Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-03 | Page 6 | Where the Fans Will Sit at Coast League Games

WHERE THE FANS WILL SIT AT COAST LEAGUE GAMES pil t . ; TN order that the baseball fans of this town may know ju?t where they nre going to 5!t and how they are golr.s to fare with regard to unob.-trurted lines of vision. Thr Tribune tiiis mornitiar places before them an outline of the 5-atii:? ar-rar.pements ar-rar.pements of t!ie new baseball pl.ii.t at Majfftic rrk. The keu h was furr.i i:ed b Sott & U eleh. t: ,. architcti w:m have been en-I en-I r.-ired by J. K. L.irgfoid to prepare the ' .pla T'.s a :id -pec! fir a t in;.. Yc-t frdn y t ht j architect;; were ni;ikln? their clorlnn (Ik-! (Ik-! lirr s on t h pt-e! iv ork and todrty. it If ! f-xpf'ctcd, the "T'Jer will he forw.ifd'd by ! w Ire. I Til bket- ii slir.v j Hie line of th dia-! dia-! niond and the t-e.-uoris tho patrons will oc-ru.". oc-ru.". H will be noted thut the llion of the playing fi!d aro ext-ndr. to n l!i-I l!i-I tar.ee of more than "oo f-t. which d-(Inep d-(Inep trie entire pia' ing flld. In ntin-r 1 words, the ne.ir-.st I't-n-'.- will he appnxl- mutely r.L'O feet 'i .jin 'lie h-.'Hif plate. . The official requirement are n ""."-foot j distance. It will i.n, therefore. t!iat I it will take otne -ar tn hoi.t the bud over even fke nt;ire!t fen' -. i i T;;e renter portion of the Brand t'ind enhil'H the home plate and catcher's I ' position. Herd will he phi.-fd the opera ' chair, in nine iertionf. Karh section i will have IM't chulr-. innklm; 21,' opera I chairs In nil. h.i (f ihr se.-tlons Is J 1 "welf-fillltig" and "self-emptying. " That i Is to By ', 'he e in ram-e nl . , l ,y niciii: of a tunnel Iv-penr, th sianrl This U-.td? to on lmilno. atfr.r the fashion of In- lim-d aisles in wome theater. The Incline e.id to one end of the m tlon and rom tlmt point the 5pert;it"rt iir-'n-ni to their fet,8. The r-aijlt of thr- arraneinerit 1:' t hn t thero wilt be m obsr ur it or of the vlep by prnmeni'llng upectato.. n"--k-Int; reals or enterlnK "r leaving th ftandH. In case i acjlden or panic hIho, a er-tlon may be vacated within a f'-w minutes. From the In-line, ;iln, thre nre n-trancep n-trancep to th box er-tlon. nrlding to the -amplification of the i:iHng arran'enient. It 1 let!ev.-d thot the p'an of the Incline Is wUlral with tho architects and th.it Halt Lake will have the only .stand of us kind In the country. The firM row mdl'are.1 on the d'ngrain contains ti-.j b T:..re an: .-eent;-- two of th-se to.-s. tacli seating ix p.-r-sor a toti.I of To the :U-ht oo'it!n of the ope-n-?Mt ?'ctif,n are fvon:e. n roup ..f crat of the Older raheil fn,- the saiif of con n:en. e. 'vovcr.i kri n n-'Fi-'itnl " Tiiev uie ut'C. r tiie came roof with th.e ppi- r;t chan s. Tint di'.; icn wld ac ofim.. daio 1 r; e-'t Atoi . Ad'omtHg t.:!:. nr.: '.:. hha- hern, iwcntv. !!:- rev.-, .-. ariig i . n.r.re. I"-- ' ' h- rn.rth . f the fh.M ni.iv he u-d to d-Jtdl.-at.- th.. .vered t:.nd-and t:.nd-and iVe M. a-'hor?. If It I- focrd i"at the patron. n;.. warrantfl CJCh -X- Jn a i ran nine the .-eats, careful a tenth ten-th ci biiM b-en riven to the podt ion oc cup:-,( by ti..: fi-t,tatoi s in relati-.n to the pitcher. In n c'iiftr..l w.iv, ev-rtliln t 'ra.;i;il" from th,. pi:h-r.' Th.ro w,:l be i: plll.irn below the M v. nth row of . p- ra chair s.-at: i:nd v.-n tl.. MIv on.- to '"''h lection. The roof wui upci:dfd by huKe iwans on tar cantilever p:.irj j The home j ualc N nlxlv f:.-t fi.;n the ; :tn nd ai the nearest point, sn af,- a rr j the ha.n 1ii.5. This Will permit tiie fl.-l.t- itm of fouls, with th... resultant .shorten, tug of games nd h.-lp lo pitch r.