| Show Crippled Coast League Opens Season eason By the Associated Press The plagued draft member eight-member Pacific Coast league inaugurates its championship ye year r in four California cities clUes tomorrow with wartime martial music and flag raising befitting the patriotic recognition recognition recognition rec rec- of ot the scores of its players play play- ers who have gone from the playing playIng playIng play- play Ing fields to the armed services service As Seattle Portland San Fran- Fran Cisco Oakland Sacramento Hollywood Hol Hoi lywood Los Angeles and San Diego teams start their game season home town fans tans will have to thumb minor league record books to recognize the assortment of players recruited by desperate managers from the ranks of 4 winter leagues and defense plant pre-Pearl pre Harbor fathers San Diego's Padres next to last in the 1943 campaign is the only club starting with a near veteran staff And as last year tear pitching will be the Padres' Padres weakness The 1944 seas seasons season's ns n's inaugural fanfare fanfare fanfare fan fan- fare will win be liveliest at Sacramento Sacramento Sacramento Sacra Sacra- mento where Governor Warren will toss the first ball to President twin Clarence Rowland of ot the Coast league Ty Cobb will be at bat Ray Prim bound for the Chicago Cubs' Cubs camp at French Lick Ind will then take the mound and Bill will step behind the plate j las as Los Angeles tangles with Earl Sheely's Sheely s owned home-owned home trained home trained Solons Veteran Steve Lefty Legault or Guy Fletcher and Lileo o Mar- Mar cucci Gucci will form the battery of the the- Senators Senators' nine In the Seals-Beavers Seals game at I San Francisco the hosts will win offer Bob Joyce and Joe as a battery and the San trained Jose-trained will win start either Joe Sullivan or Marino and Gilly GUly Campbell Joe Demoran and Hal Sueme will be the mound and p plate ate men for Seattle's opener with Manager Manager- Charlie Roots Root's Stars at Hollywood Earl Karl Escalante and Jim Hill are the battery At San Diego Manager Dolph Camilli in his circuit initiation game with the Oaks will win start Nobert Kleinke in the pitchers pitcher's box and Bill RaimondI A 1 physically fit and awaiting army call can starts behind the plate Manager George Detore names the Padres' Padres battery as Frankie Dasso and Del Ballinger Bal- Bal linger The eight clubs ended their five weeks' weeks spring training yesterday with and exhibition practice games The Seals' Seals regulars regulars regu regu- lars were shellacked 6 12 by the reserves Oakland was vanquished I by the undefeated San Diego naval training station nine 0 4 Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood bowed before the Terminal island squad at Long Beach 6 4 and Sacramento suffered an 8 5 defeat by the McClelland field nine Seattle lush with 12 veteran and culled cuned pitchers and suited long on hitting appears a likely candidate candidate candidate candi candi- date to snatch the pennant away from the 1943 Champion Angels heavily hit by the draft and with only three regulars in their startIng starting starting start start- ing lineup President Rowland sees ees a re renewed renewed renewed re- re interest in coast baseball with the return of night games for the first time since the now lifted blackout order of the defense defense defense de de- command |
