New-York tribune., 1922-12-30

representatives.
New York Is the greatest sporting
elty In tho world. This statement Is
not mado boastfully. with ~ popu-
lation and wealth Il should be Just
what Il is. But New York the coming
wear will be put 90 a test 20 which no
othor city ever has been submitted.
The new Yankee Stadium In che Bronx
will bid for patronage against the
long.established institutions az the
Polo Grounds and Ebbots Field. And,
"a there will be certain specific Sun
DAYS marking conflicts among All three
local major league baseball plants, tho
greater city viii be called upon % an
aver tho question As 20 Just how FAR II
lays" over rivals Of the major cir
cults.
brooklyn, OF course, has rs own
peculiar clientele and is good or bad,
40 far a. patronage goes, IN direct
ratio 20 the strength or weakness OF
the Robins as shown IN the standing
Of the clubs. Like cities Of the KIND
II Is always best in spring. This Is
The season where baseball hope runs
high, no team can possibly be elimi.
mated before the first gala holiday OF
the year-Memorial Day. SO Brooklyn
should enter the lists for public favor
also as hopefully as It's two stronger
borough rivals.
As 10 Giants and Yankees, the fight
Tor public favor should start AZ evenly
as the mind can picture. IL Is true
| MeCraw holds the whip hand over
Huggins in that the Giants humbled
the Yankees In the recent worlds
Series: In the past two Worlds Series,
10 be exact. But Higgins has in his
| favor 20 Offset this two invaluable as
acts. The new stadium, In It's magnii-
eenee. grandeur and eommodiousness-
not 20 mention easy accessibility-can-
not but appeal to that innate charm
| Of novelty 80 dear % the heart Of the
/ New Yorker.
And there Is Babe Ruth, deposed for
| the time by Rogers H0rnsby, but lar
/ from suppressed His admirers be-
| lieve this idol, who shared a place in
universal affection none had known
since the hoy-day Of the mighty John
/ L. Sullivan, was unhorsed BY the sus-
pension Of Commissioner Lands and
not by the bat Of Rogers Hornsby.
/ They look for Babe 10 come back,
At any rate, with the Polo Grounds,
the new stadium and Ebbets Field all
I open at the one time 90 metropolitan
fans con certain Sundays) greater New
/ York will have an opportunity 90 prove
| lust how good a baseball city IL really
/ Is. The capacity Of the three parks
viii come close 20 10000. As u
will open. the Yankee stadium
will provide seats for at least 10000.
The Polo Grounds, under course oi re-
construction, VII accommodate 10000
patrons in 1923. With restricted
standing spaces on the playing held
Charles II. Ebbets can take care OF
25,000 easily.
What may be termed the Preserve"
OF Sunday baseball patronage IN
greater New York seems inexhaus.lble.
Every somi-pro and Independent park
for years has played almost 70 ca
pacity, and at minor league prices OF
admission. Every playground and city
park diamond used By the amateurs
can find It's hundreds or thousands OF
curious onlookers gathered around
every game.
During the last two years there have
been occasions both on Saturdays and
Sundays where Giants and Yankees
might have played 20 double the ca
pacity Of the Polo Grounds. Repeat.
edly the gates were closed with count
less thousands Of late comers disap-
pointed. And il is argued this circum.
stance acted as boomerang later on,
VIXEN the general public took t ior
granted there would be no room and
remained away. With more than
double any previous capacity, on such
occasions as all three local clubs may
have Sunday conflicts this argument
will be wiped away unless, indeed,
New York proves the wonder city Of ell
baseball time.