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Show en mm BY FEDERAL LEAGUE i i ! Heavy Fine and Suspension for Violation; Season Opens April 10. lU'FFAU), X. Y.. Feb. 2(i. The solec-j solec-j lion of April Jo as the oprnlng iate of j tin- Ti'dofiil 1:jui;'s plnying season, four days in advance of the iirffi panics in the oth-T major bas-.'l'Hll k-a.uues. and the rec-uinnieiKlaUon rec-uinnieiKlaUon hy t lie umpires of some minor changes in the playing rales marked opening :-'.'s.ioi:s of the ItuiH- s annua! fchodult: lneeliTi? here lo i a . Altiiou:;'.! the injunction procuedi wax Ut- I stiiui t-d nt Cldi'a-jo against the transfer j of the Kfinwis City franchise to Newark I prevented the formal adoption of a sched-j sched-j uh'. l)u; magnates went ahad'with their j w orlc nidi t hi.- tpeeia t ion that Newark would be the eighth team in this year's lim-up. The if n' ative Krlied tile prov ides for j N-'wa-'k to u; en al 1 ialtinmrei, Hulfalo at Ihookivi and In.iianapnlis and Chicago at ' Imtih' v.-fih St. louis and PiUsbnrg as tiie i con tt'iif iiner teams. 1. H. liaif, A. F. C.o'don and Arthur G. i;laek. representing the Kaneas City owner.?. vei:iste-ed at the hotel whre the I ira.cu- me. tin-s were held, but did not i Set'k recognition at today's session. The jh-iUf wr.s c-pi-cf--i?c.i that a way would ' he foori'l t adhist tlm dispute before the d;ite set foi- the hearing before the cir-I cir-I ?uit i'O'.ii t Chicago. i ! "ft l-ioks iike a pretty fnvorablc sin." aid 'r"si'ierit Jaiiiey A. Gil more, "when -'der:il c'nbs bc-cin fihtlnK for franchise?. In fact. Federal affairs ah around look mi'-'hty ro.td in me for 1M5," ! The nw rules recommended by the um:::-'S prov.de for a line of 20r and thirtv n.ivj' suspension for pitchers uslnpr the "emery ball" and would rule out of1 plav a ba'.i baticd foul That strikes any. part of t he era n-"'sta nd or passes into fnnl territorv beymd t"i:r or third ba?es, j the latter rule bcin designed to prevent |