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Show PROPOSE SUNDAY BALL IN JERSEY By MONTY. New York, Aug. 31. Sunday baseball base-ball for Now York would be quite an astonishing development. Yet such a thing has now come within the liiplts of possibility. It will become a realized real-ized fnct if plans of a certain New j Jcrseyito materialize Professional l ball on the Sabbath Is forbidden in tho Empire state by enactment of law i Tho law not only is on the books; It Is enforced. New Jersey has a similar simi-lar law, but by mutual agreement of i all, It is not enforced. So the idea Is to have the Giants and Hlghland-I Hlghland-I crs whichever happens to be in town at tho time tralpso over to tie Skoe- W that terland on Sunday. me The Inception of this novel, not to r0pe say revolutionary proposition, li Fres- ' ident LllHs of tho Jersey City club of , tl tho International longue. Oddly J iocs enough his bold project finds inspi- Jana; ration in adversity. His club has M id been losing money all season though j the his team has been in tho first dlvia- ker ion of the race most of the timo. In p co: past years also it hardly ba3 been 0f t what could bo called a paying invest- proj ment. So President LIIHb set about . i:he to find tho explanation of the trouble. and After figuring many elements, he has iw decided that his ball park, five miles jd Ii from tho center of Jersey City popu- ;V tl latlon, is too far away to draw real Jnto crowds So he is planning to build fc a new park. " fnd loan Will Use the Tube. Udbj The new home of the ekeeter, ao- JP cording to present intention, Is to bo ft ou what Is know as Jersoy Meadows, jP on the direct line of the "tube," which tf; I passes under tho Hudson river from W . Now York. Riding on tho "tube' (fc ' trains the exact running time to the I now park from tho heart of New t m- ' York City will be 13 minutes, from i the heart of Jersoy City 4 mlnuteB, i , from tho heart of Newark 7 minutes. MtS Thus a tremendous population will hr be tapped by means of the "tube" ' jg alone. f- President Lillls has the idea work- 1 ed out in a most interesting way that tj ' should prove a raonoy maker for all fl concerned. His Jersey City club iV would play all its homo games in the ft new park, including Sundays. When 1 thoy had a homo game on the Sab- J hath It would form the opener of a e I double-header, with Giants or High- for landers providing tho second one. a When his team Is out of town on -feleci Sundays, the at-home New York club di could have the grounds for Its game can alone. JfJto Record Bunch of Fans. M Lillls has In mind an arrangement bv which the New York clubs could fl pay him either a flat rental for each 3g Sundav's use of the park, or a per- A ccntns'e of the receipts. He believes fe j that a lecord bunch of fans could be .JwCIt i herded inside tho grounds. The "reg-. -OTte i ulars" would come "over from Gotham Jj Hi In addition to baseball lovers who stlc '.now do not see any big league ball i because Sunday is their only "day j r off" Besides, he considers several 1 hat thousand fans from Jersey who would 1 onthuse over the chance to get the . ro big league article close to home, He ; &ori can't sec anything to it but a big $ en hunch of coin for all concerned. He j Ljro has mentioned the thing to President , t,e Frank J. Farrell of the Highlanders t I b and President John T. Brush of the , j(2i Giants They ar non-committal as - Lnd yet, but Llllis says they aro favorably fof disposed toward the proposition. Tji If the Innovation Is tried and goes j iQ throuch successfully, it may lead to jjb g the Philadelphia clubs doing a like Sfrj0 ntunt moving across into Camden, N. J , ou Sundays Pennsylvania has a ML.c law similar to New York's that pro- K&L hibits tho Phillies and Athletics from ITm working at homo on church day. ".r No Opposition Expected. alss There is the problom of. the Na- "nor tional Commission's attitude to be Jjjth considered, but Llllia says he has consulted with prominent authorities "Jhov on baseball law, among them Ed Bar- JBdm row, prosldent of the International ;ftUn league, and feels confident that no op- M . position would come from the su- nL j prcme court of basoball It rests en- a tlrely with Owners Bush and Farrell b of tho New York clubs, he says. t' Should tho teams of tho two big j . eastern mentropolltan cities take to ' the project and meet with success, on- -jm lv three major league towns would S b"o without Sunday games Boston, M g Brooklyn and Pittsburg. vW |