The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-25
CIeueLand Indians On Pennant Warpath
Week End Sports Review Shows Fine
 Performances
BY STUART CAMERON United Press Shorts Editor


 New York, April 25-(UP = Opening game hysteria dispensed with Major League Baseball clubs should settle into their stride during this week of sport, and racing fans should get more definite line on next weeks Kentucky Derby.
 The first week of Major League baseball, aside from thoroughly sat- isfactory turnstile counts, gave the fans every promise of seasonal ex- citement surpassing expert predic- tionS.
 Baseball's two biggest names, Diz- zy Dean and Joe DiMaggio, made appropriate headlines. Dean, trad ed by the St. Louis Cards, to the Chicago Cubs in the most surprising deal of a decade, has pitched two games and twice the boXscore show ed: Winning Pitcher-Dean." His bow as Cub against the Reds at Cincinnati was an ordinary per- formance but yesterday, he gave 35,000 Chicago fans 4-hit per- formance while blanking his former teammates 50.
 DiMaggio, who had insisted that his San Francisco fish-chCwder res taurant was paying too well to allow him to play ball for the Tanks for less than $40,000 season, suddenly capitulated and took $25,000. TWen- ty-five grand, that is, minus what ever he is docked at a day-by1day scale of some $160, until he is in shape to play. And that, by the way, is question of the week. When will Dimag play his first game and thus get on the payroll.
 The answer. probably. is the first time the Yankees need an extraor- dinary pinch-hitter. So Joe prob abily will start collecting his $25,- 900 per year any day no wand all of us who have felt sorry for the im- poverished lad can now go back to worrying about our own rent money.
 The National League dead ball" which in the first couple of days of the season seemed to be a present. day golf ball compared to the old gutta percha, calmed it's nerves Sunday. There were only eight pitchers in action in four National League games.
 Baseball has had two 1-hitters thus far. Bob Teller had a single ton for Cleveland in his seasonal debut. And yesterday, Hal Schu- macher duplicated it for the Giants against the Dodgers. Goodwin Rosen, first man to face him. got a measly single, and that was the last Dodger hit of the day.
 For the benefit of the Philadel- phia Athletic enthusiasts who be- come frightened at the thought of looking at the standings, it should be reported that the Macks have finally won a game They came through Sunday after losing four in a TOW. On the other side. the Pittsburgh Pirates have scored six straight and are the only undefeat- ed club in either league.
 These and other things happened over the sports week end:
 William Woodward's fighting fox proved it's right as No. 2 favorite for the Kentucky Derby (stagehand is the choice) by scoring an easy win at Jamaica. The colt paid the Princely return of IA.
 Columbia, dark horse of eastern rowing, became darker by losing 2 clean sweep to navy in their 36th regatta on the strawberry crate, beer-keg, Harlem river course. Penn scored a sweep in four crew races with Manhattan at Philadelphia And Princeton's varsity eight beat Rutgers at Princeton.
 Archie San Romani. with an or dinary 4:23 performance, beat Glenn Cunningham in the mile feature of the Kansas Reays. Helen Mayer once of Germany now of California, won the national wo- mems fencing title, with Dorothy Locke of Brooklyn runner-up.