WASHINGTON--Franklin D. Roosevelt, who pitched his third straight victory over the Republicans last November, threw another strike today and touched off the 1941 major league base ball season.
The New York Yankees got some slick hurling, too--a three-hit job by southpaw Marius Russo--and blanked the Washington Senators 3 to 0.
This was the eighth time Mr. Roosevelt had tossed out the opening day pitch, record since the Presidential tradition was started by William Howard Taft in 1912.
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