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Show I BASEBALL SEASON OPENS II ONE WEEK FROM TODAY h I Only Seven Days Before Pennant Race Begins, I ' Club Home Wednesday, City Will Observe j 1 Opening Day in Fitting Style $ I "NE WEEK from today 13 the b s 11 time On Tuesday of next week t II the Salt Lake and Venice clubs , open the 1915 Coast league sea son in Salt Lake It w 11 be the fi st t"1 game for Salt Lake in the league and K it w 11 be made the occas on for a gi gantio demonstrat on of baseball en thusiasm There are 10 000 t ckets ready for dis tribution The prices of those t ckets are 50 cents and 75 cents The 50 cent i k nd gives the purchaser the privilege ? of sitt ne in the ord nary grandstand in the bleachers or of stand ng on the , Hice soft ground If he comes earlj he not only avo ds the rush but also he gets a seat in the grandstand If he comes lust a 1 ttle late he draws the bleachers and if he lets the grass grow under his feet he w II have a chance to use those feet in support ng h mself in a mora or less upr ght pos t on dur ng the progress of the game A 5 cent ticket gives the holder an opera cha r in wh ch to repose There will be 2800 of these and that s all There w 11 be no favor t sm in the d s tr bution neither will there be any holdouts for anybody The first one who planks down six b ts gets the first opera sect on t cket and the twenty e ght hundredth one gets the la't opera sec t on ticket and such as come after will have to be content w th a 50 cent seat or stand ng room Boxes All Reserved Every box for the open ng game has been taken In fact e ery box was en gaged two weeks ago There w 11 be no numbered reserva .t ons on the opening day Twenty eight hundred tickets will be sold for the opera seat stand and the ones who get there first are the ones who will get the cho ce vantage points i These pr ees are the open ng day prices only The regula pr ces w 11 range from lo cents to $1 For 15 cents , child ren or rather one of them can get a bleacher seat For 2a cents chil ' dren can get a seat in the ordinary grandstand For 25 eents a grown up can S get a bleacher seat For 50 cents he can get an ordinary grandstand seat For a cents he can get an opera seat 1 or $4. he can get a box Beat Th s s the scale of pr ces that will obta n after the , season gets under way Bus ness Manager W J O Conno yesterday held the fort beh nd 10 000 t ckets And 10 000 t ckets make a n fty p le when the re all together B 11 and a corps of handv ass stants put n the I day giving the t ckets the once over and 1 stampmg them w th the offic al dingbat Passes Invisible There will be no passes for open ne j day not one Everybody has got to pay After the opening day there may t j ibe a few passes but the Coast league ' constitution lays a restra ning hand on fthe pass bus ness and the restrain ng , hand plenty heavy Nothing like the jr law respect ncr 1 asses in the Coast league has e er been known in these fe. parts the leanie observes a rule of I1" pars mon ous frugal ty ( Today the Potary club comm ttee of 5 fiftv w 11 hold a meet ng The bus ness 3 of this committee s to get everybody n j. ttown to close up shop on the open ng V day of the baseball season The com m ttee wl" laT lts Plana today and to S . morrow morn ng the Rotanans w 11 be . j abroad m the land The comm ttee will 1 kely be d vided into small groups so I that the ent re city may be canvassed ' within the shortest poss ble time It seems safe to predict that the commit teemen w 11 be welcomed w th en thus asm everywhere for never m the h story of Salt Lake has there been so un ted a spir t on anv project as there is pon th s baseball enterpr se General Half Holiday Several n fact a large number have already hung out the r announce ment of a half hoi day next Tuesday The b g contractors have agreed to give the r employees an afternoon s lay off, and numerous shops and uidustnal establ shments have s gn fled the r in tent on of fall ng in 1 ne It is expected, therefore that the Botary club comm t tee after its rounds Wednesday w 11 be enabled to announce that Salt Lake is going to lay off Tuesday afternoon and g ve the baseball season a rous ng greet ing There no longer appears to be any do bt about Maiest c park In fact it looks 1 ke a cinch The remarkable feats be ng performed by Contractor Black and h s men s caus ng aston shment among the fans who are mal ng da ly tr ps to the park Swift Building Work The steel arr ved Sunday n ght Yes terday morning as many structural ron workers as could find stand ng or cl ng ing room tore n By noon the upr ghts were all in place and the, cross beams set The ork cont nueff unrein tt ngly during the afternoon and last night the b g ron skeleton loomed large aga nst the sky Seventy two ho rs remarked one of the bosses and we ll have er all up The carpenters are r ght on the heels of the ron workers As soon as there s room for a plank B ngol t a sp ked down The fences are con pleted The same is true of the bleachers the ord nary grandstand and the cl bhouses There rema ns therefore only the opera cha r stand wh ch s of concrete and 6teel w th lust enough lumber to fasten th ngs onto Twenty two hundred cha rs are due to arr ve Thursday and the re n a n ng 600 Saturday Men with hand rakes carefully combed tie nfield jesterday forenoon In the afternoon the rollers rolled and rolled and rolled and th s morning the neat 1 ttle squares of sod w 11 be fitted The grass w 11 have a week w thin wh ch to find a comfortable resting place and to root tself firmly to the spot People who are g ven to the study of 1 fe and t mes hab ts and c stoms of gras say that grass can grow a lot in a weel Club Here Wednesday The ball club s due to lea e Oakland th s morn ng on the Western Pac fic It will str ke Oroville pract cally the be ginn ng of the go geous Feather River canyon about 4 o clock th s afternoon By 8 o clock the most stunn ng part of the scenery will have been passed and along about m dn ght the tra n w 11 h t the h gh spot at Portola Tomorrow morn ng the ball players will open the r eyes upon the somewhat monotonous landscape of Nevada s pla ns and just before m dday they will turn the r astonished gaze upon the marvelous salt beds at Salduro The train is scheduled to arr ve in Salt Lake at 4 3o o clock tomorrow afternoon Wednesday even ng the ball players are to be guests at the Orpheum theater, and on Thursday they will be guests of Cliff Blankensh p at Lucas field where they w 11 cont nue to perform unt 1 Tuesday THREE OF OUR BEST BETS IN PITCHERS Left to right I rank ( Pat ) Eastley, Bert Hall, Claude ( 'Lefty ) Williams ASKS RECEIVER Fl ' HOOFEDJALl fl Stockholder Alleges q, ganization Is on Rocki Threatens to Decamp INDIANAPOLIS March 2 j, that the Ind anapo Is Federal liril' bal c ub is insolvent, PI ny w tr lomew former Judge of the sniwnml and a stockhoder brought su t m p ace the club in the hands of a 3 k He a eges that in add tlon taan iSJ edness of $75 000 the club If iHiS t e stockholde s for the nonpaymS11!1! per cent dividends on JaOjMO J.-." stock Judge Bartholomew alleges thatn.t. is los ng money every day b. !5" aUeges that he has been infom-ft the corporation contro ng th Hi about to d ss pate its assets , Z k ferrlng the : ub to unknown uartl !? out providing for the MyisMtu1 stockholders of sums a ready dm tC The case w 11 te heard tomorrow |
