Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1913 — THE CASH SPLIT BY CHICAGO BALL TEAMS Sox Each Got $807.22 and The Cubs Each Got $675. [ARTICLE]

THE CASH SPLIT BY CHICAGO BALL TEAMS

Sox Each Got $807.22 and The Cubs Each Got $675.

Baseball in the big leagues pays whether a player figures in the world’s series or in a city scries. The Sox and Cubs made a good cleanup for their six games, the money having been split last Tuesday. Each Sox playef received a check for $807.22 far the series. “Ping” Bodie received an additional S6OO, which he thought was gone forever. Manager Callahan had promised him that additional sum far total abstinance and “Ping” drank a glass of beer in St. Louis. Callahan saw him notified him of the forfeit. Bodie closed the season so excellently, however, that Manager Callahan decided to add the S6OO to his series check. The Cubs players received $675 each. The split not only included their amount of the series money hut some accumulated funds for exhibition games,. The Cubs are now on a barnstorming trip, and are scheduled to play at Laporte, Michigan City and other towns near Chicago. ,