Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1912-02-08
SCHEDULES
ARE SUBMITTED
CENTRAL ASSOCIATION COMMIT.
TEE IS CONSIDERING A PAIR
OF CHARTS.
OPENIG DATE MAY l
Total Of 140 Games is Provided for the
Season-OutIine of Features
~ Presented of the Two
Schedules.

The two latest schedules to be re-
ferred to the committee on playing
charts are now being considered by
President Justice, Hugh Hill and Iom
HAYDEN Of the Central association
This committee was empowered by
the magnates at meeting to select
the best schedule and no club Will
have any recourse from the final de-
cision.
Schedule No. !.
The schedules are numbered one
and two for the sake Of Identification
and a dispatch from Keokuk few
days ago stated that one OF the two
probably would be adopted.
A few of the features of schedule
No. / are described as follows:
The total mileage is 1S,477 as COM
pared with 1862 last year.
The season opens Wednesday May
1st and closes Labor Day, September
End and provides for 1870 games.
The first Sunday date in each OF
the eight cities will witness a double
header.
Each team has nine Sunday dates al
home and sixty-five games at home.
The teams which open the season
at home May 1st, close it away from
home Sept. 2.
The teams that open the season
away from home, open at home Tues
day May 7, and close at home Labor
Day, Sept 2. :,
The four cities having the May J.
opening date have one holiday which
is July and the cities opening away
from home have two holidays, Decora'
ton Day and Labor Day.
Kewanee, Galesburg Muscatine and
Ottumwa open in Monmouth, Burling-
ton, Keokuk and Hannibal respective
ly.
Burlington, Monmouth, Keokuk ana
Hannibal close in Ottumwa, Muscatine
Kewanee and Galesburg respectively.
Keokuk, Hannibal, Monmouth and
Burlington, play at Galesburg, Kewa'
nee, Ottumwa and Muscatine respec'
lively, Decoration Day.
On July 4th, Kewanee, Galesburg,
Ottumwa and Muscatine play at keo-
kuk, Hannibal Burlington and Mon
mouth, respectively.
Two-thirds of the time team Is at
home for six games and then away for
six. the short series predominating.
several of the teams have a group OF
twelve games at home at one time
during the season and twelve games
on the road at another time. .
Galesburg plays double header IN
Monmouth the first Sunday and the
next Sunday Monmouth is the attrac-
ton in Galesburg when another double
header is played. ....
Keokuk and Kewanee play double
headers in each city on holidays. All
of the groups Of games are OF three
days each. :.
The mileage Of the various teams is
as follows: Keokuk. 2,297; Hannibal,
2,778; Kewanee, 2,22I; Galesburg, q
O94, Monmouth, 1,Y42; Burlington, i.
791; Ottumwa, 1896; Muscatine, 2,452.
About No. 2.
Schedule No. provides the follow
Ing openings: Kewanee at Hannibal,
Galesburg at Keokuk, Monmouth at
Muscatine, Burlington at OttumWa.
The same teams meet again in Kewa-
nee, Galesburg, Monmouth and Burl-
fngton May 7, the second opening
day. The cities of Ottumwa, Musca-
tine, Burlington and Monmouth get
two holidays, Decoration day and La
Dor day. The others get July 4th as a
holiday. Kewanee is scheduled to
open the season away from home and
close away from home. Galesburg
is scheduled to do likewise, while Of
tumwa and Muscatine besides have
two holiday dates, are scheduled 70
open the season at home and also
close at home.
The total mileage is 1885, divided
as follows: Ottumwa, $500; Muscatine
2,4S0; Hannibal, 2,940; Keokuk, 1880;
Burlington, 1865; Monmouth, 2,035,
Galesburg, 2,105; Kewanee, $500.