New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-15
Capt. Huston, However,
Agrees to Announce Lo-
cation in Two Weeks.
HOOPER AT HIS BEST
IN WORLDS SERIES
Red Sox Player Made Only Two
Home Runs During Regular
League Season.
By JEROME BEATTY.

The location OF the new American
League baseball park Will be announced
within two weeks, according 20 a prom
ise made yesterday by Captain T. l..
Huston. one Of the owners Of the Yam
KEGS.
No information viii be given out Off
cially until all arrangements are com
pleted. The general impression is that
the Yankees intend to build their sta
dunn in Queens. near the end Of the
Greensboro Bridge, on a plot easily
reached By the new greensboro subway.
Charles r. Ebbets, owner Of tho
Brooklyn club, has given bis permission
for the Yankees 70 build In Queens,
which territory, under the rules Of or
g.niIed baseball. Is controlled by him.
The Yankees are paying more than
$4,000 year rental for the Polo
Grounds, and want 20 get into 8 home
Of their own.
Harry Hooper made two home runs,
as everybody knows, IN the last game
=, the worlds series. That was the
same number he made in the las games
In which he played during the Ameri-
can League race. Duffy Lewis also
made a homer in that battle. and only
two in the season.
Cactus Cravath hammered out
tventv-four four-base blows during the
season. but a double and a triple com
pleted his hitting in the series.
Johnny Evers found himself in Bos-
ton last Monday without ticket 20 the
game. He tried almost everybody ne
knew and still was without coveted
pssteboard" He happened 70 meet
James A. Gilmore, president Of the
Federal League, an old acquaintance
and Gilmore supplied the ticket.
Hist! Looks like peace in baseball
Il IL 70 be hoped that the dread
nought California will have the hitting
nower Of those California dread
noughts Lewis and Hooper.
The Red so1 IN the worlds series
batted three points better than they
did In the season, while the Fhlliies
hit sixty-six points under their regular
average.
Luderus and Bancroft were the only
National Leaguers who could hit the
Red Sox pitchers. Foster, Lewis,
Hooper. Cady and HoblitzelL Of the
Boston crew, smashed the ball more ef-
feotively than they had done all sea-
son.
Don't be deceived by imitation
Giants, Is the warning sent out by the
New York National League Club. II
seems that semi-pro players are travel
ling around calling themselves
"GYsnts" and adopting the names Of
New York players. The real Giants
have gone a. far from baseball dia- /
monds as they can get. Although clubs
billing themselves as Giants may
look that bad, they really aren't
Giants.
Federal League officials who attended
the worlds series and took part IN the
Philadelphia conferences with officials
Of organized baseball, met informally
In New York to-day. Charles h.
Weeghman, the owner Of the chicago
Feds, brought photographs TO prove
that 1900 persons saw the last game
Of the season between the Chicago and
Pittsburgh Federals.
when Braves Field was opened care
full estimates put its seating capacity
NJ 10000 Only by dropping the fans IN
from an aeroplane, like bombs, can
more than $4,000 persons be crowded
into the plant This last number rep
resents the National Commission fig
ures for the first worlds series game,
when every ticket was sold.
The railbirds knew before Wednes-
days game that Alexander would not
pitch At 1880 p. m. several persons
we're sitting through tho crowd offer
ing 20 bet s 20 that Moran wouldn't
start his star pitcher.