New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-02
Proposed Park in Wilds
of Kingsbridge Will
Seat $4,000.
CONSTRUCTION TO BE
BEGUN NEXT SPRING
Owner of Braves Finally Admits
the South End Grounds
Have Been Sold.
BY HAYWOOD BROUN.


II the plans of Frank Farrell go
through New York will have stadium
next year which will make the Yale
Bowl lcok like a drinking cup. me
president of the Yankees has owned
Ire big plot at Kingsbridge, between
225th and 227th SITS. for some time, ana
there have been various sporadic bursts
of building enthusiasm.
According TO A. n. Gitterman, OF 81
East 42d St, n real estate man, VINO
sold the Kingsbridge plot to Mr.. Far
rell, the present campaign OF construc-
ton will be hurried TO compleuoh;
Seemingly, Mr.. Farrell does not INTEND
TO be caught unawares when the
Yankees win the American League pen
nant. for the new field, according 10
tentative plans, will seat $4,000 persons
comfortably. There will be room 10
leave space for standees on Satur-
dav afternoons and double headers.
Construction work is to be begun In
the spring and the park will be ready
IN the fall unless il seems likely that
The Yankees are to get In the worid
series. in which case it may be possible
10 finish the job little more quickly
Transportation facilities for the
mammoth stadium are excellent, for IN
addition TO convenient subway sta.
ton nj 225th ST.. there is station OF
the Putnam division of the New YORK
Central close at hand and several trol,
lev lines The field will be constructed
with a view to its possible use Tor one
or moro of the big football games;
In the meantime the Yankees VIII try
70 do the best they can with the
limited seating capacity of the Polo
Grounds,
Never since the days of Babel has
the clamor for big buildings been more
widespread. Philadelphia is said to be
considering the construction of huge
stadium. and James f. Gaffney an
nounced yesterday that the boston
Rraves would have an immense new
park in July.
The South End grounds have been
cold Mr. Gaffnev admitted as much
Yesterday, in spite Of previous de-
yiai We ran a story ABOUT the sale
some time ago, all studded with sentl-
mont and carnished with facts, so TINS
time il will be enough to say that the
poston National League team played at
che South End grounds for forty years
The Braves. with DO more home than
rabbit, would have no chance 10 ny
their worlds championship pennsnt IL
a. were not for the hospitality oil their
rivals. the Red SoX, who have ohered
hem the use of Fenway ParK until the
4ew plant is completed.
At the annual meeting OF the braves
AIR. Gaffney said, after announcing 'he
ssle of the South End grounds, that he
"a now site in view. 1--WE have OBJ
sained no options on the land yet, ne
svnlained. ''and for that reason cannot
fully announce our plans at the present
time
Johnny Evers was the speaker at
smoker in Boston recently. and settled
= noint which has been troubling fans
for wears. sportsman" of THE Bos-
tor Globe" was the astute person who
6 responsible foJ' settling the contro-
versy. 81 asked Johnny Evers whether
his name was pronounced E-vers or
Fv.ers" writes sportsman, land his
answer was that either way was right;
that while Ev-ers was the correct pro-
nunciation, every one in Troy, ms
home. called him E-vers and always
had done So.
"Sportsman" also discovered that
"Cantain Evers has a deliberate way
of taking" No umpire ever noticed
anything like that
"The Brooklyn Federal League will
never play Sunday baseball so long as
/ have a dollar invested in the game,
vas the answer of Robert b. Ward yes
terday TO a report from the west that
the club intended 10 change its policy.
Mr.. Ward also denied the story that
all the Federal League clubs would cut
their playing force TO twenty men.
L., aE hn
still in doubt. Neither Holman nor
Lee Magee has been appointed as man
ager." said Mr.. Ward. THE manage
ment is a question which we must de-
eide slowly. Magee signed contract
for three years. He received no assur-
ance that he would be named as man
arer. but il was stipulated that II he
did he would receive an additional
amount in salary.
Almost in the centre of the diamond
which is TO be built on the Yankees
field. at Kingsbridge, there once stood
a tavern where Edgar Allan Poe was
wont 10 loaf II is 10 be hoped that
the tradition does not cling to the spot
which is just about midway between
first and second base.
II takes a baseball player TO show
the inside angles of the game. Con
troll is one of the most essential as
sets that a pitcher must command TO
hold his own in the major leagues,
was a revelation which Dick Rudolph
made in his first newspaper article.
De gustibus non disputandum. Six
cities are eager 10 be chosen as the
training camp Of the Superbas. Offers
have come from Daytona, Fla; Pasa-
dena, Cal; Baton Rouge, La; Tate
Springs. Tenn; Augusta, Ca, and West
Palm Beach, Fla. Daytona has offered
70 build model camp according 70 the
specification Of Mr.. Ebbets il only the
club will come 10 call.
Charlie Ebbets has only three play
ers left to line up for next season.
The men who have not yet signed con-
tracts are Reulbach, Dalton and Hum
mel.
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