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Show MAJOR LEAGUE 1 j SEASONS WILL s I BEnSDAf I Competition of the Federals Hi Will Play Important Part fl in History of Na- , W tional Game flff MANY CONFLICTING 1 DATES ON SCHEDULE M Competent Generals Head E Independent Clubs; Pen- nants Generally Conceded j9g to Athletics and Giants. jf Within three days baseball in Amcr- 'IBm icn will be in full swing. laterally, ! the various league machines will have -'JBt started iu motion nml the wheels will lMi not cease to turp until pennants are fiBi either won or lost at fho conclusion fSj of tho season in September and Oct- Sl The major leagues will be watched KS with especial interest in Salt Lake, . Utah and the iutermountain states be- B i) auso of the largo number of players IV 0 sent to the big leagues from Union as- Bfc sociation tca'me. Some of those who Wk, nave gone up from tho Union league SIR within tho past two vcars are; Lcaliu Bush, Bill Orr and Pat Bohen, Ath- tE letics; "Mutt" Williams, Washington; Barney Dufry, William Lee Delhi, .lint ) Kelly, jfrank Kafora, Pittsburg Ka- ia : tionals; Leo Drcssen, Jleeso WiUlamn, 'E.' St. Louis, Nationals: Bert Whaling, m Boston: Chester Roberts, Pittsburg fig Federals. Mj Fan8 all over the country will kuow tomorrow tho outcome of the first '"ij came played thiB year on tho Federal i league schedule. Buffalo will offi- T3 cially open the 101-1 Federal league ' M,. season at Baltimore. Other Federal Hti teams will not begin tho season until i'gd, Tuesday, ou wjiich day tho National, : Sir American, American association, South- em and Northwestern leagues aleo will jjffl open. fca Other loaguos will fall into Hue pj grndually. Tho Wostcrn league will be- k cln the season on Friday, April 17; tjfi the International on Tuesday, April 21, laMlt and. tho -Union association ono -tftfclc" ""'fjW later, April U8. Other leagues will be -i l?! gin playing tho latter part of April. Im.f' Before Jovors of tho game will havo fllL'l had tirao to discuss carefully tho .Ira merits of tho Baltimore-Buffalo gamo tomorrow, and to predict -what tho now jjt league will do us a competitor of or- 7jEffe ganized bnll, thoy will bo swamped . iWrl with box scores of Tuesday's .gamcn 't&ff from many leaguos and from all parts W&k of tho country. iSJ Feds Get Early Start. K Baltimore Tvill havo one week of Fed- ' : H cral league baseball before the open- 1 H$ ing gamo of the International league ' ififl is played thero. Opening .games in the Hi National league will he played Tucsi- " WJ day in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Pits- jfl9 burg, and Cincinnati and in the Amcr- J R icau'lcagao in New York, Boston, Dc- infi troit and Chicago. Tho Federals will . Bi compoto for patronage with the Na- MbB tional league at Pittsburg for the open- ' tflH ing sorics. vmm It is generally believed that soveral Bm weeks ot tho season will determine - tBJg haw wide a swath the Federal lcaguo "1 MS will actually cut in baseball. Some ifl$ predict success for the independent '. Sfw caguo from, the apparently unlimited Hif backing the loaguo supportes aro pre- WiC pared to contribute. Prominent base- V nail men are governing the lcaguo and . ; jKjl soveral of the most successful players ," jBC havo ben placed at the bond of teams. iffw The Federal destinies in Chicago will vlg bo. prcsidoa over by Joe Tinker, fu- h mous player, and well know and well ..ijfll liked in Chicago. OH S Tinker Is Popular. ? It i3 a conservative belief that if '"-'IjH M Tinker with his team can deliver a -tiffi-li brand of ball equal to that put up by . vn j either the American or National lcaguo ' m HI teams ho -will draw an onual share of Ifi 'H business for tho Federal league Otto ?fj t-Knabe, t-Knabe, formerly with tho Phillies, has M 'u, signed at a tidy salary to lead tho 5 m Baltimore Feds. Ho has inauy good Jq i'M players and it is questionable as to j 2$ '. I whether the Baltimore Internationals ; I will bo able to put up tho samo brand ' jJ;i'iB of ball as the Federal team. ' J is ; - Harry Shafloy will guido the Buf- 's falo team to compete with the. Inter- j-h nationals; "Doc' Ocsslor has been : fi stationed nt Pittsburg; Mordccai ' J , - Brown, always a popular player, and S jrm well liked ou both tho National and ji- '! American circuits, has charge of Si. J Jl .l Louis, tieorge Stovall leads Kaaws iSiJm City; Bill Phillips is the Indianapolis ff--l manager and Bill Bradley will try to iffll. (U nut a Fedoral league winner in Brook- mfc " No prelictions have thus far been SRl . nuido on the outcome of tho Kedoral jHiHi league race. Tho strength of tho ifSt? teams has, not been estimated and good iffi'jf , playing material is apparently evenly OT, S distributed. 9v 3 Athle'tics Are Strong. iffi In the major leagues it is generally jSp-) couccded that McOraw and oauio ' 5', ilack, respectively, will havo littlo ;:!mf' , trouble to capture again the National ;t ' aud American league pennahta. Neither '(Hp ( the Athletics nor tho Qiaut wero iSif-" J tapped to any extent by tho Federal ffgj 71 league nnd tbolr lineups are, with ono JMj J or two exceptions,, tho same in 2913. jKi j( Cbarlio Dooln's Phillies were per- MS ,3 haps the hardest hit by tho Federals. IBS 1 Thoy lost Tom Seaton, last year tho S8I y mainstay of tho Ditching staff; Miko IWBj Doolan. shortstop: Iracoud Baseman illB''i' Otto Knabe and Pitcher Art Brouuan. fHB m la the American leaguo tho situation 'fflft' JjJ gives Tiso to tho bQlief that both Jl&f (Continued on Following -Page.) BIG LEAGUE SEASON WILL BEGIN TUESDAY (Continued from Preceding Page.) Washington and Boston will be pennant contenders with Philadelphia. The Senators and tho Bed Sox have practically practi-cally tho same players as in 1013 and training camp reports indicate that the teams have improved considerably. Cleveland's hopos dropped to some extent when tho Federals signed Bland-ing, Bland-ing, Kahler and Palkenburg. Jennings in Detroit is depending mostly on the hitting strongtk of his team, while ho is .banking to somo extent ex-tent on young material. Frank Chance is being watched carefully. His rebuilt re-built New York team, is an unknown quantity, compared with those whoso ability is known. Tho "White Sox must improve greatly, great-ly, in the opinion of many, to compete com-pete with the loaders in the race. There are comparatively few changes in this year's lineup from the team of last season. The Browns, under Branch Eickey, do not appear to Tjo strong from the prc-season reports. Several dark horses are expected to develop in the National league race. Boston, Pittsburg and Brooklyn are expected to show improvement over their last Beason form. ' The Cubs remain re-main about the same as in 1913, and the Philadelphia team haB been dissembled dis-sembled since 1913. The Beds and tho Cardinals have manv new players whom they expect will be factors in pnting them in the load in tho race. St.. Louis is banking on tho services of Jack Miller, Owen Wilson and jDolan, obtained in a trade with the Pittsburg team last fall. |