Show YANKEE PARK BEING RUSHED TO COMPLETION Fans Pans Protest Changes in Rules Bules Ground Rules Hamper Game By Ily GEORGC VICK D Special Correspondent of The Copyright 1923 by The Examiner Standard NEW YORK Jan 20 TIle 20 The fans of the country do not want the game of baseball changed A postal card In- In Inquiry inQuiry In Inquiry sent sont of the entire country Indicated toda today that 90 out of every patrons of ot the I game alOe like home homo runs and h heavy avy bit bit- hit and only 10 In every favora favor tavor a change in that that v r respect respect- That tact fact becomes very pertinent in view v of ot the new grounds to be opened in some and alterations in the playing fields In others ethers It rt it were acre ere possible to play baseball on field fields of exactly the tame same shape shapo and dimensions baseball would be the most standardized outdoor sport ex- ex except ex except copt tennis Baseball men of and experienc e question the wisdom f standardized baseball to the last ast de- de degree de degree degree gree You will never be bo able to make the tho fields Many of the themore themore more prosperous cities have n tiled fired ed 10 lo locations 0 that will never be bo altered and baseball men consider that the Iden Iden- Identity Identity iden- iden identity and personality of ef each ground should be kept distinct for tho the best interests ot of o the game gamo The greatest baseball structure In Inthe inthe the world is now nearing completion In this city The Tho pew new Yankee stadium stadt-lum stadt urn um Is three tiers high and not unlike the coliseum of Rome as IlS viewed from some angles It If the concrete amphitheatre theatre of ot the American League club had been built centuries ago it would have been one of the wonders of the world As It If Is it is the wonder of baseball It Is wholly hollY unlike the Polo Grounds and cannot be compared I Ith it because situation and conform conform- conformation atlon are totally different The question has arisen whether It ItIs itis ItIs Is not better that it shall ha have hase e and andI I preserve a distinctive e Identity rather than an effort be bo made to standard standardize neighbor ize it with Ith Its less grandiose neigh neigh- bor The point is brought up because the Yankees are about to enter on a period of their thell existence on a play pay playground play ground ground of ot their own RULES Old baseball mon men say that they hould start their new field unrestricted unrestricted ed by ground rules and allow the pia players vcrs to perform unhampered by artificial barriers such feats as they are capable of ot performing In other words all records beginning In April should be part of the history of ot the field and Its traditions This may seem an unimportant matter vet let et such old heads as ns those Charles Comiskey Bill Gleason Clark Griffith Wilbur Wllbur Robinson Jack Doyle Joe Kelly and others united today In saying that a a baseball ground can and should have bave a personality They add add- added added add added ed that all fans liked a ground aith with without th- th out ground rules without The Tho ideal field would be one with aith- aith Ith- Ith out a stand In the outfield It is 18 these outfield stands which have suggested reconstruction o of some of the rules to standardized make borne bome pia s better standard standard- Th The shifting of ot th the diamond at the tho Polo Grounds Ground which has following the remodeling of the stands rea really II places the Polo Grounds in theme the sime me me class as th the new Yankee stadium so far as dIt Ing its identity is concerned d It is only w tw ta o 0 y years ars that there has been talk of home runs being too frequent Fifteen years ago under the samo rules there was aas as talk of their being too Infrequent The standardization of ot grounds ap- ap ap applies plies equally to Detroit St Louis Chicago and Philadelphia as ne well as to asto New York It la is timely with big stands coming to hn have hate e tree free and oper fields Not on only should the te t e batters hit em cm where they aint as Willie K Keller lIer used to advise but the they should be free to hit them further than they are go 00 I |