The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17
Major Leaguers Ready For Campaign, After Winter Of Swapping and Spending Pro- fits of 1922

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 NEW YORK, April 16.-The musi- cal cash registers of the chain-store baseball parks, mute and rusty since last autwmn. will resume their merry pealing these next two days and will hush the cries os business strife which their owners have raised all winter. There Is subtle, sooth- ing quality in the music of the cash magnate to tilt his brown derby back on his vertebrae, loosen the top but tons of his vest and purr like a toia- cat by kitchen range.
 The cash registers of the National league will strike the first glad chords Tuesday in three cities one onedormitory - Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago and Brooklyn. The cres- cendo will ring out, wild and joyous on Wednesday when the American league turnstiles are unveiled in three other cities and another dormi- tory-New York, Cleveland, St. Louis and Philadelphia.
 85.OOO Crowd Expected.
 Harry Frazee of Broadway. owner Of the Boston Red SoX, and probably the most alluent husckster that ever hawked southpaw, will enjoy the supreme, the eXalting sensation of standing by the cash register at the Yankees new park in the Bronx and watching a crowd of somewhere near D 0OO people file into the place, drop ping their contributions as they en- ter. MT. FraZee was very fortunate 10 draw the opening date with the Yankees for the dedication of their new big store is to be made some thing of a civic ceremony and many people will turn out to see for them selves if Mayor Hylan is really red headed, as the paper says. Oe course, MT. Frazee's burden of wealth is all ways rated on the attendance at the ball games in which the Red sox take their tragic part. The mere fact that Babe Ruth and Mayor Hylan really draw the crowd doesn't cut into his percentage.
 Ebbet's Contributions.
 Over In Brooklyn. on Tuesday aft ernoon, Uncle Charley Ebbets, meastro of all cash register musi- clans. will play a new composition of ms, the cush cantata. an airy, spring ly little thing expressing his joy at the return of spring and the base pail season Uncle Charley is a lit tie wobbly on the upper register as anything above the 5-cent key rather terriffes him, but he does love to make music with his cash register. lie probably will not make much music at the opening game, how ever. as the Dodgers are only play ing, the feeble Phils of Art Fletcher. a. worse ball club. if that is possi- pie, than Uncle Charley's own Dodg- CTS. There is no love lost between the Dodgers and the PhiIs. because or the rivalry between their owners. MT. Baker of the Phils claims he can run ms pail club more cheaply than uncle Chariey can run his This is one depaGtment in which Uncle Charley claims the championship at all weights and he doesn't like to be disputed.
 However, If both leagues have their close-knit magnates, whose money, once dropped into the cash register. is retired from cirulation, so have they their wide-mesh liber- als who achieve publicity and main tain interest by their spending. The customers, therefore, go to see. such clubs as the Giants, Yankees, Tigers, Reds, Cubs and White Sox. regard less or whether they're playing the Dodgers, Athletics or Red SoX.
 Tuesdays Schedule.
 tuesdays schedule in the Nation al league, in addition to the rather melancholy exercises at Ebbets field Brooklyn, will display the Giants and the Braves in Boston, the Car dinals and Reds at Cincinnati and the Pirates and Cubs at Chicago.
 The forecast for the eastern belt l Is fa1r and warmer and the hot dogs arc simmering on the griddle. There were many holdout players when the clubs started south to barnstorm their way back a few weeks ago but Jacques Fournier, the septuagenarian first baseman. owned by the Dodgers, is now the only i'm portant one unattached to a ration list. He wants Uncle Charley to pay for the moving of his house hold things from St. Louis to Brooklyn. Jack Bentley. the Giants, $75 5000 uss't cash-southpaw pitcher, Dave --hcroft. their s20O,0OO 'shortstop, and Jack Scott their resurrected right handler, were holdouts for a time but were lashed into line. Ed