Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1913 — START OF MAJOR LEAGUES [ARTICLE]

START OF MAJOR LEAGUES

Resumption of Pennant Making Buskten Will Be on April 10 and Wind Up on October -5. The business of pennant making in the big leagues will be resumed Thu reday, April 10, hexL This was the apnouncement made by President B. B.uohnsofi of the American-league, who yith Tom Lynch, head of the older or&nization, comprise a committee empowered to select the starting time for tbfe flag race. Bbtfi leagues will get under way at the same dates, with prospects of 154-game schedules. The date picked for the next campaign is no earlier than last year when the teams didn't encounter a great ieal pf trouble with cold weather. A week or ten days later would have been stjff’flttrtable to several of the magnates, while still others think -that they ought to start before the snow nelts. The matter is placed in the hands of the league chiefs just on this account, as petty squabbling was eliminated and the presidents also see to it thtt the season is closed in time to periiit the playing of the world series before steam is sizzling in the By starting on April 10 the race will wind up probably October 4 in the eastern towns and October 5 in the west, where Sunday games stretch out the dying gasp. The closing on October 5 neans that the world series games,, whether played in the east or west, or between teams from each section, will begin on Tuesday, October 7. This is the same scheme that existed this fall. The experiences of 1911 furnished a lasting lesson to the big league. Held back by the needless drawing out of the National race, the world series did not get under way until the-middle of October, and the miserable wealher which caused the match to cover a period of over (wo weeks convinced the powers-that-be that some concerted action was necessary. \