The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-01
pOSTPONEMENTS PILE
UP IN BOTH LEAGUES
National Heavy Sufferer. With
Nearly Third of All Its
Games Prevented.
NINETEEN ARE CALLED OFF
| American League Struck by the
Elements Thirteen Times
Feds Are Lucky.
NINETEEN ARE CALLED OFF

Weather keeps on being a leading base
ball theme. Postponemcnts due to rain,
cold and wet grounds are accommodating
daily and future series will be all but
one continuous round of double headers.
A few postponcments we're not entirely
necessary. games being called off which
could have been played just as we'll How
ever. the more or less chronic open state
OF the celestial sluice gates. with attend
ant rawness. dsmpness and soggy fields.
has been the chief factor In playing mis-
chief with the schedules and laying up
large store Of twice day performances.
In the National League nearly "A third
kof the total games scheduled for the pc
Rod up to this time have been pre-
vented. Between the lachrymose condi-
ton overhead and the oozy condition un-
der foot there have been nineteen post
lponements. While engaged I'm showing
that they wait not on baseball or the
magnates or opponents thereof the ele-
ments have knocked the schedule galley
west In New York once. in Philadelphia
thrice. in Brooklyn six times. in Boston
and Cincinnati three times each. in
Pittsburg twice. in Chicago once and in
st. Louis not at all.
Between home and out Of town post
ponements the Giants and Brooklyns have
seven each. the Phllics six. the Bostons
six, the Reds and Pirates four each. the
Cubs three and the Cardinals one. 1t will
he seen that in its persistent frownng
the weather has disseminated mostly
against New York and Brooklyn. which
adverse breaks from the upper region
sprinkling pot are unaccountable consid-
ering that more favored and less slightly
communities are far more in need OF
frequent baths The seaboard has suffered
kmore than the interior. for there have
been thirteen postponenents In the Eas'
b six in the benighted West.
abe American League also has been
extensively beset with the aqueous ac-
tivity. but not SO much as the National.
There have been thirteen postponements
in this league, exclusive of ties. and again
the eruditc half OF the baseball map has
sustained the brui of the hydration sup
piled by the sobbing skies. This sec
tional series stands 9 to 4. In the balmy
West the season has been comparatively
arid. but not enough so TO overwork the
turnstiles. There have been two post
ponements in Detroit one each In st.
Louis and Chicago and none in Cleveland.
which the last named city. in view OF its
standing. probably doesn't look. upon as
a blessing.
New York has felt the moist caress OF
the weather gods the oftenest. Five
games have been postponed here, two
in Philadelphia and one each in Boston
and Washington. The Chanceiings, with
six postponements In ALL have been right
! in the heart of the rain belt. and mach
nations OF the weather have deferred
contests for the other clubs as follows
Athletics, Red Sox and Washingtons.
four each: Browns, three: Detroits ana
Clevelands. two each White Sox.' one
nearly a fourth Of the total games sched-
uled.
me Feds with only eight postpone
ments. have been comparatively immune.
)Seyen OF these have been In the East
All in all. o. Il. and un-O. Il. would
have Jared better this spring by doing
ali their opening in the West.