New Britain herald., 1915-11-20
TANKS TO HAVE
 NEW GROUNDS
Will Have Home of Own Next Year Owner ASscrts-WiIl Be one
 of Leagues Best.


 New York, Nov. 2O.-Capt. T. L. Huston, half owner of the New York American League club, declared most emphatically yesterday that he ana his business partner, Col. Jacob Rup- pert, would have a baseball park or their own before the close of the 1916 baseball season. The reitera- tion of this oft repeated statement was prompted by certain publications of vague rumors that the new own CTS of the Yankes did not intend inn mediate building operations, that they had not made up their minds to move from the Polo Grounds and that the determination of the Federal League to establish at 145th street and Lenox avenue might upset com pletely whatever plans the Captaln and Colonel might have entertained upon moving over into Queens.
 There is not enc word of truth in this strange propaganda of rumor and insinuation," declared Capt. Illus ton when his attention was called to a published statement, attributed to Col Ruppert, that the local Amer ican League club would continue at the Polo Grounds at least until the clcse of the season of 1917.
 "We have determined to have home of our own before the O)c ming of the 1917 campaign" continued the Captain, "and we will have that home. The invasion of Manhattan by the Federal League has not altered our plans one jot or little. Neither has the attitude of the rest of organized baseball if that attitude is voiced properly in the widely published ob- jections to our going to Queens Tor where else we please.
 What has organized baseball to do with it ?' Capt Huston went on spiritedly. "It is our money that is being hazarded, not that of organized baseball. Did organized baseball break it's neck to help us after we cast in our strength with it? Did our own associates of the American League go out of their way to strengthen the weak Yankee team last year?
 "Our colleagues have a lot of l- cense to lend us advice as to where we should build or where we shouldn't when they have refused ab- solutely time and time again to sell us substitute players who, of no use to them, might possibly have strengthened our team. We asked no charity of them; we were willing to pay fancy prices for their excess baggage. Why, if our colleagues are so concerned over our personal safe ty, did they heap up obstacles toward our teams building up to a prominent position by allowing the three strong est clubs in the American League to l confer the market on stars? When l our colleagues can answer that ques- 1 tion satisfactorily they may have some better right to advise our ad- ministration.
 l We have been criticised,'' said l Capt. Huston, mot so much for pro- 1 viding ourselves a new home as for our determination to move off Man l to do so. We are told that we are the Federal League.
 1 well, l can tell you we have i'm vestigated thoroughly every phase and angle of Manhattan's various sites
 We could have built where the Fed eral League will build, at 145th street
 and Lenox avenue. By so doing,
 however, we would have increased ra- ther than diminished our operating
 expenses. We might have located
 right on Forty-second street. That
 would have entailed an outlay of mill
 lions and an upkeep far too extrav-
 agant for any return adequate for
 such an investment under existing
 baseball conditions"