Clipping:Improvements to the Polo grounds
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| Date | Sunday, September 12, 1880 |
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| Text | There are alterations and improvements on every hand. Numerous workmen were busily engaged in laying down a running path that will be, when completed, by far the finest in the world. It completely encircles the ground, being 1,960 feet in length and having an average width of twenty feet. It measures, therefore, but two and three quarters laps to the mile, and as the track is a dead level all the way round it will not only be the finest but in all probability the fastest in the country. In the southeast corner of the ground another set of workmen were engaged in the erection of a permanent grandstand capable of comfortably accommodating a thousand spectators. Alongside the stand a small ground on which to decide jumping contests, weight throwing and minor athletic sports is being laid out, while immediately in front of the rapidly rising edifice will be the baseball diamond, and adjacent to it the football ground. ... On the 29th, by which date the running path and the grand stand will be finished, a grand inaugural athletic meeting will be held, on which occasion the Manhattan Polo Association will offer a number of handsome and valuable prizes for competition. On the 30th the first game of baseball will be played on the ground, between picked nines, and on the 2d of October a series of bicycle contests will take place for gold medals given by the club. The enterprise of the members of the Polo Club certainly merits the liberal public patronage that it will doubtless enjoy, and as arrangements have been concluded with the executive of the elevated roads to convey visitors to and from the grounds at reduced rates, it seem probable that the polo grounds will speedily become a popular place of resort for lovers of all kinds of outdoor sports and pastimes. |
| Source | New York Herald |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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