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Show MAJOR LEAGUES OFF IN SPRINT FOR SEASON'S CHAMPIONSHIPS I Two New YorkTeams Favored: . To Repeat by Taking Flags5 In 1922 Dash for Honors Sales and Trades Made During the Winter Months Have Somewhat Balanced Up All Teams of Major Leagues, but Yanks and Giants Still Have Comfortable Edge I WHERE THE SEASON OPENS " NATIONAL LEAGUE. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Host on at Philadelphia. St. Louia at Chicago. Hrnoklyn at NVw York. Detroit at Cleveland. Piitshurg at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Boston. " ! j Chieairo at Cincinnati. New York at Washington. ! By Henry L. Farrell United Pre Staff Correependent. NKW YORK. April V. The Law-bull season opens today There are more rhetoric and more poetic ways of saying; it, but it all means the same. ' . , A ","?.'. .l.,S"f.! WOnlK Wi" r0me out- Eie"t "mpires will yell 1 lay Hall. Kijjht .prominent povemment or eitv official will "lo out lh. flnt ball." nixicn lfaru club own. will tell how brash! thUr rhancfa arc for (ha pennant. Th two loarua prtaldenta will predict a hap ! and proaperoua aoaaon. Then the ball player will to to work. LIAOUIS BALANCED. Durlna- the put winter, aalea mn4 tradea have balanced both major leacu rlrrulla until New Tork, St. Louia, Fit la-hurt la-hurt and Bnaton all have proapecta wi the National lea rue race, while the Vanka, the Browne, the Benatora and the Indiana hare hopea In th American Icaru. Internet. In the rtat Bab Ruth (houM be areater than ever. Workln- under s five weeka handicap, the efforta of th awat kin to mak a new home run ree 'ord nil) he mora Intereatlnf than tveT. From a "irate atandpoint." Ruth ma keg j the American leajrue. All th cltiha will I Buffer until May 20. when ha bark ! In the mm after aervmg the aentenca 1 lmpoaed hy t'ommlaslonar Iwindla. but II he gtnrta rluhbing them, as he aaya ha 1 will, th Waa at th gtt ouirht to ha overeont be for th laal quarter of tht ncm. BALL SLOWCR. rinvera romlnsr hark from th aprlng training camp all an id that a. lot of th , "hop" had aTune out of th ball, mean-tng mean-tng that the lively phr which waa In uae laat yea,r ha been rhanged again, Thlg may mean that th 22 aeaaon wll not ae th frenaled hitting that madt life miner h for pitcher and extremely extreme-ly dangeroua for the tnfleldara. Tha fang got aomewhat "fed up' on aluanttnc laat year and they may welcom Tea of It now. GOOD ROOKIES. Addition of flaahy youngster to nearly near-ly every rlub on both circuit ought to "upply the demand for new blood that haa been felt for lie vera I year and It ahould increaa Intereat In the pram. It aeaaon atteHlanc waa limited onlf by the alz of tha ball parka and Intereat Inter-eat should be even greater thla year, b cMua four team atand for the pennan In each league. Iaat year from start tt flnlfth It waa a rut and dried prooaltlon between New York and IMttaburg In th National league and New York and Cleveland Cleve-land In the American league. . |