Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-28 | Page 29 | Reds' Park can Handle 33,000

REDS' Pill CAN 0,(1 Cincinnati Plant Equipped With Every Up-to-Date Convenience. "TNCT.VXATI, .Sept. 2". Tho home grounds of the Ciurinna'.i . ariouaia, winners of tho Natiooul Jeauo penuani, whirh is known as KdlarnJ i'lold, will if-at a pproximatel y '7,U0u persons, au'i accommodaie about .'J.OU'j when tho loeal iv am plays the Chicago White Hox, winners of the American league raeo for world 'a series e hanipion i honors. The permanent stands seat but by tlie time the first uarnc of the iforld s series is h un new seats for 5'jOu more persons will have been ernrtd. In addition fans who arc not fortunate enough to obtain coupon tickets for seats will find space for about 6000 persons. Early in ugust vfcen Cincinnati played I he jew York Giants in what was considered by many baseball followers fol-lowers as the crucial james in the pennant pen-nant race, slightly more than 3I.UO0 persons were on the ball grounds. From this it can b? srwn that there will be do difficulty for at least 33,"00 finding vantage plaees to view the games. New seats in left and center fields extend over the sidewalk on Western avenue and along York street and the new bos seats are along the first and third base lines. Cincinnati city council, coun-cil, elated over tho Keds winning the pHunant, gave the ciub management permission per-mission to erect seats over the sidewalks side-walks of Western avenue and York sticet, doting the latter street to traffic traf-fic for forty days. The playing field will be encroached upon in left and center field to the extent of possibly 18 feet and about the same distance behind the catcher's position and along the first and third base lines. This will contract the playing field somewhat, some-what, but it will be possible to drive out legitimate three-base hits in left fieid and home runs in right. Ejdland field is considered the last word in baseball parks. It is situated -at Western avenue, Findlay and York streets in the western section of the city. The permanent stands are of concrete con-crete and steel and the property is owned by the Cincinnati club. The building of the structure w-as started in September. 1911. and completed in April. 1 912, the total cost running to 3399.000. The grandstand proper has a double deck, and on its left and right are single grands with roofs over them. The right field seats, known as the bleachers, bleach-ers, have no roof shelter. Box seats extend along the entire front of both floors of the, grand-stand proper. The press box i." on the upper deck of the grandstand, but it was not eonsidred large enough to accommodate accommo-date all of the newspaper men and telegraph tel-egraph operators reporting the world series games, so extra seats with a temporary tem-porary covering have been built on the roof of the stand for the working newspapermen. news-papermen. Five street car lines are routed by way of the ball park, while there is another a square away. The bail park can be reached in 20 minutes by street car from the heart of the city. The playing field is the pride of Garry Herrmann, president of the club and chairman of the national baseball commission. It lies about eight feet below the stands with a slight embankment embank-ment along the left field extending to the fence enclosure. Left field is shorter from the home plate than is the right field. Eight field is the sun field and many players have found it difficult to judge flies batted in that direction. General admission and prices fixed bv the national baseball commission will prevail at the world series games. The Cincinnati club management has announced a scheme for distribution of the 10,000 reserved tickets for public sale that virtually is a plan of placing the names of applicants in some sort of a receptacle and then drawing them out until all 10,000 have been drawn.