The evening world., 1913-03-18

Baseball is going TO cost whole
lot more this season--that Is, " the
fans want regular seats from which
they can see things happening on
the field. Real seats have been I'D.
nnced In prices. The 80 cent
1osaehsr seat Of the old days IL oeins
ssGsu up gradually By grand stand
o0ditions and the erection Of new
aadiums, and the older ascent &C.
ssmmodations are disappearing SLOW y
1T surely. Not 30 many years back
- 5o-cent bleachers at the Polo
Grounds, for instance. started behind
- Arst and third base lines. Now
Q Oeat in the same location or there
scouts is grand stand seat
snA costs 15 cents, and upstairs
q dollar. while the old 80 cent
bleacherite Is shifted away over near
Eighth avenue, where field glasses are
almost q necessity.
spsech on the high cost OF baseball.
II connect with his new s1bo.on base
hail stadium In Brooklyn. he mad
vsrtentiy. perhaps. started a fire Of in
djgrAtion among the fans. which has
been smouidering for a couple OF years.
Hbbets says the price OF baseball Is
going up. makes no bones about II. anC
intimates that the fans must foot the
tllis. In other words. they Will he
taxed more for seats. which formerly
cost them from twenty-five to nifty cents
isss. The Dodgers owner explains this
by saying players salaries have In
creased, ard everything else has gone
up too.
IN mapping out Q pan OF recouping.
Dbbets has decided that there'n be
fewer twenty-nve-cent bleachers at his
new stadium. a raise Of nifty cents In
the price Of box seats besides. and .
smaller number OF hfty-cent seats.
Ebbcts. however. isn't aione In the
movement to raise the prices. for sup
porters Of the Athletics over In Phlla-
dsiphia have seen their cheap bleachers
replaced by rand stand extensions.
ana Boston rooters also have had their
twenty.hve.cent seats decreased In mum.
bsrs.
compelled TO stretch the grand stand
(et higher prices, Of course) around both
ssdes, and the oid.time bleache-!te has
been steadily pushed further away from
the home plate. The twenty-nve-c
ers? Sure there are about thousand
seats for them at the Brush Stadium.
somewhere In b. ck Of the haSpole. way.
way out In centre field.
MAoNATcs sAv Raise IN PRICES
CAN'T d HELPED.
while the baseball public lets out long
ana raucoLs yeils Of protest against the
increased cost Of the national sport the
maSnates are emphatic In declaring that
higher prices can't be helped. because
to make both ends meet II 10 necessary
20 charge more on account OF the great
ne In players salaries. Their there are
other expenses an owner must incur TO
turn out Q winning team.
The situation that oonfronts the mag
nates 10 made known by John b. Fos-
ter, Secretary Of the New York Base
ban Club, who has been Identified with
the diamond game for twenty-five years.
This baseball public little realizes the
tremendous cost Of baseball said Soc
rotary Foster discussing the pending
movement 10 raise the admission charges
IN some citiss. Big crowds are seen az
the Polo Grounds. and the fans get the
IDEA that fortunes are made over nisht
n the game But the prohts are not so
Ereat when. say. that out OF q crowd
OF twenty thousand probably nve thou'
sand are deadheads.
baseball owners, like other people,
have been forced TO sit back and see
expenses steadily climb during the past
twenty years. Take ono item alone.
uaayerG' salaries. Men like Msthewson.
Cobb and Wagner are paid any way
from Is TO 10 per cent more than the
stars OF the Brotherhood days. The IN
crease In the wages OF the average run
Of players 10 much more. A player get
tin9 q thousand dollars twenty years
back was thought 10 be well paid. but
the same man to-day 10 receiving Two
and three thousand dollars Even the
minors have cut In on the higher scale
With an increase Of 26 per cent In their
saaaries
AMERICAN LEAGUE RAISED
sALAR,Es IN COMPETITION.
"To carry a team through a season
a. n