New-York tribune., 1920-05-15

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some time, and the owners of the Yam
KEGS have been more or less prepared
Tor such an announcement from the
. owners Of the Giants. The Yankees
shave been paying an annual rental of
$50 900, but the owners of the local
>, National League club believe that the
loss OF this would be offset by the ma
> nipulation Of schedules of succeeding
years so that greater number OF Sun
= day games could be played in New
: York City.
~ Colonel Rupert, president Of the
- Yankees. seemed surprised when the
announcement of the New York Ma
tional League Club owners was made
public. 'If we are ordered off the
Polo Grounds it will mean that our
National League rivals will go back on
their word to the Yankees" he said
Promised Long Lease
'' when the Federal League peace
settlement was early in 1915 one of
the stipulations was that the New
. York Nationals should grant US long
Term lease on the Polo Grounds. We
feet with MIR. Hampstead. who was
then president of the Giants, and it
had the approval of the National
league.
- However. if the Giants do not want
US any longer on the Polo Grounds
there is no use trying to stay around
! where one is not wanted. | do not
know how successful the Yankees will
be this season, but we probably will
- be able to find home somewhere for
1921"
- No comment accompanied the notice
made at the Giants Office. Judge Nc
'aQuade announced simply that after the
current season the Polo Grounds would
, 1be used exclusively by National League
ebaseball clubs and that the owners of
tine New York American League Club
q had been informed that their lease
would not be renewed. This announce
ment is final
. The Yankees have been sharing the
Polo Grounds with the Giants for eight
years. They shifted from the Hilltop
Park in 1918. when Frank Chase be-
10 came manager of the club There was
no talk of refusal of renewals of
the annual lease until Stoneham. Nc
Graw and McQuade bought the Giants
from Harry Hampstead and the estate
of the late John Bush.
Rivalry Causes Split
Gossip assigns many reasons for the
split. The growth of ba ball, follow
lng the Sunday baseball privilege, has
= made the money obtained from the
yearly rental paid by the Yankee
owners seem hardly worthy of consid
Grafton. There has developed a busi-
d ness rivalry as we'll as sporting
rivalry between the Yankees and the
= Giants. especially since the strengthen
ing of the Yankee team this year
When Charles A. Stoneham bought
1the Giants with Messrs. McGraw and
McQuade, he announced that he had
some new IDEAS for the Polo Grounds
which did not include the rental to
the Yankees. He declared that he
y planned to utilize the plant ior other
sports. There is some probability that
he may hold open air boXingbouts
there. now that the Walker bill is
certain to become law.
According to some the opposition Of
, John j. McGraw to the Yankee lease
was made on the grounds that the
Giants should be protected from the
pOssi Utilities OF a new baseball war.
During the controversy over Pitcher
, Carl Mays there were rumors of an
abrogation of the National Agreement
and threats of the formation of new
league. For this reason McGraw al
ways has opposed long term lease
for the Yankees.
While the owners of the Yankees
have definite plans for their new plant
they are not ready TO announce them
"defnitely. They declare that they have
options on two sites, one of them in
Manhattan and one in Queens, both of
which would be as easy Of access, or
even more easy of access, than the
Polo Grounds.