The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-29
BASEBALL DOOMs
OVER COUNTRY
Pacific Coast League Opens Season
Tuesday, But Big Leagues Won't
Begin Until April l2.

NEW YORK, March 29.--Next
Tuesday will witness the start OF the
1911 season of professional baseball
games and before the diamonds are
abandoned next fall nearly 10000
regular league contests will have
been played. The Pacific Coast League
is the first to begin play and the last
to close.
In the time now intervening before
the opening of the American and Ma
tional Leagues and the American As
ISOLATION season. all on April IL, two
small Southern leagues-the Cotton
States and South Atlantic organiza-
tions-will swing into action April 6
and April 10, respectively.
In quick succession after the in
auguration of the big league races,
April l2. the Southern, Eastern and
Western Leagues open, with the Cen
trail League among the last OF the
bigger sectional leagues TO get In mo-
ton. April &c. The Ohio and Con-
necticut State Leagues start April 20,
and 81, respectively, and the New
York State and New England Leagues,
April "a
The Michigan State League does
not begin TO play until May 20, and
Is the last OF the recognized leagues
to open. BY that time. the country
over, there will be at least 80 pro-
fessional leagues in the field with
schedules calling from 800 to 600
games each.
The collegiate season, less regular
ly accounted for, already has begun
In the Southern tier OF the Eastern
States. The schedules OF Eastern
colleges call for about 500 games be-
tween now and the latter part or
June
Yale has eight of last years nine
left, including an experienced and
well-balanced pitching stan, with
plenty OF new material. The Harvard
leftovers are only six, and among
the losses is Pitcher Hicks, whose
work of last year will be hard to
equal
Princeton is admittedly In serious
difficulties. Five of last years play
ers have graduated, and the leading
pitcher, s. V. White, Is suffering with
so severe a wrench of his throwing
arm and shoulder that he will not
| play In any Of the early games. Penn
sylvania. with a nucleus OF four vet
Grams, bids fair to turn out another
championship nine.
An unusual number OF tours Is
| planned by college teams this year
All records in this line Will be broken
| by Michigan by an invasion OF both
the South and East. The Wolverines
will travel over 1000 miles, touring
Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio, and
visiting Princeton, Syracuse and
Brown. So far this Is the only series
OF games in which the East will meet
any Western or Middle States college
An international turn will be given
collegiate baseball In May, when a
team OF picked players from the Wa
soda and the Kelo Universities from
Japan will arrive In this country and
tour both the West and East in re-
turn for the compliment paid to the
players OF the Orient last year, when
the University Of Chicago team tour
ed Japan and the Philippines.
! In 1894 Bob Lowe made four home
! runs off Chamberlin. Cincinnati pitcher
/ homers and a single OF Terry OF Chi
cago In 1896.
! Sometimes recruits who look like
! spot-lights on a dark night In spring
practice do come through and deliver
| the goods when the team gets back
| or the big wheel.