The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-05
Comparing The Parks
Where Worlds Series
Games Are Played

NEW YORK. Oct. A comparison
OF Comiskey Park, Chicago, and the
Polo Grounds, New York. where the
world series of 1917 will be played
between the White Sox and the
Giants shows that these two baSeoaiI
amphitheaters are among the largest
and most commodious in the country.
The western park has the larger play
ing field, while the New York grounds
will seat between two and three thou
sand more spectators. Under certain
conditions long hits into the Polo
Grounds stands will go for home runs
while at Chicago these same hits
should result in putouts providing the
outfelders play deep enough.
Both parks possess features which
will be turned to advantage by the
League team will have the edge IN
this respect. The members Of the
New York Nationals have never
played at Comiskey Park and are,
therefore, unfamiliar with the pc
culiarities of the field. The White
Sox, on the other hand, have played
the New York Americans at the Polo
| Grounds for several years and are as
much at home there as any National
League team which meets the Giants
on the latters' home diamond in sew
eral series each season.
so fa7 as the seating capacity Is
concerned, the Polo Grounds Will ac-
commodate about three thousand
more spectators than Comiskey Park.
but the total gate receipts will not
differ 10 any great extent. owing TO
the fact that there will be far
greater sale of box seats in Chicago
than in New York. The capacity, IN
round figures and price Of seals In
each division of the stands, are as fol-
lows: Comiskey Park. bleachers s.
900 at so cents; pavilion 5000 at 81
each: grand stand 5000 at $3.50 each:
! box seats 10000 al IS each; total. a.
600 seats. for S74,750. Polo Grounds,
bleacher seats 1850 al 81 each; a.
900 unreseSved grand stand seats al
81 each 5000 reserved grand stand
seats al So each; 400 box seats at
S625 each; total. $1,000 seats for S1l.-
ESQ.
White Sox Park" in Chicago is one
of the most elaborate baseball parks
in the country. At the time il was
built in 1910 it was declared 10 be
baseball palace" and since that time
several other baseball clubs have
erected stands along the lines OF Co.
miskey's creation.
The park is located at West Thirty
fifth and Shields avenue, and IS
reached from all parts Of the city by
elevated and surface lines and num-
erous boulevards. The playing neId
is laid out with the home plate in the
southwest corner Of the field. thus al
lowing the batter to face northeast
and making right field the sun gar
den" The distance behind the plate
to the first row Of boxes in the grand
stand is So feet The distance down
the right and left field foul lines from
the home plate 10 the bleachers fence
is 1862 feet. From home plate to the
center field is $50 feet.
In comparison 10 these measure
ments the Polo Grounds affords much
. less in playing space. Chicago being
lHuSH ~ 'NS'Ai
with the distance behind the plate 10
the front Of the New York grand stand
is IS feet which is 10 feet less than
the like territory AZ Comiskey Park.
From the home plate TO the center
field bleacher at the Giants Ground
the measurement is 420 feet. Just 80
feet less than at the home OF the
White Sox. In width. the Chicago
field is much more extensive than at
New York. There The right and left
field foul lines from the plate to the
bleachers measure So feet on each
side, while al the Polo Grounds the
left field line 10 the bleachers Is only
PA and the right field line from plate
to the grand stand is even shorter, the
exact measurement being only PSI
feet The probability Of long hits on
the New York grounds being produc-
tive Of home runs, is therefore, much
greater than at the Chicago park.
where a far hit ball Is not so likely
to evade an outfelder's reach
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