New Britain herald., 1930-04-28

By NEA Service.
 Des Moines, Ia, April 2S.-Laacue baseball by night is the cXperimen' to be tried out this season by tho Des Moines team of the Western league. The first of tho night games will be played May 6, and it is the plan of Lee kcyser, president of tho club, to play all Des 0Ioines homo games by f1oodlignt, except those scheduled for Sundays.
 Millions of candlcpower Of glare less light will Illuminate the diamond the night of May 6, when Judge Landis and several major league magnates will watch thgeNperimcnt
 Gets Idea From Football
 President Keyser became cnthus- astic about the night sports idea after he had seen several high school and collegiate football games by night. The lighting installation he has sponsored, however, features a much greater intensity of light-an intensity such that, according to en- gineers, the highest fly balls and the longest home runs arc always adc7 quately illuminated. both from the point of view. of the player and spec tator.
 The lighting of the diamond was planned by Illuminating engineers of the General Electric Co.,, who for several years have been developing lighting equipment for night sports and introducing the idea in such widely varying outdoor activities as football, soccer, trap and skect shooting, tennis, golf, swimming, track meets, hockey and skating. Des Moines installation will include 146 floodlights, mounted in batteries atop six 90 foot steel towers.
 Two of the towers arc installed back of the grandstand, behind home plate, and to each side of the plate. Each of these has a battery of 13 projectors, one pointed toward homo plate to assist the catcher and the other l2 pointed onto and over the field to foodlight the diamond itself and the catchcr's area.
 Eliminating Shadows
 Down the outer base lines and be- hind the blcachcrs arc mounted the next two towers, each with 56 pro- jectors. These beams project over the area from the outtleld to just short of home plate. The other two towers, beyond left and right field, sweep the entire playing area with their batteries of 1t projectors each. The altitude of the projectors clim- mates glare. and the way in which the beams from the different batter ics cross each other eliminates shadows.
 Each of the 146 projectors has Il 1000 watt incandcsccnt lamp lamp and q lightly stripplcd lcn3. The lamps arc fused individually SO that possible trouble with one unit will not incapactatc the entire battery. Maximum illumination is gained hv operating the lamps with 10 per cent ovcrvoltagc, which gives a 3f per cent increase in the light (nith dt- creased life of the lamp. however,. X safety switch it the base of each tower controls that battery.
 In June. 1"G7. q game at night was played between league teams; but it was an exhibition game of only seven innings. It was played on the General Electric baseball field ;t Lynn. Mass, bctN cen teams Of the New England league. Eight thou sand fans attended.
 Only two errors were made and sports writers who witnessed thc game declared either might have been made just SIS easily in an after noon contest, and that power light could not be blamed. Even moro light is included in the Des Moincs Installation.
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