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THE

  CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM,

  ELYRIA,

  OHIO

Wednesday. April

 17

M

iece  Is  Opening Day  Featu

Rustling  Thru

.

 . Sports .

 .

With  USS  DAVIES

Recrea tion Five

  Is  Second Half

:

 A ll-C ity

 Champ  ;

j «rYKREXTS  Recreation clinched *

  ft the  secoiui  half

  championship

 ,

. of the  All-City

 League

 by  triasming

uz s

  Feller

  After  Ao- f f i f f er

Greofest

  Aduevenisnr

FROM MY LATE afternoon nap just in time to

Cleveland Indians

  to a no-run, n o-hit

  victory over

  the

Sox in the  openin g game  of the  1940 American  League

Lturallv.

  I couldn't believe my ears.

  thought that popped  into my  head  was: "That guy Graney

 "uts

 " But that thought soon vanished for I remembered having

 this past Winter and

  found

 him to be a most

 sensible

 sort of

  versed

  in the

  game

 of  baseball.

  Therefore

  it

  wouldn

 t  oe

  to  fool

  his  public by  . -

 an

  untruthful

  statement over  the emer  waves. But  I  st-li

 doubts I had were dispelled a few minutes

 later,

 nowever. ween

  report came  from Harry

 Wismer. I

 knew then that

  21-year-ola

  actually entered  baseball's hall of  fame.

 "ame  as anyone must know is a  rarity

  ineeeo.

 in

 baseball.

 on the  opening  day of the  season

  makes

  the  feat  all the

  and its  author  all the  greater.  Such  a  feat *-

we

-f- ;

  stupendous,

 colossal

 will

(

0

°

 i°

J that Abner

  Doubleday turned over in

 nis

  grave.  i

during

 his  less

  than  four full  years

  in the

  major leagues,

 has *

Tot  of things and contributed plenty toward making

  basebal

but  hell never  do anything  that will approach  his  feat  of yes-

1

 the

  Gardner Jewelers

  in

  two

  of

1  three games  of

  their

  match  last  

evening at

  Wykrent's

  Recreation.  \

The Recreation team has now won

. 31

 games

  and

  lost

  11 and

  is

  out of

reach  of its nearest opponent, the

. Gardner  Jewelers  who

  have

  won

t

27 and  lost  15.

  Each

  team has one

 '

loop match

 remaining

 on its sched-

'

 ule.

. To Roll Federal Store

As a

 result

  of winni ng the

  second

 •

half champion Federal Store  rn  the

roll-off

 for the season championship.

Date  of the  match

  will

  be an-

nounced

  later.

High team in last

 night's

 matches

was the Electro  Alloys

  with

  a  total

of

  2813-

  High  individual  honors ; f

on

  October  2.

 1938

  the Iowa farm lad  established  a major

 bv striking

 out 18 Detroit

 Tigers.

 the  major  league mark for most  strikeouts in two

  consecu-

  three one-hit  games.

  out six

  straight

 batsmen in the  October  2. 193S

  ;*-

 American League in  strikeouts in both 1938 ana  1939

 of

 these

 are

  small

 in comparison  to what he  did yesterday-

  Just  Ahead

 SEASOX

 IS

JTCST

 AHEAD FOR

The

 weather-

\Attendance Figures

  :

:For Opening Day  •

•\MEKICAX LEAGUE  ;

j Boston at Washington 31000

 J

*V ew York at

  Philadelphia

  20187

 I

;5t. Louis at Detroit -  43417;

I

 Cleveland

 at

  Chicago

ZVATIOXAL

  LEAGUE

•Chicago

  at Cincinnati

34342;

ith

  largest in

  Cincinnati  his-

OUOt-rVSU-' iO

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 î j»™»—

.

 .

-

.

.smooth-faced  Iowa  farwboy

  uith

ba^eballV

  greatest

  puclmij  _

j

 arm.  Bob  Keller.  .. . t Las- season the  clubs f

I  KeHer.  who  ha-  pitched three  one-hit  jrames in Ins glamor- •

 KaRbaS Cly

  Minneapolis. 

•ous  career  rinallv  crossed  the

  threshold

  of the  hall  of  fame  m , ̂ j^ Louisville.

 S:

  Paul

H-hiea-o

  vesierdav

  bv  pitching a  no-hit

  jrauie

  asahirf  the White

  ke

e.

 Columbus. Toledo, at e

iso"

"The

  hKiians

 won

 1-0

 w

Jeff  Heath', .ingle and 

i

 I lemslevV

  trsple tu  ;he  lourth.

  j

 25

  First

  Place Votes

1

  It  \va-  a classic  performance  and

  presaire*

  a remarkable;

  In the

pool

  of

  sports

Uar for

  the

  kingpin  of

 pitchers

  who is

 likely

  to  flirt  «.ih **%££Cuy ̂ ̂J

; 30-trame mark .  In

  re-ii^enujr

  Ins no-hit,  no-run triumph

  teller

,

 

fi

 ̂^

secon(Jsten

thi

i  fanned  ei"hi

and walked five. He was

  in

 one

 jam.

  An

 error

 b y j

 fourlhs

and

one

gf-.h;  Min

:Ro\

  Weather'v

 and two walks,

  loaded

 the bases in the second | two first*, eight seconds, 

|uhh two

  out.'

  Then  Keller fanned Rookie  Bob  Kennedy  to i six^fourths. on e nft

 come

  throug h m:. enor.  getting the

  Cubs'.

  The  opening  day  sched

pitciung  brilliance  sparged

 

*" Lurls  Shutout  I*" C:ty  at  Toledo;  Milw

eight

  openers  witnessed

  by a

  total "*

performing on an

|Coiumbus; Minneapolis 

» t w o  clubs in  bo;h  leagues

  made

 as

many as 10 hits—the  lowly  Browns

[getting

  exactly

  10 off the

  Tigers

land  the Pirates  taking slugging

 honors with

  15

 smacks against

  the

1

 Cardinals.

But for  Feller's  magnificent

 ei-

I fort

  Ol

Mose Grove would have

Whit

iv f ive  hits-  The Bees tried

 

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Wyatt but h« teâare a.  -̂̂ -̂ --̂

"-Meager™DuVotht

 -«iulfseasons

 as

 pilot

i

  enlivened

  th e  game by   drawing a   i

 

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 A

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  r

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 \ Olympics copoed

  two

  from

  Kamil- I

' ' Speed Kings.

  A third match

;

4 38

3 6 1

ton

rolled"

 s="

Valerius Rovers

  take

 j Conn

  Offered $15,000

  two  from Volfc  Flyers.

  r

Tjflp  Defense

I   High team was the Olympics with  "

  lc

3

-

44

  I 2 542

  High individual

  was

  Andy  i

—

55

 ' G'owiski  of the  Banners with

  611

 •

  CLEVELAND.

 O_ April  1. —

4.19  

4 58 i

won

  the  laurel  wreath.  The 40-

vear -old

  G:u\

 e.  starting  his

 16th

major league  campaign.  Eet tne

, Senators down wiin

 two

  infield  hits

j before  President  Roosevelt  arid

31000

  farts

  in Was hington as the

•  Red Sox  triumphed.  1-0

Helps Win Own Game

Grove himself  had a  no-hitter

• until the  eighth when  Cecil  Travis

j  broke  the

  spell

  by  singling  off  J:m

'Tabor's

  shins

  He

  helped  win  his

own game

  with

 a single off second-

b a s e in a n Bloodworths  glove.

Bloochvorth recovered  the

  bail

  but

j Rick

  Ferrell

  dropped his throw at

:

 the

 plate

 and

  Doerr  scored.  |

 

The Yanks, minus the  services of

>

\ the

  great

  Dimaggio

  went down

  to '

 defeat in  a  I0-inning hurling battle '

j between  Red Ruffing and  Chubby '

Dear, of the Athletics,

  each

  allow-

i ing s ix  hits.  But for an

  error

  by .

i 345000 Benny McCoy. Dean would

•  have

  won  in

  regulation,  tune.

  1-0.'

,.   . - , .

  _.^_  .„«.=  - * ~   •- _

  '

 Dean's  fly  with  the  bases  loaded

Manager

 Oscar

  Vitt of

 the

  Cleveland Indians puts

  his

  official  o. k

  wo

f

Or

  {he  A's  2-1 j

on

 the

 dav's  play

 by

  giving young

 Bob

 Feller. Cleveland's

 ace

 hurier.

 a

  Coffman  Beats  Old  Mates

 |

great  big

" h u g .

  after  Feller  mace

 baseball history

  by  pitchtng  a

  no-hit.

^

  George  Coffman.

  ex-Tiger,

  made j

no-run gaine"against  the Chicago White  Sox

  in

  Chicago yesterday,  . his old  mates jump  through  hoops .

Below.

  the~2I-yesr-old strikeout champion

  is

  shown delivering

  the j

 as

the

  Browns beat

  Detroit.

 J>-1.

 i

ball

  as he did

 vesterdav in whiiewasning

  tie

  Paie Hose

  without a

  hit. ;

 Coffman

  gave

  up

  or.ly sever, hits.

 

(Acme Telecfaotos;  j blanking the -i

 igers

  after  the  first. ,

——

i Buck Newsom walked home what

 

proved to be the winning tally  with

the bases  loaded in the  fifth

JEWELERS PRACTICE.

Vic  Silver's Jewelers  p

day, tomorrow

  and Frid

American Lace diamond a

each day. A'I mernoers of

are  asked  to  take notice

hr.e

  (.cross it and you re out of

 the

game*

  on Umpire Bill  Klem  and

getting away with

  it

The

  Pirates,

  making  their  defcy*.

under

 Frankie  Frisch slammed

  out

15  hits to beat the Cardinals . 6-4

Ray

  Blades,  xvho  dotes

  on

  juggling

hs"

  pitcheri.

  had  four

  hurlers

  in

action trying  to  stop  the

  Pirates.

Bob Klinger had the Cards blanked

until

  the  sixth  when they  put

across

  a

  four-run

  rally.

  Dick Lan-

ahan moppet

up. allowing

  only

 one

,

hit in the last

  three innings.

  who

  blinded

  tne

  White

 

O i

 his sinoke

  and

  achieved

 

YESTERDAY'S HERO — Bob

no-hit,

  no run game o

Feller.

  Cleveland

  speedball

  king,

  d ay in modern  history-

CLEANERS  DRILL.

The  Standard  Cleaner

team will practice today

cade  Park at

 5:30.

  All

 

asked  to  report.

MELVIN LEROY HARDER

 15.

 1909

 at Beemer. Neb.

  601-

  Weight.

 183

  Brown eyes  and hair. Throws and  bats

  Nationality—Bohemian-German.

  December 27 1932

 

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