The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-14
NEW YORK SEES
FOURTH PENNANT
FOR BOTH Clubs
Stage Is Set For Big
League Start-See
$4,000 Crowd

NEW YORK, April 13.-Fresh from
six weeks, training and transforming
IL major league baseball clubs are all
set to provide the opposition In what,
New Yorkers declahe, may well be the
fourth consecutive, pennant grab Of the
Yankees and Giants.
Fingers partly numbed through the
long winter months are becoming agile
now and once more will fondly wrap
about.the neck Of dead pop container
Tuesday, when the major league sea-
son gets under way.
Umpires all around the circuit will
declare their own closed season open
ON the same afternoon.
Despite. Ban Johnson's selection of
seven OF the eight American league
clubs to finish I'M the first division
cracker box experts are sticking to
four-cornered guess.
with the end Of the long preseason
ballyhoo of phenoms and holdouts
finally negotiated and the prospect i'm
minent of seeing solid gold arms and
ivory heads once more working In the.
sweet coordination only achieved ON
the manicured pastures of American
baseball, the glad word has gone out
that felt hats. heavy underwear, Babes
hit gaus6 land seat in a passenger
vehicle bound for the ball lot are things
to be forgotten and sought for re-
spectively.
Steal Barnum,s Stuff
Lifting the war cry made famous by
Barnum and since pirated by every
thing that has reappeared before the
gullible public the magnates have am
nounced a bigger and better, greater
and grander 1924 season-to-be.
Waving the stubs Of cancelled checks
while they point to fancy salaried hill
men and to enlarged and renovated
Fairgrounds the swivel chair. ball tos-
sers are broadcasting a last minute
call on universal wave length for
the fans to come and get it,
American and National league open
ers are offered simultaneously this
year. 9sn
Expect $500 Out
John McGraw's Giants will perform
for what Is expected to be a capacity
crowd of $500 at the Polo Grounds
Tuesday with Wiibert Robinson's
Robins saying the stupid lines, in the
first of four-ss.Ns series. 4,
Flags will fly, Mayor Hylan. will
pitch the first ball and the two teams
viii conform to the new rules of war
fare as compiled by the United States
Congress by hosting an American flag
over their battle ground before club
is touched or a missile thrown.
Far to the north the New York
Yankees will be going through the same
preliminaries before bean eating gang
OF wildmenYwh won't be able to tell
the difference between a million doll
lars worth OF treasury stock and the
long end of the score, IL the Red Sox-
can claim 1t.
An April %. long before the baby's
shoes can hope to have priority over
needed ticket into the ball yard the
Yankees will come here and stage New
York's second baseball curtain raiser
with all the deferred but deafening hur-
rah usually devoted to the initial per-
pormanco OF world champions ON their
own acres The Red Sox will be the
opposition spr ~
Asss0pen In WashinetoH ssss41
Elsewhere int he American league. the
Philadelphia Athletics will open IN
Washington, the Indians in Detroit and
the Browns in Chicago.
In the National league Philadelphial
will be host to Boston, the Cardinala|
will entertain the Cubs in st. LIQUID
and Pittsburg will meet the Reds in'
Cincinnati.