Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-23 | Page 2 | Major Season to Open Today

MAJOR SEASON 10 OPEN TODAY j NEW YORK, April 22. After an Intermission In-termission of nearlv eight month?, th j National and American baseball , leagues will get hark into action to- I morrow The 191S season was cut short on September 2. last ear, five j weeks before the regular date of clos Ing. while the opening this spnn? H 1 ten days later than usual, the leagues having rut their schedules from 15i to Hi) games as an economy measure The lfm season will be the forty-fourtb forty-fourtb for the National league Its j teams Will pen as follows: New York in Philadelphia. BrookJn in Boston; Pittsburg in Chicago, St. Louis in Cincinnati. j The edgt already has been taken off the opening, as ihe Boston and Brooklyn Brook-lyn clubs played two games here last 1 Saturday, patriot's day." Iu the American league, Boston, the world's champions, will open here with the New York team. The other j American league openings are Phlla- i delphia in Washington: Cleveland m i Detroit unri Chieaco in. St. Louis Thi is the twentieth season for the American Ameri-can league. Majoi General Thomas H. Barry, 'commander of the department of 'he east, and Admiral Henry T. Mayo, commander of tho Atlantic fleet, will attend the New York opening 'n : their .staffs John Heydler, president of the n-tiona! n-tiona! league, today nanvd the following follow-ing umpires for the National league a ! openings: Klem and h'roslie, Boston, itipler and Moran. Philadelphia O'D and Quigley, Chicago; Uyron and Harrison. Har-rison. Cincinnati.