New-York tribune., 1912-02-14
A DOUBLE BILL HERE
FOR BASEBALL OPENING
Giants to Play in Brooklyn as
Yankees Make Bow on
the Hilltop.
SCHEDULE NOW APPROVED
Dates Arranged with Only Five
Conflicts, but the Cubs and
the White Sox Get
Them All.


of the Charles Victory Faust Assets and
Realization Company. no other important
business except the adoption OF the playing
schedule for the season Of 1912 was trans
acted when the owners of the National
League met in the sun parlor OF the Wal
dorf-Astoria yesterday The joust was pro-
ductive OF little in the way Of scandals,
sensations and scraps looked at from dis
tance. The playing dates. according 70
which the Giants will open in Brooklyn on
April II. were adopted as drawn up by the
committee. a unanimous vote being re-
corded.
President Lynch said after the meeting
that the calm of a millpond reigned. New
ertheless, the owners talked nearly four
solid hours about the schedule. John
Heydler. who was a member of the com
mjttee which drew up the dates. stated that
before the meeting he was convinced 1t
WAS the best schedule arranged in years
but as soon as the owners began to pick
hawS in it he came TO a different conclu-
sion. However the committee was vindi-
Gated when It came TO a "show down at
the vote. The season will begin on April
II and close on october s, 154 games being
played.
ed James e. Gaffney and John NJ. Ward
were on hand for Boston, Charles H. ed
bets and Henry Medicus for Brooklyn
charles Webb Murphy for Chicago, August
Hermann for Cincinnati. John Whalen and
Joe O'Brien for New York Horace FogeI
for philadelphia. Barney Dreyfuss and
William Locke for Pittsburgh and Edward
Steiniger and Mrs II. r. Brtton for st.
Louis.
The principal objector to the schedule
was Charles Webb Murphy. The only con-
hicts that appear in the dates are centred
in Chicago. they being FIVE In NUMBER
Murphys fears for the rivalry of the
White Sox are without doubt we'll founded
In past years Comskey, with a secono
division team, has more than held his own
in popularity against the pennant-winninS
Cubs The walloping which Frank Chance
and his men got at the hands OF the Wmte
Sox last fall, together with the gloomy
prospects for the Cubs TO finish high IN
the race next season, served TO make Muir
phy trife scary of all the conflicts.
Nevertheless, Chicago fares WELL with
choice dates, getting twelve Saturdays
fifteen Sundays and one holiday at home
This is better than any other Western
club, and since the schedule reduces the
mileage about eleven hundred miles below
last year il. II was voted 10 approve it.
The Giants will open the season in
Brooklyn on April II, In direct conflict with
the Yankees, who will open on the hilltop
with the Boston Red Sox on the same date.
After three games with the Superbas Nc
Graw will lead his men to Boston, appear
ing at the Polo Grounds for the first time
on April IS and again with Brooklyn.
IL rF,r.N
charine for Charley Ebbets and his Su-
gerbas. The champions will spend only
three days at home before running over
10 Philadelphia for four games, Boston
and Philadelphia will then be entertained
at the Polo Grounds.
The Eastern clubs will make the first
swing around the circuit this year. thereby
earning the right to close the season with
a long stay at home. The Giants viii begin
the trip with St. Louis, playing the first
game Of the first series on May 6, taking
on Chicago, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati In
. order thereafter Before returning home
they will drop in on the Superbas for four
games and 60 TO Philadelphia to spend
Memorial Day. On May 81 they will enter
tain st. Louis, the first Of the Western in
vaders. The whole month Of June will be
I
cinnati, Chicago Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
Boston and Brooklyn being played in the
order named. Thus every club in the
league will be met on home grounds. July
{, the only holiday accorded 20 the Giants,
Is given over 10 Brooklyn for two games
The Superbas fare extremely well in the
matter of choice dates, fifteen Saturdays
and Memorial Day being spent at home, as
July which the Giants have at the Brush
stadium. New York win play in Philadel-
phia on Memorial Day and in Boston on
Labor Day. Brooklyn will play in Phila-
delphia on Labor Day and entertain Boston
on Memorial Day.
The Philies gave up their opening day
game to help out the Boston Red Sox, who
will play on new grounds this year, which
cannot be ready in time. This caused a
general shaking up in the usual sequence.
Rumors Of stormy session sifted out
OF the sun parlor during the afternoon,
but the reports could not be confirmed, and
,the owners had nothing but smiles when
they fled out at the close of the session.
The rules committee of the National
League. consisting of Roger Bresnahan,
Bob Emsie and John NJ. Ward, was on
hand, ready TO do business with the rep
resentatlves of the American League, but
the younger organization did not see ut
20 Join hands in a revision OF the code.
Some of the owners, II was said, blamed
Charlie Murphy for this, because of his
we'll known attitude toward Ban Johnson
and they spoke a few frank words to the
president OF the Cubs at the meeting, ac-
ccrding to reports. The rules committee
Of the National League is powerless 10 act
without the cooperation OF the rules COM
mittee of the American League. 1t now
looks as though there would be no joint
session Of the two committees, and conse-
ouently no revision Of the rules.
The presence of Roger Bresnahan in the
corridors OF the hotel gave rise TO the
rlmor that he was there 10 press his
charges against Murphy for the alleged
II suit given TO the st. Louis manager by
the Chicago owner at the last meeting of
the league. Roger had nothing to say on
the subject, and It was autboritadvely
stated that the question was not brought
TO the attention of the league officially
Bresnahan made his complaint to the Ma
tlonal Commission, which decided that It
was a matter for the league alone to settle
John Heydler declared that, in his opinion
the two men would adjust all difficulties
anicably between themselves
Representatives OF the new United States
League were on hand n numbers. It was
common gossip that loud and resounding
report will be heard in few days and
when the dust settles II will be found that
the new organization has gone up tor an
altitude record
At a meeting Of the directors Of the
National League yesterday noon, the fol-