Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-04-20 | Page 8 | Gotham Writer Advocates Later Start for Majors

GOTHAM WRITER TES I LATER START TART FOR MAJORS 1 s sNow Game Schedule With the St Start r Last Week in April I 1 Now ow York N. N T T. April Apri 19 It I It seems seem pret pretty nearl nearly timo that major magnates should wake wako up to tho the fact face that that winter baseball is not business The Tue fans tanH It every bit as muchas' muchas much J as as' as the players The point Is well weH lus- lus 1 hero here in the en cast t At It t least where J the t teams have ha hoe boen lucky to work n nOne a aone one n g. garno garn In three playing da days For Forthe Forthe the past five thc years yean at least the major i league seasons have hae started very vcr much I too ear early When hen It has his not been beon ex- ex V I I I cold It has b been en extremely wot wet I As a general rule rulf spring spring of ot late Into has hns not b tJ ben been en settling Itself until well wen on in Ma May last laRt 3 Year ear car It did lid not ilOt put ij In an ap- ap until June Tho The clubs lost more mone money b because caust of ot postponements than the they would have lost had the they been Idle for tor tho the first couple of ot weeks t Th They scarcely made traveling and hotel expanses let alone salaries Open Opening In days are aro always good of ot course but thc whether the tue they come como anyhow start is made in mid April or mid OpenIng Open Open- Ing day dav means a bumper crowd What i follows IM 18 up to tho the weather principally principal principal- ly h up to tho the team of ot cours course i 1 No town long patronized a. a loser From close observation of ot of the th th past pan several years yar It I strikes the writer wrier yer very cry forcibly forciblY that tho tIm major league seasons j jare are somewhat lon long Thu Tho l game 4 1 q schedule in a circuit of or such magnitude as the tho two big rings rinG's necessitates A start around April Apri 10 in order that the worlds world's series may b bo bd concluded before the snow Imo flies tes It I I Is different In th i International league and American merican ax- ax where tho the rings s are more a- a J compact and Sunday Bunda baseball J 8 Barrows Barrows' boys begin a a. week later than the tho big fellows and wind u UD J more than a week before the major 4 flags fall tal y Xo No 10 Fault With Ul ClosIng Cloning 3 3 t fault ma may be he found with extending ex- ex tending the campaigns into the first e- e J week of October for tor lat lately ly tho the W weather I in this month has been much more ar- ar 1 J fable than that t of ot April or oven early 10 May The fault does doe not H He lie ln in the tho close chose of oC the race raco but in the start of ot It It r the suggestion su that the tw two ma raa 1 1 Jor leagues should try tl once at least th the tho plan of or a schedule of ot 10 games area to to to- start tart two to weeks later than tho presen present system followed and to conclude about th thie thA same samo tithe time time I Tl This would no doubt prove a groat boon to the tho pr present B nt system of spring groat training training As at present conducted there Is If little nourishment t in the Jaunts to the south A club is luck lucky indeed to get back half hal of ot the financial outlay The Jet return north is Ig fraught with lh all al man man- mant mannor 4 t nor ncr of varying climatic conditions which affect tho the players players' physical fit fit- fi ness nags Then often for the first two or J three week of ot the playing season th the tite weather IB is II so changeable that most oC ot the henel benefits of ot southern training ar are J nullified A start two weeks later would guard against all al these evil evils And nd the tile should not be detrimental to promoters promote finances For Forth Forthe Forthe th the past several e cral years at least th the first firt several oral weeks has haR be been bein n a a dead loss los on the tile whole TIme The ma magnates nate could betters better bete afford aCford to pa pay their players players' salaries and l let t them b ba h. Idle rather than to expose them to the dangers of ot playing in winter winter winter win win- ter weather This fact tact was illustrated in iii the Yankee-Brooklyn Yankee s series when hen lit Iii 4 1 on one ona game gamo Iamo hance Jack J Jand and Claude Derrick were ere all aU put in tho ilia i R hospital j