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Show MAJORS START PENNANT RACE! 00 o o OO OO OO OO CHAMPIONS LOSE OPENING GAME OO OO OO OO OO OO YANKEES DEFEATED BY SENATORS! WIl KM AN LE Ud F, W. U Pct. 1 b ladelphla 1 1 . 0001 Cleveland .. ." 1 0 1 oo St Louis ... ... 1 0 1 .000 1 Washington 1 1 000 Boston 0 1 000 1 He; roll 0 1 000 1 Chicago u 1 .000 New York 0 1 .000 ITceterdaj - Results At Boston Philadelphia 3, Boston 2. At !e e;.,n,! - Li' troi: I. Cleveland 1 At Chicago St. Louis 3, Chicago 2. At Washington New York 6. Wash-' Wash-' inglon 6 1 ckIu.v - Schedule. St Louis at Chicago Detroit at Cleveland New York at Washington Philadelphia at Boston. WASHINGTON. April IT, Provident Prov-ident IJaiding Vice President Coolldse. I members of th" cabinet and many others oth-ers high tn official life were in the Irecordbreaking crowd of 26,000 thai I saw Washington win xne opening earr; of the season Wednesday from the' NSW York Yankees, champions of the' American league. The score was 6 I to S. President Harding threw out the tirst bull and kept his own score. Jot-' ting rifiTn the plays on regulation storecard. He appeared to enjoy every ev-ery minute of the more than two hours of play. 1 1 "I he president was ac companied by Mrs Harding and Secretaries Hughes I B nd Weeks. I Other prominent persons whb at- j ended included Postmaster General ; Work General Pershing. Chairman I : er of the shipping hoard, mam members of the senate and house of representatives, and President B. B. J iohnspn Of the American league Ad-! miral' t'oontz, chief of naval opera-! Hons, directed the flag-ialslng cere-I monies, which were participated In by; both teams, n naVy bureau corps. Bov Sec;ts and high school cadets Both Mogrldge and Jones were hit hard in the early Innings, the two, teams pilln? up a total of eleven doubles, dou-bles, most of which wont into the crowd which formed a circle around the outfield. I Babe' Iluth slugging star of the Yankee team, who is under suspension j BSV. the game from 1 lfe grandstand. W.i l: r-r Johnson, sun of the vY fishing-ton fishing-ton pitcher and mascot of the team saw part of the contest from an especial es-pecial point of vantage, sitting on President Harding's knees R. H E New York 5 9 1 Washington ... 6 1 S 1 Batteries Jones and Schang, Mog-rldge Mog-rldge a nd Gharrlty. CHICAGO. April II 81. Louis got off to a flying start Wednesday and defeated Chicago. 3 to 2. in the opening open-ing game of the American league sea son here. The two Urbans Faber and Shocker were nn the mound and the form t r held the visitor to three hits, v bile the latter was touched for nine Fabi ho over, issued three walks, ;nil two of thein developed into runs. A crowd estimated at 20,000 witnessed wit-nessed the game R M. E. St Louis 3 3 1 Chicago 2 5" 1 Batteries Shocker and Severcid; Faber and Bchalk -s CLEVELAND, April 13 --Cleveland opened the season with a 7 to 4 victory vic-tory oer Detroit. Morton outpiti hliife t ldham and 1 ilsen. Cleveland bunched its hits Slclnnls, playing h's first anic as .111 Indian, leading with a single, double and u triple. Yeach of Drtrolt lilt a home run with none on Cold weather held the attendance down. r. II K Detroit 3 Cleveland 7 12 2 Batteries Oldham. OlSOB arid Bas-sler; Bas-sler; Morton and .N'unamaker BOSTON", April 13 Philadelphia defeated Boston. 3 1o 2, in opening the local season Wednesday. Boston Obtained an early lead and then permitted per-mitted Philadelphia to come from behind In the seventh and senre two runs on two errprs The batting of Galloway, who made twd doubles and a single featured R H E iioston . ..2 7 2 1 Philadelphia 3 g 2 Batteries: Naylor. Bckert, Hemac and Perkins. Qumn and Ruel 1MERK 1SSOC1 1 1 1 n W L Pel Minneapolis 1 0 I.OOHj Columbus 1 0 1 000 1 Kansas City 1 0 j o00 ' St Paul .1 0 1.000 I ndia nanolls 0 1 .000 I I Louisville 0 1 000 ' Toledo 0 1 000 I j Milwaukee 0 1 000 ' FesU rday'i Results At Columbus R H E. Milwaukee 4 15 1 Columbus ..515 Z (Fourteen innings 1 Batteries Scaack and Gossett, Bur- j well and Hartley I At Todelo R H E. j I Kan-as Citv 5 6 2 , Toledo .. . 4 6 4 1 Ten Innings 1 Batteries Morris and McCarty, Wright. Bedlent and Kooher. At Louisville R H E Minneapolis 9 II I I Louisville 8 15 1 1 Twelve i nnl ngsl Batteries Smallwoed, Schauer Tingling and slayer Tincup. Estells , and Meyer. I At Indianapolis R B B St. Paul 3 7 0 Indianapolis 0 6 1 Batteries Scheehan and Allen, Hill Bartlstl and Krueger. NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L P 1 ; St- Louis 1 (i ! 00() Philadelphia 1 n 1.000 ! Brooklyn . j ft 1.00Q 1 Chicago 1 a Cincinnati .1 1 , ! New York 0 1 j Boston 0 l 0ip I Pittsburg 0 l 1 , Teaterday's Results At St. Louis Pittsburg I, gt. Louis 10. At Philadelphia Boston 1, Philadelphia Phila-delphia 7. At New York Brooklvn 4. New-York New-York 3. Al Cincinnati Chicago 7. Cincinnati Cincinna-ti 3 Today's Schedule Boston at Philadelphia Brooklyn ut New York. Pittsbnrpf at St. Louis Chicago at Cincinnati. 1 NEW YORK. April 13 The Brooklyn Brook-lyn Nationals defeated the world's I Chan pion New Fork team In the opi n-ing n-ing game of the season Wcdne daa b n scoro of 4 to 3. M.n'.r 1 1 via n threw the first ball The game soon developed devel-oped into a sharp conflict between the rival left-handers Reuther and sTeh ind New York's errors helped decide the game in favor of the former. The score R H. E Brooklyn 4 8 2 Now York 3 9 3 Batteries Reuther and DcBcrrv. Nchf, Shea and Snyder. st LOI is April IS. -The Cardinals openeil the 1922 Nflonal leagUS season here Wednesday before a crowd estimated esti-mated at 18.000 with a 10 to 1 victory over Pittsburg. Gainer, s-ubstlt utlng at first base for the Cardinals, drove in five runs and Hornsby batted out a homer. The score R. H. E. Pittsburg 1 7 1 St Iouls 10 11 1 Batteries Cooper, and Gooch , Sher-del Sher-del and Clemmons CINCINNATI April 13. A capacity; crowd witnessed the defeat of Cin. in-natl in-natl in the opener Wednesday when 1 Ch-cago defeated the Reds by a score 1 Of 7 to 2 Superb pitching by Alexan- ! der was milnh responsible for the vis- 1 iting te;in's victory. Rlxey was hit harrl in the seventh inning, When five I hits drove in four runs and clinched ! jthe game for the visitors. The score: R. H E. : Cincinnati . . 8 7 2 Chicago 7 II 01 Batteries Rixey. Couch Gillespie j md WlngO Alexander and Harnett. I PHILADELPHIA, April 13 Boston' proved very acceptable as an opening' feature Wednesday for Philadelphia I won with ease, 7 to I, Lee Meadows! .allowed the Braves but four scattered hits, while the Phillies got to Oeschgcr for eJgh' Meadows' only sign of weaknes 1 camo In the fourth when he allowed j two of the four hits the Braves se- j cured Cruises two-hqfie hit andj Ford's single WSre responsible for the only Boston score. I'nlted States Senator Sen-ator George Wharton Pepper tosed ' out the fii'st ball. j The score: R I E 1 Boston 1 0 Philadelphia ...... " s 0 Batteries Oeschger and Oowdy; Meadows and HiMiline 1 nn. |