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YANKEES SET NEW RECORDS First Team in Baseball History to Win Three Straight World Series. Also Capture Championship Four Times in Minimum of Four Games Total Attendance and Receipts. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 10. The New York Yankees in defeating the Chicago Cubs yesterday by a score of 8 to 3 for the fourth straight victory became the first team in baseball history to win the world series for the third consecutive year. The champion Yanks have proven invincible against National League competition. They have won the world series four times in a minimum of four games. In 1927 they beat the Pittsburgh Pirates four straight, the St. Louis Cardinals by the same number in 1928, and in 1932 the Cubs lost all four, as they did this year. Sundays attendance was the largest of the series, a crowd of 59,847 sharing its applause on the victors and vanquished alike. The total attendance for the four games was the largest for a four-game series, being 200,833. The total receipts amounted to 51,166, out of which the players drew down 34,184; the clubs and leagues share was 89,396, and the commissions share 27,674. The Yanks received as their winning share a total of 82,319, and the Cubs 21,456. The pot was so divided that each Yank carried off ,815, while each Cub garnered ,674. Each of the other first division clubs in both leagues were cut in for a share in the remainder of the players pool. The Boston Red Sox and Pittsburgh Pirates, who finished second in their respective pennant races, each received a total of 2,557.10 to divide among themselves. The third place finishers the Cleveland Indians and New York Giants took a total of 1,704.73 each, and the fourth placers the Detroit Tigers and Cincinnati Reds each had 0,852.37 to split.
