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Show Fans See Cards Lose But 236,730 By CARL LtJNDQTJIST j United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, April 17 0U0 Bob Feller, Spud Chandler, and Hal Newhouser still can "burn; 'em in," Joe DiMaggio, Hank Greenberg, Ted Williams and Mel Ott still can belt the ball a mile and the Phils are still the Phils. There had been doubts grave ones that some of the pre-war stars wouldn't be able to measure up to the new era that is dawning, but those doubts definitely were dispelled at least for one day. Record Crowds The crowds were enormous, the toUl of 238,730 fans at eight parks being more than double the 103,747 at last year's '-openings, and also surpassing .the 230,834 total at the last pre-war opening day in 1941. Two teams, the Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Athletics, had record opening day crowds. The folks In Detroit came, 52,118 strong, to welcome home their world champions while an amazing throng of 37,342 turned out in Philadelphia to see the Athletics take up their losing ways against the Yankees. The three teams that are expected ex-pected to fight it out for the American league pennant, the Yankees, Red Sox, and Tigers got off to brilliant winning starts, but it was a sad day for the National league favorites, the Cardinals. At Washington where President Truman was on hand to watch him perform, Williams smashed a 450-foot homer into the center field bleachers, for one of the longest hits ever made at Griffith stadium as the Red Sox topped the Senators, C to 3. Cecil (Tex) Hughson, who is" expected to be the ace of the Red Sox staff, turn- American League Favorites Win: Openers; Bob Feller Is Hero ed in a careful performance to beat Roeer Wolff, even though! both teams got 11 hits. : Hank . Homers Greenberg's fourth inning homer gave Detroit a 2 to 1 victory over the Browns and gave Newhouser a six-hit triumph in a duel with Nelson Potter, who also gave up - six hits. Newhouser struck out eight and was touched for only one extra base hit, a double by Potter. DiMaggio's homer was the of fensive highlight in Chandler's S to 0 shutout in which he limited the Athletics to five hits and struck out six. Feller of Cleveland was the same unbelievable fast - ball flinger as before he went to war, the White Sox whom he shut out, 1 to 0, insisting that he seemed even a little faster. In its Com- iskey park setting at- Chicago, Feller's shutout had a remarkable parallel with the 1940 opener when on the same day, April io, he pitched a no-hit, no-run, 1 to 0 victory over the White Sox. Manager Ott of the Giants waited only 11 minutes before hitting his 511th major league homer, a two run blow, which led to an 8 to 4 victory over the Phils at the Polo Grounds. Catcher Ernie Lombardi also homered off the Phils in that same first inning. The vaunted Cardinals struck no terror in the hearts of the Pittsburgh Pirates "who came from behind to win, 6 to 4 in a game which saw three ace Cardi nal pitchers, Johnny Beazley, Murry Dickson, and Harry Brecheen, batted out of the box. The Bucs made 11 hits and cap italized on eight walks, a hit batsman, and two wild pitches.! Meanwhile, ex-uuainai manager man-ager Billy Southworth made a winninff debut in his new iob with the Braves at Boston, topping top-ping Brooklyn, 5 to 3 on a com bination of timely tutting and steady pitching by John Sain. Sain gave up 10 hits but wasn't in trouble often. Connie Ryan naced the Braves with two doubles, a walk and a stolen base. The National League Champion JUST OFF FfJE PRESS I The New Keds Sports Department Bulletin "TEFiriI3 AS TAUGHT D7 HIT. TTLBEFJ" . k 4 Sffim la ; vol ';?aAv 1 I- u f . 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TODAY'S SPORT PARADE Phillies Have Glamour But-Same But-Same Old Story, Giants Win By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, April 17 (U.R) Ben Chapman, the manager of the new Philadelphia Phillies, was grinning happily when it all started. It was opening day, the sun was shining, the Phils looked neat and trim in their new uniforms with the brave red and blue trimming trim-ming and for the moment Ben's boys were right up there at the top of the league. "Is this that big league manager?" man-ager?" quipped a Giant ambling past the dugout as Ben leaned back contentedly in the cool shade. "You said it," Chapman called as he watched his players scamper around the infield. "These are the new Phillies and we're going to be tough to beat this year." VInce DiMaggio was the only player In the lineup from last year and the Phils were showing: a lot of sip and chatter as they warmed np. It all was part of Ben's program pro-gram to eliminate the defeat-Ism defeat-Ism complex which came 0 CANADIAN WHISKEY IT'S BACK! MATUBlO in wood SAME mtllouneu! SMOOTH and pleasant! : FULL-BODIED character! distilled in Canada! J1 Restriction On Ammunition Seen WASHINGTON, April 17 (OE The Civilian Production Administration Adminis-tration is expected to issue short ly an order limiting the use of ammunition to farmers, ranchers, police officers, and professional hunters. t A CPA spokesman said the order, or-der, inspired by a shortage of lead, would virtually ban the use of ammunition for skeet shooting, clay pigeon meets and hunting for pleasure. The order will take the effect of 9 limitation on the amount of lead that can be used in ammunition ammuni-tion for civilian use. Ammunition manufacturers have asked for an allocation of 16,000 tons of lead per quarter from CPA. The agency agen-cy is cutting this to 9,000 tons because be-cause of the critical shortage. Ammunition manufacturers ad vised the agency that a 9,000-ton allocation of lead every three months-would be hardly enough to provide essential users such as policemen and farmers with ammunition. CPA is expected to control the ammunition sales by furnishing applications to retailers for pros pective ouyers 10 xui out. ix mey cannot prove they must have ammunition am-munition for their occupation, the application will be rejected. Baseball Results NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet Chicago 1 0 1.000 New York 1 0 1.000 Boston 1 0 1.000 Pittsburgh 1 0 1.000 Cincinnati 0 1 - .000 Brooklyn 0 1 .000 St. Louis 0 1 .000 Philadelphia 0 1 .000 . .Tuesday's Results Chicago 4, Cincinnati 3. Boston 5, Brooklyn 3. New York 8, Philadelphia 4. Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 4. AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet New York 1 0 1.000 Detroit 1 0 1.000 Cleveland 1 0 1.000 Boston 1 0 1.000 Chicago 0 1 .000 Washington 0 1 .000 St. Louis 0 1 .000 Philadelphia 0 1 .000 Tuesday's Results Detroit 2. St Louis 1. Boston 6, Washington 3. Cleveland 1, Chicago 0. New York 5, Philadelphia 0. Every kind of tree that grows in the temperate zone is found in Arkansas. with finishing last In eight of the past 10 years. "They better 'have hustle and chatter," Ben warned ominous ly. "If they don't they'll find themselves back in Americus, Ga." Benny Bengough, one of Ben's coaches, bounced into the dugout and out again to greet some friends in the box seats. "Show "em your curls," Chap man yelled in a confident voice far above the usual Phillie whis per. Benny swept off his cap, re vealing one of the shiniest pates in the business. He grinned and bowed several times and the Phillie players actually laughed. "This is the best opening day I ve ever seen," Chapman said, I II never forget the one in which Lefty Grove fanned me four times, though, because I guess that was the worst for me Grove faster than Bobby Feller? he was for my money. Feller's fast but that ball looked a lot smaller when Grove zipped it up there. Hey's It's a great opening day." Somebody wanted to know whether this was a prediction as to how the Phils were going to do this year. "I'm not predicting anything," any-thing," Chapman answered. "We're weak In a couple of spots but well be tough. Come around about July 1 and I'll tell you how we' are going to do this season. But the smiles faded and the chatter lost Just a bit of its zip right there In the Giant half of the first when with one on, Manager Mel Ott of the Giants parked a homer in the right field grandstand. Babe Young followed fol-lowed with a blooper and Ernie Lombardi added another an-other homer to make it 4-0. The final score was: New York 8. Philadelphia 4. and, while it might not be strictly kosher to condemn a ciud on one Dau game, one press box observer sounded like Confucius when he remark' ed: "Well, they're still the Phillies! PAGE 2 PAOVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH WEDNESDAY. APRIL 17. 1M DAILY HERALD High-Riding Seals Beat Acorns, 3-0 To Widen Margin San Francisco opened the can nonading against Oakland Tuesday Tues-day night with a rousin gsix-hit, 3-0 shut-out over the Acorns before be-fore an overflow crowd of 16,000 screaming fans who Jammed the Emeryville. Cat, Orchard to watch the week's outstanding series. At Portland, the Beaver inaug urated the 1946 season on their home diamond with a neat 5-2 defeat de-feat of the Hollywood Stars behind be-hind Roy Helser's seven-hit pitch ing. The San Francisco victory widened its Pacific Coast league margin to 3 games over second-place second-place Txs Angeles and still an other full contest over Oakland in third spot. Against the southpaw slants of Charlie Gassaway, Manager Lefty O'Doul used his righthanded batting bat-ting lineup and it paid off in the top half of the ninth inning following fol-lowing a scoreless pitchers' duel between Gassaway and the Seals' Larry Jansen. Seattle stages its belated home opener Wednesday night against the San Diego Padres with an estimated 14,000 of the faithful due to be on hand. Sacramento opens its series against Los Angeles An-geles with a double-header Wednesday Wed-nesday night in Gilmore field. THE STANDINGS W. L. Pet San Francisco .... 15 3 .833 Los Angeles 11 6 .647 Oakland 11 8 .579 Hollywood 9 . 8 .529 Sacramento 7 10 .412 Seattle 6 11 .353 San Diego 6 12 .333 Portland 5 12 .294 Provo limps Slate First ,5 P.M. Womout Thursday Ex-Cougar Signal Barker To Play With Pro Eleven The Salt Lake professional football foot-ball club today had signed Dee Chipman, all-conference Young university quarterback in 1942. Fred Tedesco, manager and co-coach co-coach of the team, said Tom Pace, former Utah halfback, also has signed to play. Another BYU grad, Gartlf Chamberlain, tackle, is interested on condition. The conditions are that he be found a job in Salt Lake and an apart ment. Chipman was all-state halfback at Davis high before playing for Brigham Young. Wildcat Hetters Whip Lions, 4-0 The undefeated tennis team of BY high Tuesday trounced Pay son, 4-0 in a dual meet on the Lions' courts. Results: No. 1 singles, Bob Klrkpatrick defeated Dean Wilson, 6-4, 6-1; No. 2 singles, Jim Rawlings def. Russell Hillman, 6-4, 11-9; No. 1 doubles, Jim Rawlings - Fred Whatcott def. Owen Daley-Boyd Stewart, 6-3, 6-0; No. 2 doubles, Harold Christensen - John Swen sen def. LaMar Tweede-Bob Ells worth, 6-2, 6-2. Provo Timps. defending Utah Industrial league champions, will be in there with another strong team this year, J. B. Leyshon, club president, assured today, following fol-lowing his return from several days in Las Vegas. The belated beginning of the Timp spring practice session will Postwar activities of the Wyo ming state game and fish commission commis-sion will cost a total of $721,605 in 1946, as compared with $464,-045 $464,-045 for last year. Fight Results . By United Press TRENTON, N. J. Jimmy Cal-lura, Cal-lura, 124, Hamilton, Ont, outpointed out-pointed Richie Myashior, 128, Hawaii, (8). LOS ANGELES Joe Kahut, 179, Portland, Ore., Tkayoed Fitzy Fitzpatrick, 171, El Monte, Cat (7). Mississippi County, Ark., is the largest cotton-producing' county in-the world. BYU Netters Battle Utah, In Dual Meet Coach Buck Dixon's Young university tennis team will clash with University of Utah on the "U" courts in Salt Lake City Saturday in the initial Utah Collegiate dual meet of the season. sea-son. Return of several crack netters from the armed forces. has bolstered bol-stered the Cougar team, which nevertheless will enter the match as the underdog. While the team hasn't been decided de-cided for certain, the following are doing some fancy stroking at the "Y" courts this week and most of them probably will see action against the Utes: Bil Mangum, John Evans, Bud Harmon, Jack Thurgood, Keith Wilson, Don Wilson, John Hyde, Doug Busterud, Bob Booth, Chase Allred, Matt Olsen and Tom Par-doe. 65 Aspirants Out For "Y" Golf Team Golf enthusiasm is on the upswing up-swing at Young university, as evidenced ' by the fact that 65 aspirants are bidding for places on the cougar links team. While many of the candidates are novices, they are taking a real interest in the game. Fred (Buck) Dixon, himself one of Provo s top golfers, is coaching the Y players, assisted by Gordon Gor-don Crane and Walt Zabriskle. be Thursday at 5 p. m. when the initial workout will be staged at the ball park. Leyshon said. The Timps are still pllotles&c but the club expects to do somei? thing about that today or tomorrow, tomor-row, the club prexy stated. Other clubs of the circuit Pin-r, r.ey of Salt Lake City, Magna Garfield, Brigham City, Murray r and. Helper all are holding workouts and expect to have, strong teams this year. League' play opens May 15. Leyshon said the Timp director- ate is investigating possibilities o" lighting the ball park for night, baseball. Obtaining two necessary, transformers seems to be Draw-V back No. 1 at the moment . Most of last year's players haver-indicated haver-indicated they will be out for the,, team again this year, although there are a few question marks such as Ernie Jensen, classy left ' fielder who has asked for. hijC release, and Glen Berge, short.' stop, whose work may interfered ... The club is expected to be. bolstered by several players either out of the service or ex- ' pected out within a few weeks.1" These include Lavar Kump, de-' pendable infielder for many year? prior to his entry in the navy . 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