Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-13
ALL BIC LEAGUE
BASEBALL TEAMS
PLAY FIRST GAME
Weather Man Is Kind TO
Club Owners and
Fans.
PHILLY PATRONS LAUGH
AT GOTHAM'S CITIZENS
Athletics and Quakcrs Win.
but Yanks and Giants
Both Lose.
TwENTN-rHnEE ERRORS MADE
"e""n Mathematician Authority for
N"b,bcr of MISrurs-ittrnd
nncc Good Eycr,whrrc
ny Mcsthrnnk Ierl.-

NEW YORK, April l..-rrom IN.
tangled raspberry thickets of Harlan,
TO the trackless sauerkrout swamns
"' south st. Louis. this broad. brave
land st!ll trcmbles ana Jigyl.s with
nervous excitement incidental TO the.
celebration OF baseball's latest birth
day.
The getaway got away on ali six
teen cylinders, which is more than
even Uncle charli. Ebbcts. Of Fiat
huSh' would dare to hope for in April
when showers arc supposed to bo
rife and cold waves are alwavs an
ncipated in at least one OF the eight
big league cities which saw baseball
simultaneously today. Hoping costs
nothing at all, so Uncle Charlie ,s
ono Of the most omnivcrous hopers
In the noncommcrcial club-owninG
aranch Of the sport.
Not only was the weather very
Kind to tho big leagues. lu. tho
games so broke that for at lcas,
twenty-four hours the meek and
humble clubs OF the game. the rhlI-
lies and Cubs and tho Athletics find
themselves heirs 10 the earth Their
standing is a proud mark OF 1000.
and beyond tha, no bail club may ever
hope To rise. Just for day. per-
maps these three toredoomed in
mates OF the second divisions asso-
c'ate on equal terms in the club
standings with the best there Is in
the game
Giants Inncid Porous.
Tomorrow they may start thei.
losing. hut now they are ranked :
Games. !: won. /; lost. o: percentage.
LOCO. And even the mighty Giants.
champions OF the world, must lo6k
up 10 them. for the priceless infeld
OF the New York club proved slightly
porous today. and the errors con-
tributcd 10 record like this Games.
l. won, o; lost. /; percentage 900
Two recruits acquired and fe-
vcloped by Uncle wlbcrt Robins.
OF the Dodgers. had most 20 do wits-
the defeat Of the Giants. De E.rry,
a catcher. cot two hits in four times
at bat. off Arr Ncn. including n
double in the sixth. which scored
Tommy Gri,ii;h from third with III.
'Nh lH't meant d"!c eat Tor Inc Giants.
And Andy High, the little shortstop
pluckcd from the champion Memph is
club, OF the Southern Association.
also scored a run. Andy was an ex-
trcmely handy young man at III.
shortfield post also. and his extra
ordinary stop OF Beauty Bancroft's
murderous line drive in the first in
ming. which was labelled n single.
got him of to a nice start in the
big leagues.
, Dutch Rcuthcr's support. even
though the Dodgers made two err
rors behind him. saved him from de-
feat for /; was the fielding which
accounted for the expiration of
eleven Giants on tho bags. In tn,
second inning and again in the third
the Giants loaded the bags and the
bali game was riding in the bats
mans wand. Then Eeuther pitched
and his fieldcrs feldcd and the
Giants hopes were demolished.
The day was prolific Of many errors
all around the circuit. The Giants
and Dodgers each made two. there
were three in the Cubs and Reds
game. two in the tes-Ca,dinals'
opener four divided between the ri
gers and Indians in Cleveland. three
IN the Brown victory over Tho
whit" Sox in Chicago. and another
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