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Questdog is correct: the start time of a make-up game (whether it's part of a double-header or a single game arranged on an off-day) is always 7:05. Maybe that will change in future versions of the game, but right now we're stuck with it.
Taking a quick look at the major league schedules included with OOTP, it appears that the normal game times for the deadball era are either 3:05 or 4:05. I can assure you, however, that nobody ever scheduled anything to start at five minutes after the hour during that time period. That was done much later to accommodate television broadcasts - certainly not a concern for teams in the early 1900s.
Game times during that era were typically 3:00, 3:30, or 4:00. For a long time the Giants started their games at 4:00 - the rationale that I've seen is that the Wall St. banks and brokerage houses ended their day at 3:00, so a 4:00 start allowed the office workers time to go from the southern end of Manhattan to the Polo Grounds on the Harlem River. That may have been good for business, but it resulted in a higher percentage of Giant home games being called on account of darkness. The most famous example was the "Merkle game" in September, 1908.
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