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Show Big League Teams Ready For Opening Day Battle ers that would make any team huvtle to stay ahead of It. e e At. IfOtils, April 11 Thre regulars of the St. Loul Nationals may not be la the lineup line-up aint the J'lttflburg tram In the open-ins open-ins game ot the National Iras' ue here In-morrow. In-morrow. Clarence M urller. rrnter fteldar ; i Jaiqurs Fournler, flrat baaeman. and John I. a van. KhortHtop. will not h able tn play j for from ieveral 1ys to two week, ac- cording to the club' phyau-lanr Murllrr ; i a rut Foumtrr art uffrrmg with tn)urrd ' I Irit. while Laan bas not really recovered i from 1ilnM. Manaerr Oibeon an1 the Pirates Pi-rates hold a pra-tlci amain a today. IFTROIT. Mtoh, April 11 Although Uanaaer Cbb of the Pet ro ft Amrrlrans was In uniform yestrrlay and ttnilt part in the warming Up before the game b-twen th Tlgrrs ann the Columbus American sa-.aoelatlon sa-.aoelatlon tram. It Is doubtful, arroriltiig to rr ports her, whrthrr lie will be able to participate In tbe semen's oprner at Cleveland Cleve-land tomorrow. I'obti injurrd his riant snale a wrrh ao during a practice Kama In the South. The T1"rrit wound up thrlr eihlbltlon game schedule yeator-tay by dr-frattng dr-frattng f'oiumbu. II to 4. PJvery man on the team eicrpt P:estead and Haney obtained ob-tained at least on hit. while Hoi ling held Columbus to one hit and no runs up to the t seventh inning. as Cleveland, O , A prtl 1 1 Ty Cobb will participate In at least part of tha opening game of the American league eeaaon tomorrow. to-morrow. 'Cobb, who wrenched his knea several sev-eral daye ago at training camp, declared today that he will so to the bat in the first Inning, after which hs will retire to the bench In favor of another player, probably proba-bly Ira riacstead. Managers Cobb and Hpeaker pUvnned to put their men through a light workout at Punn field today. Steve O Netll. who waa Injured several days II", practiced with the team yesterday and will be ready to go behind the bat Sunday or Monday, It was said, so Chicago, April II. The Chicago Anerl-csns Anerl-csns roundel out their spring training activities activi-ties today with a brief workout at their south side park. Manager (lleaaon. full of hope as the result of his team'a even break with the champion N'ew ork (Hants In an eihlblton eerlea. plane to eend t'rban Fabr to the tnound tomorrow with the expectation expecta-tion of starting the eeaaon with a victory over the Ht. 1-oula Hrowns. The White manager Is alau expected to give connld-i connld-i eratlon to the case of Jtck Kerr, holdout i pitcher, whose strength Is badly needed for the twirling staff, la the opinion of sports writers Kerr has announced that he will play this season with the Chicago city hall team In a eeniiprofesslonal league. The Chicago National leaguers, rained out yesterday yes-terday at rndianapulls, will engage the American aee...lailon team there today, weather permitting From Indianapolis the team will move on to Cincinnati to open the saaeoa with the Red. s Washington. April 11 A lAng practice session to put on the finishing touches for the open lr of the championship race tomorrow to-morrow was scheduled todav for the Nationals. Na-tionals. Pennant talk was rifle in "fan" clr-I clr-I rlea todav following a testimonial dinner i to the National's new manager. Clyde Milan, attended hr some 400 of the faith-I faith-I ful lat night. The new pilot did not Join ; In the b"l.l predictions of a p-nnant win- , I ner at the dinner, but declared he had a i 'willing and able aggregation of ball play- |
