The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-03-15
SALT LAKES FIRST
FOE IS BUTTE CLUB
Total of ~ Games Scheduled
at Home for Hester's
Team.
MURRAY HAS S WEEKS
Four of Blankenship's Series
to Be Played on Lucas
Field.
MURRAY HAS S WEEKS

Union association 1914 season
H, NIL open on Tuesday. April 2S.
A' Nhe first half Of the season Will
NJ close a,n July and the second half
A. viii cloSSe ON September IS.
\ Winnera Of first half and second
half will pMy championship series
X of seven gameSs
n Salt Lake will play 5eventy-two
a games at home.
N Murray will play twenty-four
games In Salt Lake, and thirty
m games in Murray.
.s Salt Laks and Murray Will divide
nineteen weeks of baseball or twenty
y week schedule adopted yestagday by
4 the directors of the siS Clubs
of the Union assoeIat1on -Four
7 teen weeks of baeeball will be seen
!, ray. The season will be split, the nrst
q half ending July and the second Sep
tember Is. Thereafter there viii be, q
( series of seven games to decide the
Z league championship.
M T6e 1914 season will formally, open
on Tuesday, April 2s The schedulIel Sa.ahaIl
comprising tvesfy 1sG eSmes weesS was as ofciay n
b
adopted at the club directors meeting
4 held in Ogden. Those present were Ed
y r. Murphy, president of tho leaguej
4 George o. Relf, Salt Lake; A. P. Bige.
(, low, Ogden; Larry Duggaps Butte; JACK
K F1annery, Helena; DR., @. 2. Harvellle'
4 D. Brown Of Ogden also ATTENDED, al
" though not in an official capacity
Plenty of Baseball.
1t was originally arranged that each
" club of the SIX should play ten weeks
at homo and ten weeks abroad. Thls
( plan was altered, however, so that SaAt'
Z Lake will actually play twelve weeks
on it's home grounds. Two OF the twelve
n weeks Salt Lake will play with Muir
ray, the two weeks games which. ac-
7 cording to q ten weeks at home sched-
A.uIe. Salt Lake would have played in
Murray. Murray will actually play
4 Ave weeks in Murray, according to the
z schedule, but it is possible that some OF
\ field. -,
y Murray will play two series with
4 teams other than Salt Lake on the Salt
n Lake grounds and one series with Og-
4 den, which, according TO the ten weeks ,
z at-home schedule should be booked for
n Murray. This will give Ogden eleven
weeks at home and nine weeks abroad.
Boise. Helena and Butte will each play
! actually ten weeks at home and ten
q weeks abroad.
Transfers by Agreement.
The transfer of Salt Lakes two Sc
4 ries with Murray to Salt Lake and the
4 transfer Of one Of Murray's series with
ogden fgs aptsemeng ts ogden betwssn wss he RG d.
rectors of the affected clubs.
The agreement whereby Murray
4 is permitted to play two series on the
K Salt Lake grounds ls the original one
\ drawn up several weeks ago by the Salt
4 Lake and Murray club officials. Muir
T ray is permitted the use of the Salt
Lake grounds for the training season
previous to the opening of the actual
season; for exhibition games and for
the first two weeks the Salt Lake club
f is away from home.
r In Two Divisions.
The season is divided into two sched-
n ules Of ten weeks each. Beginning with
IN the second schedule the standing Of the
teams will be figured as at the begin
ming OF the regular season, on the basis
OF none won and none lost, Should the
IS leading team after the first schedule of
games win again in the second schedule
it would be the undisputed winner of
X the Union. assoeiation pennant. Should
IN the first schedule win the second
schedule post-season series of seven
games has been decided upon. The first
n ten weeks schedule Of games will end
on Sunday, July S, and the second
schedule will end on September Is.
iF Although the official schedule
last night, the fact was made knowr
that Butte would open in Salt Lake
Murray at Ogden and Helena at Boise
The Helena-Boise and Murray -Ogder
J arrangement is subject to alteration
.i Helena wants to open at Boise, and th,
is request will likely stand.
in Salt Lake, giving an early opening
iA day to the Murray fans for their team
.Hi Butte will play in Boise and Helena a
Ogden, For the third week, Heleni
will play in Salt Lake, Butte In Ogde,
and Murray in Boise. The termination
terminate the first at-home games O
the Salt Lake, Ogden and Boise clubs,
Il Openers in North.
For the fourth week Of the season
~ Murray, Helena and Butte will open a
q home, although the opposing teams wer
n not given out: This arrangement will
il opening series only three weeks afte
the start of the season and it will Civ
the Murray faus an additional openin
y day following the first game Of tn
8, second week Of the season, when Mul
\ ray will open in Salt Lake with Sal
81, Lake.
The official league schedule will b
N put into form Immediately by Pres
s dent Murphy and will be mailed b
Mr. Murphy from Butte, probably i
N time for publication on Marc
II 2y, to, papers in every. city j
X which there is a Union association clut
until the schedule is mailed" sai
! MIR. Murphy last night, "dates whe
the teams 3in meet will not be al
uoupeed' -
Fif The final dennsit oP sarb tea- ~,