The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-19
YANKEES LOSE
OPENING
FOR 3RD YEAR
President Hurls No. | Ball
as Senators Beat AS
by 1913 Score
By GEORGE KIRkSEl ,
United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, April 10. (UP)-
The world champion New YORK
Yankees are supcrStitiouS ball
club--thcy won't walk under 4
laddc~, light three on match OF
cross the path of 4 black car
Mavbc that's Why they lost she
opening game of the 1888 Amer
lean league season TO the Red ooN
Yesterday at Boston, 81.
They lost the opening game m
1896 and went on to win thS
American league rcnnant ana the
world title. They did the same
thins last year. Now that they VIC
lost their opening day game they
can settle down for the next I"'
games and prove their right 70
rule the baseball world.
With only 1900 persons IL
Fcnway Park, the Red SoX shell
ed Charlie THE RcO Rutilng;
Yankee ace. from the mound ana
poured six runs over the plate III
q sixth inning rally which enabled
Tom Yawkey'S golden boys to get
off flying. Showers and IA wet
field married the game. -.
While the YankS were taking II
on the chin from the Red Son:
President Roosevelt, in the role 't
the nations No. fan, tossed out
thc first ball before Il crowd pt
20 900 in Washington. Then the
senators hammered out an anV''
cboruS of Is hits to blast out
I2.S victory over the Philadelphia
Athletics. guided by 75-year-ol0
Connie Mack, oldest active man
i'm baseball.
Those two American league
Games marked the official start
of the Tooth year Of baseball
Rack in 1889 Abner Doubleday
laid out the first diamond in Coop"
erstown. y. Y. Today all Is cIu1S
will be in action in the grand
openinr. with Patriots day dou--
blchcadcr between the hanks anu
Rcd SOx at Boston thrown IN lot
good measure.
Two developments. perhaps
more important than the actual
winning and losing OF Monday
games occurred TO whet the appe-
fitc of baSeball'S fans the coun-
try over. Z. X. Wrigley, owner OF
the Chicago Cubs, announced Oh
ficiallv that the sum of cash m
yolved in Dizzy Deans acQuISt-
tior from the Cardinals was
SlS5.OOO. That sum seems 10 an
swcr skcpticS who were saying
Dizzy Deans arm is dead or
else Wrigley is the biggest IaI'
cuv" i'm baseball annals.
While the GankS were blowing
the opener. Joe DiMaggio. SenSa,
tional young centerfelder and
main spoke in two world title
teams denied report circulated
in New York that he would call
General Manager Ed Barrow by
long distance telephone and agree
10 sign at Col. Jacob Rupert 5
fpure of $4,000. DiMaggio told
the United Press in San Francis
co that his fsherman's wharf res
taurant was making enough mon
cv for him to decline anything
loss than a $4,000 contract. Here
in New York Col. Rupert reit-
Grated that he will not pay Dlm H6G,,
rio "a cent more than SZo'OVo
and added that Joe would lose one one
davis salary ($162.30) Tor eacn
day he was not in condition u
play. D.,,;,s srbsti.
tutc's fault that the 1anks lost
MvriI Hoag, playing center Tor
the Yanks, handled four chances
perfectly, hit single and u0u,
HE and drove in two of the TANKS
four runs. ,
Joe Gordon, YankS second
bascman and the years most
highly publicized rookie, made an
inauspicious debut. He went hit
less i'm four times at bat, striking
out twice. rolling out once and
flying out the other time. He ham
died four chances without flaw.
The rookie of the day was
Young jim Bagby son of the old
time Cleveland pitcher who faced
the Yanks in his major league de-
but and held them to five hits in
six innings and received credit
for a victory over the great Ruff
fling. Bagby was relieved by a
pinch-hitter during the Red SoX
big rally and Archie McKain, fin
ishing the game, allowed only one
hit in the last three innings.
The big blows in the Red SOX
sixth inning uprising were struck
by Bobby Doerr, whose double
drove in two runs, Roger Cramer
whose double accounted for an,
other pair. Jimmy Foxx, whose
single produced one run, and Man,
ager Joe Cronin, whose double