Show 1 Adopt 1 54 Gam Schedule T i Home Site i Set for J Training 1 CHICAGO Jan l 5 UP UP Jor league baseball clubs t to tOda Z agreed to hold their gp sp training close to home Jl adopted a game for the 1043 1945 season By TOMMY TOMMY DEVINE Vi jj j A ABy CHICAGO Jan I 5 UP- UP UP-BJ UP a- a ball Commissioner Kenesaw i Landis Tuesday reveals the c under which the n II leagues will be permitted to c cot wartime operations S The meeting was scheduled i start at 10 a. a m. m mountain time but was delayed until a. a noon because some of the were on trains arriving late 1 i The year old diamond t reached an agreement wi witH ft D- Transportation Director B. B Eastman seph a a. week ago the type of schedule the would play in 1943 and the m ra ner ncr in which spring training won won- be conducted The exact nal of ot the agreement however a th J not been revealed even to Aa Anti j. j can and National league Pr dents denta William Harridge and 7 For Frick 3 Landis obtained from Preside Presided Roosevelt a year ago the rree light letter that gave for major le league gue play last The conditional go that Butman ELlI But ELlIman man has provided is s consider equally important va Early arrivals for meeting admitted they were co com cori in the dark about trial Eit Landis may have in mind 1 Well know before long hov ho ever they said what we wew CM and cant can't do about spring tranEe trips and about the type of sch ichel ule well we'll play j t The reluctance of the two Chi Chicago ChT- ChT cago clubs the Cubs and Sox to go ahead with a survey of it facilities at French Lick lad Ini thi site tentatively selected for the M itch spring training camp after a p pr posed trip to California was wai canceled cr cao was taken as a tip tears team may be told to train at hom French Lick is miles frito Chicago and some observers observer d did not believe even that much travel would be permitted The only sound basis for any of the speculation about what whal Landis intends to do was furnished by the distribution of model H Hf game schedules for the club representatives to study Under provisions of this ule tile the season would open April 27 and close September 26 Tt Th playing program adopted at attha ti majors' majors meeting in December ae set t April 13 as the opening day for a i game schedule i iThe The majors have played a 1 15 game card annually since 19 1 The game schedule was tri triin taw in 1919 but abandoned after I year one test I American League President Ift Hii ridge said most baseball official were opposed to a game sch I ule 1 i iThe I The April 27 opening is at factory he said but I belleve most of the club owners in boI ho bo bott I leagues wan want t to play g es We can do that and still sUll stay witt in the date limitations of th thi shorter schedule by increasing till number of our doubleheaders doubleheader J The delayed opening would p per permit i mit teams to train at or neat near home without seriously hampe hamper their conditioning 1 1 The 1942 major league I ICON ed ules called for four west east tr In the original 1943 program tt th the number of intersectional tri trip J i cut to three to save train travel l' l J i 1 |