The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-04-19
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AT CUBS PARK
Cincinnati Redlegs Beat Chi.
cago Despite Homers by
Cuyler and Webb
EASTERLING HITS LONG
fnlians Shell White Sox
Pitchers-Yankees lombard
Boston Red SOx
(By The Associated Press)

Not to be outdone by the popular
ity achieved by Andy Cohen. Frank
Lefty" O'Doul, just Z broth Of
boy, has crashed through to CO.
stardom on McCraw's Cosmopolitan
Gaicties.
O'Doul went over with . bang
when he sewed up the game with
the Phillies yesterday by smashing
q homer in the first inning with one
on base. The audience clamored for
an encore when Lefty had the spot
light again in the third inning and
he obliged with his second success
sive homer.
When he was called upon for an
other turn in the fifth inning,
Pitcher Augie Walsh had lot OF
respect for McGraw's Pacific coast
league headliner and gave him .
base on balls. After the ninth inn
ing curtain, the Giants were In
front by s to I.
Benton, moundsman for the
Giants, gave but seven hits and
they were two more than allowed by
the opposition. Walsh allowed only
five safeties in five innings and his
successor, Pruett, none for the re-
mainder Of the contest. Cohen went
hitless.
Daxzy Dazzles EN-
Dazzy Vance, the speed ball king,
struck out five batters in pitching
the Robins to . 10 to 5 victory over
the Braves. Partridge featured for
the flock with three safeties in
four times up which sent three runs
over the plate. Called to Boston by
the death Of his mother, Manager
Jack Slattery left Rogers Hornsby
in command of the Braves.
Home run drives by Xxi Cuyler
and Webb failed to win for the Chi
cago Cubs Is the Cincinnati Red
legs carried off the seasons opener
1t Chicago by . to 6. National
League opening attendance records
were broken when $4,000 fans
jammed Wrigley field to look upon
the 1928 edition Of tho Cubs. The
Reds came from behind in the ninth
with . four-run splurge to rout the
Bruins.
The Athletics went under again
before the heavy hitting Of the Sem
ators, II to s, and are the only ma
jor leaguers viii have yet to hang
up Z triumph in the campaign. The
veteran hurler, Jack Quinn, was
chased to the showers in the second
inning Is the Washington band
broke loose with . Suggest to score
seven runs. Jing johnson finished
for The Mackmen and the opposing
pitchers were Zachary and Braxton.
Rock Hits Long One
Gwen Carroll, ex-star Of Holy
Cross, stopped the Browns with six
scattered hits while his Tiger mates
rung up . 4 to decision. In the
ninth inning, Rookie E&sterling
cracked . homer for Detroit which
was the longest ever seen at Sports
mans park in st. Louis.
Inaugurating the start Of the sea-
con at Cleveland the Indians shelled
Pitchers Adkins and Wilson with 13
hits to down the White Sox by Z TO
]. Shaute kept eight Sox hits well
distributed. The tribe hammered
Adkins off the peak in the fifth
inning by grouping six hits for five
runs.
The Yankees coastsd to IN easy
triumph over the Red Sox, 10 10 Z,
6ombarding Boston pitchers with Is
hits. Waite Hoyt went the distance
for New York allowing Il hits, in
Guiding . home run BY Ken Viii.
Hams. Lou Gehrig connected for Z
double and two singles in four
chances while Ruth got = single In
throo times up.