Clipping:Talk of the Giants returning to the Polo Grounds
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| Date | Wednesday, June 5, 1889 |
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| Text | [from W. I. Harris's column] Will they get back to the Polo Grounds? It is a hard question to decide. The situation is simply this. The aldermen have not ordered the grading of the street through the grounds and show no disposition to do so. The fences being down the grounds are occupied by amateur ball clubs and loafers of both sexes all day, and at night the grand stand forms a cheap and luxurious lodging for all the tramps in Harlem, male and female. Such a state of affairs has called forth a protest and a petition from the abutting residents to Commissioner Gilroy to erect a fence across the street on both sides. The commissioner has ordered an inspection of the premises and seems inclined to put the fence up and probably will. The question arises as to the kind of fence. A four-foot palling fence would e ample protection to the public, but would not be of much service to the New York Club, but if the four-foot fence is put up the club will try and devise some means of shutting off the view of the grounds from the street that will not subject it to the charge of closing up a public highway. Some think this can be done with canvas or by drawing a few trucks up by the fence and building high canvas coverings to them. This is not very feasible, as there is a descent of sixteen feet from the sidewalk to the grounds. Mr. Day expresses his confidence that the Giants will return to the Polo Grounds and play the Bostons there June 10. Senator Jacob Canter is of the same opinion. We hope so at any rate. If the club stays at St. George, it will not make much of a profit for its stockholders. Think of 520 people to see a morning holiday game, and only 5970 to see the afternoon contest. The nineteen games to date have attracted about 43,000 people. At this rate I figure out that the New York Club would be in luck to close the season $10,000 ahead. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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