Evening star., 1925-04-14
KING BASE BALL
BEGINS RULE TODAY
World Champion Griffs, With
Mogridge in Box, to Play
Yankees at $50 Pm.
Special pisnatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, April 1.-THE weary
waiting of many million base ball fans
comes to an end this afternoon when
16 major league clubs get under way
in the 1925 base ball campaign that
leads through the balmy months of
May and June, the sultry heat of July
and August and on into September
and early October, where awaits the
laurel wreath for the triumphant.
King base ball will hold the center
of the sporting stage and the sporting
page for the next six months.
Inaugural contests were to be held
this afternoon in eight cities of the
Atlantic seaboard and the Middle
West. In the American League, the
world champion Nationals were to ep-
pose the Yankees in the big stadium
in the Bronx, while the Boston Red
Sox were to meet the Athletics in
Philadelphia, the Chicago White Sox
were to encounter the Tigers in De
troit and the Cleveland Tribe was to
battle with the Browns in st. Louis.
National League opening games
were scheduled between the Giants
and the Braves at Boston, the Phillies
and the Dodgers at Brooklyn, the ST.
Louis Cardinals and the Reds at Gin
cinnati and the Pittsburgh Pirates and
the Cubs at Chicago.
Game Starts at $50 PM.
The main interest in this immediate
vicinity was centered upon the Yam
kee Stadium, where the Washington
club that last year surprisingly fought
it's way to the National Capitals first
big league pennant and a world title
was to engage in argument with the
locals, who for three successive years
grabbed the American League flag and
in 1923 captured the world champion
ship. The teams were to swing into
action at 8: 80 o'clock.
The Yankees were to start their sea
son under handicap. They were to
face the Nationals without the serv-
ices of their greatest star, Babe Ruth,
who lies in st. Vincent's Hospital re-
covering from several maladies which
left him in a state of collapse at the
end of the training season. And
Everett Scott, shortstop, who has
played in more than thousand con-
secutive games in the American
League, was not expected to be able
to take the field for the Yankees to-
day as he is suffering with a wrenched
back.
M0griGge to Pitch.
On the other hand, the Nationals
were well conditioned for the grueling
campaign in which they hope to get a
second successive pennant. They
were to present the same lineup that
carried them through the last thrill
ing days of the 1924 season. The IA
NOUS infield of Judge, Harris, Peck
inpaugh and Bluege remains intact.
Goslin. Rice and McNeely again will
be in the outfield and Ruel behind the
bat.
Veteran pitchers We're slated to be
slab opponents in the opening conflict.
Rucky Harris, youthful pilot of the
world champions, this morning named
George Mogridge, southpaw who for
merly belonged to the Yankees, as his
pitching choice, while Urban Shocker,
right-hand spitball finger obtained by
the Yankees from the st. Louis
Browns in a Winter trade, was Man
ager Miller Higgins nominee.
AS the season starts there will be
MANY stars missing from their usual
positions because OF injuries, and
some others will be missing of their
own free will In addition to the
Yankees, the Athletics, Cubs and Phil
lies have men on casualty lists, while
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