Majors Open
Ball Season
By JACK IIANI)
NKW YORK (AIM Chuck
Di essen's Washington Senator*
and Stan Hack's Chicago Cubs,
two longshot* In the pennant
races, topped the majors Mon
day night after winning the spe
cial preview openers.
Bob Porterfield, who usually
has to pitch a shutout to win, re
ceived plenty of batting support
from his Washington mates in a
12-5 romp over Baltimore. Por
terfield allowed only six hits and
scored the fust Washington run
after doubling In the third.
President Klserthower munched
popcorn and cheered for the
home club to the final out after
throwing out the first ball. Dres
sed kept Ik.- and the crowd of
26.6H-1 fans busy with their
scorecards as he shuffled players
and once sent up a pinch runner
to run for another pinch runner.
Washington clubbed five Bal
timore pit( hers for 10 hits, chas
ing starter Lou Kretlow In the
sixth Inning. Jim Busby had a
double and two singles and Tom
Umphlett a double and a single
to lead the Senators.
Cubs Win Sixth
The Cubs won their sixth
straight opening game, thump
In Cincinnati, 7-5 with an attack
that included home runs by Gene
Baker and Harry Chili.
Ted fCluszewskl, who led the
majors In homers last year, hit
No. t for Cincy off starter Bob
Kush Sad Sam Jones, former
Cleveland pitcher who replaced
Rush, was the winner over Art
Fowler.
Kansas City warmed up for
its American League debut at
Tx-w Municipal stadium with a
welcome parade through the
downtown streets for Manager
Lou Boudreau and his Athletics.
The A's hope to show their new
fans that the/ are changed men
by using against the Detroit Ti
gers In Tuesday's opener before
Ball Contests
Set for Today
Monday's doubleheader with
Linfield was called off due to
wet grounds, but another twin
bill with the Wildcats has been
scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today on
Howe field. Both games are slat
ed /or seven innings.
The Ducks' first Northern Di
vision action is set for Friday
afternoon against Oregon State
at Corvallis. The same teams will
play at Eugene Saturday.
Coach Don Kirsch plans to use
a number of pitchers in each Lin
field game. Bill Blodgett, Bill
Garner, Terry Maddox and a
number of other hurlers are all
likely to see action.
Linfield, defending Northwest
conference champion, has a vet
eran pitching staff, headed by
hard throwing Del Coursey.
Coach Hoy Helser also has avail
able Carl Wickham, Bob Diller,
Marv Scherpf, Dick Duerr and
Bill Croco.
Thomas to Swim
Juan de Fuca .
VICTORIA, B.C. (API—Weath
er permitting, Bert Thomas will
begin his attempt at swimming
Juan de Fuca Strait at 9 p.m.
Wednesday from Horseshoe Bay,
the spot chosen last August by
fellow' American Florence Chad
wick.
Should weather or water con
ditions be unfavorable, the swim
will be postponed until 10 p.m.
Thursday.
35,000. Boudreau banks on Alex
Kellner (6-173, a veteran lefty,
to atari, the Kansas City revival
against Detroit's Ned Carver
< 14-11),
Klner Makes Debut
Cleveland's defending Ameri
ean league champs expect the
; largest turnout, 50,000 fans, to
se« Bob Lemon (23-7) pitch
against Chicago's Virgil Trucks
<19-12) at Cleveland where
Ralph Klner will be making his
debut as the Tribe’s new left
j fielder.
Although few expect the Indi
ans to win 111 games again,
they are even-money favorites
| to repeat as champs.
The runnerup New York Yan
kees, hoping to bounce back into
the big World Series money,
open at home against Washing
ton with White) Ford (16-8) op
posing Maury McDermott (7-15)
in a battle of lefthanders. A
crowd of 25,000 is expected.
Baltimore’s rookie-laden Ori
oles count on a turnout of 41,
000 to watch them open at home
against the youthful Boston Red
Sox. Joe Coleman (13-17) is
scheduled to work -for the Orioles
against Frank Sullivan (15-121
of the Red Sox, who still are
waiting to hear from Ted Wil
liams.
New Pilots
Six new managers, some of
them slightly used, will be start
ing new jobs in the American
league where only A1 Lopez of
; Cleveland and Casey Stengel of
the Yanks remain. The National
has only one new skipper. He’s
Mayo Smith of the Phillies whose
first task will be to face the
world champion New York Gi
ants.
Smith has adopted the ap
proved method of managing the
Phillies by naming Robin Rob
erts (23-15) for his sixth open
ing day pitching assignment. He
will be opposed by Johnny Anto
nelli (21-7), the lefty who helped
I^eo Durocher win the pennant.
The 25,000 fans who turn out
at Philadelphia may see Del En
nis and Richie Ashburn, the in
| jured outfielders, after all. Al
though Ennis reportedly suffer
ered a hairline leg fracture in a
‘ collision with Ashburn at Wilm
ington. Del., last week, the latest
I report is that both men may be
in the lineup against the Giants.
Pittsburgh, wMTch helped
knock Brooklyn out of the 1954
race, opens at Ebbets Field
where 17,000 are due to see the
veteran Max Surkont (9-18) face
the Dodgers’ Carl Erskine (18
15).
Robinson to Start
Despite all the spring fuss.
Jackie Robinson will be at third
base for Brooklyn. The Pirate
lineup, a fluid thing, will show
three new faces in outfielders
Ramon Mejias and Tom Saffell
and shortstop Dick Groat, back
from the Army.
Duckling Netters
Smash Springfield
Oregon’s freshman tennis team
smashed Springfield high school
last Friday by a 6-1 score.
Singles performers Stan Kala
pus and Marvin Woods of the
Frosh were special standouts as
they won their matches,
i Results:
Singles: Stan Kalapus (CM 'let*. Bob
Smith (S) 7-5, 4-6. 6-3; Marvin Woods
(O) def. Tom Bourgois (S) 7-5. 6-2; Bub
Stewart (S) def. Brian Booth (Ot <>-2,
6- 3; Phil Lowthian (CM def. Larr> Leek
(S) 6-1. 6 1; Don Robinson (O) def. Don
Williams (St 6-4, 6-3.
Doubles: Woods and Kalapus (CM def.
Bourgeois and Stewart (S) 6-2, 6-4; Booth
and Lowthian def. Lek and Williams (S)
7- 5. 5-7, 6-2.
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"Bobo” Olson and Joey Maxim
wound up training (sessions Mon
day afternoon for their sched
uled 10-round non-title fight
Wednesday night at the Cow
Palace.
Riding a string of 20-straight
victories and fighting in his home
town, Olson was a 7-5 favorite
in the early odds on the fight.
The talk was that the younger,
lighter Olson might be favored
by 2-1 at the opening bell.
The fight, scheduled for na
tional television (CBS—7 p.m.
PST i with the San Francisco
; area blacked out, is expected to
draw upwards of 12,000 fans and
1 promoter Bennie Ford says a
! $150,000 gate is within reach,
i The bout, said Ford, has excited
more interest here than any of
Olson’s title fights.
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