Show j r I H t r i p I r L' L 14 ci 14 c S 'S c I c c v L y JIt 11 1 iI j I f tL v These pictures show how a New ew York Giants' Giants attempt at n a play was rn foiled by the Phillies In the opener Tuesday at the Polo grounds At top left Bill BUI having bunted heads for first I base and Johnny Rucker Eucker arrow arron speeds home Philly Pitcher Art c.- c. Lopatka runs run to field ball as ns Catcher Route Hemsley blocks plate At top rl right ht Lopatka to tosses ses to Hemsley and lower left lert Rucker Is ta tagged ed out Lower right Umpire Babe Babo Pinch c calls Rucker out Bill Rigney Giant shortstop waits watts turn to bat AP a Prewar Pr war Stars of Diamond Shine in Opening Games By CARL CAEL LINDQUIST NEW V YORK April 17 UP UP- UP Bob Feller Spud Chandler and Hal still can burn em ent in Joe DiMaggio Hank Greenberg Greenberg- Ted Williams and Mel Ott can belt the ball ban a mile mile and and the Phils are still st the Ph Phils lis Everything was normal and It was like no one had been away to tofi fi fight ht a war when major league ue i baseball came back to the AmerIcan American Amer Arner- ican sporting scene yesterday I There had been doubts grave doubts grave ones that ones that some of the prewar stars wouldn't be bo able to measure up In the new era that Is dawning but those doubts definitely were dispelled at least for one day The crowds were enormous the total of fans at eight parks being more than double the 47 at last years year's opening And also surpassing the total at the tho last prewar opening day in 1941 Two teams the Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics had record opening day crowds The folks folts In Detroit came strong to welcome home homo their world champions while an amazing amazing ing lug throng of turned out in Philadelphia to see the Athletics take up their losing ways a against the Yankees The three players who are rated rated rated rat rat- ed the top sluggers in the tho American Ameri Amex can league Williams Greenberg and DiMaggio paced their teams to victory with home runs At Washington where Pres Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man was on hand to watch him perform Williams smashed a 4 foot homer into the center field bleachers for one of the tho longest lilts hits ever made at Griffith stadium as the Red Sox topped the Senators Senators Senators Sena Sena- I tors 6 to 3 a. a Cecil Tex Hughson Hugh- Hugh i son who Is in expected to be the ace of the Red Sox staff turned In a careful performance to beat Roger Rog Rog- er Wolff even though both teams got 11 hits Greenberg's Inning fourth-Inning homer gave ave Detroit a 2 to 1 victory over the Browns and gave a hit six triumph In a duel with Nelson Potter who also gave up zI sIx hits struck out el eight ht and was vas touched for only one extra base aso hit a n double by Potter DiMaggio's homer was the of- of Chandlers Chandler's 5 c highlight in to o 0 shutout in which he limited the tho ho Athletics to five hits and struck truck out six Two other Yankee YI oldsters of prewar days shortstop shortstop short- short stop top Frankie Frankic Crossetti and catcher Bill ll Dickey got two hits apiece Feller of ot Cleveland was the fast ball tUng- tUng same unbelievable er r as before he went to war the I White Sox whom he shut out 1 to 0 Insisting that he seemed even evena a n little faster In its Comiskey park setting at Chicago Fellers Feller's shutout had a remarkable parallel with the 1940 opener when on the same sarno day April 16 he pitched a no hit run no-run 1 to 0 victory over the White Sox Yesterday bullet Bob gave up three hits but struck out 10 and walked only one bat- bat ter er Manager Ott of ot the Giants waited waited waited wait wait- ed only 11 minutes before hitting his ils major league homer a two run blow which led to an 8 to o 4 1 victory vict-ory over the Phils at the Polo Grounds Catcher Ernie Lombardi Lom- Lom bardi also a n prewar slugger got another two-run two homer off the Phils in that same same first inning Despite new trappings s a lot of hustle and optimism that wasn't warranted by their play pIny the Phils looked like the tho Phils of old old not not quite In the class of the tho league Cardinals struck no terror in the hearts of the Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pitts Pitts- burgh P Pirates rates who came from behind behind behind be be- hind to win 6 to 4 in a game which saw three ace Cardinal Cardina pitchers Johnny Beazley Murry Dickson and Harry Brecheen batted batted batted bat bat- ted out of the box The Bucs made 11 hits and capitalized on eight walks a hit batsman and two wild wile pitches by the stage frightened Red Bird hurlers Meanwhile ex-Cardinal ex tan Man Manager tanager an- an ager Billy Southworth made a winning winning win win win- ning debut In his new Job with the Braves at Boston topping Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook Brook- l lyn n 5 to 3 on a combination o of timely hitting and steady pitching by John Sain Sam Sam Sain gave up 1 10 hits but wasn't In trouble often Connie Ryan with two doubles a walk and a stolen base basc paced th the Braves scoring the winning run on ona ona a dropped fly balL The National league champion Chicago Cubs had to score four fou runs in the ninth and nn break up a one-hit one pitching job by Joe Beggs Begg to beat the Reds at Cincinnati 4 01 to 3 3 A two run single by pitch pitch- hitter Bob provided th the victory margin |