Show r A KEES EES jase ase Hits Whistle Past N New ew Yorkers as Red Sox Notch Up 8 to 4 Victory I By GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK April 19 Echoes 19 Echoes of base hits holdout bicker- bicker gs sand and Dean dollars were heard round the bas baseball ball globe today The Ithe major leagues pu put on their grand opening with all 16 clubs P tion An estimated persons were expected to attend I Py's Pys T s games its whistled around the ears of Bys By's w world champion champlOn Yankees as the i I So SoL Sor thumped them 8 4 in a game before at atton yston ton yesterday Losing opening l z gameS and winning worlds world's are old customs with l Yanks and they may be slightly about it by now They t tithe the opener in 1936 but won worlds world's title and last year the thene ne thing ne thing happened I In yesterdays yesterday's other game game shellacked the Athi Ath- Ath ics i s 8 12 before il I Pr President Roosevelt who ho v e ew out the first ball Thile hile these two games were in ingress Ingress gress ress there ensued a cross- cross verbal exchange be- be en Joe DiMaggio most enduring out lout in baseball annals and Honel onel onel Jake Ruppert multimillion- multimillion owner Reports were that DiMaggio was ready capitulate and accept Colonel Ippert's proffered Aroused rn his bed DiMaggio said No price rice is still and the res- res frant ant nt business is good In Mantan Man- Man Itan tan Colonel Ruppert said He the or he doesn't y with the Yanks And for forry ry ry 17 day hes he's away he will be ked Iced one days day's salary jB t. t Browns Want Vant Dh Wrom rom St. St Louis came the report Ithe Browns had offered Outer Out- Out der er Beau Bell and for 1 year old Italian center field- field iTo this General Manager Ed Edrow Edrow row said We have no thought rading fading DiMaggio Theres There's noth- noth to it fK K Wrigley Cubs' Cubs owner reed reed reed re re- re- re ed that he had paid the CarIs Carls Car- Car ils ls in cash in addition three r r e pla players lars ers for lor Dizzy D Dean ari silences all talk can ean having a dead arm arm or or makes Wrigley the biggest fall fallin falln in in n baseball ith in the kitty it seems ain in th that t the the Cardinals Cardinals will now f nother another pitcher Already they e been heen turned down on a feeler Van yan Mungo Brooklyn's big fire- fire er r. 1 Now they may turn to the lies in an n attempt to get Bucky or Claude though Bill Terry Giants' Giants ical al boss openly pooh possibility of the Dean deal king aking the Cubs the team to tot tot tot t in the National league it is own Wn that privately hes he's sad Kut ut t the transaction Terry may mayn n go into the market for aner aner an- an er er Cr pitcher possibly bidding h the Cards Gards for a Phils ace ms s the Dean development sUms sUm sUm- js s the entire first division to strength It also emphasizes the e National league maligned s ig g the winter whiter in the magazines new minor league 1 does not notto kd d to take the challenge lying I back Looking ahead to Oc- Oc the the Cubs seemingly a winner inner with Dean in time old-time would offer after a serious menace merican league superiority t this is April and today all lubs flubs get away in the long grind which promises to pro- pro as many thrills and upsets as ennant race in a long while Yanks Take Lacing defeat defeat of the toe Yanks was yes- yes r's rs S g big surprise The Red Sox Charley Ruffing out of the thein thein in iii a sixth-inning sixth uprising p L netted six runs Leading the k ox x attack were Roger Cramer 5 double and two singles and Cronin and Doerr with a of hits each Jim Bagby Jr r old son of f the time old nd pitcher was credited with in his his maj major lr league i although he was removed inch-hitter inch in the sixth after the Yanks to five hits Bonura champ spaghetti 1 f f the m majors jors l led d' d W Washing Washing- sh ng- ng hit 6 attack which downed 3 The White ex Sox hit a and two singles in his Ills debut I but with the Senators Cecil Travis hit four singles and Buddy Lewis hit hita a homer with two on Wes Ferrell went the route although rapped for 16 hits bits by the As A's with Rookies Gene Hasson getting four hits and Dario Lodigiani getting three hits to lead Philadelphia's offense L. L LOSE OPENING SKIRMISH ISH |