Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-20

1t was to have been the opening day
and it was TO have been a dandy. Fifty
uniformed baseball teams, ranging from
professional. seni-professional ANA
teurs and kids, were going to march
down the main streets Of the gaily !
decked city, with couple of bands in
fall of the team from Montreal, Cam
ada, which had been doomed TO parade
with McGinnity and his heroes as the
victims of the big first day The
police were to put on extra men to
keep the great crowd straight and to
at the park Mayor Haussling was 10
have thrown out the ball. The flower
of the towns beauty and chivalry was
on the qui vive.
But there was no parade and there
was no baseball game, and the season
didn't open. Some six thousand loyal
Newark fans spent the morning say
ing "drat the weather. in their best
known tones of disgust, and one Joseph
McGinnity spoke to the same effect
about the weather, with q most
naughty substitute for ''drat."
Good Day for Ducks.
The whole thing was that while no
duck could decently ask for a nicer
day, it had no place in baseball Two
inches of rainfall fell instead of two
CLEANS of sunshine. and the parade was
called off until tomorrow. and the game
was called off. and at 10 o'clock the
most disgusted man in Newark called
up the Evening STAR and said:
Can you beat it? Yep. I'm McGin-
nifty I've had a squad of men down at
the park all morning trying to put 1t
into shape. The rains fallin' faster
than we can dig away the mud. But
we'll carry the whole thing through to-
morrow, and rain checks go, of course"
When the STAR man asked Profess
sor Wiener if he thought McGinnity
would be able to start again tomorrow
he said "Y-e-e-s-s" like a man who has
his doubts somewhat, and added: 'It
will clear of this afternoon. The
grounds, should think. ought TO be in
good shape by tomorrow afternoon. But
the temperature will be around the
freezing point and 1t will stay there.
l can't see any of what you call real
baseball weather for two days more at
least"
other Places Also Suffer.
However Newark is not the only
sufferer Fans of three other Eastern
League towns seem to have been cheat
ed out of their openings too. for the
Rochester-Jersey City game at Jersey
City was postponed on account OF the
same rain; il was raining in Baltimore
at 10 o'clock so hard that the managers
prepared to call off the Toronto con-
test there, and at Providence. where
Buffalo was to have played, snow had
fallen for an inch above the field New
ertheless, the consolation of other suf=
ferers isn't particularly what the New
ark fans were praying for. They were
planning on seeing that game SO much
that McGinnity had announced the Gale
of every box seat for his opening game
That the crowd would have been 5000
with even chance to play ball was a
foregone conclusion. II the weather
hadn't gone wrong it would have been
the biggest opening in the history Of
the Eastern League. McGinnity says
he's going to make it a bigger 3ne to-
morrow !,
Big Games Called on -
Other big games called off in the raes5-
ropolitan district today were Bostons
at Brooklyn, in the National League.
and the opening of the Yankees, Of the
American League, on the grounds thai
wet up for them as soon as they came
back in second place to take them over
from the burned-out Giants
Tomorrow night the members OF this
Newark team will be the guests Of the
management of WaIdmann's Theatrs
The Royals are also invited and have
promised to attend the performances.