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Show And He's Our On Fi Bctei Wants Title Hal Newhouser Durable Only Name Pitcher To Survive Opening Blasts By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, April 16 (U.R) Except for an exceptional gent named Hal Newhouser, baseball's big-shot pitchers would have been just as happy today if the season could have started without an opening day. Newhouser, the Detroit ace, using that same old left-handed magic that has brought him 80 victories in the last three seasons, shut out the Browns at St. Louis, 7 to 0, on four hits. It was his 13th straight victory over the Browns and was achieved with a minimum of effort after his mates gave him a S to 0 lead in the second inning. He struck out five and only one Brownie, Vern Stephens, got an-rextra base hit, a double. But just look what happened hap-pened - to' the other major league hurlers who won 20 or more games last season. There were seven and all but one of them, Dave Ferriss of the Red Sox. drew an opening open-ing day assignment. And except ex-cept for Newhouser, all were batted out before the finish. At Cleveland, an all-time record re-cord major league opening day crowd of 55,014 turned out, hoping Wrestling Bout Tops VF7 Fight Card at Armory Jarrin Jack Christensen. the Logan bad bpy. and mystery man Wild Bill Anderson tangle tonight to-night in a best two of three falls wrestling match that headlines the VFW fight card at the Armory, Arm-ory, starting at 8:30. Anderson, who calls Tremon-i ton his home town, crawled into: the ring last Wednesday and challenged the winner of the Christensen - Henry Jones bout.i Jones won the contest, but wasj hurt and unable to wrestle this' week, so the Logan meanie picked pick-ed up the challenge. . In the top boxing bout of the evening. Sailor Jarvis, a firm favorite with Provo fans. Uncles with Kiki Garcia Gar-cia of Salt Lake City. Jarvis has been having trouble in getting Salt Lake fighters into in-to the ring with him. hut may have his hands full with Garcia. Gar-cia. Bobby Morries, the Salem puncher pun-cher who made such a hit last week by holding Jarvis to a siz zling draw, swaps punches with; another Salt Laker. Kenny Hay- oitano n -ww.t. iavU.. "'Sjiiie j ... match. the winning run for the Pitts- Airn urn wi annthp fAQf iir hnvinflUhM KT t i am l UitntiA fttr HrirMfi in' In another bout expected to be i burgh Pirates in a 1 to 0 pitching stringer to make a perfect day fast and full of action, Ken Clow-! battle at Chicago with a double out cf jts home opener before ard of Provo meets Turk Miji-joff Hank Borowy, another- ex- a crowd of 11,137. Stringer's high moto of Salt Lake City. Little is j American leaguer he used to face heave to first base in an attempt known locally of either of these against the Yankees. Truett (Rip) to start a double play allowed scrappers, but both have a repu-jsewell scored a five-hit victory b0d Johnson to register the de-tation de-tation for being scrappy andjfor the Bucs, yielding three of jading run. willing miners. his blows to Stan Hack. Borowy Two more preliminaries and a aiso gave Up only five hits. rm criirnt ti f SfKh uyoaierofn? weekW ses The Phils' capitalizing on Sidj JeSRINS AS TOES which is one ol a weekly series,-. . . ...j.j (urnu, f mm that is put on under the auspices S0" 'LVree' ruTs in SS' LOS ANGELES, April 16 (U.R) of the Veterans of Foreign Wars bJ hl N?w York -The Los Angeles Rams schedule sports committee. 'gfam A proceeas aoove expenses xor i . u- -!.. these bouts go to the city r'nR ation department and o the VFW, f h Phils! boys club to buy equipment and ,l ' . . Rookie Bob. help pay for additional seating ?nd Jf sl .iJl', ?kJ neip pay lor oaiuu wi sealing put irehased for the city by the VFW. The Baseball Standings . ... J?.. J,,.,.r.AbkSJ? . AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet. 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 .000 .000 .000 .000 Philadelphia 1 0 Chicago 1 0 Boston 1 0 Detroit 1 0 New York 0 1 Cleveland 0 1 Washington 0 1 St. Louis .......... 0 1 Tuesday's Results Philadelphia 6. New York 1. Washington 6. Boston 7. . Detroit 7, St. Louis 0. Chicago 2, Cleveland 0. Gas on Stomach Rtw4 m mlii r 4nbto tmm mr kick Worn ntai itoaaKti arid njwi pln' il. mSurtt Int (a, tour tnmirb anU hraribuiit. iuctnri iiivuhr fncrihr ita r!c.t artint mr.Hr Inn kr.n.n for plooif1lc rrlirr axllrtnt llki Hum In Bill ni Tablet. K laiatl. Bll-oi hrlngt comfort in a Jiff at tun sottla to ua far douiilt moutt hci. Uc Adv. i A BOXING & WRESTLING Sponsored by Veterans of Foreign Wars, Ute-Post 2162. Benefit Provo Recreation Department BOXING vs. r KIKI GARCIA SALT LAKE KENNY HAYAKAWA SALT LAKE TURK MAYAMOTO SALT LAKE Plus Three Other Good Fijchts WRESTLING JACK CHRISTENSEN Provo Armory Wednesday, April 16 8:30 p. m. Ringside $1.50 Students 50c Gen. Adm. $1.00 to see Bobby Feller duplicate his 1940 feat pitching a no-hit, no7 run game against the Chicago White Sox. Instead they saw Eddie Lopat. a little lefty, pitch Chicago to a 2 to 0 victory in which Feller wasn't around at the finish. Lopat gave up six hits while Feller yielded nine. Although Al-though Feller gave up no walks for the second game in his big league career, he also notched only three strikeouts. Lopat, like Newhouser. capitalized on a jinx, beating Cleveland for the 10th time in 11 tries. He struck u,Harry Walker st cardinal's center fielder, and second man out, is thrown out at first. Bert Iour- r Haas is Cincinnati Red's first baseman. Cincinnati took the contest, first opening game of the Na- At Boston, the American Lea-Uonal , b a 8COre gue Champion Red Sox topped Washington, 7 to 6, but it wasn't 20-game winner Tex Hughson who got the job done. Hughson was a uve-inning wniriwma, holding Washington hitless for that stretch, but he faded fast and Rookie Harry Dorish came in to get credit for the victory. Substi tute Eddie Pellagrin! led the 15-1 hit Boston attack, hitting an early! homer, then scorine the winnine run in the eiehth after sineline. ! Dom DiMaggio got a double and two singles and Ted Williams hit a double and single. The old pro of the Yankees, Spud Chandler, who. won 20 games last season, suffered the humiliation of a 6 to 1 defeat by the Philadelphia A's at New York. He was batted out in a three run seventh inning drive; by the Athletics, who got all their runs off his pitching. Phil Mar-j childon gave up only six hits for! the A's, going the route. Young Ewell Blackwell of the Redr mastered last year's top National league winner, Howie Pollet. a 21 -fame victor, vic-tor, at Cincinnati when he beat the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals, 3 to 1, on three hits. He had a one-hit shutout until the ninth with Pollet getting the only Cardinal Cardi-nal hit up to that time. Eddie Miller, who thought of quitting quit-ting this spring because he was "washed up." hit a homer and scored another run for the Reds after drawing a walk. The Brooklyn Dodgers took 1 fc v Ebbets Field when" they came from behind to score a 5 to 3 victory on Pete Reiser's two-run j seventh inning double that spark ed a three-run rally. Kener Pitcher Hal Gregg was the victor, taking over for Lefty Joe Hatten after the sixth. Negro Jackie n-ui : . UI. to make a big league team, scored ii d..i, lu i ni on viin after getting on via an error. Hank Greenberg. late of De - care of the Nationals other 20-;a?f "V . k ii.T . game winner. Johnny Sain, atto "ve balls to be hit to the Sac troit, celebrated his entry into;Shupe in the ninth inB an otherwise well Ditched ruining an ouierwise wen fll-'":u ill t'-l 1 T T7n... hnnyann hit . hnmi.r for the "f Giants. NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn 1 Cincinnati 1 Philadelphia 1 Pittsburgh 1 St. Louis 0 New York 0 Chicago 0 Boston 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 Tuesday's Results Boston 3, Brooklyn 5. New York 3. Philadelphia Pittsburgh 1. Chicago 0. St. Louis 1. Cincinnati 3. 4. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE San Francisco 9 S San Diego 8 5 Sacramento 9 6 Los Angeles 8 7 Portland 6 6 Hollywood 7 8 Seattle 6 9 Oakland 4 11 .653 .615 O .600 .533 .500 O .467 .400' .267 jO SAILOR JARVIS PROVO vs. BOB MORRIS SALEM VS. KEN CLOWARD PROVO (WILD BILL) ANDERSON vs. Seals Take Over Lead In PCL As Padres Slip Up By JACV DAILEY ' April 16; SAN FRANCISCO, Padres appeared to be only sim- mering . today as they began the; third week of play in the Pacific Coast league in a two-way tie for second place with Sacramento, each team a half game behind San Francisco. The champion Seals slipped .past the Padres Tuesday on a "ralncheck" when Portland was unable to get back home from San' Dleo in time to oppose San Francisco in the season's inaugural at Vaughn Street park. San Diego skidded the half game when it dropped an 11 -inning, 3-2 decision to Hollywood. Sacramento climbed a peg higher by thoroughly spoiling Oakland's homecoming, 4 to 1. when Guy Fletcher won his fourth straight game. Seattle tripped Los An - geles in 11 frames. 3 .to 2, in a game that launched the 1947 schedule in the north Fletcher's performance against the Oaks stole all the thunder up and down the coast. The work horse of the Solon mound staff was in rare form, allowing the i i . At Lii- i i -l : a ! outfielders. Averett Thompson Sauht fur ' he ? field and centerfielder Bill Ram say the other. Glen Crawford's home run in the seventh for Oakland Oak-land was one of the trio of safeties safe-ties given up by Fletcher. Pitcher Al Yaylian won his own Kaiiic for Hollywood with a ut. centerfield boards He came home on a close play at the Plate 8 hit Jlm Delsing. rw of th pad run. was a ho- !mer DV first baseman Vince seanie iook aavaniage 01 iwo rrors'.by Los Angeles' Lou! . i i a a ."z rnAthall Iabw nnnnnnt in m pre'8' yf r- rt " - season game here Sept. 5. A Complete Line Marine Paints, Varnishes, and Glue at INNES' . 316 West Center 7 o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o Electric Hair Clipprs Back again and at Sears typical money saving low price! Powerful Pow-erful motor delivers de-livers smooth cutting action. Sturdy black bakelite case. Chrome plated trimming. Ring for hanging. Off and on switch. No. 000 size blades. 110 volt A.C. 12 wattf. Place your order now, save! Shpg. wt 2 lbs. 9.75 Buy This Item at Sears Catalog Sales Desk Provo 187 WEST CENTER o o o o o o O o o o o o o o o o o o o Mm Provo Diamond Aces Blast Y High 26-1; Ford Turns In No-Hitter For Bulldog Crew Provo high school diamond its unleashed the explosive tow-, vesterdav afternoon to wallop a game but out-classed BY high nine 26-1 in a Region Three lea gue game. Chunky Howard Ford. Provo fireball hurler. completely com-pletely muffled the thunder in the Wildcat batting attack, which had blasted Sprlngville 17-5 the week before, and did not give up a hit in the abbreviated 5-inning contest. Ford turned in a superlative, Ewell. cf 3 1 0 pitching performance. The ace;Cloward, lb 4 3 2 right-hander whiffed seven of the, Knight, 2b 3 2 0 first nine men to face him, and' Morgan, cf 1 0 0 hung up thirteen strikeouts,' Nelson, 2b 1 0 0 while issuing only two free passes. ; The Bulldogs, on the other j TOTALS 32 12 15 had, climbed all over Harold ;Rv Minn Christensen and Vern Whatcott."Brandj,v jb .....2 the two Y hurlers. Christepseni r. i: i jyjeided seven hits and 16 runsi wnile Whatcott gave up five hits and iq rUns. The jittery Wildcats committed ten errors in the field which contributed to their down - a,L While the Wildcats were not even able to get a loud foul off Ford, the slugging Bulldogs roll - ed up seven runs in the first frame, added six more in the third and rode the merry go round for 13 more in the fourth to sew up the contest. Vie Elliott. Provo catcher, caught hold of one of What-cott's What-cott's slants in the fourth frame, to park it out of the lot over the right field fence for the longest hit of the day. The Cats scored their only run in the fourth inning when Bills got on on an error, went to sec-. ond when Christensen walked ona wnen nnsiensen waiKea. and came roaring home after . :. " : . j,Oulf states everv autumn. Stevens hit a fielders choice and'u" gtaicg every autumn. ARROW COLORAMA TIES Like your neckwear patterns a shade on the dashing dash-ing side (it's considered quite the thing these days) then Colorama is just the dish for you. Gay, magnificent designs in striking colors keynote their make-up. A sparkling moire rayon gives them modern fabric slant. Swell knotters. they're resilient resil-ient lined to discourage wrinkles. I SHRIVER'S PROVO'S FINEST STORE FOR MEN vr c fr.i ! art-jChristensen was thrown out at second, when Ford cut loose with Thursday, Provo plays Spanish Fork there and BY high plays at North! It wax trio first lacme win I for the Bulldogs in their first ap-: ap-: pearance, while for the Cats it was one win against one loss. PROVO AB H PO A Peterson, rf .4 Mackay, If 4 Nichols, 3b 3 3 0 2 0 1 0 2 12 ! Elliott, c 3 Brown, ss 2 0 1 Ford, d 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 rht.Uti an Un 2 8 Fwiin.r. "" a stevens cf' 2 ; Erickson. 2b 2 Tibbs, rf . 2 whatcott; 3b-p 2 Brockbank, lb 1 ! - TOTALS 17 0 13 7 Summary Errors: Y High Christiansen, 3; Whatcott. 2; Christensen. 2; Tibbs, 2; Erickson, 1. Provo Nichols, 2. Struck out bv Ford. 13; by Christensen, 2; by Whatcott, 2; Bases on Balls off Ford, 2; off Christensen. 11; off Whatcott, 1. Wild pitch Ford Two-base hits Knight. Ewell Home run Elliott. Officials Buttle and Christiansen. Hrpat orminc n f Mnnnvrh Hi 1 1 Unfiles y all the wav from "riv.T I a and northern U S to thelctl'1 independently of the ;anaad ana noriner" w- a- lo ,nei..ur Even a rainbow will envy its colors m)Y mr x& of June - LONDON. Anril 18 (U.R) Joe Baksi. eligible but apparently not! very interested In meeting heavyweight heavy-weight champion Joe Louis, held out today for a September title bout, but New York matchmaker Nat Rogers said his orders were to arrange it in June. Baksi, the Kulpment. Pa., fighter, who eliminated Bruce Woodcock of England from the heavyweight title picture with a seventh round tech-nleal tech-nleal knockout last night, was to meet Rogers today to decide when the boat with Loots will be held. Roceri. sbeakinff for the 20th Century club of New York which has set June 26 for the date of the next Louis title fight at New1 York Yankee stadium didn't want any change in plans. But Baksi. who has a very high regard for his neck, didn't see how he could bo available before September. "Thanks, but I will take Louis a little later," he said when Rogers Rog-ers walked into his dressing room after the fight and proferred a contract for the June date. "TrM mt-t I ..,(11 k.,,. ., September," said Nate Wolfson, Baksi s manager. "How can he fight in June? He's taking his wife to Czechoslovakia Czechos-lovakia soon to see relatives and they won't be back until May." Driver Boycott Cuts Entry List CHICAGO, April 16 (U.R) A boycott by drivers and owners of auto racing cars threatened f . Li-. ,.. I.;;: auto race The boycott began at midnight, deadline for entries in the Memorial Mem-orial day classic, when 31 top flight drivers and owners of 29 cars announced through a spokes man that they had cancelled plans to enter the race because of "inadequate" cash prizes. The spokesman, Ralph Hepburn, Hep-burn, president of the American Society of Auto Racing, said the speedway's refusal to adjust purses upward in view of "the enormously increased costs'' of racing was responsible for the boycott. . The speedway increased its prizes IS per cent to $75,000 last year, but has refused to guarantee guaran-tee an increase of "one more dime," Joseph Lencki, one of the owners, said. At Indianapolis, Wilbur Shaw.! speedway president, declined to! comment on Hepburn s announcement announce-ment but said he was confident that more entries were in the mail "from distant points in the United States and Europe." He j Wee Freeman's new Sequoia (Giant Stitch) Moccasin. True to the West's tradition for fine leather craft, this sturdy shoe combines inspired styling, exceptional comfort and thick-skinned thick-skinned durability. The double-soled bottom, is topped with a stitched weather-atrip welt for added protection. It's one of several new "In season" Master Fitters, 6 Wednesday, April 16, TODAY'S SPORT PARADE Major Leaguers Thinlt Faster Says Jackie Robinson After First Game In Big Leagues By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, April 16 (U.R) The Brookly Dodgers clattered happily hap-pily into the clubhouse after winning win-ning their opener and Jackie Robinson, seeking a secluded corner, cor-ner, took off his major league blouse slowly as if reluctant to part with it. "It felt good, very good," the first negro to reach baseball's big top said between the flashes of a piano key smile. "But they really think fast up here. Robinson, who played eight Innings as the Dodgers beat the Braves. 5 to 3, wasn't too satisfied with his own hitless performance even though he scored the winning run on Pete Reiser's seventh Inning double. Hitting second, Robinson grounded out in the first and filed out to left in the third. In the fifth, he hit into a double play, Dick Culler starting the relay while flat on his stomach. in the seventh, Eddie Stanky led off with a walk and Robingon iaid down a bunt along the first base line. Earl Torgeson hit Robinson on the arm trying to get him at first and Stanky went to third and Robinson to second on the error. Pete Reiser's double then - scored Stanky with tyin run and Robinson with the winning marker. But Robinson couldn't get over the double play ball he hit, or the fact that he was out at first on such an intricate play. "I must not have been hustling," hustl-ing," he said in self-condemnation. "In the International league I'd have been safe, but up here you can't ease up. They think an awful lot faster." "You're just getting old, Jackie," said one of the Dodgers. "Maybe so," Robinson grin ned. "But I'll just have to keep hustling and hoping. I'll get my hits sooner or later. Those bunts wil drop right for me after a while." - But Robinson wanted it made clear that he didn't go hitless because be-cause of nervousness. "I wasn't at all excited or scared," he said, protesting that FREEMAN. SHRIVER'S Provo's Finest Store for Men 1947 DAILY he would wait until the shower room was clear before making his ablutions. "I was as loose as .could be. And I can't honestly say that this was my biggest thrill in baseball. That came, I guess, when signed with Montreal. But I would have liked a couple of " bits." The wizened little clubhouse man halted in his bustling about and, shaking a finger at Robinson, said: You were looking at one of the best pitchers in the league in that f Johnny Sain, Jackie." If I wasn t, I m in for a rough season, Robinson gnnnea. Reiser walked past at that mo mnt and Robinson looiced alter him admiringly. "What a player that man is' he said. "He's a real one." Therr. going back to his first major league game, Robinson insisted in-sisted that nobody on the Braves had been "riding" him. "If they did. I didn't hear It." he said. "As far as I'm concerned they can't ride me any more than they did when I played football at UCLA or in the International league." . Most of the Dodgers were dressing by now and, as Robinson . turned to head for the showers, J his eyes fell on a pile of congratulatory con-gratulatory telegrams waiting for him. "Holy smokes," he laughed, "somebody certainly got excited about this." Certainly, Jackie Robinson a wasnt. Record Plant of Trout to Be Made SALT' LAKE CITY. April 16 (U.PJ An all-time record plant of legal-sized trout is scheduled to be made from the Midway hatchery this summer for the benefit of Utah anglers, Dave Wright, veteran hatchery superintendent, super-intendent, reported today to the Utah Fish and Game department. Indicative of the vast number of trout is the fact that the hatchery is presently using 2700 pounds of feed a day. The former record was 2000 pounds. Mtce -Ci' u 1 u S 102 |