The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-04-12
SLUGGERS ARE
MEEK; HURLING
ACES ARE BAD
Yankees Did Not Look Punch
Drunk Against Athletics,
Winning 8 to 3
ABE AND BUSTER FAIL
.lremer, Pirate Pitching Ace,
Knocked From Box as
Cards Win, 14.7
ABE AND BUSTER FAIL
(By The Associated Press)

for the gridiron than the diamond,
IA teams yesterday began their an
nual bid for major league baseball
honors. Two others. Washington
and Boston, clashed in what was
just q ball game. They had stolen
. march on the field by making
their opening gestures pennantward
on Tuesday.
off work to see the eight games.
Opening day in 1927 saw 227, $50
fans in attendance although only
seven games were played.
The first general engagement
brought with it a series of sur
prises; recruits basked in the lime
light; sluggers were meek before
pitching skill; such hurting aces as
Petty, Kremer, Root, Grove and
Lyons all had nothing to show for
their first days work but a zone"
in the lost column.
Pennock Wins Opener
Wild and unsteady, Grove, the
speedball expert, lasted only three
innings against the New York
Yankees who moved down ConnlD
Mack's athletics at Philadelphia, 8
to 3. The world champions were
beaten consistently during the
spring training season but they
showed no signs of being punch
drunk" yesterday. Grove, Shores
and Powers were reached for 10
safeties, while Herb Pennock south
paved his way over the route for
the Yankees, giving up seven scat
tered hits. One of these, and two
walks, went to Ty Cobb but that
other veteran, iris Speaker, went
hitless. Babe Ruth hit no more
runs, but a triple and q pair of
passes enabled him to score thrice.
The Pittsburgh Pirates, defend
ing their National league crown,
ran into an avalanche of hits at St.
Louis and bowed to the Cardinals,
II to z. Ray Kremer, Pirate ace,
was knocked out of the box. Frisch
and Bottomley got six of Cardinals
Is safeties, each polling out home
~rn. Although hit hard, Jess
zines went the full distance for
]. Louis.
Giants Beat Braves
ed by Andy Cohen, young Jew
star, John McGraw's New York
nts vanquished the Boston
e1ves at the polo grounds. S to 2.
chen, playing in the spot graced
asst year by Rogers Hornsby, &C.
counted for four of the Giants runs
and starred afield. Larry Benton
was chary of hits and might have
mad q shutout but for the fact that
he grooved one for Bob Smith,
Braves pitcher. who propelled it in
to the bleachers with one man on
Sase.
Jimmy Ring outpitched Jess
Petty to give the Phillies q to 8
decision over Brooklyn at Ebbets
field. Petty retired in the seventh
to give Rube Bressler q chance to
double with three men on base,
scoring two runs. Harvey Hend-
rick accounted for the other dodger
tally with q home run. Two re-
eruits, Kelley and Whitney, starred
et the plate and in the field for the
phils.
A home run by Freddy Mcguire,
Rookie second baseman, saved the
Chicago Cubs from 4 shutout 1T the
hands of Cincinnati Reds at Gin
cinnati. The Reds hit Charlie Root
opportunely to win, to /. Adolf
Luque, giving the Cubs only seven
hits, was master Of the situation
throughout. Cincinnati got only
five off Root but they came after
Cub errors and that hurt.
White Sox Lose
With George Uhle showing . re-
turn to form, the Cleveland Indians
battered Ted Lyons and George Con-
nally for Is hits and beat the Chi
cago White Sox at Chicago, 8 to 2.
Uhle held the Sox batsmen under
control throughout.
Forty thousand, the largest crowd
Of the day, saw the revamped st.
Louis Browns beat Detroit at Tiger
land, I to l. Each team got but
nix hits but Detroit's two errors
were more costly than the Browns
four.
At Boston, the Washington Sena-
tors avenged their first game de-
feat 1t the hands of the Red Sox
BY hammering out an 8 to 4 vic
tory over Bill Carrigan's charges.
Four Red Sox hurlers paraded to
the mound to little or no avail. Ken
Willians' hitting was the only
bright spot from . hub viewpoint.
He got home run and two doubles.