IS CLEAN That baseball paya and pays well may be shown .by the following- figures of 'th large earnings of the pennant winner In the National league for last ' season The New York' Giants cleared up J17O.0OO ln two seasons. It shows' that people will patronize, good, clean ball and as soon as all club promoters Jearn to deliver the real goods to the pW.: Juet that time will their financial troubles cease. Many guesses have been made since John T. Brush and John J, McQraw , took hold of the New York National League club as to the profits cleaned up at the Polo grounds during 1903 and 1904. But no figures of accuracy have been published until now. It Is stated on the best of authority that the- club made above all expenses, in the . last two years, $170,000 and that last year close to $100,000 was cleaned up. From that time John Day -made 'nearly $160,000 clear profit In 1888 and 1889 with the New Yorka, who won the pennant twice in succession under the manage ment of James Mutrie and the captaincy cap-taincy of Buck Ewinff. ;; The New York club traveled a rough road up to the season of. 1894, when John M, Ward's team finished second and won the Temple cup. That year the club made $48,000, which enabled the owners to get back what they had sunk, and also prompted them to sell 61 per cent of the club for $49,000. Under Un-der new ownership the club did not prosper to a great extent until Brush and McGraw assumed the reins, with the above result. - . These profits exceed all previous records, rec-ords, unless they were equaled at one time by the Boston Nationals a doxen years, ago. Boden, Conant and Billings, the owners of the Boston Nationals, are said to have made $3,250,000 out of baseball base-ball In twenty years. All of which goee to show that there Is money In a winning ball club located In a bijr city, asd that the National league has beensaved from possible disaster by the -unusual patronage of late at the Polo grounds. . |