Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-02-06 | Page 24 | Yankees Obtain Site for Great New Ball Ground

Yankees Obtain Site for Great few Ball Ground ( Colonel Rupert Announces Purchase Pur-chase and flans for Immediate Imme-diate Building of Grandstands NKW YORK, Feb. S rurchase of .1 site for the home and playing play-ing ground ff the New York American baseball flub. on tthii-h wiM le ererltd a two million , ! di.IUr acadium to seat t:..000 fan. ; IWMH announcrd today by Colonel Jacob tii.p'-rt and T. 1.. lluttton. , owners of ihe club. j The plot was purchased from the I William Waldorf Astor estate. Al-thoiiRli Al-thoiiRli located In the Uronx. quite distance1 from the business cent", the stadium will be easily accessible. I'Ltns drawn up call for a structure struc-ture simibir in design to the Yale bowl at New Haven. The rlub at first Intends to build only three sides of the structure and erect temiorary bleachers at the end farthest from the home plate. This structure and bleachers will provide a capacity of