The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-19

| STANCE TO PUZZLE
!. AMERICAN HURLERS
Cold Weather Keeps Opening
Oay Crowd at Stadium
Down to $1,000
. ATHLETICS WIN AGAIN
Giants Give Unkempt Display IN
Defeating PhiIIie Out
fit II to 9

INV the ASS0cl2teo IIeesy
whatever the fate Of the Yankees
IN their fourth Quest for the rainboWs
crd and its pot of pennant gold.
American league pitchers are due 10
snend MANY anxious afternoons Try
inc To circumvent Babe Ruin DenI
,,non battering down the fences IN
left field instead OF right. employing
AN entirely new stance at the pia'c'
With his left foot swung back almost
o,,t of the batter's box. the big bam-
hino opened his 1929 campaign with
= homo run in his first attempt yes
terday and so started the Yankees
toward a 7 to 3 triumph over the Reo
soy In the first game at the Yankee
stadium.
Is Pitchers Puzzle
Ruth in his new stance presents an
entirely different puzzle to pitcnels
who already had decided that his only
weakness was a base on balls. Win
tho babe standing back and firing AZ
the left side, fielders also may have
their troubles playing for. the pig
slurrer. Bill Carrigan's system OF
.playine him straight may be the
best after all.
The Yankee opening was Ruins
very own. With his bride OF oay
stationed in box near the New YORK
bench. the Babe started the season
rirht with his left field homer. ana
after that everything he did was
rirht. Lou Gehrig hit his homer IN
tte ~ixth hit the fans remained the
Babes.
The cold weather kept the opening
day crowd down to $4,000 hardy cn-
cnts, but good half Of these moooeo
the home run king In friendly Dut
vigorous fashion at the close. He was
rather done up from none too gentle
SLABS on the back as he gained the
sanctuary Of the Yankee dugout.
Yank Debut Typical
All the usual frills, and few more,
marked the Yankee debut. Judge
Lands presented the Hugmen with
wrist watches. emblematic Of the
worlds championship. Col. Jacob
Ruppert and E. S. Barnard. president
of the league. led members Of both
teams to the flagpole, where the usual
three banners were unturled, and
ball game was played.
George Pipgras carried his wildncs'
into the championship season. ant
Miller Huggins yelled enough Will
ono out In the sixth. the bases full O
Red Sox. the Yanks only one rur
ahead, and two balls called on th'
batter. The curve ball star had giver
only three hits, but had decorated
them with nine bases on balls. Fret
Heimach halted the disturbance, Geh
RIG hit his homes, and the Yankee
went on to win.
Charlie Ruffing and Milton Castor
worked for the Red Sox. Charlie wa
good for the Babes homes. ana NIL
for Louis.
The Athletics made it two straigh
over the Senators at Washington
winning BY 8 to 2. Rube Walberg. ou
for his first canter. never was u
danger after the Mackmen got hin
six runs In the fifth.
The Browns won their third straigh
from the White Sox by to !, and tn
H Cleveland Indians made it two out Q
CIICC IIO01 0Vt1OAV WAVAA oss w
victory.
Giants Are Unkcmpt
The eastern opening OF the Ma
tional league was just as frost-bittel
as that of the American, and NOR
dismal. The Giants gave an unkemp
display In defeating the Phillies b
II to 9. and the less said about Bos
tons 13 to IL victory over Brooklyn
the more charitable it will be for q
concerncd-including the 5000 ven
turesome Bostonese who paid to see i
AS the giants, with Larry Bento
In the box, sagged before q Phil
rally in the ninth, distant rumble
drifted from the Chicago front, wher
Bruin howitzers again were blastan
. path through Pirate defenses. Th
cubs won by II to behind Sheri1
Fred Blake, and made 1t two out
three from the Buccaneers.
Jesse Haincs outpitched Adolph
LuQue at Cincinnati to give the cham
pion Cardinals two out Of thre
against the Reds 50 far In the open
ing series. The score was 3 to !.