The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-15
J. DEAN BLASTED OFF THE MOUND:
 DEMAREE HITS 2
Crowd of zO7,OOO Sees Initial GameS-GOmez
 Lost Heartbreaker
BY HENRY SUPER NUnited Press Staff COrreSnnndenfl

NUnlLeQ Press Stam COrreSpOndent)
 New York, April 15-CUP)-The count was one down and 153 to go today as 16 major league teams, freed from the tension of opening day, settled down to the campaign that leads far into September.
 Detroit's Tigers and Chicago's Cubs, picking up where they left of last year, rested atop their respec- tive circuits along with some of their keenest pennant rivals and several second division certainties.
 The 1886 openers, which saw the Cubs, Tigers and few other teams moving along in mid-season form, were played before nearly 207,00o spectators. It was one of the most successful opening days in baseball history-one which augurs well for the return to peak-year prosperity of the national paStime.
 Quite A Mixup
 AS was expected, the first games of the season in most instances failed to shed much light on where the strength is this year.
 4lAOACAAVo WOLC AC6AoJCACu All bOOAA leagues-ranging from free-hitting, sloppily played games, to pitchers duels that weren't decided until late innings. Two four hit games were pitched in the American League and one in the National.
 Only three American teams-De- troit, New York and Cleveland played errorless ball. The rest made total of 10 blunders. In the Ma tional League, only Boston and Philadelphia played perfectly. The other teams contributed IS mis- plays.
 The National League captured the days hitting honors with nine hom- CTS, two of them contributed by Frank Demaree of the Chicago Cubs. Only three circuit blows were recorded in the American League.
 No. game of the day-opened by President Roosevelt-was the Yan- kee-Senator duel. Lefty Gomez, New York left-hander, lost a heart breaking game, a duplicate of the opening game he dropped year ago when the Boston Red Sox whipped him, To, with a run in the ninth. The Senators, behind the four-hit pitching of Buck Newsome did the same thing. Reynolds dou- ble with Travis aboard won the game in the last frame.
 lIeWsome shared American League pitching honors with Schoolboy Rowe of the Detroit Ti- gers. Rowe held the Cleveland In- dians to four scattered blows as his side chalked up a 80 triumph. Hank Greenberg, Tiger first-base- man, put the game on ice with a double in the first inning which brought in two runs.
 Scoring three runs in the eighth, the Chicago White Sox won from the St. Louis Browns, 7-6. Ray Phelps, relief pitcher, won his own game with double.
 Foxx Hit Hard
 The million dollar" Boston Red Sox hammered out 8 9-4 victory over Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics. Jimmy Foxx, one of the four players Tom YaWkey bought from Mack last winter for $400,000 starred for the Red Sox, getting a triple, double and single. Wes Fer rell kept the As 10 hits well-scat- tered and struck out 10 men.
 The New York Giants whipped the Brooklyn Dodgers, 8-5, before the days largest crowd-54,39 spectators in the polo grounds. The Cubs cracked out five homers to drive Dizzy Dean from the mound and beat the Cardinals, 12-7.
 Curt Davis of the Phillies turned in the National Leagues best pitch ing performance. He held the Bos- ton Bees to four hits as the Phils triumphed, Al. Pittsburgh's Pi- rates whipped the Cincinnati Reds, 8-6.