Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1917 — SCHEDULE WILL HELP YANKS [ARTICLE]

SCHEDULE WILL HELP YANKS

Donovan’s Team Will Not Be Away From Polo Ground After September 12—Should Be at Top. The 1917 schedule of the American league, differing in arrangement from any schedule of previous years, furnishes many interesting features for Bill Donovan’s Yankees. Accepting tjie theory that a team with a large number of home games in the closing month has an advantage over other clubs it can he said that the Yankees have nothing to complain about. They will not be away from the Polo grounds, after September 12, writes William J. Slocum in New York Evening Sun. If Donovan’s team can stick with the leaders until mid June or early July, as it did a year ago, there is no reason why the Yankees should not be in the fight right down to the end of the season. It will not be so easy, however, for the club to get a good start, as the early weeks “of the campaign furnish an assignment for the Yanks that is as difficult as the closing weeks are easy.