The evening world., 1889-07-31
The Evening World" viii Put II Up
in a Day or Two.
And Every Baseball Enthusiast Will
Go Wild With Delight.
A Triumph of Mechanical Skill and
Ingenuity.
Interesting Details About the Novel Fea,
lures Of the New Device.

THE EVENING WORLD has in store a very
agreeable surprise for the thousands of peo-
pie who daily watch the baseball games as
PLAYED on the miniature ball field in front of
The EVENING WORLD Office.
The surprise Is a new and perfected Base
ball Bulletin Board, with many startling and
unique features. 1t will be immense. both in
point of size and manipulation. 1t will be
twelve feet square. more than double the
size of the board on which the game is now
played.
This measurement does not include the
head-board or the mounting of the miniature
field, so when it is set up in position it will
cover a space about fifteen feet square.
WHITE BACKGROUND.
The background will be white, as it has
been demonstrated by experiments made
during the past few weeks that the disks and
other movable things on the board can be
seen more plainly on a white ground than
any other.
There are many clever mechanisms con-
nected with the board, which will be
described at length. A number of inventors
have been at work perfecting bulletin boards
ever since the first EVENING WoRLD board
was mounted. and many plans and sugges-
lions have been made and considered.
THE FINEST YET PRODUCED.
The new board is by far the simplest and
yet the most perfect of any that have been
proposed. This board ha, been thoroughly
patented, and 80 EVENING WORLD observers
will have the exclusive view of it in this
town.
Chief among the new features of the per-
fected board is what is known as the hollow
base line. Ten feet away from the board this
looks like merely a marrow strip of black ON
the white ground. But it is in reality n very
ingenious piece of mechanism and Is sure to
bring down the house.
On the face of the board there are three
strips of wood so constructed and put
together that only a narrow slit is visible even
on close inspection.
Behind this slit is a hollow space about
half an inch square. This incloses the dia-
mond, running from home plate TO first base,
to second, TO third and home again, making
q sort of a continuous conduit.
ISN'T THIS INGENIOUS?
Inside the hollow space will be three end
less strings. Just below the diamond. which
will be 8 feet 9 inches from base to base, there
will be a system of three little pulleys on
each side. The cords, which enclrcle the
bases through the conduit, will cross at the
home plate and pass around the pulleya on
each side of the board.
Each of these strings will have attached to
them a small block of wood or bobbin, from
which will protrude asmall screw. The screw
will be mail enough to go through the Sits,
while the little blocks of wood go out of sight
through the conduit.
Large zinc disks with numbers on, indicat-
ing a player, can be attached to the small
screw. Then by simply turning round the
pulleys the disks can move In any direction.
VERY CONVENIENT coNTRIvANcE.
Thus will the men run the bases, and there
will be no shifting of pegs from base to base
rs heretofore, or a wholesale gathering up of
pegs should the bases be filled and a home
run be made. This has always been an OBJ
jectionable feature, for the manipulation of
the old board often covers from view the
very things that the crowd most desires to
see.
Now. by the new arrangement. a few turns
round the pulley will send a man whizzing to
first base, Just exactly as if the disk had legs
and was running.
For instance. suppose a man should be
caught off tase and was being run down.
The bobbin could be manipulated in such a
manner as to show all these plays, and the
game can thus be made exceedingly inter-
esting.
There will also be an umpire on the new
board, SO the crowd can vent its spite against
that poor unfortunate just the same as if he
were flesh and blood.
A PRESTO CHANGE.
Next in importance comes the shifting of
the feeders. This is a very tedious and irk-
some job as manipulated at present. The
operator has to pull down the pegs, put them
into a basket. and then put up the other pegs
in the positions they belong.
Besides, the operator sometimes gets
behind his inning, and then there is a dis
agreeable Fastening of plays that mvstiieS
onlookers and leaves them in doubt as to just
how the inning has been PLAYED.
by the new system all this is remedied.
Fielders and positions are changed like a
fash by a simple and ingenious contriy-
ance.
Tbs is how it is lone Behlnd the huge
board there is a number of long strips of
wood. Holes are cut IN the board proper at
the points we're the felders are placed.
Where the felders are placed are slots about
six inches wide to admit Of the easy sliding