Ly KEries __-PAGE AGE SIXTEEN WHEN WORLD SERIES DREW SMALL CROWDS Providence And Metropolitans Received $3,000 ~ For Series Played in 1884---Series of 1687 Amazed Fans With Attend- ance of 90,000. E- ¥ Nothing hows the growth of ey. en ball more than a comparison of gate receipts taken in during the different series played for the baseball cham-| pionship of the world. The series of 1212 between Boston Americans and the New York Giants leads all for cash receipts and attend- ance. In the year 1834 about 200 people attended the fig! game be- tween the Providence team and the Metropolitan Club, champicns of their respective leagues, and the to- tal attendance at all three games was less than 3,000, That amount of paid admissions at a dollar each, would hard y pay the umpires of| the present series Radbourne and Keefe, the opposing hurlers, were at the height of their respective ca- reers, but they failed to draw the throngs However, the. players did r.t worry, as-there was nothing in it for them 'except glory In the season of 1885 the was a failure from all standpoints Crly 8,000 saw the six contests be- tween the men of Anson and the Browns led ly Charles Comiskey The series was marked by contin scrapping and at times real fighting It ended cr broke up with honors in games won and verbal scrap and fifty.' hh 1886 the firs series for the world championship was pulled off in a successful man ner. The six games: drew cut 40 000, and the net receipts were $14 006, which was handed over to the St. Louis Browns as per agresment Anson and his merry men did not get even a pleasant smile out of the encounter. series "fy t real A Wonderful Affair, The series cf 1887 was considered a wonderful affair at that period with an attendance of 50,000, and gate receipts amounting to $42,000, whieh amount caused unusual amaze- ment in baseball circles at that time The teams travelled in special cars, and the whole affair was carried for ward on a scale of magnificence nev- er before attempted in baseball. Fif- teen games were played and ten cit. ies got the privilege of witnessing the two best teams battle. Chicago had a "grcuch," and when the De- troit and St. Louis played that city it sent out 365 gpectators. Brooklyn turned out the largest crowd, 6,746. Detroit won handg down, with ten contests to their credit. In 1588 the New York Giants and the St. Louis Browns were the con- tenders. ten games were played to an attendance 'of 35,000 people. Twenty-four thousand dollars was taken in and divided 60 and 40 per ended | tenders for cent. between the, owners, and play- ers were promised $200 each. The hitherto. grand organization under Comiskey made a sorry showing; snd Owner Vou der Ahe was so thor- oughly disgusted that he refused to jay his men the promised $200. Ar- lie Latham got wise and drew his $200 before the series was half over, The other fellows had to wait many days before they received their share. Pp <hr het series ofall ears ly world's championship games was| in 1588, between Brook'yn and' the Cignts. Forty-seven thousand fans say the nine games and paid $46, 000 | o for the privilege. New York won in easy fashion 0 Another Failure. The season of 1890 was a failure az a word series year, One was played between the Brooklyn Club and the lLousville team, champions of the National and American As- sociations. The winners of the lay | are the suggestions embodied in an ers' League, long odds the that season, the Bosteos, were by best club in the land but they were regarded as out-laws, so that the other law- abiding organizations ignored them entire.y." The two above-named con- tenders played seven games of the te agreed upon, and the struggle in a tie, and the halance of games for the supremacy of the base- ball world were postponed until tue next spring, but no record can be found of they niet and settled their argument, and it is probable that it isn't'zettled yet. Seven Zames ere played, one being a tie, and 00 people (attended the entire where series From the year 1892 until 1897 no real world series games took place. Tilts were held between the winners of the f but rivalry which vears the had to satis- annual strug- first and seccnd con- the flag im their respect- In the year 1903 the st big battle was staged for world championship hono n baseball, and from that date the crowning event in the great natipnal game has grown steadily, and to-day it is regarded us the greatest event in the athletic world, lacked the intense For six of the country filed with watching the Rie between the e leagues. -------- | Sporting Notes. : | "Ernie" Lavigne, the crack rover! of the Midland hockey team, is the | latest of the puck chasers to join the | colors, Wednesday Lavigne joined | the artillery at Kingston | RRA ' Five of last year's Port Hep®s O. i. A. Juniors have answered the all .of R; ng and Country, They ire "J Edmonds R. Bennett, Lorne a P. Doreh, and Cy-, Lil HiIown "Eddie" O'Leary, the Ottawa pley- er, who was out with "R. and A.A, last week, - but who did not go to Hamilton with the team Saturday, is again out with the Black and White. He will add much strength to the line at ingide wing. a The termination of the 'world's baseball series in Philadelphia makes necessary the return of $70,000 to seat-holders by the management of the Boston club. This sump had been paid in for reservations for a possible -third game here, The proposed trip to the Pacific coast of the warld's champion Red Sox and the Philadelphia National League pennant winners was declar- ed off by Robert B. McRoy, re pres- enting the National Baseball Com- mission. a . Toronto Telegram:--The decision of the Interprovincial Rugby Union to continuz its schedule was expect- ed. They have incurred the usual heavy expenses in training and tra- velling, and it would be scarcely fair to. ask them to drop. the. series: The admittance of an Ottawa club to the Ontario Hockey Association and the formation of an Eastern Section of the big amateur league application to be filed Reg. Sims, manager deens. shortly by of ; the Aber- Varsity: "Ernie" khown hockey Downey, both '15 School of Science, the Jupp, the well- player, and G. A. graduates from qualified during summer for commissions at the NN A ENN Ps NN st and second seasons of the 4 | big twelve club National League, | they | exists to-day | fans TR IUL Ld Eos Waly DUPS. dre. LEH | credit. ' field and stick them in the places of Hooper, Lewis and Speaker, and Bos- National Saat work in thre World THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1915. office, Kingston. Q Ln + 44 nnouncement" Chevrolet This model was placed on the American market on the first day of June, 1915. Mr. W. C. Durant, President of the Company, has purchased the Plant of the Dominion Carriage Co., Limited, West Toronto. His Company took possession on October 1st and hope to have Cars ready for Selivery in three months. 47,611 cars were sold in 17 days. Equipped with Speedometer, Eigewic Light and Starting System. Everything first-class and fully guaranteed. Price $660 F.0.B. Toronto. 546 orders were taken for this model in six days in Montreal in September. W. W. Gibson will'Bé pleased to give a demonstration during the week of Oct. 18th, from his store, opposite Whig During the Exhibition in Toronto this year this Car was the most popular one on display. A postal card will bring you'a circular by return mail. hat ENGLISH OBSERVATION OFFICERS DETERMINING THE RANGE. Photo shows an observation officer with the ange finder noting an elevation at which the guns must be fired to strike the enemy's position. a artillery school at Kingston, and are| ber of world series won by the two | was declared Igst February, and yet at present attached to the 12th Bat- { tery C.F.A. stationed at Guelph, "Jim" Corkery, winner of the) Hamiiton icau race on Yhankeziving | day, and Eduard Fabre, the Montreal | Frenchman, will likely meet shortly | in a matched race. | wi i The individual star in the world's | baseball game was Duffy Lewis, whe batted .444-in five games, fielded hi: position perfectly, chances, many of them almost im- possible ones. - Ld Charlie Gage, the Varsity star Rugby player and boxer, is in "the Nard-pellse fighting, In a latte: to a fri he winds up~with: "I so at homie, 1 knew these fellows with the handRerchiefs up their . sleaves would not beat the the front." Boston's pitchers deserve a 6t of But take an ordinary out- ton's pitchers would have lost every game with the exception of last Sat- urday's, which little George Foster won single-handed. Eighty thousand doliare were roll- ed up in the ball that Harry Hoeper drove into the centre field bleachers and won the world's onship | destruction for the Boston Red The drive having' eleven |. major leagues 1903. | Braves' notable victory that year ev- ened up the count at five to five. "The American League win this year leaves the records six to five Johnson's circuit. since ENGLAND'S SEA POWER.' Her Task Is Far Greater Than That Of Mr, Tirpitz. "Ohl Sea Dog¥ in Ohlo Sete Journal. There appears to be a growing be- lief among Americans that the so. called "blockade" of England hy German submarines has seriously jecpardiseg. dhe forniel's sea power her ocean. This is a mis - wi ng ihe occasional 3 ] k to oficial an- "alysis of the overseas of Great! Britain for the firét of the war Iysis, it appear: that the. Brit ment requisi- tigned fo. transporting troops and ammunition 20 per cent. of Englith steamers, and that in one way of ar other 244 British Ehips of all kinds Lo bean destroyed by the enemy: the extraordinary fact remains = at the end of the first year of the war England's oversea trade is ry as large as it was in the your--and that was a re pi got this is accounted far by the fact that the destruction of the British ships. has cost Hi t's employer, "Joe" Lan- nin, $40,000, and William F. er = Philly owner, $40. 000. ursday . in which the magpat . would have got fll except the ter per cent, for the National Commie ston. -- ically offset by the capture Roars pert of over 100 , each 'of 1,000 tons or aver, AN ign, by the fact that | 'since the war the tendency has Been | 'to use larger shipsfcr Ireight and Peto carry heavier cargtes-- thas mak img up for the decreate of lounsge availabledor freight by the trancfer- ring of 20per cant. to the needd © i the Government. Many of the big' The | for | ever fince thon the stream of cargoes pouring into Great Britain has been { larger than ever before in history. {In the ocean trade only vessels of 1,000 tons or upward, count. Gf | these, up to July, only* 124 out, of a i total of 3,000 had been destroyed by the Germans, and against this loss myst be set the 100 vessels of this size taken from the Germans, nol counting new vassels built. ~ So that, after all the sensational raids by Ger- man submarines against the British navy and mercantile marine, the im- portations of foodstuffs and every- thing else are now greater than ever before, and the British' flag is seen fiying on every sea except only Ger- man waters, many's plight. Not a single Ger man ship, war or mercantile, sails on any ocean or any fea extept unde: the protection of German land gnu: within the restricted German ccas! area, and German overseas trade is absolutely non-existent, ~ Further: more, under the protection of its navy, England has transported i: France and is now transporting hun- dreds of thousands of soldiers, while at the rame time moving large arm- ies to Egypt, to Turkéy and from Iu- dia, Canada, Austraiia and New Zen: land---the most stupendous fea! ol its kind in the world's history. It is just beginning to be appre: ciated by students of the terrible drama now unfolding in Europe that, contraary to general understanding, , Great Britain is playing a'wart which in its purely physical proportions is 'far greater than even that played by | Germany, notwithstanding the Iat- iter's vast preparations dating back forty years EE People who are always: saying Misten!" never hive anything of im- By winning this year's world ser- passenger ships are now using meat portance to say. ies the Boston Red Sox gives the Am- | erican League the edge in the pum- |" he LR eargo. "blockade" : Aud lots of people are too slow to jmake fast {riends. Three Grand Prizes 'The highest awards possible Giraphophones.and Records at the Fair. Judges. These long evenings will be brighter and hap- pier for you witha Columbia Grafonola or a few new Records. 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