The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-05
Seating Capacity of Giants and White Sox Parks About the Same-Record Crowds Are Expected

l Grounds, New York, where the world | series of 1917 will be played between the
 white Sox and the Giants shows that
 these two baseball amphitheatres are
 among the largest and most commodious
 in the country. The western park has
 the larger playing field, while the New
 York grounds will seat between 200O. and
 5000 more spectators Under certain con ditions long hits into the Polo Grounds
 stands will go for home runs, while at Chicago these same hits should result in putouts providing the outfielders play deep enough.
 POLO GROUNDS LARGER So far as the seating capacity is con-
 cerned the Polo Grounds will accommo-
 date about 5000 more spectators than Comiskey park, but the total gate re- ceipts will not differ to any great ex- tent, owing to the fact that there will be far greater sale of box seats in Chicago than in New York The ca pacity in round figures and price of seats in each division Of the stands are as follows Comiskey park, bleachers 5000, at 50 cents; pavilion 5000, at $1 each; grandstand 5000, at S1 .50 each box seats 10O00, at s5 each; total 34,00O seats for s4750. Polo Grounds: Bleacher seats l3,500, at S1 each; 14,0O0 unreserved grand stand seats, at $2 each; 5000 reserved grandstand seats at s3 each; 140O box
 seats at $6.25 each; total 37,000 seats for STA. .250
 White Sox Park" in Chicago is one i of the most elaborate baseball parks in the country. At the time it was built in 1940 it was declared to be a baseball palace," and since that time several oth- CT baseball clubs have erected stands along the lines of ComisKey's creation. CENTRALLY LOCATED
 The park is located at West Thirty fifth 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 is laid out with the home plate in the south west corner of the field. thus allowing the batter to face northeast and making right field the "sun garden" The distance be-
 hind the plate to the first row of boxes in the grandstand is S2 feet. The dis tance down the right and left field foul lines from the home plate to the bleach CTS is 363 feet From home plate to
 the center field fence is 450 feet. In comparison to these measurements the Polo Grounds affords much less in playing space, Chicago being much the more extensive. To begin with, the dis tance behind the plate to the front of the New York grandstand is 6 feet which is 19 feet less than the like ter rtory at Comiskey park From the home plate to the center field bleachers at the Giants ground the measurement is 20 feet just 30 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 bIeachers measure S62 feet on each side while at the Polo Grounds the left field line to the bleachers Is only 274 feet and the right field line from plate to the grandstand is even shorter, the exact measurement being only 257 feet. The probability of long hits on the New York grounds being productive of home ruas, is, therefore, much greater than at the Chicago park. where a far hit ball is not so likely to evade an outfielder's reach.