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Max Surkont pitched a three-hitter as the Milwaukee Braves beat the Cincinnati Redlegs 2 to 0 in the first game of the National League's 1953 baseball season in Cincinnati . . . The American League opener, between the Yankees and the Washington Senators in the nation's capital was postponed because of rain. President Eisenhower will now throw out the first pitch in Washington Thursday when the Senators face the Yankees. . . All 16 major league clubs are scheduled to see action today, and the weatherman forecasts that all games will be played . . . Babe Zaharias, famous woman athlete, will undergo an operation on Friday which will determine if her sports career is over or not.

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