Just my guess, but given the angle, I’d say it was taken from the press box which is 200 ft from home plate. This image would have required a zoom lens that, to my knowledge, wasn’t in wide use yet at the time. This is almost certainly a zoom-in from a wider shot printed decades later.. The paper looks no older that the 70’s, if that.
FWIW, looks like a fly ball to left, vs. Detroit, early 30’s.
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