The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-09-15
There viii Be No Repetition OF
Trouble as in Cleveland Cou-
pie of Years Ago When
Organized Forces Boy
cotted Nap Club.
Stands Will Be Single Deckers, Seat
ing $4,000 Persons-Work Of
Moving Away Buildings Al
ready Begun.
BY RALPH |. YoNkER.

To have all union LABOR lot inc
building Of the new baseball park 10
the plan OF President Navin, and a
provision to tina, effect will be In
corporated In the contracts that will
be submitted to contractors for bios
within a week.
A couple years ago when the Cieve
land Maps put up their new stands
non-union men were employed. The
union men of the city resorted to the
boycott and refused TO attend the Nap
games. The result was serious SIT
uation for the Cleveland box-ofice
and so nifty a little row that II took
the president of the American league
and some of the big guns In union
labor to settle It
None of that for the Detroit man
agement, says Mr.. Navin.
The Osborn Engineering Co., VI
Cleveland. who prepared the plans
for the Cleveland park, have Drawn
the blue prints and made the speci-
fications for the Detroit plant ana
this gave rise to the union labor ques-
tion. II was feared by some that the
employment of the same arcnitects
meant the employment OF the same
kind of labor here as in the city
across the lake.
The architects have the plans lot
the Tigers new playground all reauy
and they were expected to arrive III
Detroit some time yesterday Two or
three sets have been made and the
one that suits the powers that De pc
hind the Tigers will be submitted 10
various contractors for bids.
rrh,rtaen houses. three brick stores
and a blacksmith shop on Na.iona'
ave. west OF the present PARK arc uo
ing torn down or moved away III
for the generai ciean.up
which will be started soon aIter .ne
last Tiger game. the one win .ne
e. Iouis Browns, on Oct. ]. Every
yestige of a building will be taken
trom the square so that the wnoie
hiock will be as bare or buildings as
the Sahara desert.
Then the erection OF the new plan,
VIII commence. The diamond VIII
ha switched around so that the nome
nIata will be about where the ciup
house q now. northwest OF the west
ern part OF the grandstand. Inc DAT
ters will face southeast.
The capacity OF the stands ana
h,aachers will be doubled SO that
while 10000 persons can witness =
game now from seats. nearly |o,vvV
will be able to do so next year. pc
sides the seats there VIII De Dig
protected runway in which thousands
~ snectators can stand and see the
game. n there are not seats enough
to 60 around
crete and steel, as strong as can DC
made. They will be single deckers'
Where the amount OF room that a
club has at its disposal Is limited,
"a In Cleveland and Chicago, IL mas
been deemed wise to use two decks,
but President Navin believes tnat
the double deck system is not pop
Mar with the fans. The distorted
view of the plays from above does
not appeal TO those who Ike TO watcn
the game closely. That the upper
deck is not considered as good as
the lower is shown by the fact that
spectators always rush TO the lower
one first In the double decked stands.
However, in case II may be neces-
sary TO increase the capacity of the
stands, they will be built strong
enough SO that another deck can be
added to them II necessary.
A new club house with every one
OF the latest modern conveniences
will be built, and the press box may
be given nook by itself where none
but the reporters and telegraph oper-
ators can enter without key to the
aacred precfncts