Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-04-29 | Page 33 | Yankee Stadium No Help to Babe

5 ST STADIUM YANKEE 1 NO HELP TO BABE Coma Comparison son With Polo Ground Groan Grounds d Ruths Ruth's First Home Run Recording a Long Long- Triple Unusual Freak Play 44 4 4 nv DY BILLY niLLY lS D NEW YORK TORK April U ilie 38 2 the Yankee stadium Is being belne built around Babe ab Ruth RuthI I often oCten heard beard that remark last l t summer ummer while the park w was un 1 construction The Inference o was thit th the pAt k M ns as beIng built In such uch uch a mani er that would D- D DIot Ruth In br his run home record the rho day b before the opening of lh the season I 1 went tent out and looked th lh th I stadIum over The foul roul line In left and right field are about th the same distance from the th plat plate as at 41 atthe the Polo Joto Grounds That means me ns teat It will bo be as s easy to g get et t a home run at the stadium a q at the Polo Poll Grounds on fly balls that tr inside the foul line The short hort territory boa ho vet ever s is decidedly decidedly limited and as 8 the th pia plaY plaY- tag territory works away foul toul line IIno the dIstance dl t nce from the home plate plat Is rapidly Increased After gh I the field the he oue 0 t r I mado the remark that Ruth RuthC C rind fled It more m re difficult to 10 s get home runs at the new stadIum stad lum than at the Polo Grounds Ruth In the first game came hit a run It was a a legitimate te one It would Mould have haye traveled Into the tar far end of or the right field stands at the Polo Grounds In n the se second ond game Ruth bit hi triple that bore out my belief that Ruth Huth would find out the stadium It a harder hardej pla place e to get ret home horn runs than II toe DC roio 1010 With the out outfield playing deep deel Ruth Puth hit a slow e cur on the th o ott side that failed tailed to break far over the head of ot Left Lert Fielder Joe Harrl Harris The b ball l struck truck the left center blea bleachers hers on the second ec nd bound traveling about bout 20 2 feet tNt after fIrst hitting the ground round I felt positive that the ball all would have gone cone eon for tor a 0 t home run ruo I Ion on any par park In the Amerl American an league with the exception of Wh- Wh W h Inston ington which has a very vry deep left lett leftfield field After ld the It game me I bumped into Major Tom Torn Birmingham who do de designed signed the th Yankee stadium I 1 askel aleJ him how bow tar the ball had traveled The The distance e from tho the hOT is p plate to here the th ball struck k the tho blea bleachers hers is feet teet replied Bit Bit- BIr that th the I I would say ball b traveled about yards on till the fly fly Cly and a high fly at that thaL On the Polo Grounds it would hat hate ha e been an easy home horn run It didn't take the 1923 season se so solone long lone to produce something unusual In the th way May of ot tr freak ak plays play In a National league game pune at Boston the other day two players nere ere retired d at the plato plate by Catcher Snyder on the same sam throw from the outfield Sounds Impossible but here her are r the tho details With Southworth on second base bage and Boe Boeckel kel on first well Dagwell hit the ball far tar Into right field Wold the ball be caught Southworth that RIght Fielder Young ot of o the Giants would make the catch and ond held second base Boeckel didn't think so and dashed for second secondA As A Boe Boeckel kel was tas almost to second South orth decided that wouldn't get pet the ball and dashed madly to third with Boeckel at hl his heels The ball struck the right field fIld ti bleachers Young taking it on the rebound throw Ing Int It to Frisch v ho relayed It to the plate plat Catcher Snyder received the ball just ahead of Southworth and man man- managed aged to tag t t both hoth Southworth an ani I Boeckel completing a most mom play and retiring the side aide sid Not even the oldest can recall a similar play