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Show PERFECT HUD FOB SALT LIE BASEBALL FiS ! ' ' Fifteen Weeks of Fun Are Crowded Into Middle of Season; Bees Get Four Holiday Dates. 1 That baseball (an must be mighty hard to please who finds ground for complaint in the Pacific Coast league schedule arranged ar-ranged for 1918. So far as Salt Lake is concerned, the schedule is well-nigh per- r feet. ' To begin with and this is the great ; thing all of Salt Lake's series at home are crowded into that space of time commonly com-monly called midseason, the time when : the old arm is at its best and the old eve can pick 'em out. In other words, Salt Lake's fifteen weeks of baseball is, or are. compressed into that stretch which lies between April 16 and October 6. Heretofore the season has both opened and closed in Salt Lake. That arrangement arrange-ment called for the first game about April 1 and the final game on October US, or thereabouts. Now, the first two weeks in April are not what might be called stable in the matter of weather. In the three years Salt Lake has been in the league the club has been fortunate in the weather line, although last year it suffered a severe cramp through unfavorable meteorological meteorologi-cal conditions early in the season, losing pome 10,000 thereby. Owing to the uncertainty un-certainty which attends the early April days, it surely seems as though the present pres-ent arrangement is lo be preferred. It is true that the IMS schedule deprives Salt Lake of a league-opening day, but, on the other hand, it gives us a home-opening home-opening day two weeks after the season begins. Tile ihost satisfactory part about that is the fact that Salt Lake sets 60 per cent of the gate on that day, whereas It would get but 50 per cent on league-opening league-opening day, tho opener being a pool. Close With World's Series. The later opening i? by no means comparable com-parable t.o the earlier closing. As everyone knows, baseball ceases to be a topip of absorbing interest after the world's series. For the three years Salt Lake has been in the league the final three tveeks with which the season wound up in Salt Lake brought out small crowds n.s a rule, and certainly showed a lack of pep on the part of the fans. It seems that all their baseball blood turns to water after the world's series. This year the season in Salt Lake will close on October 6, a. daTe coincidental with the fcworld's series. The Bees finish out the schedule away from home. T'nder t''js arrangement, then, two weeks are lopped off at the beginning of the season and three at the close, making mak-ing a total of five weeks. The effect of this reduction at both ends of the local year is to crowd Salt Lake's fifteen weeks of baseball into that part of the summertime summer-time which may be called the "good, old." Prom the time the rlub starts its at-home season until it closes here, the Bees show to the home folks in fifteen sfries and are abroad only ten, so that Salt J-ke has baseball two-thirds of the time In baseball weather. Get All Holidays. J The next item to call for a few remarks I is that which has to do with holidav dates. Salt Lake gets 'em all. Memorial day, May 30, falls on Friday. Independence Independ-ence day, July 4, falls on Thursday. Pioneer Pio-neer day, July 24. falls on Wednesday. Labor day, September 2, of course, falls on Monday. Cm each of theses days there 'vi 11 be two games at Bonneville park. The only other holidav that -ouId possibly possi-bly have been crowded In'o the schedule-is schedule-is Arbor day. April IT,, whirh this year fails on Monday, the duv before the club ruTives home. Xext year Arbor dav will fall on Tuesday and no doubt will be added to the list. Play 201 Games. The Salt Lake -lub In scheduled to piav 21 games, ninr-tv-five at borne and J"8 ahroad. In add it inn to this, it ma v be that there will be double-headers m Sunday, Sun-day, as v. as the cas last, yrar, but the schedule does not provide for thein. Salt Lake's opponents on the various holidays follow: Memorial day. May 30. Oakland. Independence day, July 4, Sacramento-Pioneer Sacramento-Pioneer day, July 24, Oakland. Labor day, September 2, Vernon. The only other holiday In the Coast league territory Is California's Admission day, September 9. On that day the Bees plav at San Francisco. The season opens April 2. witn bait Lake at Los Angeles, Vernon at Sacramento Sacra-mento and Oakland at San Francisco. It closes October 27, with Salt Lake at Sacramento. Vernon at San Francisco and Oakland at Los Angeles. The season on the Salt Lake grounds will open April 15, with Los Angeles as the Bees' first opponent, and will close, locallv. on October 6. with San Francisco as the Bees' opponents. |