The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-14
YANKEE OWNERS SPENDING YOUNG FORTUNE ON PARK
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NEW YORK, April 13. - Upon a sward whose each and every little blade of grass was planted there by loving hands. Babe Ruth and the young men who toast themselves in the warmth of his effulgence will pass time in naughty fashion in a home of their own, constructed at huge cost by the Yankee bosses and money makers.
 Across the Harlem many hewers ot wood and mixers of concrete will still be at the engineering surgery which is expanding the belt line of the Polo grounds home of the Giants, so as to seat 50.000 people. But the Giants do not come to New York until April 26 so their grandstand should be conva- lescent by the time they need to use it And in the meantime the Yankees fall heir to the uproar and the gratl- flying jingle of the box office jack.
 The Yankee Colonels have buildeo large and liberaliy upon no firmef underpinning than the brittle, spar TOW ankles of Babe Ruth and the mounded shoulder of George Sisler baseball. both of whom chance to play in the same league and, also. to be not as well and robust now as they might be. The cash Colonels, Rup- pert and Huston, believe in baseball about sa.0o0. 900 worth and naturally thtN sit iui1 Ol dHAiCty ioi Siio HSoAsA of Babe Ruth and George Sisler.
 Parks To Scat 67,O0O.
 The Yankees new park in the Bronx will seat 67,000 patients for a ball game stacking the upper layers so high in the sky that none but qualified Alpine adventurers need at tempt the ascent to the top rows of the unreserved third tier From the press box in front of the second gall lery the park is vast, with far-flung foul lines striking the nearest wings of the bleachers and a steel flag mast reaching for altitude records in deep center, miles from the plate.
 But the ball part of the new plant is only one department of buildings which the cash Colonels planned and brought into concrete substance as the realization of the baseball mag nates' most elaborate dream There are in the building which is part ot the grand stand private offices for each of the Colonels. a dark room for Manager Miller Huggins. ;t cell for each of the deputy managers. a grand dressing room for Ruth where he may receive foreign ambassadors, dic- tate his articles for the press. or con eeivably. grd himself with his fan nels and sliding pads for the day $ endeavor in the yard. There is an electric laundry plant for the players uniforms, baths for the umpires and a modern hot-dog abbator.
 Every six months Col. T. l.. Illus ton goes into training for two straight days, he being still boy and apt to become dissatisfied with his physical condition after trading repartee with subway guard. So q tiled room has been set aside and equipped with many huge percolators electric coasters, laundry mangles nickcled cauldrons with handles on and with water faucets everywhere.
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 Huston's Bakery.
 This explains Capt. Arthur Illus ton. the young son of the Colonel. ''is Pops bakery. This thing that looks like an. enameled kitchen table is Pops rubbing bench and these nickel things, think. are to tickle him in tic ribs and keep him happy on rain ehcel; davs.sss1'ilisEis where Pop gets Tn and turns on the heat and sim .hers. And this" he turned handle is what they cail a Scotch dOuce don't knoW nhav t is. but l think .t's some very fancy kind of q bath Pop b1>u about 50 ',rand on this per 4oi ai retlucticn plant. 1 wonder ii ne II ever use it.
 There is ardent hope at the Van koes new yard that Babe Ruth will return to form.. They are beginning Go wonder if too much probity ism a dangerous thing. The Babe has teen model young fellow all win ger ard spring. but his hitting gets eaily more awful. They recollect wistfully that one time he landed in Detroit in the throes of passing tersonal reform and didn't get hit ir three days. They recollent that on the night sof the third day, the Babe suspended the plus regime. went to g party. appeared at the ball park the next day with an undersized skull containing an oversized headache, and iashed out two of his best home