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FINAL EDITION
Including finalresults of all ball
games
VOL. 1, No. 6 FIVE CENTSSATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1951
Campanella Powers Newcombe,Dodgers Past Giants in Extras
NEW YORKRoy Campanella launched a
pair of home runs Friday, spoiling the Giants
home opener and making 3-2 winners of the
Dodgers and Don Newcombe in a tense 10-
inning affair.
A festive crowd of 44,434 surged into the
Polo Grounds for a game that was pushed back
one hour in deference to the tumultuous ticker
tape parade, attended by an estimated
7,500,000 well-wishers, accorded Gen. Doug-
las MacArthur in Manhattan.
Campanella, the Dodgers All-Star backstop,
threw a wet blanket on the festivities his first
time up, connecting off Giants starter Sheldon
Jones in the second inning to give Brooklyn a 2
-0 lead. Newcombe grudgingly surrendered the
advantage to run-scoring fly balls by Alvin
Dark in the seventh and Monte Irvin in the
eighth, but Campy tagged a 10th-inning pitch
from reliever Al Gettel for the decisive score.
This time Newcombe made the lead stand
up. Showing no ill effects from the sore arm
that forced him to skip Tuesdays opening day
assignment, Newk (1-0) hurled 10 innings of 3-
hit ball for the victory.
Gettel (0-1) took the loss. Jones allowed two
runs on six hits before being excused for a
pinch-hitter in the bottom of the seventh.
Campanellas homers were his second and
third. He leads the major leagues.
AROUND THE HORN
Elsewhere in the National League:
Philadelphias Ken Heintzelman scattered
six hits and stranded 10 runners in recording
his 19th career shutout, a 4-0 decision over the
visiting Boston Braves.
Heintzelman, a 17-game winner in 1949 who
slumped to 3-9 a year ago, had just two 1-2-3
innings. But the lean lefty was tough in the
clutch, allowing just one runner to get as far as
third base and holding the Braves 0-for-4 with
runners in scoring position.
Puddin Head Jones and Granny Hamner gave
Heintzelman (1-0) all the support he would need
with run-scoring singles in the bottom of the
first. Second baseman Mike Goliat doubled and
scored in the fourth, and knocked in a run with a
ground ball out in the eighth.
Bostons Max Surkont (0-1) allowed three
runs in six innings and was charged with the
loss. Braves center fielder Sam Jethroe had two
hits, giving him nine in his past three games.
Patience was a virtue for the Cardinals in their
home opener. The Redbirds rode two bases-
loaded walks to a four-run sixth inning and, ulti-
mately, a 6-3 victory over the Cubs.
Chicago out-hit the Cards, 14-6. But St. Louis
hitters drew nine walks to go with six hits, all
singles. Gerry Staley (1-0) got the win, scatter-
ing 14 hits over 8 2/3 innings. Johnny Schmitz
(0-1) took the loss, walking six and allowing
five runs in five innings.
The Cubs Frankie Baumholtz had three hits
to raise his average to an NL-leading .538.
AMERICAN W L PCT. GB NATIONAL W L PCT. GB
Cleveland 3 0 1.000 --- Brooklyn 3 0 1.000 ---
Boston 2 1 .667 1 Chicago 2 1 .667 1
New York 2 2 .500 1 St. Louis 1 1 .500 1
Washington 2 2 .500 1 Pittsburgh 1 1 .500 1
Chicago 1 2 .333 2 New York 2 3 .400 2
Detroit 1 2 .333 2 Boston 2 3 .400 2
Philadelphia 1 2 .333 2 Philadelphia 1 2 .333 2
St. Louis 1 2 .333 2 Cincinnati 1 2 .333 2
Major League Standings
Fridays American League Results Fridays National League
Results
Washington 4, New York 1, 1st gm.
New York 9, Washington 4 (12 innings), 2nd gm.
Cleveland 2, St. Louis 1
Boston 5, Philadelphia 1
Detroit 9, Chicago 2
Brooklyn 3, New York 2 (10 innings)
St. Louis 6, Chicago 3
Philadelphia 4, Boston 0
(Only games scheduled)
Todays Probable Starting Pitchers Todays Probable Starting
Pitchers
Philadelphia (Hooper 0-0) at Boston (Stobbs 0-0), 2
p.m.
St. Louis (Garver 1-0) at Cleveland (Lemon 0-0), 2
p.m.
New York (Shea 0-0) at Washington (Bearden 0-0),
2:30 p.m.
Detroit (Newhouser 0-0) at Chicago (Kretlow 0-0),
2:30 p.m.
Brooklyn (Van Cuyk 0-0) at New York (Jansen (0-
1), 1:30 p.m.
Boston (Bickford 1-0) at Philadelphia (Roberts (0-
1), 2 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Chambers 0-1) at Cincinnati (Fox 0-0), 2
p.m.
Chicago (Rush 0-0) at St. Louis (Brecheen 0-0),
9:30 p.m.
Yankees Go Overtime to Salvage Double-Header Split With
WashingtonWASHINGTON Their bats tied in knots
the entire first game and most of the second,
the Yankees finally erupted for five runs in the
12th inning of the nightcap of their double-
header with Washington on Friday, earning a 9-
4 win and a split.
Yogi Berra had a two-run single and Joe
Collins added a two-run triple in the decisive
rally. Berra had six hits in the double-dip.
Allie Reynolds (1-0) got the second-game
victory with two scoreless innings of relief.
The first game belonged to Sandy Conseugra
(1-0). The Senators Cuban-born right-hander
hurled a seven-hitter with six walks, stranding
12 New York runners, in winning the Nats
delayed home opener, 4-1.
President Harry Truman, who threw out the
first ball, was booed twice by the 29,843 pa-
trons mindful of his recent termination of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur. It was the first time a
president had been booed at a baseball game
since Herbert Hoover got the raspberry in the
1931 World Series.
AROUND THE HORN
Elsewhere in the American League:
Bob Feller (1-0) threw a tidy 4-hitter at the
THIS
WAY
TO
BOX
SCORES
St. Louis Browns, lifting Cleveland to its third
consecutive win to start the season. Pinch-hitter
Allie Clarks single drove in Larry Doby with
the winning run in the bottom of the ninth.
Don Kolloway knocked in five runs with two
doubles and a homer as the Tigers ruined the
White Soxs home opener, 9-2. Ted Gray (1-0)
pitched a five-hitter for the win.
Mel Parnell (1-0) twirled a 4-hitter as the
Red Sox opened their home slate with a 5-1
win over the Athletics. Walt Dropo, 1950 AL
Rookie of the Year, belted a two-run homer, his
second of the young season.
ViewsOf
Sport
By Red Smith
NEW YORKFor the first time this year,
the feel of baseball was in the air. The feel of
excitement, too, of holiday and carnival. It was-
nt warm, but the sun was bright in a clear sky
and, if summer hadnt come in, it had, at least,
tossed its hat through the door. The Giants, for
whom this is supposed to be the pleasantest
summer in 14 years, were home to open in the
Polo Grounds on the pleasant sort of day which
the Yankees and Dodgers hadnt got for their
inaugurals.
High over Manhattan, the wind made tatters
of a skywriters message: Welcome home, well
done.
But, said Leo Durocher, the practically
peerless leader of the Giants, who will wait until
the season ends to render unto MacArthur the
greetings that are the Giants, it wasnt well
done in Boston.
He grimaced at the memory of two defeats in
four game with the Braves.
But hustle? he said. Shoulda heard the
guys on our bench. Even when they had us by
four runs, they were yelling, You wont win,
you wont hold it.
Crowds from the MacArthur reception were
still streaming up town when the opening cere-
monies went on. The parade to the flagpole, the
business of tossing out the first ball, got scant
attention. The crowd was here strictly for base-
ball, and it was a Giant crowd and nuts to the
Dodgers. In the stands, Giant fans were talking:
Whod ever figure wed get four games in
at this time of the year up in Boston? So we got
to pitch Jones. And the Dodgers, the lucky
stiffs, get rained out yesterday so all we get is
Newcombe.
Anybody who hadnt recognized it as a Gi-
ant crowd right off would have got the idea
from the cheers for Eddie Stanky. Announce-
ment of his name in the lineup brought cheers,
there were cheers when he popped out of the
dugout in front, leading the Giants onto the
field, there were yells when he led off the lower
half of the first inning.
It is a noteworthy thing, the tremendous per-
sonal triumph that this little guy scored last
year after the Giants got him in a fiercely criti-
cized trade with Boston. Giant fans had hated
him with a religious fervor when he was a
Dodger, they jeered him passionately in his
early days in the Polo Grounds. And then, by
pure effort and combativeness and leadership,
he won everybody to his side. Because of him,
that Boston deal stands as Manhattans biggest
since Peter Minuits.
But if it was the Giants crowd, it was the
Dodgers ball game. Every inning after the sec-
ond, when Brooklyn got in front, 2 to 0, Don
Newcombe seemed to grow stronger and faster.
He scared the witnesses into resentment. They
booed loudly when he brushed a fast ball past
Monte Irvins chin, whereas they laughed when
the Dodgers Carl Furillo had to fall away from
a pitch.
