Raiders’ Play Is Spotty in a 24-10 Loss to 49ers : Pro football: Marinovich, young receivers play well, but Dickerson gains only 22 yards in debut with team.

Nobody wrings their hands or tears their hair out over an exhibition-game loss--especially the first exhibition game of the season.

Coaches expect ragged play, missed opportunities and crossed-up signals.

So Raider Coach Art Shell wasn’t surprised when his team lost its exhibition opener to the San Francisco 49ers, 24-10, on Saturday night before a crowd of 49,068 at Candlestick Park.

But he wasn’t happy about it, either.

“It was our first time out of the chute,” he said, “and it wasn’t very pretty. . . . We showed that we have a lot of work to do.”

Eric Dickerson, in his first time out of the chute wearing silver and black, rushed only six times for 22 yards.

The 49ers, on the other hand, seemed to benefit from a heavy workload. This was their second game in six days. San Francisco opened its exhibition season Monday with a victory over the Denver Broncos.

It was a good night, however, for several Raiders fighting for jobs.

Rookie Daryl Hobbs caught a game-high five passes for 58 yards and showed the speed that prompted the Raiders to sign him. Tight end David Jones, entering his second season, showed the moves of a wide receiver in catching three passes for 67 yards, including a three-yard touchdown pass from Jay Schroeder.

And second-year quarterback Todd Marinovich, locked in a struggle with Schroeder for the starting job, won the battle of the numbers Saturday. Marinovich, playing the second half, completed 16 of 28 for 181 yards.

Schroeder completed only four of nine for 76 yards in the first half, but he spent the first quarter simply trying to fight his way out of poor field position.

The Raiders played without seven key players. Running back Marcus Allen, receiver Tim Brown, cornerback Terry McDaniel, defensive linemen Greg Townsend and Scott Davis and linebacker Winston Moss are all holding out because of pay disputes. In addition, cornerback Lionel Washington wasn’t ready to play after ending his holdout only two days ago.

The 49ers were hardly at full strength, either. Quarterback Joe Montana is still not ready to return from the elbow injury that cost him all of last season. Star receiver Jerry Rice is staging a holdout of his own.

And Steve Young, heir apparent to the quarterback job, was forced to sit out Saturday because of a sore back.

That left Steve Bono and Bill Musgrave at the controls, but 49er Coach George Seifert wasn’t complaining. Bono completed 14 of 23 for 114 yards.

And Musgrave, starting his third year, broke the Raiders’ backs in the fourth quarter with two touchdown passes to rookie running back Amp Lee.

Brent Fullwood, receiving the opening kickoff for the Raiders, struggled to get a handle on the ball. By the time he did, he was buried at his one-yard line by the onrushing 49ers.

That seemed to set the tone for the first quarter. By the time it had ended, San Francisco led, 10-0, on a one-yard run by Ricky Watters and a 26-yard field goal by Mike Cofer.

Schroeder’s coring pass to Jones in the second quarter got the Raiders close, and that’s way it stayed until the final 15 minutes.

After Musgrave hit Lee seven seconds into the fourth quarter with a 13-yard touchdown pass to make it 17-7, Raider kicker Jeff Jaeger connected on a 48-yard field goal.

Then, with only 1:46 to play, Musgrave hit Lee with a swing pass that the running back turned into a 69-yard scoring play.

With all their opening-night jitters, the Raiders were within a fingertip of playing the 49ers fairly even.

Actually, within two pairs of fingertips.

In the second quarter, Raider linebacker Aundray Bruce batted a pass by Bono into the air and raced under it in the end zone, only to have it skitter off his fingers.

And in the final quarter, Hobbs beat two 49er defenders deep in San Francisco territory and stretched for a toss by Marinovich, only to have it slip off his fingers.

“It was a typical first game,” Raider defensive lineman Bob Golic said. “But there’s no reason why you can’t have a typical first game and still win it.”

Not this time.