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"Gate" This Season Expected to be in Neighborhood of $500,000.

1912 CLASH RECORD-BREAKER

Attendance Placed at 251,901, With Receipts at $490,449—Players' Share About $150,000.

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—No clearer or more positive illustration of the extraordinary interest taken by the public in the unnual world's championship ser ies of baseball games can be desired than that furnished by a glance at the financial results, a statement of which is officially announced at the •nd of each post-season competition for the coveted title and flag. Through the box office its popularity can easily I be measured. Compared with the meager returns at the initial series in 1834 the enormous crowds registered by the clicking: turnsiles show that by leaps and bounds the attendance in recent years has assumed such gigantic proportions that there is no telling what it may amount to in years to come.

The first championship gamee between the Providence "Grays" and the Metropolitans may have been only lightly attended and there is nothing on record to show what the receipts amounted to for the three games then played, as Providence won three straights. The following year, however, when seven fames were played IP. four different cities, Chicago, St. "Louis, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, the financial result was about $2,000. That year the fight was a hot one between the Chicago Nationals and the American association club of St. Louis, and one can hardly imagine what would be the yield Just now if such a series were porsrible over a similar circuit.

Of course in those days seats in the bleachers could be had for "two bits" and the best seats in the grand stand brought the top price of half a dollar. Even at those rates there could not have been much enthusiasm Judging from the results. Today, however, 0 prices have soared so that a single admission costs a dollar, or rather that 1b the face value of the little card board and the Bolder of one of these

is considered lucky If it has not cost ^""nim more than thrice that amount. 1 7* Fabulous Prices Offered.

In the early days of the world's#"series tickets were easily obtained a.t the regular prices and no one had tu worry as to whether he would get to his favorite seat for one or all of trfe games. This easy method of satisfying one's baseball appetite disappeared years ago and fabulous prices ary offered for or•2 dinary seats in the str.nds, not to spealc of the immense prices demanded for the exclusive coupons which entitle the possessor to view the games from a comfortably upholstered chair in one of the boxes, of which there are sevoral rows in rtle newly built stands.

From the moment that the pennant In each of the major leagues appears to be heading for a certain club or city, tlje would-be spectator begins to worrj/as to how he is going to secure •••iflnil il point to see one or more of the ccntebts and the fight, for tickets begins. For weeks before the end of the regular season, requests are sent for reservations, but it is safe to say that 50 per cent of these result in disappointments. Long lines form In the vicinity of the playing grounds the night before each battle and fancy prices are given to the persons who Await their turn in these flies for the result of their long vigil. The big prices that are paid for tickets in this way do not increase the receipts so far as the players or clubs are concerned, as the box office returns are not influenced by the exorbitant amounts asked, in fact demanded, by the holder of the choice coupons.

In 1S87 when Detroit and St. Louis played fourteen games in nearly a dosen cities, the receipts amounted to $42^000, about $3,000 a game, which was then considered a large amount. The following year $24,362 was taken In for the ten games played by New Tork and St. Louis. The first year of the Temple cup series, 1894, four groines were played and average per game was $4,500 at Baltimore and New Tork. There was a falling off a year later when the Cleveland-Baltimore series of five games realized only $14,750. til Series Brings *50,000.

In lftOa when the first series was

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ilayed between the pennant winning of the National and American leagues, eight games brought a little oyer $50,000. There was no contest in 19,C 4 but a year later there was an advance in the prices of admission and $38,405 was taken in for five games at Philadelphia and New York, but the attendance fell to 91,723 as compared with over 100,000 two years previously. The attendance dropped to 63,000 In 1908 for the Chicago-Detroit series, but the receipts Jumped to nearly $95,000.

A marked increase in attendance and receipts was registered in 1909 when 145,395 persons paid $188,302 to see the «rven-game scries between Pittsburgh and Detroit. Philadelphia and Chicago played five games in 1910, before 124,222 persons with gate receipts of

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Aside from the usual Interest and enthusiasm it arouses, the world's series this fall will be providing fans with an added attraction. So much dispute has been hadas to the superiority of either Johnny Evers or Eddie Collins that as the encounter draws nigh the interest in -,-iieir performances is attaining almost the fever pitch.

Evers and Collins are beyond question the two greatest second basemen In the game. Collins has been declared by many who know to be the greatest ball player in the game today. Just as many have said that Evers Is not only an unsurpassed mechanical player, but also the possessor of the greatest baseball brain the game has ever

$173,980 and this amount was almost doubled the following year when 179,851 persons contributed $842,164 to see the Philadelphia and New Tork series of six games. This was a mighty Jump but it*was eclipsed In 1912, the banner year for attendance and financial results. The Boston Americans and New York Nationals played eight games, one of them resulting in a tie, that year, and it was estimated that a quarter of a million spectators saw the protracted series, which drew $490,449. This enormous increase was, of course, due to the extra games that were required, but last year when only five games were needed to settle the questioning supremacy between the Giants and Athletics $325,980 was paid in with an attendance of 151,000. The average receipts per game in 1912 was $61,306, while the average last year was Increased to $65,196.

Each of the winning players on Lhe winning side in 1903, the first year that the series was played under the conditions which now prevail, received $1,816.25 and each of the losing play

ATTEND-. CLUBS' PLAYERS' YEAR DANCE RECEIPTS SHARE SHARE 1903 .100,429 $ 50,000 $ 17,388 $ 32.612 1905 .. 91,723 68,405 34,170 27,394 190fl 99,845 106,550 62,493 33,402 1907 78,068 101,728 36,622 54,933 1908 62,232 94,976 :',t),363 46,115 l'J09 .145,295 188,302 H12.547 66,925 1910 .124,222 173,980 77,510 79,072 1911 .179,851 342,164 180,217 127,911 1912 .251,901 490,449 293.S32 147,572 1913 .150,992 325.980 79,109 135,264

Totals .284,558 $1,942,534 $923,251 $751,200

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JOHNNY EVERS. EDDIE COLLINS.

known. It is not surprising that many loolc forward to feeing these two stars working against each other in the same series.

A Just comparison between the two Is in many ways an impossibility. One will exceed in many points and the other does the same. It is doubted by raanv whether Evers is quite the flash on the field that he was several years ago. At the present time It will be conceded on most sides that Collins has a shade on Johnny with the stick and nlso on the bases. It is hard to believe that he is a bit faster covering the bag. His wonderful all-round, speed Is what has made him in the minds of many the greatest player in the game.

ers got $1,182. In 1912 the Boston winners received $4,022 each and the New York losers were handed $2,566 oach. Last year each player of the Athletics got a winning portion of $8,246.36 and thr. losing share for each New York player was $2,164.22.

How Dividing Is Made.

The basis upon which the world's series receipts are divided is as follows: The national commission receivcB 1C per cent of the receipts of each and every game. The players of the two competing clubs receive 60 per cent of the remaining 90 per cent of the first four games played. The sum is divided 60 per cent to the winners and 40 per cent to the losers. The remaining 40 per cent of the 90 per cent of the first four games goes to the club owners. Ninety per cent of the receipts of every game after the first four becomes the property of the stockholders of the two contesting clubs.

Details of attendance and division of the receipts each year since 1903 are appended:

LEXINGTON, Ky„ Oct 5.—The indications are that the forty-second annual fall meeting of the Kentucky Horse Breeders' association, which begins today, will be one of the most, 9 i2 class trotters: the" futurity, purse successful ever held here. The best

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Collins is today among the leading hitters of the land, while Evers is no longer hitting at the clip of his heydey. A the bat it is quite likely that Eddie will emerge from the series with a bulge on the Boston flaBh.

It should be kept in mind by the fans who .are eager to see these two in the big games that a player's work in the regular season and his later work in the world's series are quito two different matters. Both Evers and Collins have seen world's series battles before and they will both be primed for the strain. Whichever is given the second base crown when the series is over, It Is safe to say that neither will be disgraced.

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Superior Boxing Gives Southerner Edge in Twenty-Round Affair at New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, La., Oct. 5.—Jabbing continuously to keep Joe Rivers, of Los Angeles, away and steadily piling up points by his superior boxing, Joe Mandot, of New Orleans, won a well-earned decision over the Mexican Sunday before 7,000 fans at the West Side Athletic club. As Mandot was a 7 to 5 favorite the decision of Referee Dick Burke met with approval. Joe Levy, River's manager, was the only one to find fault.

Both men started cautiously, and the first round was more of a dance than a prize fight. In the second Mandot started to fight and worried Rivers with a left Jab, which the Mexican could not fathom, but which sent him back every time he rushed. Mandol, with a series of right and lueft Jolts, won the round.

The third saw Rivers fighting. He nearly sent Mandot down with a left to the stomach and a lightning right to the Jaw, but Joe hung on and Rivers had the shade. Both fought hard in the fourth and it was even.

In the fifth Mandot started Jabbing again and Kivers missed several hard punches, slipping to his knees. Mandot got some telling blows. The sixth was even, but Mandot earned the seventh by a shade again, resorting to the Jab and right cross to keep Rivers away from him.

It became evident in the eighth that Mandot was endeavoring td make the fight at long range, fearing the Mexican's infighting, as Rivers appeared best at this game. The eighth, ninth and tenth -rounds went to Mandot because of his superior boxing ability.

Levy sent Rivers out with a rush In the eleventh amid cries of the fans to him "to fight." He drove Mandot to the ropes, but missed several hard swings, Mandot ducking, while Rivers stumbled again from the force of his blow. The twelfth was hard fought, both men mixing it fast. Rivers trying to get in close and Mandot fighting him off with Jabs and right crosses.

The thirteenth was Mandot's, but in the fourteenth Rivers, fighting like wild, tore In and broke through I»Iandot's Jab, landing several hard oody punches and rights and lefts to the jaw. Mandot swapped body punches, but was unable to connect with Rivers' Jaw.

Mandot again forged ahead in the fifteenth when he rushed Rivers to the ropes with a series of hard Jabs tu the face and body. As the round ended Mandot staggered Rivers with a hard right to the Jaw.

Southerner Lands Hard Left. In the sixteenth Rivers fought for Mandot's kidneys, but was blocked in nearly every attempt. Mandot raised a swelling over Rivers' right eye with a left.

In the seventeenth Rivers slipped while trying to land a left to the jaw. Mandot got in some- hard body blows, and the Los Angeles boy seemed distressed. The eighteenth was even, Rivers fighting like his old self and getting in some hard blows in the clinches.

Rivers tore into Mandot in the nineteenth and landed a series of hard blows to the body, neck, head and face, but he seemed unable to reach Mandot's jaw.

Both fought hard In the twentieth, Mandot simply blocking and not leading. except in tho last minute, when Rivers got In two rights to the jaw, taking a stiff left on the nose, which brought the blood, :n return.

The decision was popular, and Rivers shook hands with the winner. Mandot left the ring without a mark, while Rivers' face was badly swollen.

Eagles Lose, 5-2.

The Eagles were easy for the St. Leonards Sunday afternoon at Athletic ^ark, going down to a 5 to 2 upset.

Fisher's pitching was too much for the losers. Score: E a 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 4 S a 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 5 7 5

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