The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-15
DROOKL LYNCLUB
 1889 SUCCESS IS 'CONv|NCER'
Stoneham Stern About No Circus Stuff at Polo
 Grounds
BY PAUL sCHEFrELs

(United Press Staff Corespondentl,
 New York, Nov. 15.--(UP)-The New York Giants packed the Polo Grounds curfew law in moth balls today and went ahead with plans to bring night baseball (and increased gate receipts) to the Manhattan park in 1e40.
 Only major league club never to play Q night game during the penA nant season, the Giants formally capitulated yesterday and an. lounced the leasing of contracts to the Westinghouse Electric Supply company.
 The Giants will play seven games after dark next season under an elaborate 100000, ,000 candlepower lighting system and will accent night dates on the road with Brook- lyn, Cincinnati, Philadelphia and any other club which may install lights.
 Night ball antics of the Dodger family on the other side of the tracks" drew nothing but scorn from the "genteel" Giants for two sea- sons until last years attendance figures (for Brooklyn) were pub- lished.
 President Horace stoneham, who apparently sided with Manager Bill Terry in his bitter opposition, to the night game when 1t first came to the majors in lo36, couldn't re- sistt he lure of these figures:
 1. Attendance for seven home games 0or Brooklyn) 2o5,264.
 2. Average attendance Nor seven games (for Brooklyn) &327.
 However, Stoneham said that as long as he is president of the Giants, the club will never play more than seven games at home, will never hold footraces. jitterbug contests or any of that "circus stuff.
 We may have band" stone- hame said, "but the other stuff IS out. It has no place in the game. Furthermore, you can say that Terry Treasurer Leo Bondy and myself, are in complete accord as far as this night ball decision goes."
 Seven Under Lights
 The Giants swing to the flood- lights makes them the seventh major league club to offer the night game-the Reds, Phillies, Dodgers and Giants in the National league and the Indians, White Sox and Athletics in the American league. Thus with each of these clubs playing seven games at home, there will be 49 night games out of a schedule of 308 games in both leagues. The National will play % and the American, 2l.
 It will cost an estimated $12S,. 900 to install lighting equipment at the Polo Grounds. A total of 836 floodlights of i,500- watt capacity will furnish enough light for 4,000 homes or enough to make Broad- days entire i3-mile length as bright as Times Square on New Years eve. The eight steel towers which will be erected around the horseshoe stands will be completed March l and the lights will be finished by April i. It will take about two weeks to adjust the lights.
 The first two night games are ex- pected to be with the Bees and the Phillies in late May or early June. Stoneham believes both games will be sell-outs of about 55,000.
 With the Giants entrance int the fowl outfits" the Yankees arI left as the leaders of the group who definitely oppose the electrical ex- travaganzaS". Ed Barrow has in. sisted that as long as he's connected with the Tanks theyl'll never play night ball at Yankee stadium.
 The Tanks agreed last year to play three night games on the road pe- cause of heavy pressure inside the league and it's likely that they will play one night game next year inI Cleveland, Chicago and Philadel. nhia