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Show FEDERALS OPEN SEAS1T0DAY ' Teams Made Good Showing in Training Camps Pittsburg Feds an All-round Good Bunch. The Federal league barehnli season opens today, four days before the first games on the American ami National Na-tional leagues it is tho third yeal? of the new league and Us second sum mer in the east In four cities there will bo parades bunting, big floral pieces, complimentary speeches and hMAIInM the nVicutiila tnr tlio oft. ernoon being as follows: Buffalo vs. Brooklyn, :it Brooklyn. Newark vs. Baltimore, at Baltimore. Si Louis vs. Chicago, at Chicago. Pittsburg vs. Kansas City, at Pittsburg. Pitts-burg. At least seventy ! w o hall phivcr.-who phivcr.-who liHve been '-em ping off the li.ir-uacles li.ir-uacles and painting over the rust, Figurative! speaking, in the Souther trimming ( amps, will not come out In public and how just what they cau do To the nnprejudice observer, if there be such, the future ot the Federals Fed-erals may appear Htlll a problem, but the men behind the new league arc lull of confidence and expect to soon have a recognized parity with the two older competitors for the baseball spot light. All the Federal league teams looked strong In training games. The Pittshurg Pitts-hurg club is an all-around good team, The Indianapolis players Include nlnd or ten good hitters and the ti n should show some heavy slugging The Chicago Whales are strong on pitchers, While Joe Tinker ha i i neglected the other departments The Baltimore pitching staff has been Strengthened by the addition of "Chief ' Bender, the great Ithletii star of former seasons. Eyes will watch the buffalo aggregation espe dally because T lal Chase, s a member. mem-ber. In Fielder Jones the St Louis team has a manager whose specialty is collecting pennants. The Hrook-feds Hrook-feds are mostly veterans. |