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Show Sunday Herald IJ 17 WASHINGTON (UPl)-W- Qpen Baseball Season Monday ork- con under a new four-yetract, let fly with a ceremonial first pitch Monday to fulfill an unStill the best trout fishing right now is Flaming written Presidential duty that Gorge Reservoir out Daggett County way. More open has signalled "play ball" since Lag ar Xyndon.Jownl water is showing up each day around the Cedar Springs ramp and ether spots it the lower end of the Jake though not enough is clear of ice to make for boating room yet. At the upper end of this big pond it is ice free where the lake broadens out between AnteLorxe t Flat and Lucerne Valley. Boat x ' lishermen there .the past week , nave been taking limits of ram- bow dressing an average three quarters of a pound. Both troll-In- g and casting almost any kind of hardware has been productive. You can launch any but the big- - 1910. between the Washington Sena tors and Boston Red Sox before more than 40,000 fans. Under a custom begun by President William Howard Taft in 1910, the ' first baseball thrown out by a chief executive has become an American sign of spring like the first robin or sulphur and molasses. In recent years, the Senators' opener in the nation's capital Even the fact that eight oth er cities will nave opening games on the same day won't diminish the symbolism of the inaugurali prow by Johnson hasJieeniherilyneJnJhe that will precede the meeting American League. In the Na tional League, Cincinnati has usually opened on the same date. This year, play will start in three other American League cities. New York is at Minnesota, Detroit at- - Kansas City and Cleveland at Los Angeles. The " -A-- 1 mmmm in Atlantans Get Look i By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press International The city of Atlanta was feeling mighty pleased today with its first look at its new $18 million baseball stadium and its team of the fu ture, the Milwaukee Braves, who opened the stadium with a ATLANTA (UPI) . It is also expected that the whole lake will be Ice free within a couple of weeks and this will allow cruising the whole length of the lake through the No problems launching at anv time, from gorge. tne two sorest Service ramps at Cedar Springs and Dutch John just above the dam since these extend into the water at all times. 6-- two-stat- , CLOSER to home the best producer continues to be Deer Creek where we gave it a late afternoon-evenin- g try one day last week. Doc DaCosta and LeRoy Johnson were our companions again as we hiked down the railroad tracts from the upper end and fished near where the Provo crosses the mud flats and goes Into the lake. Lures they didn't like so well so we settled for some 20 fish using crawlers and cheese with about equal success. Most were pan size to ten inches with a few in the pound or better class. ' More of the smaller size will show up now with - the late plants made from the SpringviUe hatchery where J. D. Ford had to move out some of the catchabie size rainbow because of crowding in the new raceways. Incidentally, next, best thing for the fishing fever is a visit about now to the SpringviUe hatchery. Though the landscaping of the grounds has not been completed since construction of the new ponds a year ago, you will see thousands of fine fish as well as where your fishing license dollars are put to work. Plus the fact that the kids love such visits. that the piranha may ment of all other fishes therein. Piranha are those fierce South American fish with sharp teeth which are used with deadly effect on other living creatures, , Seems tropical fish dealers are shipping them into our sister state and others as well where they are sold, sometimeu under a different name, for display in both private and commercial aquariums. All of which is illegal under California state law as it is in Utah and the authorities there are cracking down on the importers and dealers now dealingMn this unwelcome member of the fishery family. ' The foregoing underlines again that many well meaning people are not aware' of problems created when undesirable fish species are care- bssly or intentionally stocked in public waters, This was the major reason for discontinuing any nss of live bait fish in Utah waters many years ago ton manv of us were carrying udesirable fish to waters as yet not infested with them. Here they got off the hook or were turned loose to displace tne trout and other wanted fish as they Increased in numoer. Heaven forbid the piranha ever gets in our waters. We ire in enough trouble with carp and other unwanted rough fishes, and we several hundred thousand dollars in recent years' to remove overpopulations of these fish irom our waters, Certain solution is simple if we abide by the law which says no fish may be stocked without approval of the department of Ilsn and game. Yours for fun, , have-expende- Casey. fa victory over Detroit. . . - ' For Rugged Wear! 2-- ing debut," declared Braves emptied the multi-hea- d stadium Manager Bobby Bragan after in nine minutes, just as the e Friday night s exhibition vic ballyhoo said was possitory in the first contest ever to blebe played in the new arena just Johnson At Game ; a mile south of Georgia's gold- The i game's most distin domed state capital. President guished spectator, And that just about summed B. Johnson, was one of Lyndon' of baseball the up the feelings the few who left the stadium fans of Atlanta. V) t nuiirny 'I in before the game was over. The mi rj They had turned out 60,000 THE PROFESSOR AND THE DOCMHanager Casey StenPresident stayed through the to hail the at strong midday gel of the New York Mets greets Dr. Dominic Principato, nine innings, watching the first Braves, who are scheduled to the man behind a form of baseball madness called from the private box of game Milwaukee in from' move here The doctor is the Mets No. 1 fan. Astro Roy Hofheinz 1966, at a downtown motorcade. Then 37,232 strong, they came and Bob Smith. out at night to see the ball Although he was not around when pinchhitter Nellie Fox game that opened a three-gam- e weekend series against Detroit. pumped a single through the Several things about the middle to score Jim Wynn with park the winning run,' the President gleaming - like the was deeply impressed with the were unfinished parking lot, which had only colorful show. MIAMI BEACH (UPI)-R- eprepresentation in administering 1,500 parking spaces instead of "ft has been a delightful eve resentatives of National Foot- player pension fund monies, the future 4,300. And the hot ning," Johnson said. "I believe ball - League - (NFL- )- players and they got what they wanted. dog counters were late opening, came out of their first negotiatUp to now, league Commis leaving folks who hurried from ing session with club owners sioner Fete Kozelle and two work to the ball park mighty SETS UP HEADQUARTERS Friday with just about every- representatives ' from outside hungry for a while. SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (UPI) thing they wanted. But they found the park com the league, considered impar The National Soccer Coaches "I am completely satisfied," tial to owners or players, have fortable and the playing field in Association of America, which said Ordell Braase, the big Bal- administered the fund, which fine shape. has a membership of about timore Colt end who is presi- now has assets of some $4 milFirst they saw Tommie 1,000 college and high school dent of the Players' lion and provides up to $821 a Aaron, a product of Mobile, coaches, has established its na month in retirement payments Ala., hammer the first home tional in Spring"But they didn't turn the to players who qualify when run in the park that will house field. headquarters Dixie's first major league team league over to Us," he added they reach 65. with a grin. blast into the a three-ru- n The current outside represent of the United Population The biggest demand made by lower left field seats about 349 States will reach 200 million beatives are Ted 'Etherington, the player representatives of fore the end of 1967, at the of the American feet away in the first inning, the 14 league, clubs, when they president Stock Exchange, and Clyde present rate of growth. joined the owners' group for Vendenburg, Los Angeles pub- NBA Playoff Standings g the meeting was for he relations executive. By United Press International SPORTS FANS! The agreement worked out Eastern Division Friday and announced after the (Best Of Seven) W. L. meetings will increase the size of the administering board to Boston 2 For 6ET I I five, comprised of the league Philadelphia 1 'A- Western Division commissioner, two outside rep SALT LAKE CITY (UPI)YOU I W. L 1 Deadline for entering the Ice resentatives of owners and two of one Los 2 2 Angeles Breaker Tournament, first meet player representatives, 2 2 on the Utah Tennis Association's them an active player and one Baltimore retired and both with the mini 1965 schedule, is April 13. Friday's Results The event wifl be held April mum five years playing experi Baltimore 114 Los Angeles 112 4 at the Salt Lake Swim ence required to qualify for Philadelphia 134 Boston 131 (ot) 71 pensions and thus give them a by Ed Givan" ming and Tennis Club. I 1 in the fund Janice Romney Stevens, meet vested interest trick (porta , Hn'( said she expects a big director, r-- T Thr mic tfen far y " field of contestants, including "A spokesman said the owners wai major UogiM kai.ball AND SAVE! playor who batttd only .2)4 top players from the Brigham hope Etherington will remain WITH A M momo, had only tw ' Young University and Univer on the board as an owner rep homan art yaar and drev. q sity of Utah varsity teams. . resentative. HERTZ TRUCK only 14 ruM . . . Yt, h wen The owners also agreed to rh. 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At least for Some 38 of the states were and muggy. known to be represented in the Inside the dome, the 6,600 night baseball. - room - only crowd, tons of air conditioning worked standing Things may be a bit different which flowed smoothly into so well one of the few comtoday when the players, start seats whose color matched mat plaints came about the cool fussing and fuming about losing of their tickets. the temperatures despite the flight of a fly ball in the Went Smoothly smoke and hot air generated by smoky ray glare of the girder-lace- d Ticket manager Dick McDow- the nearly 50,000 bodies each plexiglas domed cover.. ell said that "from the stand- ovna iff OTvmvwimotnltf 3A But Friday night, there was point of ushering and . everyt- BTUS of heat.hardly a murmur of complaint hing," it has been exceptionalThe average fans, as well as as tne Houston Astros made ly smooth." the players, seems to lose any their successful debut in the The dome, which will permit feeling of being indoors. (31.6 million air condition allsports arena billed as the And the Braves, too, are feel ing pleased with their first look "world's eighth wonder." at the stadium especially the A crowd of 47.876 saw the batters. Astros edge the New York Yan"It was a very, very satisfy kees 1 In 12 innings,' then -- For those who do fish the upper end of the lake above the Utah hne.the reminder again this year that TJtahns must purchase and affix to their license a $2 Wyoming stamp same as Wyoming folks must pure chase such a "Utah stamp under the re ciprocal agreement for this week. 3 right-hande- h ; ' ... one-tim- record stands at 11 wins and 1 nine losses. Johnson, in his first outing, saw the Senators blanked by the Los Angeles Angels, a year ago. A Senator official observed after Johnson was given an official season pass and Invited to attend the ooener: "After his landslide last November, we'd like to run up just as big a score against the Red Sox." Houston Astrodome Proves Success At Braves Knot, im aiVinw tVio AnoVinA or Lucerne sides of the bay even though the two major concrete ramps are now out of the water because of a 30 vertical foot drop in the lake since the draw down to meet downstream commitments was begun last fall. Launching now is from the roadway on each side which crossed the valley and the Green River prior to and during the building of the dam. It is expected that six weeks from now, the major ramps will be back in business as the snow melt begins to fill the lake up again. trov including man. Sox will V J CALIFORNIA is worried White Chicago meet the Baltimore .Orioles at Baltimore Tuesday in the only delayed curtain-raise-r. full slate of five games is on tap in the National League: Los Angeles at New York, San pitcher Walter Johnson on ApFrancisco at Pittsburgh, St. ril 14, 1910. 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