Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-12
NEWARKS BALL J
GROUNDS ARE TO
UNDERGO CHANGE.
Wiedenmayer's Park Is to Be
Put in Brand New
Dress. 80
ALTERATIONS WILL MAKE
FIELD BEST In LEAGUE
Concrete and Steel Grand Stand
May Replace the Old
One. .A,st

Newark will have one OF the nneSt
minor league baseball parks in the
country when the gong sounds for the
opening of the Eastern League cham
pionship next sprizg. This became
known today, when Manager Joseph J.
McGinnity announced his plans to =
party of friends.
The present grounds at Widen
mayors Park, at the foot of Hamburg
place, will be enlarged, raised ans51
sodded, new stands will be erected and
up-to-date accommodations for auto
mobilists and horsemen will be pro-
vided. The fair rooters will not be
overlooked, for a cosy reception room
with telephone connections, magazines
at their disposal.
The building known as Wieden-
mayors Casino, located at the entrance
on the northwest corner of the park,
will be moved back close to the build
ing line, and the centre field fence will
be shifted back sixty feet.
When this is done the field win be
one OF the largest in the league Of
which P. T. Powers Is president.
May Have Concrete Stand.
1t has not been fully decided whether
the present stands will be used or not.
1t is well-known hat Manager Nc
Ginnity is a champion of concrete block
and steel stands, and he said some time
ago that IL he would have his way
such a stand, to seat 1000, would BE-
erected
Since the famous Iron Man" came
to this city he has declared time n
again that he was dissatisfied with the
conditions at the ball park and several
Improvements were made at his ex-
pense, one of the principal ones being
the installation of a drainage system
and new boilers in the clubhouse and a
general o~verhauling of oil the plumb
ing work. Then during the season the
sod diamond was filled in with loan.
which is pronounced better than when
1t was covered with grass.
Several weeks ago H. Clay Smith,
Manager McGinnity and the principal
stockholders of the Tigers made an
auto trip from one end of the city to
the other inspecting sites for a new
park. In some places the plots were
not large enough; in others they were
located where opposition might be made
to Sunday games and in n place
81, 900 an acre vas asked.
Lease Expires in May. ~
Mr.. Smith spent considerable time
here and prior to his returning to
Chicago. where he Is interested in a
large concern, no conferred with the
representatives of Wiedenmayer's Park,
and when the improvements are d
the lease will be renewed. 1t expires
- r.. - Az. v4-.r ArA uiII Ina FIR
a term of years.
EARLY last season the Tigers manager
favored the plot owned by the Lidger-
wod Manufacturing Company. IN FIRE.
linghuysen avenue, south of the Lehigh
Valley trestle. 1t was offered to him
for. a term of years, but MoGinn1ty's
idea is to possess a clear title to his
ball park, just as he does his players.
Then the field is meadow land n
would have to be filled in. A ditch
which crossed Frelinghuysen avenue
known at one point as the Indian
Corner is still untitled, and is known
as a bad spot. The Tigers suffered last
season from malaria, but when the old
ball park is filled in a foot or more
with clay and covered with top soil
McGinnity Is sure the players will not
be affected again.
The owners of the local aggregation
also looked over the Weston Field, ad-
Joining the Weston Electrical Instru-
ment Company, at Frelinghuysen and
Weston n !
The deal fell through. The men then
turned their attention to a plot near
Irvington, but it was figured that OPP
position might arise to Sunday base
ball. Then the Velodrome site was dis
cussed, but when Frank Million and
| Judge Gottfried Kruger agreed to
terms recently, that ended the chances
of the Tigers battle-ground being
shifted.
Prior to the opening of the season
a conference between representatives
of the Public Service Corporation,
| Owners Smith and McGinnity and the
Board of Works will take place. The
question of paving Hamburg place from
the railroad to the baseball park will
be discussed as we'll as the trolley
service.
Manager McGinnity. accompanied by
Mrs. McGinnity, left for Chicago to-
day to attend the meeting of the Ma
tional Association of Minor Leagues.
1t is believed that the work of i'm
1rox,ioc tha mark will he started in