Evening star., 1946-09-06
Added Seats in Left
Will Make Mats Seek
Right-Hand HiHers
By Burton Hawkins

Clark Griffith's reconstruction oi
the Mats will be accomplished with
the reconstruction of Griffith Sta.
dium in mind, for next season his
club will be shooting at a shorter
left field fence. Griffith will ex.
tend the left and center field bleach.
ers and fill in the center field corner
with temporary stand for 1947
which means the accent on his trad.
ing ventures this winter will be or
right-handed hitters.
Temporarily abandoning plans te
double deck the bleachers and ex-
tend the upper grandstand Is rows
due to construction costs which he
declares are outrageous" Grifith
revealed his idea of installing
temporary bleachers to increase the
parks seating capacity by 5000.
It's an encouraging announcement
to the leagues right-handed bat
tiers, for they1l be aiming at a bar
rier 80 feet shorter than the present
wall. The erection of stands In
front of the bleachers will reduce
the distance to the left field corner
to 375 feet and at its shortest point
from home plate-in left center
field-the distance will be 1854 feet
Plan Due Trial This Month.
We'll just have to come up with
some right-handed hitters," says
Grifnth, smiling. "It's the only way
we can increase the seating capacity
at present. To double deck the
bleachers and extend the upper
grandstand would cost us $50 seat
right now and that's prohibitive."
Grifith will give local fans an
idea Of what to expect next season
when the Boston Red Sox invade
Grinith Stadium for the last two
games of the season here on Sep
tember 81 and 20. Temporary stands
in front Of the left and center field
bleachers will be installed for those
games, although the center field
corner will not be filled in until
next season. Stands in that sector
will be graduated to the top OF the
fence.
Our new setup will be similar to
seating arrangements we had for
our three World Series here" said
Grifith. Several times this year
we've been forced to turn away
fans and this new seating arrange
ment should prevent that next
year"
Barring foul weather, the Mats
seem a certainty to hit the million
mark for home attendance this sea-
son, with q crowd OF 1916 last
night boosting the total to approx
mately $50, 900. Another large crowd
Is expected tonight when Bobo New
som will attempt to notch his 18th
victory, with Mickey Harris slated
to pitch for the Red Sox.
Scarborough Gets No Help.
Newsom, whose only three losses
in his last IL starts have been
heartbreakers, will be facing the
only club which has hit him freely
since he joined the Mats in June.
In his last start against the Red
Sox, Bobo was shelled for six runs
before he could get two men out.
Ray Scarborough tossed an effec-
tive job at the Red Sox last night,
but lost, 10, for his seventh con-
secutive defeat. Jim Bagby stopped
the Mats with nine hits, surviving q
ninth-inning threat when Wash
ington moved the potential winning
run to second base.
Scarborough, who hasn't seen the
Mats score a run for him in the last
20 innings he has hurled, yielded a
run to the Sox on Bobby Doerr's
triple and Rip Russell's single in
the second inning and that, 1t de-
veloped, was the ball game.
The Mats didn't get a man to
third base until the ninth inning.
With one out, Gerry Priddy lashed
a single to center and after Jake
Early popped out, Early Wynn
whipped a double down the left field
line. Sherry Robertson then lofted
an easy fly to Dom Di Maggie in
center for the final out.