The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-10-05
WHITE S0X PARK ONE
OF MOST ELABORATE
pions one rf .S><-ss1cst and Most
beautiful Parks.
COMISKEY is SOLE OWNER
Owned Exclusively by one Man
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-bOublr D'Nhth SihhuN,
CHICAGO oct f--"Whltc soK
rhrT' la Chicago ia one OF tho most
elaborate baseball parks In the
country A. the time II was bullt
IN 1910 Il was declared to be base
ball palace and since that time sew
eral other baseball clubs have erect
I'd stands along the lines OF Comis-
keys creation
The white SoV park, moreover. n
the only ono I'm the country which is
owned by a single person--Ch Charles
4. tumlSh ry who IL ALSO the only
man In the ble league who is tho
sole owner Of a club.
The tract of sd upon which the
steel ana concrete structures are
built contains fourteen acres, and
was purchased hy Comiskey when
he decided to move his team from
tho Thirty-uinth street location
whore the atands were made OF wood
1900 Ton Of Stcci.
This big rrandstand was started
February 20, 1910. and finished July
I ~ The same year The club played
part OF iis 1910 games on the old
grounds ana moved To the new park
on the day Il was completed Twelve
hundred tons OF steel wore used I'm
the grandstand The PARK In located
at West Thirty-ffth atreet and
shields avenue, ana In reached from
all parts of the city by elevated and
surface lines and numerous bouln-
wards The playing field is laid out
with the home plate IN tho south
woHt corner of the field, thus allow
ing the batter TO face the northeast
and making right field the "s1n
garden. Tho distance behind the
plate to the first row OF boxes In
the grandstand ~ 81 feet, eight feet
less than the major league rcgula-
lions call for.
Tho distance down the right and
lefl field foul lines from tho home
plate 10 the bleachers fence In ass
feet, 2 feet more than regulations
From home plate TO the center field
is $50 feet These dimensions make
the playing field the only one In
tho country conforming ~ closely
to standards. The park has n seat
/ ing capacity ot $500 The original
seating capacity ~ the park. was 32,-
/ 900 yet at one tlme-Frank Chance
day President Comiskey made
/ settlement for l6,9os paid admissions
| To tho New YORK Yankees.
/ The grandStaud II double deck
structure, with box seats fringing Us
/ front on both decks There are L.
600 of these box seats, The grand
stand seats behind the boxes are on
lncllneH There are above 5000 ~
these and they are all reserved. The
lower Frhndsthnd seats are reached
by two inclined runways. which go
Up at either end of the stand, and
when about half way up branch out,
making II possible to reach tho top
rows az four different points and
that without climbing steps.
PavIIlons Seat 4,5O0.
The pavilions ara on either side
of tho rrnndslnnd and have a seat
ing capacity of about 900 each.
They also are covered These seats
usually cost tho fans so cents each.
hut for the big series the price will
be more These are not reserved
and will be placed on sale tho day
OF the games .a
The blrachera are IN right and len
fi"ld The right field bleachers run
north and south, while the left field
bleachera extend from the cas-, 10
tho west. Thcy do not meet in cen
ter field The intervening space is
utilized for big electric scoreboRrd
which ~ worked from The prcas
stand on the upper deck ~ tho
granda'and The blenchers have
combined seating capacity OF about
=. 600.
The paviiions and bleachers are
protected hy a concrete wall -Four
feet high topped by a wire fence
siv feet high.
The pitchers mound is elevated
Il inches A. nlEh' and when the
weather iE threatening the diamond
iH covered lv "a tnrpoulir. which -
100 fcnt square. ~ requires dozen
mon 90 handle ihIH n is rolled ON
a large steel cylinder ana is kept
In IL structure built of concrete in
front ~ tho lrft field pavilion.
Tho white aox playing field IL tho
only regulation ban grounds In the
country The space behind the home
plate originally was % feet. but even
with twelve fort taken or 20 per.
mF tho erection ~ permanent boxes
fhis year. tho space behind the plate
boz silu greater than that OF sny other
ban park