Show CLASSY PARKS IN MAJOR h 3 Half a Million Needed to Make 1 a Respectable Show Showing j jing 1 ing These Days n n tn t the prevent present National u pai pek k kat at Philadelphia was w thrown open to the It H was wu thought nothing could ever eer equal 1 It as ae a baseball bAil park but INt the new park perk to be fee used next season on by the Ath Athletics Jj will make It look like Uke a bad jag writes Tim Murnane the tb veteran baseball writer There was wu a time not very Tel long ag ae when invested In a ball an park pak wa considered extravagance as there was t great uncertainty about the tit stability of or the tile professional end Md of the sport The building bonding of immense plants in iii the large larg cities Wilt lit certainly keep off those willing willingto to take a small chance hance to get the big money as a now It will wiH take m mft of great wealth Ull to bark back baseball in the th bis bI The TIle fact is that stock companies amount I Ito to little tittle In the game and the only suc sur successful su 1 clubs art are those run where on onman onman Onman man holds b kII the controlling interest No r o J board hoard of strategy ever made a success of baseball One Ohe directing brain must do dothe d dothe j the business busnes to get set the best results an ani l lit i it will wUI be a long tons time before a board rf p directors will vote to build a plant cost costing tug ing and not to 10 t mention a half halt million mOllon We are rather modest hero here in Boston Boton The old South End grounds have hae beet been classified with the old South meeting rt houe bou e and Bunker Hill monument as objects for tor the sightseer the smallest grounds In either league lia having ing been used u ed for tor just forty forts years ears The American league legue t park jark erk only A II few rods Od awe away is ill isone isone one of or the Urgent largest t ball fields in the busi bui business business ness There will be he no improvements made at either grounds this season RIOn A winning streak of lurk would patk either ground however and th fan fall are hoping for tor a chance to enthuse once oner more for the thereal thereal thereal real thing in m the game Ball Bail parks hi In New Ne York will wil be worth wort considering con before long The chances are aro that the American league laglE will have to t move at the end of ot the present lease at Highland park This Is one of the most moat expensive ex Mil ball parks parka In the tie business and takes more time and money mone to keep in repair than any three ball bail parks outstrip outside of ot New York Year after r yar ar John T 1 Brush Bruah Increased Inc the accommodations at atthe a atthe t the Polo grounds If the Polo grounds were a third larger larg r last season MAllOn the club would have cleared at least more than was raked in inThe inThe inThe The original plant cost le If less w than and was built by the Players league logue with Eddie Talcot a New kew York ork banker th leading factor The original Polo grounds were located at One Hundred and Tenth street Later Laler the Giants moved to Coo Coogan Coogans gans gan Hollow and built the second Pol Pot grounds ground The Players league built bunt their grounds ground along alons side of the league Iague park and andas andas andas as they were double the size ze e of the grounds the latter was WiUS abandoned ab for or th Ih Players field when the me break beak came rame in and the new grounds was waa christened the t Polo grounds ground |