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Show Expect Series to Surpass Million Mark in Dollars CHICAGO, Oct 4. What the world series means In dollars and cents io the baseball fraternity can be exemplified exem-plified by the statement that before the present series is completed the gate receipts for such contests playeu under the jurisdiction of the national commission will reach the Inipreisive total of more than $3,500,000. Notwithstanding Not-withstanding recent remarks to the contrary it is doubtful if big League baseball would have mounted lo its imposing position without the aid of the world series. The battle for the championship is the logical climax for each season's pennant races and the fact l hat dose to two million spectators have paid almost three and a half million dollars to witness such contests places the stamp of public approval on the play beyond cavil Since 1905, when the national commission began its supervision super-vision of the world series, fourteen have been played and the Chicago Americans and the Cincinnati Nationals Na-tionals are no wengaged in a si rug gle for the fifteenth championship. During the past fourteen seasons the attendance totaled 1,913,494, and as 78 games were played In these series se-ries the average attendance has ber-n very close to 25,000 per game In the same period these spectators have paid in at ihe gate about $1.80 each for the privilege of watching the play, the aggregate receipts for the 7S games being $3,429,720 in round fie ures. which is an average of very close to $44,000 per game. Further delving into the figures shows that the club owners have profited prof-ited to a greater extent than the players play-ers for the sums divided among the competint,' clubs and the leagues during dur-ing the past fourteen years reache-the reache-the pleasing total of $1,715,700, while the baseball warriors have collet t 1 $1,370,200. The players represeni.il twentv-eight clubs or teams duriri these series and even under a flf-fifty flf-fifty division of the pool Instead of the customary sixty and forty split, the average would have been better (ban $60 000 pPr team. While it is almost impossible to ascertain as-certain just how many players figured In, the division of the money during the past fourteen years a fair aver-age aver-age would he in the neighborhood of twenty five pe,- club. Using ihifl average av-erage as a basis it will be seen thar about 700 players have, at one tine or another, shared in the world series pool Until within a seat-on or it has been customary for the win-ining win-ining combination lo receive 60 per 'cent of the pool and the losing team 1 40 per rni On this basis some .50 players have recelced about $2350 as wmners and an equal number $1500 .is j losers The national commission's average av-erage per game approximates $4380 Although it is quite likely that a new record in gate receipts may be established in the present nine gam3 series, it is doubtful if the players' share will pqual the record established estab-lished in 1912 since the new distribu tion arrangement requires that on5-quarter on5-quarter of their pool go to proceeds of five games instead of four but the deduction of 25 per cent of their pool is likely to more than counterbalance the gain from the fifth contest receipts. re-ceipts. The club owners are also required re-quired to share more liberal!; this season with the other magnates of the league than in past years for th will divide just half of their portion of the receipts with the clubs that trailed them in the pennant race of 1919. rvn |