Show INTRA lEAGUE GAMES BEGIN IN Fans W Will 1 Be Able to Get Line on Nines for 1923 Race NEW YORK TORSO March Bards 14 Affording Affording followers follower cf ct th tile th national pastime their first real opportunity to gau gauge e the tIle relative relative rela rein tive merits merite of ot this years year's pennant contender contenders contenders con con- tenders tender major major- league clubs chubs a an are scheduled scheduled sched sched- today to begin a series ser of ot Inter- Inter league and exhibition contests contests contests con con- tests In the South Two T National league rivals rival St. St Louis and Philadelphia d are slated elated to play at t tOg Leesburg s Pta Pla in the only game on to today's calendar exactly games have havo been scheduled sched ached uSed among big league outfits for tor the month remaining before they will begin to arrive North for the seasons season's openIng open- open In Ing and it Is la likely that others will be booked as opportunity arises arise This number number num num- ber a a. score or more In excess of the 1922 total Is la close to a 0 record for preseason preseason pre pre- season games Kames f games are an Innovation on en thi this years year's schedule It has been customary witS with but few v exceptions In past years earB to schedule contests contests con con- tests only during the tho preseason campaign campain cam cam- pain but the tho 1023 1123 list hot Includes seven games between National league rivals Tho The St. St Louis Cardinals Cardinal and Boston Doston Braves Draves are booked for a three game series aeries ALl ALT TEAMS IfS TO CLASH EXCEPT TWO TUT With the exception of the St St. Louis Americans and the Chicago Nationals all of the tho major league clubs will be seen In action against each other below the Mason Iason and Dixon line The Drowns Browns wilt will oppose only minor n league teams before before be be- fore tore arriving back In St. St Louis to play the Cardinals just before tho the opening of ot tho the season while the tho Cubs doing their training at al Catalina Island off tho the California coast will wilt have no opportunity opportunity opportunity op op- op- op to mix with National or American league rivals The Tho champion New York clubs both have scheduled extended barnstorming trips trip as preliminaries to their attempts each to to capture three pennan pennants ts In sac suc cession The Giants Glant and White Sox will train In the vicinity of each other In Texas and then travel north together for tor a series of nineteen games In Texas Mississippi Loul Louisiana ana Tennessee and Virginia winding up with t o games at atthe atthe atthe the Polo 1010 grounds on April 14 and 16 15 The only break In this series will occur when the Giants play the Memphis Teas Tenn club on en April 7 and 8 Tho The are slated for tor sixteen games with their traditional preseason rivals rhal the Brooklyn Dodgers beginning at New Orleans March 31 11 and going north through Louisiana Mississippi Texas Oklahoma and Missouri concluding concluding ing with three games at Ebbetts field fJeld Brooklyn S i |