Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-04-16
MAJOR LEAGUES
STARTED THURSDAY
The Champion Season Opens in Both
the National and American
Leagues.

From The World of Thursday:
The umpire's cry of play ball" will
resound throughout the major league
circuits today and the baseball season
of 1910 will be started on the long six
months pennant war. After many
weeks of preparation and training in
the south the sixteen clubs compos-
ing the National and American
Leagues are in fine fettle and ready
to begin the championship struggle.
That the fans are likewise ready
and eager for the initial games goes
without saying.
The club owners managers and
other interested In the business end
of the national game predict that the
present season will be the most pros
porous from d financial standpoint
that the game has ever known. Their
prediction is based largely on the
steady increase in population Of the
United States and the amazing in
crease in the baseball population. If
the forecasts r reliable nearly 1907
900, 600 persons will pay their way in
to the ball parks of the big and little
leagues this summer.
National League Changes.
Radical changes in team compost
ton and managers this year have in
creased the uncertainties of the pen
nant race. In the National League
the baseball fan finds that Philadel-
| phia is under an entirely e owner
ship, with Horace Fogel as president
and Charlie Doom as manager in
place of William Murray. Pitchers
Coveleskie and Corridor were re-
leased by Philadelphia to Cincinnati
in exchange for Pitchers Ewing and
Brennan. Corridor was later released
by Cincinnati to st. Louis, together
with Cakes and Higgins in exchange
for Beebe and Storke. Storke died re-
Gently in Newton. Mass.
Pittsburg remains practically un.
changed from last years club, which
won. the National League pennant and
the worlds championship. Catcher
Charles King. who refused to play
last season has returned to the Chic
ago. club. Other changes in the
Chicago team were the release of Del
Howard and the acquisition OF Beau
mont, last season with Boston.
The Brooklyn club has William
Dahlen, one OF the league veterans, as
it's new manager. Fred Lake, former
manager of the Boston Americans, is
now at the helm of the Boston Ma
tional League club. The most impor-
tant change in the Boston team was
the exchange of Becker to New York
for Herzog and Collins. st. oLuis. as
before mentioned, has secured Hug
gins, Cakes and Corridor from Gin
cinnati and O'Hara from New York.
New York had added Shaw from st,
Louis, Becker from Boston and Willie
Keller, formerly with the New York
American League team.
Changes in American.
Many changes will be noted in the
American League. Willie Keller and
Norman Elberfeld will be missed
from the New York club. The new
men in the Yanks' lineup r Lou
Criger, last season with st. Louis, and
! Harry Wolter. who was secured from
Boston and Kid Foster, the former
Tri-State player secured from Jersey
City.
Hugh Duffy, Chicago's new manager
brought with him from Providence,
Blackburn, to play shortstop. and at
the same time released the veteran
George Davis and Jake Atz. In Bos-
ton Patrick Donovan succeeds Fred
Lake as manager. Washington's new
manager is James McAleer, former
manager of the st. Louis Browns.
Manager McAleer has braced his in
field by the acquisition of Elberfeld OF
| New York.
AT st. Louis Jack O'Connor has
succeeded McAleer az manager. st.
Louis released Hobe Ferris and secur-
ed Abstein last season with Pittsburg,
to play first base. About the only
| change of consequence to be noted in
the Cleveland club is the decision OF
Napoleon Lajoie to play first base In
| stead of second base. Philadelphia
will make the race with the same
team which did so we'll last year and
the lineup of the champion Detroit
team will likewise do the same.
Base Ball Notes.
Harrisburg Academy defeated Con
way Hall 6 to 4.
st. James College /; Hgerstown 8.
Baltimore Orioles 2; Frederick Y.
VI. C. A. a