New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23
Brooklyn'S Baseball Stadium
To Be Ready for Inspection
in Just One Month.
NOW A LITTER OF DEBRIS
Management Has Provided
Plenty of Exits and Has
Racked History to Dis
cover Holidays.


green iron I-beams and gray conctete.
The diamond is sea Of mud. The
grecncr and more hardy grass is fenced
in by iron standards and ropes. perhaps
10 keep the more ambitious workmen
from practising base running or some
,hing Of the sort. The roar OF the cleo
trio drill. boring the holes for the
chairs. is necessarily intermiXed with
the scrape-scrape of the steel tools OF
the men who are smoothing the con-
crete.
Bot all this will change in less than
n month when inspection day. March
1G the first of the holidays Charles II.
tbbots has planned for the year. ar
rivcs. ON that day and on st. Pat
rick's Day the park will be thrown
omen 10 the public-for inspection only
of course.
TO quote Mr. Ebbets: 1T is some
thing different from any other baseball
park in the country" At least one
thing is certain--all the congestion that
usually attends the dispersal of a crowd
after the game will be done away with
at least as soon as the patrons learn
the routes along the various ramps.
Pamps-there are dozens of them.
Each section Of seats has at least three
ard the more expensive ones. such as
Tie boxes and the upper tier have
more than that.
Then. too. there are many little uckci
booths at which 10 buy the slips %
pssteboard There are some 23-ceni
seats. more for 80 cents. also out in the
field blcachers, and 75-cent seats
lot Of those on the first lower tier. Most
IF the choice seats. the reserved ones
on the lower tier and the unreserved IN
the upper viii be sold al 81. The
prices of the box seats will be 81 90
There. i'm the big rotunda that keeps
the crowd out of the wind and dust and
sun. the loyal Brooklyn rooters may
buy their tickets just as in theatre
and then wend their respective ways
along the maze Of ramps. All this is
decided innovation making for the com
fort Of the fans
Mr.. Ebbets says that as the club is
not going to be put TO the expense of
offices downtown" the rooms of the
club will be fitted up luXuriously OF
that there is no doubt; at least. they are
big enough. But one can hardly judge
now. There is a safe in the middle OF
the floor. just like a bank. The base
ball writer's come in for their share OF
the comforts, too, for rest room is SCI
apart for them right below the press
box. on the upper tier
The Spanish calendar and that of the
home dates of the SupeNpas have one
thing in common-they are both full OF
holidays No stone was left unturned
or history unconned so that each clup
in the National League might have AT
least one fiesta day at the new PARK.
There are eleven of them in all.
The list of holidays begins with
inaugural opening Day April D.
when the Superbas meet the Yankees.
The next is Special Opening Day,
Rrooklvn with the Phillies; Regular
opening Day" Brooklyn with the Phil
lies again. on May 10 the Superbas
meet the Reds and celebrate the
.Thirtieth Anniversary of Professional
Baseball in Brooklyn May Ii Is
orphans Day" Brooklyn with 81
7 ou,s Then comes independence
pav., and the Superbas meet the
Giants. July 3, the anniversary
cornerstone Day" the Superbas again
try their luck against the Giants.
"Dedication Day" IS set for either July
20 mr. Il There was some little hitch
over this. for Z. ]. McKeever contended
hat the former date was not what one
would call an suspicious one. On
dedication Day" the Superbas meet
tho Cubs. Ebbets has the promise
from Charley Murphy that when the
new park in Chicago is ready to be
dedicated the Superbas Will play the
dedication game" there.
The first anniversary of MckeeVer
Day comes on August IL, and with IL
game between the Superbas and the
pirates. Brooklyn meets Boston on
August 80 to celebrate the anniversary
Of the Battle OF Long Island, the first
battle Of the American Independence.
And Labor Day. September l. with
game between Brooklyn and Philadel-
,hio u.inds I'm the list
In order to keep the tickets for the
opening game from falling into the
hands Of the spectators. Ebbets hit
upon the plan of sending out letters to
clubs and the like so they may buy
blocks of seats. Applications have been
coming i'm steadily during the winter
and already they mount up to over
three thousand. The seating capacity
Of the park is $4,000. but II extra chairs
are put in six thousand more may see
the games.
The announcement in regard to the
sale Of tickets addressed to clubs fol-
lows:
Advance orders for reserved and box
seats for the opening games Of the
Brooklyn Baseball Club at Ebbets
Field are increasing daily. 1t is our
desire to take proper care of those who
wish to purchase tickets, not only for
the opening games. but also for any
game during the season of 1913; there