Show Released by Western Newspaper MAJOR league baseball moguls seem to hava recovered from the highly jitters that attacked them during the fall and early winter The future of big time baseball no longer Is so doubtful at least for When Judge M. baseball czar conferred with i t Joseph rector of the Office of Defense Trans-lyl he cleared jM up a lot of matters which had baffled Pi a The news Landis brought to them was M. Landis If not completely To begin the self-imposed ban on unnecessary with the resulting saving in transportation Is practically all that was asked of basebalL Club owners were quick to fall into stride with the enunciated by Commissioner In order to conserve rail the magnates agreed to restrict spring to a definite open the season April 21 Instead of April 13 as originally and close the season October 3 Instead of September New Camp Sites Training camp sites have been bound by definite geographical Camp sites must be picked north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers and east of the Mississippi except for the two St. Louis The Browns and Cardinals have been granted the right to train In Missouri if they They probably will take advantage of that if suitable locations can be When executives of 15 of the major league clubs not being met with Landis In Chicago following bis conference with only three clubs had made training arrangements not In conflict with developments reported by baseball's big The Chicago Cubs and White Sox will condition at and the Boston Red Sox will train in the at Tufts Sam president of the World Champion as a The Browns might head for southern Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics still figured on training at The Athletics did it before back in 1919 and Mack figures they can do it The un- K der the leadership of Gerry WA may move his boys into a college field- house near Philadel- General Manager Jack Zeller of the Connie Mack Detroit Tigers indicated that the club might wind up at where they would be in a position to play exhibition games with the White Sox or or at Benton for the The Cincinnati Reds showed some interest in the southern Indiana location and the Senators the can't go further The Indians probably will stay in Ohio and the Pirates and Giants hadn't any definite A compromise resulted in the April 21 opening The Initial suggestion was that the season start April The discussion touched on April 23 and Then the was The extra week at the end of the season came as a new The seven extra days were provided to give that much more time for the playing of the The extra days will be used where transportation difficulties might New Losses Even though spring training difficulties had been completely settled which they haven't the biggest headache of all would still The Where to find playing Both major leagues have contributed their share to the nation's fighting and now they face further losses to war This was emphasized by the intimation from Dixie Walker that he likely would remain as athletic director of a war plant instead of returning to the Brooklyn Dodgers' right Lou Finney of the Boston Red Sox was informed by his Alabama draft board that he would remain on his farm or be Alf for recently was classified and frozen to his job as a Oris Cleveland seems as financially and in his toolmaker's job as he was in Dolph Dodger first told his bosses he thought beef more essential than playing Quite a few ball are discontented with things they |