The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1913, Page 14

a ls All Around, 25-Cent pearing, Grand Stan Everything Else. Baseball is going to cost a whole lot more thix xeason--that ts, if the fans want regular seats from which they can see things happening on the field. Real seats have been ad- @anced in prices, The 50 cent MWeacher seat of the old days in being qaten up gradually by grand stand eGditions and the erection of new @adijumes, and the older 26-cent ac- bet surely. Not so many years back fe G0<ent bleachers at the Polo Grounds, for instance, started behind Be first and third base lines. Now @ qeat in the same location or there @eouts is a grand stand seat end costs 75 cents, and upstairs @ dollar, while the old 50 cent Dleacherite is shifted away over near Bighth avenue, where field glasses are almost a necessity. When Charlie Pbbets made his little q@peech on the high coat of base! fa connection with his new $760,000 ball stadium in Brooklyn, he 1 vertently, perhaps, cturted a fire of in- @igration among the fans, which has Been smouldering for a couple of years Whdets says the price of baseball ts going up, makes no bones about It, and intimates that the fans must foot the Wis. In other words, they will be taxed more for seats, which formerly cost them from twenty-five to fitty cents eee. The Dodgers’ owner explains this by saying players’ salaries have in- creased, ard everything else has gone semmmodations are disapptaring slow ly| FANS MUST PAY A LOT MORE FOR BASEBALL THIS SEASON Fifty-Cent Bleacher Seats Reduced in Number Accommodations Disap- d Price Going Up and the Magnates Blame It on the High Cost of con all th fact is burd ved too heavy a Philadelphia tean League chav, shortly after the utiful eaibe Park was completed, was forced to abolish the % cent seats. This move was taken | Rotwithstanding the fact that the Ath- letios have had champion teama since 196 and Philadelphia te a good baseball city. While the figures were never given ply) le —— that the Philadelphia just barely made expense this period.” are ca BASEBALL A GAMBLE FOR MAG- | NATES, SAYS FOSTER. Getting back to the New York club, Mr. Foster eatd that the Giants lost money every year from 18%, with the ' Am exception of 194, until the late Mr. Brush took charge. The secretary con- cluded with the statement that base- ball, from the side of the magnate, was & huge gamble. year the profi made in three, and the fecond division clubs do business on 1 trust-to-luck policy Uke & race goer who hopes to get a good b who ho good break from the Secretary John Uedyler of the Natto: Is Nattonal Baseball Commission agreed with John Foster that cheap ball was on tts lant Jena. bth Mevater voiced the opinion at the higher cost of the diamo snort was Inevitable. reel “Baseball expenses have outstepped the charges to the fans," eald the secre: tary, “and the days of 25 cent baseball are over, really they were over five years ago, for then the tide began turn-| ing to the high scale of prices. A true fan, nevertheless, will cheerfully come acrons with 6, 75 cents or $1 to wee a| good game," declared the genial secre- up too. En mapping out @ p'an of recouping. Wodets has decided that there'll be fewer twenty-fy t bleachers at his new stadium, a ra f fifty cents In the price of box seats besides, and a @malier number of fifty-cont seats. however, Isn't alone in the Movement to raise the prices, for sup- porters of the Athletics over in Phila- delphia have seen their cheap bleachers replaced by grand stand extensions, and Boston rooters also have had their twenty-five-cent seats decreased in num- bere. ‘The Gianta management too ha: compelled to stretch the grand (at higher prices, of course) around both @des, and the old-time bleacherite has ‘deen steadily pushed further away from the home plate. The twenty-five-cont- ers? Sure there are about a thousand seats for them at the Brush Stadium, e@omewhere in bv ck of the flagpole, way, way out in centre field, MAGNATES GAY RAISE IN PRICES CAN'T BE HELPED. While the baseball public lets out long end raucous yells of protest against the inereased cost of the national sport the magnates are emphatic in declaring that higher prices can't be helped, because te make both ends meet it Is necessary to charge more on account of the great Figo in players’ salaries. Then there are other expenses an owner must incur to turn out a winnil m. ‘The situation nfronts the mag- nates is made known by John B. Fos- ter, Secretary of the New York Base- bal Club, who has been Neenuis with felt tremendous cost of baseball retary Foster discussing the pending moverent to raise the admission charges fm some cities. Big crowds are seen at the Polo Grounds, and the fans get the {dea that fortunes are made over night f@ the game. But the profits are not to great when, say, that out of a crowd ‘of twenty thousand probably five thou- fand are deadheads. ‘Baseball owners, like other people, have been forced to sit back and see expenses steadily climb during the past twenty years. Take one item alone, players’ salaries. Men like Mathewson, Cobb and Wagner are pald any way e| American League parks in -| The local clubs can see no tie PRICES CHARGED FoR BASEBALL IN OTHER | BIG LEAGUE CIT'Es.| (Bpectal to The Evening World.) BOBTON, March 1%.—The new prices which President Hbbets will introduce | {n Brooklyn this year, an advance in ome reapects, will only equal the prices which have existed in this city for the Past few years. Tho twenty-five cent bleachers in centre field extst at both American and National League grounds. Seats are back of fi third, the seventy-five and dottar seats fn the pavilions. The boxes are $12 And $1.60 per neat, The front boxes are 1.00, tho rear box seats $15 et “T® fans would bitterly resent any atte on the part of St. Louis managers to increase the price of eeats for baseball games or to diminish the number of 25 cent seats now available. At present almost 50 per cent. of the total seating cape el ty of both parks Is of the cen The American League Park hos 9,600 76 cont seats, $00 box #eats at $1,| about 10,000 bleacher seats at 25 cents and perhape 4,000 sents at 60 cents dre more 0 cent neats and a few lens dred more 50 cent seats and few lows Grand stand chairs than the rival club The bulk of all attendance is found in the cheaper seats at all timen No change in prices at the more this year than In the rs. The prices at the ‘rs has been made, but it was done two or three years ago. The number of cent sea has been tm; At the Cub park the greater than at Ccmis! quarter patronage at the > 1 League Park in rather a nogligible quantity under the Murphy regime. from % to # cent. more than the eters of the Brotherhood days. The in- crease in the wages of the average run of players is much more. A player get- ting & thousand dollars twenty years ack was thought to be well paid, but the same man to-day is receiving two ‘and three thousand dollars. Even ¢! minors have out in on the higher scale with an increase of % per cent. in thelr eatartes. AMERICAN LEAGUE RAISED SALARIES IN COMPETITION. “To carry a team through a season twenty-seven men. In the oid da fourteen and even twelve pl were deemed sufficient. The rai Dinyers’ wages began when the Ameri- wan League was created and the re- @ultant keen competition with the National League. Teams started to bid against ench other for star players e result that now many are pal a. aries, Back in 188? could he purchased @ team's fra for about $35,000, but that sum would hardly buy two players of the Cobb and Mathewson type now. k “Along with that of the players the wages of umpires and other officials per were increased fifty and a hund expenee—that of transporta about 200 per cent, more to s¢ ‘around the country now: than it aid tn the days before the Interstate Kalinoad daws went into effect, A a baseball manager woets 5. a day to house each mi e of his team. Hotel arrangements were waatly different in the old days. hen tt ‘was customary for water wo the ball teams foom in the house could s” Foster here divulged some (mteresting facts about the Polo Grounds. “Jest to open the grounds,” went the secretary, “' sed dollars, So, when only a small erowd turns out it ean readily be soon that the loss n this one particular “The sv @madled ont of the great stadiums in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, eh, Boston and Brooklyn. w York Cleveland The (Qastes and wanted only, thelr mow requires the services of nearly! « gist became very high tone in their q otands openthg day th Increased box sei grand-stand seats from 75 o ‘Twenty-five-cent bleacher seats are lim. ited to about four hundred. ‘The t admission has been eliminated, 11 is not Stated if these prices are to prevail throughout the seaso has been the same for ve CISCARETS SURELY STRAGHTEN YOU OUT. Dime a box—No Headache, Biliousness, bad taste or constipation by morning. 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