Sports News Features and Classified WASHINGTON. 1). <\, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1042. C-l % Diamond Fans Momentarily Forget War Worries as 190,775 Thrill to Openers CHAMPION—AND STILL WINNING! —Bv JIM BERRYMAN Yank Scout Sees Yankees, Bcsox, 1 *P nDNTC ACE or Draw : S Lose \ewec; Poc TUF /P/V£ s Win, THAT VERSIONS WHO ] i'^^EC-.'>',oor' SUCKy DIDN'T Sf*>£.rf By FRANCIS E STAN. ) (VET TIN' 04 To / WMV PlTc MEPS TELL ME I WAS FlF LPEP EVERY MV STuE? HE rr>MT lev Tip J UONMA HAVE LFFT FIELD PALL' Second Feller Tribe, Browns JUST TIPPED IT •> FUN' I } A HOCK OF a os if Had ^MlT.. After Year, Nothing Happened ANOTHER.. ASSISTANTS! Maybe the baseball players, after tramping the woods all fall K __—V- • nd winter with their dogs at their sides and shotguns under their In De Rose never around to that these are unusual Show Class arms, got fully realizing times and anything is likely to happen. For months the club owners and major league presidents have been delivering spiels to Dodgers Down Giants 19-Year-Old Hefty the effect that, due to the draft and one thing or another, the 16 In IT WAS RED Owns All It Takes in big-time teams more or less were on equal footing and that exciting Dizzy Struggle; CUFFING PAY races with twists were not to be unexpected. spectacular Williams AT GRIFFITH Raw, Experts Agree take into account Winging The theorist*, apparently, did not everything STADIUM...OH HERE WE GO X-'H, I IT ! it was like the of a year ago! What \ f GOT By Rl’SS NEWLAND. Why, yesterday Just opening day By JL’DSON BAILEY. THE MOUND... AGAIN!... AM' SO \ Associated Writer. with fresh accent on hi* Good and with Vichy water A.''oci»ted Pres* Bports Writer. >( press Sports Neighbor Policy AMD AT THE PLATE SAN 15 — running hot. President Roosevelt couldn’t keep the traditional date *t Sports fans now have had their HUDSON IS THEIR FRANSISCO. April a Baseball's best pitching find sine* Griffith Stadium. But the Yankees k*pt It. In the manner to which first taste of tonic labeled "major BEST PITCHER— < Feller's fast one mak- league baseball, an antidote for war Bobby started they are accustomed they shut out the Nats. 7-0. with Rufus (The Red) worries" r,d the dose given 190,775 _/l PONT GEt\J ing batters blink a few years ago Ruffins glvlns only three hits as he embarked upon his 19th season In That FLUrTtR-ToSS AWRIGHT VWELL \) u. MANY CHANCES may be w-apped up in the giant persons in eight cities yesterday had > (SETS ME 4 V 7H' / the American League. I Tope TM PlO^HOT ) frame of Carl de Rose, a an altogether agreeable flavor. Too! 19-year-old crowd of 31.000 SO IMMAKIM' fresh out of a California This was, of course, discouraging to a near-capaclt.v The opening games were crammed ^KUS/MTQ. ) boy high In Mr. Griffith * emporium. Last year the Yankees licked the Nats In the with pnough excitement to satisfy f )iu\sonl school, corny Is the fact he also a shutout, and with Marius Russo also giving only three any thrill-hunting baseball bug and Equally interesting opener, by HACCIi P1'. kE? heralded more en- Is ticketed for the world champion hit*. The year before. Robert Moses Grove of t.he Red Sox blanked the they interesting UP ONE ^k/EET counter New York Yankees by way of their around the to come. INPlELPER. iM Orlff*. It got to be a little monotonous eighth inning yester- farm club The world champion New York oof iZ IF multiple system. day and so the game that started with 31.000 onlookers wound probably Yankees functioned like a well- y 7H£ De Rose was signed to a Kansas up with no more than 20 000 die-hards. geared machine, but Boston, Cleve- gOK'Ldoycould City contract, but Yankee 8cout Joe land and St. Louis also looked good hit., wow! Devine, who signed him. recom- to a Class C to Form in winning and the Brooklyn Dod- mended he be sent Bums, Cards and Reds Act According <N. Y.> in tha gers keynoted another topsy-turvy club, to Amsterdam But the Nat* needn't feel too downcast. Prom the very beginning, He'a National League campaign with as Canadian-American League. wera that the firm, en masse, a warning* posted Washington swinging dizzy a ball game as New York fans strictly green pea. De Rose eouldn’t knock the hat off one's head. The Nats and Yanks weren't the have seen in a long time. The V P s Toss Big. good-natured may h*dthat act like he has two left feet while only two clubs to stick to form as the curtain went up. Ot New York 42,653 fans, the big- oii> TOUCH. a bunt, but when he gets 6- Look at the Dodger-Giant opener in the National League! The turnout of the day, watched PLOZIS fielding gest feet 4-lnches and 218 of bulk Giants went aU out over the winter to their team! the down the Giants, 7-5, ( MOMMA pounds rejuvenate They got Dodgers Mia! men have * behind a pitch, baseball in the Polo Grounds. MAS COME * a new manager. Melvin Ott! They bought a new third baseman and the visions of another Walter Johnson The National League champions 1E WAN BEEG ) hard-hitting Johnny Mize to play first base They re-acquired Outfielder or Feller. looked invincible as they stabbed » Hank Lelber. thereby gaining two legs and almost permanent possession CEVLOOSMONV1^ Pitcher. old Carl Hubbell for four runs in Calls Him Dream of the Man. But when the came across the river to Lazy Brooklyns play the first inning, belted him out of Scout Devine has spent 21 yearn first their hated rivals the Wonderful Bums, picking up where they left off a the box with Peewee Reese's two- beating the bushes for talent, and more year ago. won with some ease Rnd so today at press time the Yankees run homer in the fourth and ran with Pittsburgh lately He turned with and the Dodgers were leading their respective leagues their margin to 7-0 in the first six the Yanks. up such pitching gems as Ray Kremer, There was nothing else that startled the so-called experts, either. stanzas. Larry French, Jim Tobin and Ernie The Cincinnati Reds were beaten The score was 4-2. Curt Davis Pounded. by Pittsburgh. Bonham. In the person of young But they didn't look so good in This was only the mildest of upsets, since it seemed to be thoroughly De Rose he thinks he has discovered the seventh when Curt Davis gave understood that Cincinnati’s hitters couldn't hit. As for the Cardinals’ a bonanza. five runs on two walks and four defeat by the Chicago Cubs, this also Is completely understandable. The "Every scout's dream has been to hits, including a tremendous homer find another Johnson or, more lately, Cards aren't the real, bona-fide Cards unless they get ofT to a slow start John Mize with two aboard, and by another Feller." said Devine. "I •nd manage to have half a dozen key players sustain injuries, ranging their five errors for the game best think I Ye reached my goal In thl* from athlete's foot to broken bones. were forgotten. In fact, they made kid. He' as fast as anybody I've fans forget some of them by rattling IT WAS VERY WARM FOR APRIL AROUND seen in a long, long time. He’s off three sparkling double plays. THE MOT CORNER .THE YANRS BURNED Ferrell Touts Muncrief but Doesn't Catch Him green, but he’s fearless and thinks ESTY. As further evidence that anything UP POOR. LITTLE can beat an ideal tem- Jumping back to the American League, Cleveland topped Detroit, 5-2. he any one, can happen in the senior circuit, perament, This is no gigantic upset by any means, but it was a nice start for the both the St. Louis Cardinals and "When I spotted him a couple youngest big league manager of all times. Lou Boudreau of the chief rivals of the Shortstop Cincinnati Reds, of years ago he didn’t know how to Indians. With on his lost their debuts. nobody pitching staff named Robert William Andrew Dodgers, put on a uniform. He has unlimited Feller it was an especially coveted victory for the 24-year-old Mr. Bou- The Chicago Cubs nosed out the possibilities and can become one of dreau. Without R. W’ A. Feller of Uncle Sam’s Navy he may not get too Cards, 5-4, by bunching two runs the game’s great pitchers. I pre- many victories. in the first inning and three more dict we will be reading a lot about in the sixth off Mort Cooper. Man- him In a few years.” The Tigers, according to the vexed Buck Newsom, were hexed, but ager Jimmy Wilson of the Bruins Fans 21 in School Game. properly, by a fellow named Louis Norman (Bobo or Buck* Newsom. "Ah also earned the distinction of bein» the Yankees the sent a Reports paid 'em teleygram.” he had explained before the Nats faced the out of a the first pilot thumbed boys’ parents a fat bonus were Yankees, "and Ah tol’ Del Baker that Ah wished him luck. Ah guess the by an umpire.