Show UMPIRE TALKS OF BASEBALL hank oday veteran arbiter believes sport has not reached limit of its popularity baseball may have done sonic some re mirk mark ablo growing in the past but none of its performances in that lire will mill come up to what it cin can do in the future according to hink hank OD 0 daiy diy ay the veteran national league utoria 0 day doesn doean t agree wah wilh th people who siy say that baseball has reached the highest point it can la in the way of popularity lant larit lod ind great attendance itten dince N i rites lester E smith in the ali chicago evening post on the contrary it will mill keep on climb climbing inq to such an t extent that tho the problem of 0 the mag magnates nates within a few years ears will m III be not how to get the alov ds but how to take care of 0 them in 0 da div b s opinion some 3 seirs ears ago I 1 told james A hart art that the time would come vitera they w would hive have to ile be double deck i ed grand stands in order to handle tho crowds at a baseball game remarked rera irked 0 day during a chit chat of fins fans lie ile believe me then and a whole lot of other people to whom I 1 slid said the sime same thing laughed it at the idea I 1 hey bey thought then that ba bas cbill bd bad re reichi icci oil cd a climax and that it if it did anything from that time on it would mould ilmis ah in popularity rither rather than increase creise in llo however weNer the sport kept light on growing gr and in that wai ma dumfounded dum founded the folks who coulden couldn lit t appreciate its possibilities the thought that tb the astonishing growth of baseball wis in as abnormal and bound to result ulal in an untimely end for the whole thing I 1 predicted double decked grand stands is as i makeshift to accomma date the thrones but they cime came a great deal sooner than I 1 expected they are obliged to haie hae them hem now cien in the minor leagues gues while hale the major m ajor IV league gue club oeners ov ners are striving to 0 devise new nen ways to seat the great throngs who mho flock to see important import int games having called the turn on the he dou ble decked grandstands I 1 would like now nov to make another prediction along the same line I 1 think that within a short time they will mill build double docked decked bleachers and that they will be constructed in nearly ever park in the two major league circuits in chicago here the have bae a row ron of reserved seats built up over the bleich bleach or cr seats seat but I 1 think thit that before long hin g they will mill have baie an upper deck dech to the bleachers that will mill seat scat just as many people as the lower there is no other maa wa to accommodate the crowds for it is difficult to get larger fields turning brinn his thoughts into other channels 0 day remarked during the same comer conversation sadon that lie ho thought if cju V V ai b f i 0 y 4 hank oday hitting mould be more plentiful next nel beir 3 ear it if the big leaguers lei guers continue using I 1 the lie same balls that hit were mere I 1 aist fill fall it appears to me thea the ire are a g gortat dt do acil it li livelier eller lie he remarked and the certai nl ought to satisfy tile the fans mho have haic almaas ben crying for more hitting I 1 hae noticed that these balls do not laic haic to be lilt hit eia ei hard to go a long distance ds Uince since their adoption long distance smashes ilane have been more frequent thin than eier eer be fore 0 dai da Is in flor NN or of continuing the use of lively hills bill but lie he does not be itee the magnates ought to change the rules in order to glie gie the fans more hitting the rules ire are all right as then the ne I 1 said he arid and it mould be foolish to make an changes at all to provide for more hitting there never vas nas a more popular rule thin than that of calling the firby two aft 0 fouls strikes and tint that was mas a charge that hit took a good teal deal of if hitting out of the game it ma maa be remarked that 0 da daa him self belt was ras the he originator of the foul strike rule |