Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-19
Place Set Aside for Automobile and
Carriages at the New Base
Ball Park.
TANDs ARE ALL COMPLETE
Seats Now Provided for $500 Fans to
Watch Game.
is BRAND NEW
And Every Reserved Seat Has e Back
to II.
PLAYERs AIREADY REPoRTNa
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Them Are Expected 90 ne
Along soon 20 DOn
Their UntfOrms.

Omaha fans and the Omaha Base Ball
club may well be proud Of their new base
ball park completed last week. There
isn't a better planned nor a better built
grandstsnd in the Western league nor in
any other minor league. and though the
big costly parks Of the major leagues will
seat more people II won't be possible to see
base bail in greater comfort In any Of
them.
Everything about the park is brand new
this season, except the club house, and
Pa Rourke has improvements already
planned for that and will rebuild Il next
winter. The grounds themselves have been
regarded and placed in perfect condition
a new grandstand. and new bleachers have
been erected and new and higher fence
constructed.
The seating capacity Is $500 people, but
with a little crowding It is possible to seat
more than 1900 and there is standing room
for 2o0O people. The plans of both the
Erandstand and the bleachers provide for
the quick and able handling Of tho crowds
that Pa expects out to see his crack squad
perform
The grandstand is the pride Of Rourkes
heart The main portion will seat 1900
people. the reserved section 100. and the
boxes Ssl. The fan does a new stunt to
get to his seat now. He buys his ticket
at the grandstand ticket office and comes
through the gate. Instead of coming
through the stand to the front and climb
Ing up TO a seat he climbs q stairway at
the back and comes to runway at the
top. From here he can go to the grand
stand. the reserved section and the boxes.
All aisles are three feet or more in width,
the runway at the top is from ten TO four
teen feet wide. Every seat in the grand
stand has back to 1t.
New Ticket OFFICES.
| To get to the bleachers or to enter with
your automobile or buggy you buy your
ticket at a separate ticket office. all the
offices and all the gates being located at
Fifteenth end Vinton. The auto yard IL
100 feet long by seventy feet wide, and
allows the occupants OF the machines to
see the game plainly.
For a short time II will be a skinned
diamond on which the Omaha players will
play, but sod will be laid this spring while
the team is away. The home plate is out
farther than formerly due to the fact
that the grandstand extends farther into
tho field. From home to the right fence
is 80 feet, along the foul line and to the
left fence $40 feet And that fence 10
twelve feet high, so It Will take quite a
small bump to send the ball over The
players benches are sunk into the ground
so as not to interfere with the spectators
view. Drain pipes have been set in all
around the diamond to provide for the
water running off quickly after a rain.
new flag is now on the way 10 the
Smoke house, 12xls feet IN size. to be-
placed on the flag pole Next season Pa
hopes to float certain small pennant
also.
Pa Rourke has decided TO allow the con-
test for the name OF the new park continue
for another week. and end next Saturday.
The players Of the Omaha team are to be
the committee to chose the name OF the
new field. and as they win not ali be IN
Omaha until this week. the choosing OF
the monicker was held until they could
arrive.