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Show Major Leape Has ' Always Encountered i Bad Weather For tho third time in as many years tho major league basoball clubs have encountered Inclement weathor conditions condi-tions during tho early days of the pennant races. Postponed games due to rain, cold, wet grounds and even snow have been piling up in an alarming alarm-ing manner this spring, with tho result re-sult that a number of double-headers must be played before tho various clubs will be able to catch up with their schedules. During the nineteen days between the opening of tho 1917 season and the first day of May thero were hut two on which tho complete number of contests were played. The number of postponed games per day ranged from ono to as high as five out of eight, ! with the result that on the first day j of this month the Nationnl league had sixteen games to play and the American Ameri-can fifteen, making a total of thirty- , one. I Somewhat similar conditions pre- J vailed last April, for, during the first j thirteon days of tho 1916 season, there I were twenty-four gameB postponed, of I Which sixteen wore in tho National S league and eight in the Amorican. 1 |