Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-04-02
CHANGE MADE IN
BASE BALL PARK
NEW FENCE WILL DEPRIVE
I TRANSFERS or SEEING GAME
FREE OF CHARGE.
WILL CHANGE BOXES
WILL CHANGE
Hbp.Prjced Seats Will BE Somewhat
AItered-Eaan Gives Optimistic
View Of the Central
Association.

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wagons as a grandstand be permitted
to focus their blinks on the gyratlons
Of Manager Ned Egan's TRUSTEES ~
operation on the Myrtle street PARK
A new fence, ten feet high, VIII re-
place the eight foot barrier used last
year to the rear of the bleechers, ana
it will take giant to witness u!
games from the seats of wagons anu
{, tops of covered vehicles this year.
The change will not only improve the
rark. out may add some loose change
to the till of the treasurer. 1t is also
planned to improve, the box seats IN
front of the stands at all times. i. A.
them with q netting and making an
entrance from the grandstand instead
OF on the playing grounds proper. Inc
catcher's box will be tiled and thiSi
/ proyement will provide a dry spot III
front of the stands at al times. i. A.
Stoessel. who has contract to care
for the grounds this year, has force
OF men busy at the park making the
new improvement.
Wants Park Bulletins.
Manager Ned Egan stopped In Bur
lington yesterday enroute to Davenport
and this mornings Hawkeye carried
, q column about the willy boss OF the
Ottumwa club. Egan was full of OBJ
itimism concerning the outlook IN the
Central association, and said that ne
had never known a season TO open up
|better than this one was dong. oL
course, he had good word to say OF
Manager Geier, Burlington's new pllo,,
and predicted that his endorsement o.
Geier in the work he would DO tor
Burlington this year would be fulnlleo'
Manager Egan Is particularly anxl-
j Gus to have the park telegraph system
introduced in the Central association
this season. He insists that 1t can ana
jshould be done, and will use all his IN
fluence on his fellow directors In the
/ association to accomplish his wish. He
declares that the cost is Insignificant
when the good results o-be obtained
are taken into consideration. In speak
ling Of the matter last evening he sald:
IT heard today that the northern as
sociation had made arrangements FOR
q telegraph service at their ball parks
whereby scores of games will be pul-
,1etined each inning, and If that asso-
citation can do this there is no reason
why the Central cannot do the same.
AFTER one seasons trial OF this the
fans will not be satisfied to have it cut
ont They are the ones that support
The game and nothing is too good 1or
them. The directors of the Central as
sociation owe it to the fans to put this
service in and it will more than pay
for itself in very short time. II .
game happens to be poor one interest,"
will be taken in the scores coming III
from the other cities and in this way
all will feet that they received tnelr
moneys worth if the game they nau
witnessed did not prove excltlng. ~
will surely mean an increase in attend
tance and give this leafue prestige that
4 cannot afford to lose. 1t will put
Ithe league on footing with the best
leagues in the country. for they all
have this service and simply cannot 40
without it. Imagine, for instance, u
huntington and Keokult were tied for
lcalesburg at home. and keokuk play
ing at Monmouth. Burlington has won
their game and then the scores from
monmouth comes in showing that
team had defeated Keokuk, what an
iaYcitement there would be in the local
park!
"The estimated cost Of this service
will be one thousand dollars for the
season, or one hundred and twenty-five
dollars for each city Seventy games
are played in each city which would
make the cost less than two dollars a
enme. It would only be necessary TO
draw seven more people each game TO
nav for the service, which is triflillg
cost considering the good it will do"