The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-04-17
.FELLER'S NO HIT
.GAMETOPS MANY
EFFORTS.
Grove Gives Two Hits
Browns and AS Sur-
prise Tigers, Yanks
BY GEORGE KIRKSEY
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
New York, April 17-(UP)-The
noble art of pitching has come back
to the Majors in all its pristine
glory-for day anyway or maybe
longer.
Blazing fast balls, dipping, dart
ing curves and tantalizing slow balls
converted the Major League theaterI
on opening day yesterday into a
thicket full Of hurting geniuses
headed by the smoth-faced Iowa
farmboy with baSeball's greatest
pitching arm, Bob Teller.
Teller, who twice has pitched one
hit games in his glamorous career
finally crossed the threshold of the
hall of fame in Chicago yesterday
by pitching no-hit game against
the White Sox. The Indians won
10 on Jeff eHath'S single and Rol-
lie Hemsley'S triple. 1t was a clas-
sic performance and presages a re-
markable year for the kingpin of
pitchers who Is likely to flirt with
the 30-game mark. In registering
his no-hit, no-run triumph Felle1'
famed eight and walked five. HID
was in one jam. An error by Roy
Weatherly and two walks loaded the
bases in the second with one out
Then, Bullet Bob famed Rookie
Bob Kennedy to come through un+
Scathed.
Feller'S performance was thu
brightest effort of a day on which
pitching brilliance sparkled in TIL
eight openers witnessed by a tota
of l83,902 persons, one of the big
gest turnoutS in recent years. OnlJ
two clubs in both leagues made a
many as 10 hits-the lowly Brown
getting exactly 10 off the Tigers and
the Pirates taking smuggling honor
with Is smackS against the Car
dinalS.
Grove Gave Two
But for Feller's magnificent Ell
fort, OF Nose Grove would haV
won the laurel wreath. The 40'
year-old Grove starting his 16t
Major League campaign, let tn
Senators down with two infield hit
before President Roosevelt and 81
600 fans in Washington as the Re
Sox triumphed, 10.
Grove himself had a no-hitter UNI
til the eighth when Cecil Trav
broke the spell by singing off Jill
Tabor'S ShinS. For seven frames Ia
retired q successive men in ordGE'
Then he helped win his own gam
with a single off second basemar
Bloodworth'S glove. Bloodworth r
covered the ball but Rick Ferr(
dropped his throw at the plate al
Doerr scored.
The YankS, minus the services
the great Joe DiMaggio went dow
to defeat in a 10-inning hurlii
battle between Red Ruffing al
Chubby Dean, each allowing
hits. But for an error by $45,0
Benny Mccoy, Dean would ha
won in regulation time, 10. Dear
fly with the bases loaded won f
the AS 81.
George Coffman, ex-Tiger, ma
his old mates jump through hoo
as the Browns beat Detroit, s.
Coffman gave up only seven hi
banking the Tigers after the frs
Buck Newsom walked home VIII
proved to be the winning tally vii
the bases loaded in the fifth.
Higbee Beats Hubbell
The National, pitchers league, RAJ
second in hurting brilliance ye}
terday. Kirby Higbee, Pills your
fastballer, pitched the senior Gil
cults best game when he outduele
King Carl Hubbell to give Philade
phia 81 victory over the Giant
Higbe yielded only three hits bl
might have lost, 10, if Rookie SEQ
ond Baseman Nick Witek hadrI
gupmed up a double-play ball
the eighth. Witek got neither ma
and Gus Suhr followed with hon
err. Hubbell permitted only six hi
until he left the game for pinch
hitter in the eighth.
Paul Derringer and Bill Lee pl
on a sparkling duel at Cincinna
with big Paul and the Reds viii
ming from the Cubs, 81. Derring
allowed six hits and Lee eight. Eve
run was a homer-F'rank McCo
mick and wal Goodman (the Wi
ner) hitting one each and Aug
Galan getting the Cubs.
Whit Wyatt, performing on
ailing knee, pitched the Dodgers
a SO win over the Bees, auowd
only five hits. The Bees tried
bunt Wyatt but his teammates co
cred up his slow-moving deficien(
Manager Leo Durocher enliven
the game by drawing a line (crd
it and you're out of the game)
Umpire Bill KLEIN and getting aw
with it.
The Pirates, making their DEB
under frankie Frisch, slammed
Is hits to beat the Cardinals, 8
Ray Blades, who dotes on juggli
his pitchers, had four hurlers
action trying to stop the Pirat
Bob Klinger had the Cards blanl
until the sixth when they put acr
a four-run rally. Dick Lanai
mopped up, allowing only one hit
the last three innings.
CELTIC HERREWS9