Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27
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REDLAND PARK
IS NOT SO SMALL
Extra Seats With Boxes Will
Accommodate Large
Crowd

Cincinnati, Sept. 27.-The home
grounds of the Cincinnati Nationals,
winners of the National League
pennant, which is known as Redland
900 persons, and accomm odate
about $4,000 when the local team
plays the Chicago White Sox, win
ners of the American League race
for worlds series championship
honors.
The permanent stands seat 1900.
but the time the first game of the
worlds series is begun, new seats
for 5000 more persons will have
been erected. In addition. fans
who are not fortunate enough to
obtain coupon tickets for seats will
find space for about 5000 persons.
Early in August when Cincinnati
played the New York Giants in
what was considered by many base
ball followers as the crucial games
in the pennant race, slightly more
than $1,000 persons were on the
ball grounds. From this it can be
seen that there will be no difficulty
for at least 1000 finding vantage
places to view the games.
Provide New Seats
New seats in left and center
fields extend over the sidewalk on
Western avenue and along York
street and the new box seats are
along the first and third-bas lines.
Cincinnati City Council clated over
the Reds winning the pennant gave
the club management permission to
erect seats over the sidewalks of
Western avenue and York street,
closing the latter street to traffic
for 40 days. The playing field will
he encroached upon in left and cen
ter field to the extent of possibly
/ 5 feet and about the same distance
behind the catchers position and
along the first and third base lines.
This will contract the playing field
somewhat, but il will be possible
to drive out legitimate three-base
hits in left field and home runs in
right.
Redland Field is considered the
last word in baseball parks. 1t is
situated at Western avenue, Find
lay and York streets in the western
section of the city. The permanent
stands are of concrete and steel and
the property is owned by the Gin
cinnati club. The building of the
structure was started in September,
1911. and completed in April. 1912,
the total cost running to SS99,0OO.
The grandstand proper has
double deck. and on its left and
right are single stands with roofs
over them. The right field seats,
known as the bleachers, have no
roof shelters.
other Accommodations
Box seats extend along the en-
tire front of both floors of the
crandstand proper The press box
is on the upper deck of the grand
stand, but it was not considered
large enough to accommodate all
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operators reporting the world series
games, so extra seats with tenn
porary covering have been built on
the roof of the stand for the work
ing newspaper men.
Five street car lines are routed
by way of the ball park, while there
is another a square away. The ball
park can be reached in 90 minutes
by street car from the heart of the
citY.
The playing field is the pride of
Garry Hermann, president of the
,lub and chairman of the National
Baseball Commission. 1t lies about
eight feet below the stands with a
slight embankment along the left
ield extending to the fence enclos-
ire. Left field is shorter from the
nome plate than is the right field.
Right field is the sun field and many
players have found it difficult to
Judge flies batted in that direction.
General admission and prices
liked by the National Baseball Com
mission will prevail at the world
series games. The Cincinnati club
management had announced
,cheme for distribution of the TO-
300 reserved tickets for public sale
hat virtually is a plan of placing
he names of applicants in some sort
# receptacle and then drawing
hem out until all 10000 had been
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