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Breadon ExperimentingWith Floodlights At Sportsman Park, May Result in Night PlayingBy The Associated TressSt. Louis. Oct. 5.—The first trial of floodlights at Sportsman's Park before a crowd of 10,000 has left President Sam Breadon of theCardinals “interested” in the possibility of introducing night baseball into the major leagues.Several defects in the portable lighting equipment of the House of David ball club manifested themselves during the game, butBreadon pointed out that these lu.ve been overcome in permanent installations.“At Columbus, where we have the latest thing in floodlights,” he saiil, ‘‘there is not a shadow or a dark spot. In some respects the visibility is greater than by daylight.“The ball is highly illuminated by the lights, and really is more easily followed.”Breadon added that fans at Columbus and at Houston, Tex., where the Cardinals also have afarm, have shown their approvalof night baseball by their attendance.“At one game in Columbus this. year.1’ he continued, “we had19,000 attendance. There were10,000 her# for the night exhibition, yet only about 400 for the same afternoon for regular championship game.”Breadon conceded that manypersons might have been attracted by tiie novelty of the firstnight game in the park, others by the picturesque opponents ol the Cardinals, and still others by(irover Cleveland Alexander, former Cardinal hurler now manager of the bearded team.Yet the Redbird magnate is convinced “a far greater number of persons are able and eagerto attend bfll games at night thanis the case in daytime.”“The introduction of an occasional night game into the league schedule,” he thinks, “might not prove a bad idea.”
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Beckley Sunday Register
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Wed, Oct 05, 1932
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