The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-02-12
PRO" BASEBALL
OPENS APRIL IS
And Will Close Oct 2, Ac-
cording to Official Seized
ule Just Issued
AMERICAN LEAGUE
HAS 154 GAMES
Cleveland World Cham
pions Are to Open at
St. Louis

Chicago. Feb. l2-The American
league baseball season will open ON
Wednesday, April l3, and close ON Sun
day, Oct. ,, according to the official
1927 schedule released last night by b.
B. johnson, president of the league.
The schedule calls for l54 games, each
club PLAYING half this number on the
home grounds. =,
Sunday games at Washington and
New York, which were introduced INTO
tile league at the end of the season
two years ago, and which became
part Of the regular schedule last year,
against have been scheduled, with the
Washington club drawing II Sundays
and l3 Sabbath games each being
awarded to New York Chicago and st,
Louis, while Detroit has been given
II.
All The cities in the league permit
baseball on Sunday except Boston and
Philadelphia.
In the playing the full schedule it
will be necessary for each club to
make three swings around the cir
cult.
The season win open with western
clubs playing western clubs and the
eastern representatives. meeting each
other.
Opening games are listed as follows;
Chicago at Detroit;
Cleveland at st. Louis;
Philadelphia at New York;
Boston at Washington.
All the clubs which start the sea-
son away from home will return to
their own yards on April 81 and give
the ~home folks their first opportunity
to see their clubs in action.
Chicago, after the opening ut Detroit
with the Tigers. will jump down to St.
Louis and tackle the Browns in a
series, after which the White Sox will
come back home and meet Ty Cobh's
club again. Cleveland the worlds
champions start the season at
st. Louis, move up to Detroit for the
second series and then iris Speaker
will take his Indians home to meet
the st. Louis Browns in the first game
on their home grounds.
In the east Babe" Ruth and the
Yankees will be the first opponents to
play at Philadelphia later the Athletics
have finished their series at New York
and Washington; Boston fans will get
their first glimpse of the Red Sox in
action when the Washington senators
come to the Hub city to raise the cur
tain April 81,
The eastern clubs will be the first to
hit the trail for the far end of the
circuit. The invasion of the west will
open on May 10, when Boston will be
at Chicago; Philadelphia at st. Louis;
New York at Detroit, and Washington
at Cleveland. The west goes east June
9, with Chicago at Washington, De-
troit at Philadelphia, st. Louis at New
York and Cleveland at Boston.
Chicago. Detroit, Washington and
New York have been awarded ID Sat
urdays each, while the other four clubs
Cleveland, st. Louis, Philadelphia and
Boston-have been given a dozen each.
Double headers viii be played in all
cities on holidays. Independence day
July 4-Chicago will play at Cleve-
land: Detroit will be at st. Louis;
Washington at Boston and Philadel-
phia at New York.
Labor day-Sept. Chicago is
scheduled to be at Detroit. while St.
Louis will be at Cleveland. Washington
at Philadelphia and New York at Bos-
ton.
Decoration day-May 30-Chicago
will play at home with ST. Louis as its
opponent; Cleveland win be at De-
troit: Washington will be at home to
New York and the Athletics viii meet
Boston at PHILADELPHIA. The Boston
Red Sox have been given the other hol.
iday listed by the league Bunker Hill
day, June l7--and will play before the
home folks with the Detroit Tigers as
an opponent.
There are three dates on the sched-
ule which. conflict with the National
league schedule and all three conflicts
are in Chicago. The dates, all of which
fall on Sundays, are May |, June 20
and Sept. IL.
While the White Sox are playing