The attendance of 18,384 at yesterday’s south side game added a large roll of bills to the players’ share of the world’s series receipts, and the golden plum for which the two teams are battling now can be figured to a cent.
The sum which will be divided among the players at the end of the series amounts to $33,401.70, which is nearly $6,000 more than the New York Giants and Philadelphia Athletics received from the world’s series of 1905. This showing, despite the wretched weather for the first two games of the 1906 series, is remarkable and indicates there is a greater interest than if two clubs from different cities had been competing for the world’s pennant.
The players get no financial benefits from any except the first four games played, the object being to remove the minds of a doubting public any suspicion that the championship is not determined as soon as possible. Consequently the Spuds and Sox can figure up now what sum they will cut up at the finish, winning or losing.
To the winner of the pennant will go 75 per cent of the $33,401.70, which amounts to $25,051.86. the club which loses the series will divide up the remainder, or $8,350.62. The Spuds have fewer men eligible to the series than have the Sox, but on a basis of twenty men to a team each player of the winning side would receive for his share around $1,300 and each player of the losing team nearly $450.
The gross receipts yesterday were $19,980.50, which comes pretty near being the largest sum ever taken in at a baseball game. The players’ share of this was $10,794.33, nearly half the players’ share of the three previous games played here.
The receipts of the remaining games played will be divided equally between the club owners after deducting 10 per cent of the gross for the national commission.
