Arizona republican., 1914-04-12
MANY TENANT RACES BEGIN
 COMING WEEK
Two Majors, Fcdelals and Several Minor League Organizations Start 1914 Season-Tuesdav is Big Opening Day
Especial to The Republican,

NEW YORK, April 13-The umpire $ cry of play ball" will resound through ont the land this week and the baseball season of 1914 will be started in earn est. It will be the opening week in the two major leagues and the new Fed eral league Several of the leading minor organizations also will be under way, so that between now and next Saturday the hearts of thousands of fans will be gladdened by the first skirmishes in the pennant wars. For weeks the reports from the training camps, the exhibition games played on the road. and the recent interleaGue series have sharpencd the appetite of the baseball bug" and he is longing for the sound of the bell announcing the first regular game of the season. Rarely has a season opened in the big leagues with a promise of so much to interest the tans from the very start. The uncertainty of what the season will bring forth in the way of sensa tiOnal developments is what adds spice to the national game. Thanks to the organization of the Federal league and
 it's grabbing of many players from the National and American leagues, it has 1 become impossible to figure out the 1 winners in the two older organizations with anything approaching certainty, Heretofore the big league teams usual | lv have been able to retain the most of 1 their veteran players and the younger ! idols of the preceding season. But this 1 year several of the clubs have under 1 gone the greatest shake up of players 1 within memory There also have been several changes in ownership and in club management. and on the whole
 the changes of various kinds have been SO numerous and of such an important
 character as to render the form
 charts" of last season practically
 worthless as an aid in doping out the
 championship races this year.
 l Weather permitting, the season in the National and American leagues will be ushered in Tuesday with eight games in as many cities that make up
 the two circuits. In the National i New York at Philadelphia. Chicago at 1 Cincinnati and Pittsburg at St. Louih i The race in the American league will
 be started with St. Louis at Detroit, ] Cleveland at Chicago. Philadelphia at
 New York and Washington at Boston Two of the most prominent of the minor organizations, the American as
 sociation and the southern league will
 open their championships seasons also |
 citation will he played as follows: Co., lumbus at Louisville Cleveland at In 1 dianapolis. Minneapolis at Kansas City
 and St. Paul at Milwaukee,
 In the> initial games in the Southern league Nashville will meet the cham
 pions at Atlanta, Memphis will play at 1 Chattanooga. Mobile at Birmingham
 and New Orleans at Montgomery.
 Friday will see the beginning of the
 championship race in the Western
 league. On that day Denver is sched-
 uled to open at Lincoln, Wichita at To-
 peka, Sioux City at St Joseph and omaha at Des Moines.
 The arrangements of the Federal
 league provides for the opening games
 to be played this week as follows: Monday. Buffalo at Baltimore: Tues day, Brooklyn at Pittsburg: Thursday.
 indianapolis at St. Louis and Chicago
 at Kansas City.
 Other baseball organizations that
 will play the first games of their sea
 sons schedule this week are the Texas oklahoma league. the Northwestern league the Virginia leaplIe and the Georgia State league