New Britain herald., 1925-04-11
 
FEW NEW FACES IN
 MAJOR LEAGUES
Veterans Will Predominate in
 Opening Games Tuesday

New York, April 11.--Tho nations baseball-hungered hosts, nlcagerly fed on winter dope today prepar- cd to end the long fastand take their accustomed places Tuesday at the opening of the annual feast spread
 by the two major leagues.
 Random will sec most of the clubs returning from the training camps of the south with line,ups marked by few changes. Here and there re- cruit from the obscurity of the
 bushes" has made the grade, dis
 placing some veteran, but for the
 most part the eight teams under tho mig league tents will set off on the I1025 journey with familiar faces. | The National league, basebalfs senior circuit, will celebrate it's gold
 en jubilee this year. Ceremonies to
 commemorate its fiftieth birthday
 will be held in every city in the cir
 cult at some time during tho season,
 the outstanding celebration being as-
 signed to Boston when the Braves
 and Cubs will meet May 8. Presi-
 dent Calvin Coolidge, the nations chief executive, has been invited but
 has forced to decline owing to the
 pressure of official business. Boston
 and Chicago are the only charter
 members of the National league, and
 the honor of playing this keynote
 game naturally goes to these clubs.
 The American league, founded in
 1900, inaugurates its twenty-sixth
 campaign Tuesday, with the start Of
 the 1925 season.
 big league tents will set off on the
 the opening of the league campaigns is-Will the 1924 pennant winner repeat? If,McGraw pilots the Giants to another pennant it will be the , fifth straight flag for the New York 7 club under his management. In win r ming the 1924 pennant. McGraw
 created a record in major league } baseball.
 Back in the pamy days of base r ball, before the reign of the National } league, Boston won four straight 1 races in the National Association, . from 1872 to 1876, and St. Louis du- E plicated this feat in the American y Association from 1885 to 1889, but s these achievements were outside so- e called organized baseball. Jack S Dunns feat in piloting the Baltimore s Orioles to six straight pennants in s the International league is the only e record in organized baseball which y surpases that of McGraw.
 y Though there is no reason to doubl e that the New York Giants and the Is Washington Senators are as strons
 as they were last season, it is a no r. ,ticcable fact that the opposition vii 1t be stiffer this year, the Giants facinG e such strengthened clubs as Brook r. llyn and Pittsburgh while the Sene n, tors look for trouble from the Nev L. York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers le The Giants. last season, won by h margin of one and one half. gam"' le over the Brooklyn team with th s Pittsburgh Pirates similar margi. d behind the Dodgers. II Winter trades, however, haN' b. proven advantageous to both thes' Id clubs. Pittsburgh particularly. re Chicago. which fell @f noticeabI, a during the latter half of last season r. lis expected to be in the fighting iron ,e the start despite the injury whicl t. will keep Rabbit" Maranville, sta
 infielder, out of the game until Ma
 1. The Reds will start with hisl
 hopes and reports from Boston de 1r clare than Bancroft has assemble' I. the best aggregation since 1914 ,e Philadelphia and St. Louis are no s: expected to be in the thick of tn CT
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