The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-02-13
MAJOR tEAGUEs
MEET THIS WEEK
EVERYTHING READY FOR SIGNAL
TO START REGULAR BASE
BALL SEASON.
SCHEDULES FIXED UP
AMERICAN LEAGUE CLOSES OCT. s,
NATIONAL LEAGUE OCT. IL, TO
GIVE BROOKLYN TEAM
COLUMBUS DAY.
SCHEDULES FIXED UP

NEW YORK, Feb. 13.-This is
baseball week, when the playing
schedules of the rival major leagues
will be promulgated and the report of
the rules committees will be adopted
1t is the forerunners of the training
season in Southern cities, and as soon
as the meetings have adjourned the
magnates will step out of the lime
light to make room for the players.
The National League men convene
at the Hotel Breslin here on Tues
day, while the American League club
owners get together the same day in
Chicago. Practically all the clubs
have finished preparations for the
coming season. having signed a ma
jority Of their players and made all
the deals possible. New players have
been drafted or purchased from prae-
tfcally every minor league In the coun-
try and the big teams will soon have
more than 500 men in action at the
training camps.
The progressive American League
will finish the business in hand with
its usual celebrity. President Ban
johnson and Secretary Robert Nc
Roy have prepared schedule of 10
games. which will be adopted with
out protest. The season will open
on April IL, Wednesday. and will close
on October s. The Highlanders will
begin the campaign for the pennant
in Boston ON the first regular date
and will not open the season on the
Hilltop until April 20 or Whereabouts
New st. Louis Deal.
The American League rules com
mittee, IL Is said, will recommend no
important changes, and the only bust
ness of importance 10 be considered
may involve the ownership of the ST
Louis club. a Chicago syndicate hav-
ing expressed desire To purchase the
holdings of Robert Lee Hedges. When
the meeting ends Benjamin Shibe
owner OF the worlds champion Ath-
letics of Philadelphia. win give the
usual banquet in celebration of the
victory Of Connie Maek's men. ,....,.
The arrangement of the National
League schedule calls for general
start on April 10. with a closing on
October IL, Columbus Day but the
latter date will be confined to Brook
lyn. and possibly one other city, the
other clubs winding up earlier. This
means that the American League pen
nant winners viii have to wait for at
least one week before they can begin
the worlds series next fall. The
Giants will cut the local season loose
on April IL. with the Bcstons as OPP
ponents. and will play at the Polo
Grounds on Decoration Day and La
Dor Day. the Hiilmen's best holiday
in this city being July 1.
Ofiicial Ball Wrangie.
Indications point to a wraugle over
the adoption of the Official ball
matter that must be recommended
by the rules committee. Cincinnati
firm, in which Clark Griffith is sale
10 be more than casually interested.
wants to pay big cash bonus TO the
league and .ta- furnish the balls free
of charge to the different clubs in
the circuit in return for the privilege
of stamping the leather with the ON
cial label. The firm which has fur
% nished the ball for a decade il not
without friends In the league and a
hot struggle In expected.
President Lynch will make public
his umpire staff. and IL Is believed that
he, will haze some sensible advice
10 offer to the club owners especially
those who seem 10 be unable TO &C
eept adverse rulings without strenu-
Gus protests. The new owners of the
Boston club will attend the meeting
for the first time to be formally ac-
cepted. Garry Hermann. OF Cincin-
natl. is the political leader of the
league and controls enough votes Il,
keep Ebbets. of Brooklyn: Murphy. OF
Chicago. and Fogel, of Philadelphia.
hopesessiy in the minority.