Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-10-05
WHITE SOX HAVE
 LARGER GROUNDS
 THAN THE GIANTS
Long Hits in Polo Grounds Stand Mean Home Runs;
 In Chicago, Put Outs.

New York, 6ct. l. A comparison Of Comiakey park, Chicago, and the Polo grounds. New York. where the world series of I0l7 wilI be played between the White Sox and the Giants shows that these two baseball amphlthea' tres are among the largest and moat c1ntuodioug in the country. 'lhe West oru park haa the larger playing field while the New York grounds will seat between two and three thousand more spectators. Under certain con daloug long hits into the Polo grounds stands will qo for home runs whil at Chicago these same hits should fo- sult in putoutg providing the outileld- CTS play deep enough.
 Both parks possess features which will be turned to advantage by the home player although the American league team will have the edge Tn this respect. The members Of the New York Nationals have never played at Comiskey park and are therefore unfamiliar with the pecuIarlties of the field. The White Sox, on the other hand. have played the New York Am orleans at the Polo grounds for seV- ernl years and are as much at home there aa any National league team which meets the Giants on the lattera' home diamond in several series each season.
 So far as the seating capacity Is concerned the Polo grounds will ne commodate about three thousand more spectators than Comiskey park but the total gate receipts will not differ to any great extent, owing to the Tact that there will be far greater sale of box seats in Chicago than in New York. The capacity in round figures and price of seats in each division or the stands are as follows. Comiskey park. beachers 5000 at fifty cents; paviion 5000 at one dollar each; grand stand 5000 at one dollar and n half each; box seats 10000 at five dol lars each: total 3I.000 seats for S71,- OO0 Polo grounds, bleachers seats l3,5O0 at one dollar each: li,o00 un- reserved grand stand seats at two dollars each; 5000 reserved grand stand seats at three dollars each; 400 box seats at six and n quarter dollars each, total 3T,OO0 seats for x7l,25o.
 "Whte Sox park in Chicago. IS one of the most elaborate baseball parks in the country. At the time 1t was built in 1910 it was declared to be n baseball palace" and since that time several other baseball clubs have erected stands along the lines of Com' iakey's creation.
 The park is located at West Both street and Shields avenue. and is reached from all parts of the city, by elevated and surface lines and numer ous boulevards. The playing field lS laid out with the home plate in the southwest corner of the field, thus allowing the batter to face northeast and making right field the "sun gard on" The distance behind the plate {, the first row of boxes in tho grant stand is S2 feet. The distance dow, the right and left field foul lines iron the home plate to the blcachers fence is S6a feet. From home plate to th' center field fence is 4ho feet
 In comparison to these measure ments the Polo grounds affords muel less in playing space, Chicago heins much the more extensive. To hegti with the distance behind the plate t' the front of tho Now York grand stan' is 6S feet, which is la feet less tha, the like territory at Comiskey park From the home Slate to the cente field hleacher at tho Giants groun' the measurement is A2o feet just Sj feet less than at the home of th' White SeN. h. width the Chicago fie(' Is much more extensive than at NeN York, There the right and left fiHl' foul lines from the plate to the bleach CTS measure Se2 feet oa each side while at the Polo grounds the let field hneto the hlsaeherS Is only 27 and the right field line from plat to the grand stand is even shorter the exact measurement being onl S57 feet The probability of lon hits on the New York grounds hein yroJue,jve of home runs, is therefer' much vreater than at the Chieag park. wh>re a far hit haN is not s likely te evaie an autf(elder'S rHath.