The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-09-30
$4,000 PEOPLE
CAN NBE HANDLED
IN REDS PARK
Ample Provision at Cincinnati
for Record d~Breaking Worlds
Series Crowds

Cincinnati, Sept. 29.-The home
grounds of the Cincinnati Nationals,
winners Of the National League pen
nant, which is known as Redland Field
will seat approximately 27,OOO per-
sons, and accommodate about $4,000
when the local team plays the Chi
cago White Sox, winners Of the Amer
ican League race for Worlds series
championship honors.
The permanent stands seat $4,000
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 cou-
pom tickets for seats will find space
for about 5000 persons. 4
Can Handle $4,000.
Early in August when Cincinnati
played the New York Giants in what
was considered by many baseball fol-
lowers as the crucial games in the
pennant race, slightly more than 3D.
900 persons were on the ball grounds.
From this it can be seen that there
will be NO difficulty for at least $4,000
finding vantage places to view the
games.
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 base lines. Cincinnati City
Council elated over the Reds winning
the pehnant gave the club manage
ment permission to erect seats over
the sidewalks of Western Avenue and
York street, closing the latter street
to traffic for forty days. The playing
field will be encroached upon in left
and center field to the extent of pos
sibly 1S feet and about the same dis
tance behind the catcher's position
and along the first and third base
lines. This will contract the playing
field somewhat, but it will be possi-
BILE to drive out legitimate three base
hits in left field and home runs in
right
Last Word in Parks.
Redland Field is considered the last
word in baseball parks. 1t is sit
uated at Western Ave-, Findlay 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 Cincinnati
club. The building of the structure
was started in September, 1911, and
completed in April, 1912, the total
cost running to S399,OOO.
The grand stand proper has dou-
BILE deck, and on it's left and right
are single stands with roofs over
them. The right field seats known as
the bleachers have no roof shelter.
Box seats extend along the entire
front of both floors of the grand stand
proper. The press box is on the Up
per deck of the grand stand, but it
was not considered large enough to
accommodate all of the newspaper
men and telegraph operators report
ing the world series games, so extra
seats with a temporary covering have
been built on the roof of the stand for
the working newspaper men.
Five street car lines are routed by
way Of the ball park, while there is
another square away. The ball park
can be reached in 20 minutes by street
car from the heart of the city.
Pride of Gerry Hermann.
The playing field is the pride of
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