BASEBALL'S REWARDS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17985, 31 January 1924, Page 12

BASEBALL'S REWARDS.

I am always filled with profound wonder (writes "A.GJV> in the "Manchester Guardian") when our American cousins really let themselves go about baseball. And they do let themselves go when the World's Series comes around. This year the competing finalists were two New York sides, the Yankees and the Giants. The former team, owned hy one Colonel Buppert, beat the Giants, partly owned and entirely managed by an outstanding baseball personage named McGraw. The Giants had been successful in 1921 and 1922. This World's Series business involved six games, at which over 300,000 people attended and over a million dollars gate-money was taken. One of the matches took place on a Sunday. No fewer than 62,000 spectators squeezed into the Polo Grounds to watch that game, 50,000 disappointed "fans" lingered round outside, and the turnstiles clicked to the tune of more than £43,000 for that single contest. And poor British cric-ket-lovers speak with pride of George Hirst's record benefit of more than £3OOO after nearly a quarter-cen-tury of stump-levelling and boundaryhitting. Each winning player in this World's Series set of six toddled home with £1267 in his pocket; and each loser was the wealthier by about £BSO, or rather more than the Surrey Committee consider an adequate benefit for Bill Hitch.