The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-24
new BASEBALL PARK, TO
COST $3.50, 600, WILL BE
BUILT HERE FOR INDIANS
Option on 1874 Acres Taken
in South Riverside Area
by Norman Perry.
200 MEN TO GET JOBS
Modern Steel and Concrete
Grand Stand Will Seat
5000 Fans.
BY EDDIE ASH
Times Snorfs Editor

Indianapolis will have a
new baseball park if Presi-
dent Norman A. Perry Of the
Indians is successful with
plans announced today.
He has obtained an option on 124
acres in the south Riverside sec
ton Of the city and will file q petit
ton with the city coming board
Saturday, asking permission TO
build modern plant at an esti-
mated cost Of $350,00o, providing
employment for about two hundred
men.
Perry wants to start grading the
land at once and believes that, if
no obstacles are met, the new park
will be ready by late summer. The
site, triangular one, is bounded on
the east by Harding street, on the
north by Sixteenth street and cE
the south by Speedway avenue
Charles S.. Rauh owns the property
Only two houses are on the land.
l5,O0s Seating Capacity
The modern grandstand called
for by Perry's arrangements viii be
steel and concrete, with total seat
ing capacity of $1,000, including q
section of bleachers. The stand will
be Similar to the Louisville plant.
with improvements.
Stadium and playing field wiz
cover 5.62 acres, leaving 6.7s acrqs
for parking and walks The River
side street car line is within IT.
blocks on the north and the South
Grove golf clubhouse is directly
north Of the site The realty firm
Of Moore & Fox secured the option.
Entrance at Southwest
The park entrance will be south
west and the teams viii bat north
east, with the right field the sun
field, giving Shade to all seats. The
sun field at Washington park is left
field and the teams bat southeast.
The Riverside Civic Association
once petitioned the Indianapolis
baseball club to build in; its neigh
borhood and tits believed the resi-
dents Of that district will be pleased
with todays announcement.
The baseball offices at the new
park will be in a tower over the
entrance and President Perry has
other ideas about building to make
the plant a credit to that part of
the city and to Indianapolis in gen
eral.
Ample Parking Space
Parking space Will be ample and
all highways leading from the city
to the land are paved. Speedway
avenue, which bounds the property
on the south and also sWerves to
bound it on the west, will be re-
surfaced in the near future, it is
said.
The land is just east by south of
the Enlrichsville bridge.
The Tribe owner desires to begin
the work Of construction within
thirty days, if possible Local labor
will be employed and Perry's will
ingness to put big money in new
plant at this time indicates he be-
lieves baseball is destined to make
real comeback in Indianapolis.
The new. park will take the fans
away from the SCOT and smoke of
West Washington street and give
them grandstand where there will
be no posts to obstruct the view.
Harding street is 1900 west and
the park site is within easy dis
lance from the center of the city.
Stand in East Half
The Indianapolis Water Company
owns strip of the section facing
Sixteenth street that will be be-
tween the left field fence and the
highway, east to west. This area is
about $50 feet deep.
The grand stand will be located
in the east half Of the l2.4 acres
and the distance from rear of sta
dunn to outfield fences will be 495
feet. Distance from home plate to
fences at foul lines will be $50 feet,
which means a home run viii re-
ouire a hard drive and the fly
chasers will have wide territory to
cover. Distance from first and third
base lines to stand viii be sixty
feet.
There will be an area for park
ing space between stand and Speed
way avenue and stand and west
property line, approximately half
Of the entire tract.