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Show MAJOR LEAGUES OPEN TOMORROW Washington. April 13. President Wilson plans to open the baseball season sea-son here tomorrow attending the first game between the Washington and New York American league teams and tossing out the first ball. He has accepted an annual pass for the season sea-son here. New York, April 13 The call of "play ball" will sound tomorrow for the two major leagues of organized baseball Despite the war among nations abroad and the continuation of strife between divergent baseball Interests In-terests at homo, big league magnates tonight expressed belief that the coming com-ing season would be a succossful one for the game Influences of the European Eu-ropean conflict and other factors militating mili-tating against Interest in the sport are declared to have spent their force and baseball men seem confident that, tho game will be again well patronized by the public New managers in two cities in each league will make their bows tomorrow In the National league Roger Bresna-han Bresna-han will lead the Chicago Cub? on the diamond, while "Pat" Moran will perform per-form a similar office In Philadelphia In the American league, Clarence Rowland Row-land will appear as the new manager of tho Chicago White Sox, and William Will-iam Donovan will begin the tutelage of the Now Yorks In what their friends hope will be an upward coursr. In the opening games in the National Nation-al league. Brooklyn will play in New York, Phlladplphla in Boston, Pittsburg Pitts-burg In Cincinnati and St. Louis In Chicago. In the American league the openings will be New York in Washington, Wash-ington, Boston In Philadelphia, Chicago Chica-go In St. Louis, and Cleveland In Detroit. |