Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-20 | Page 39 | Yankees must Find New Home

MEE5 1ST RIME NEW YORK, July 19. Tho Yankees must find a new home for next season. The new owners of the Giants, we hear, are planning some big improvements on the Polo grounds, and when the 1!20 sen-son sen-son rolls around they expect to use the big stadium exclusively for Giant games. For several years past the Yanks have been subleasing t ho Polo grounds from the National league club, but their lease expires with the close uf the present season. sea-son. No ill feeling prevails between the owners own-ers of the two clubs, it is said, but the Giant magnates, in planning to make the Polo grounds an even bigger ball park from the standpoint of seating capacitv, , and in other ways, too, feel that they . should enjoy the exclusive right to the j big stadium. Where are the Yanks going? Nobody , seems to know as yet, not even the ven-j ven-j erable Colonels Ruppert and Huston. The task of finding a suitable location for a I new park in the greater city is by no : means a soft one. Formerly the Yanks i played much farther away from the heart of things than was good for gate receipts, and when the arrangements with the National Na-tional leaguers was made the old park 1 went the way of all useless things. Now it's the Yanks' move again, and the live-s of the colonels will be just one hunt after another till a suitable spot is found. The advent of Sunday baseball in New York m ea n s m uch to the t h ree ma ior league clubs and to outside clubs as well. Since Sunday games have been made legal the fans have been literally packing pack-ing the parks to overflowing. Ebbetg field, which has been the scene of but few real big crowds since Uncle Wllbcrt Robinson's Dodgers won their championship, champion-ship, is a Mecca for Brooklyn fans on Sundays now, and the Dodgers seem to have caught the spirit, for they put up some of their best games before Sabbath crowds.