Norwich bulletin., 1911-04-12
OPENING DAY DOPE.
Major League Waiting for the Bell Tommcrrow

Although Pitcher Overall is lost to the Chicago Nationals, Manager Chance is pinning his faith upon Brown, who won four pennants for the club in the past five years. Reulbach and Pfeister, veteran pitchers, are go- ing at top speed and Chance expects much of them.
 Manager Chance believes Chicago will again win the pennant, but in the same breath names New York as the most formidable contender.
 The Chicago National team is in ex- ceifent ditfonsaand is almost the same that won; the championship last year.. The third base position alone is changed. Zimmerman has been picked to fill the place made vacant by the veteran Harry Steinfeldt, who was sold to St. Paul.
 Every reserved seat at Cincinnati has been sold for the game with Pitts burg, and in anticipation Of a record breaking attendance five thousand cir GUS seats were erected in the outfie1d. choice for the opening game, and Schmidt will probably catch.
 Better prepared to play champion ship baseball than since the spring of 1906, the Chicago team. champions of the National league, will open the sea-
 Rhoderick Wallace, shofstep for sev- era1 years, will have his first experf- ence this. year as a manager of the St. Louis Americans. The team, after having been under an option, is still owned by R. l.. Hedges. It is general not in condition. Many new players are on the team, and the regular line up has not been given.
 According to President Nevin and Manager Jennings, the final disposition of the Detroit recruits will not be r7 af t1o officials have already stated, however, that Walter .Schaller will be retained as s1lb- -outfielder. Gainor will be on first base in the first game.
 The Washington team, minus Walter Johnson, who refused to sign a con- tract for a salary less than $T,50o a year, has 24 men in the squad. Brooklyn has hopes of a place ill the first division of the National league at the finish, and Manager Dah1en de- pends in no small measure on. his pitching staff to carry him through. lively bunch of youngsters, and will make trouble for the leaders.
 It is asserted in Pittsburg that if the players of the home team show the speed they have at Hot Springs, and in the exhibition games, they will put up pennant winning baseball.
 Tho Washington club of the Amer ican league will open the season of 1911 in modern baseball plant, where new steel and concrete low deck stands have replaced the ancient wooden stands, and accommodations for I2.00t persons will be available when the time for the game is at hand. Eventually when the new plant is completed, at a cost 'approximating s150.0o0, 1t will have a capacity of 17,000.
 Pittsnurg will open the season al Cincinnati tomorrow with the same lineup as it did in the opening game with St. Louis last year, except tha, Hunter will guard the initial corner whereas year ago Bud Sharpe took care of it.
 Manager Penney is so confident o1 his naateria; for the Boston Nationals that he declares the team is fully 2; per cent. stronger than last year. | When Manager Fred Penney leads Iii. band of Boston National yo,lngster: onto the diamond tomorrow afternoon for the first game of the season witt the Brooklyn Nationals, it will be un der the critical eye Of President Thom as J. Lynch, who has chosen to homo Boston with his presence on that day Baseball is at fever heat in Cincin nati, caused possibly owing to tn ] many predictions by leading baseball writers that Cincinnati will finish one l two, three.