The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-01
LOCAL FANS TO
SEE INAUGURAL
OF new LEAGUE
Cedar Rapids and 0ttumwa Land
Opening Games Assoc Con-
tests Here In May.
BY J. L. HUGHES.

Teams of the Mississippi Valley
league will make their bows to the
baseball public May L. Inaugural
games are awarded 10 Rock Island,
Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa by the
schedule adopted by the clubs and
released for publication today by
NJ. II. Sexton. league president. Du-
buque will assist Xxx Island in
prying of the lid, while Waterloo
will engage the Bunnies at Cedar
Rapids and Marshalltown will ap-
pear at Ottumwa.
The schedule was drawn by Pres
ident Sexton and presented to the
league members at the organization
meeting in Cedar Rapids Feb. %. It
was adopted after a few minor
changes.
Each OF tie six clubs is sched-
uled 10 play 1870 games between
May l and Sept. 4, the closing day.
This does not allow for a single
open date Sixty-five games will be
played at home and 65 abroad by
each team.
Equalize Sundays.
The chart makes an equitable dis
tribution of Sundays and holiday
dates. Each team will be at home
on nine .Sabbaths. Rock Island.
Cedar Rapids and Waterloo each
will have two holidays on home
soil: the other three cities, one
each. Scheduled double-headers
will be played on holidays only.
The Islanders will be at home for
twin contests on Memorial day and
Labor day, the arrangement of the
schedule giving Rock Island not
only its opening series but closing
set as we'll This is true also Of
Cedar Rapids. whose holidays are
July 4 and Sept. 4 Dubuque is the
only team opening on the road that
will close at home, and Labor day
is its only holiday. Waterloo will
be at home Memorial day and July
f. Marshalltown has Memorial day
on the home lot and Ottumwa is
given July 4.
The opening series in each city
will consist of four games. Rock
Island will remain at Douglas park
until after May s. Marshalltown be-
ing slated to follow Dubuque on
May for four games. The Is
landers will journey to Dubuque
May to help the northern city
blast open the lid before its home
fans. Waterloo will open at home
May 9 with Cedar Rapids, and Mar
shalltown will open at home May 8
with Ottumwa
Each Team Here in May.
Islander fans will have the op-
portunity to see every. team in the
league in action before the end of
the first month. During May the
locals will play 20 games at home,
four with each of the other teams.
Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo
and Marshalltown will have 16
games at home during May, but
each of these will have a 4-game
set with the fifth club early in June
Ottumwa will engage in ~ games
on the home field in May and two
series Of four games each in the
first week of June. After the first
round, the sets in each city are
limited to three games.
During the season the combined
mileage of all clubs will total 49,
S37. an average of $780, miles for
each team. The greatest difference
is 795 miles, between that of OF
tumwa and Cedar Rapids. Rock Is
land will travel 3,0SS miles. Wa
terloo with 3.037 and Cedar Rapids
with 1854 miles to travel are the
only other cities falling below the
average.
Probate Travel Costs.
To eQualize the burden of travel
ing expenses, the league members
have agreed to pro rate the cost at
the end of the season, based upon
the number of miles travelled. In
this way no city will be benefited
more than the other, due to location
or schedule
The total mileage is less by half
of that of the Three-Eye league last
season. If the league was an S-club
organization the average would be
less because each club would be on
the road less. This is an indication
of the 'compactness of the circuit