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University Daily Kansan Thursday, April 1, 1954
Roberts Loses Again, Says He 'Feels Ready'
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Robin Roberts discounted a Grapefruit league record which would shame a bush league pitcher today and said he "felt ready" to flash the form that enabled him to win 20 or more games in each of the last four years.
"I'm sure I'll be all right by opening day after yesterday's performance," the Philadelphia Phillies' righthander said. "I was getting worried but now my arm and back feel strong—in fact I never felt better."
Roberts suffered his third defeat of the spring when Detroit pounded him for 13 hits in a 7-2 triumph yesterday but he pointed out that he shut out the Tigers with only three hits during the last four innings.
Roberts, who had a 23-16 record for the Phillies last season, has been hammered for 40 hits and 39 runs in 31 innings this spring but Manager Steve O'Neill was inclined to go along with his star's optimistic analysis.
"He'll be perfectly all right," O'Neill said. "He tells me he's all right now and he's never let me down."
The Washington Senators and St Louis Cardinals continued to receive outstanding pitching in yesterday's games but Manager Casey Stengel was more bewildered than ever over the form of his world champion New York Yankees.
The amazing Senators scored their ninth straight victory over major league opposition when they defeated the Cincinnati Redlegs, 9-2, with the aid of Frank Shea's six shutout innings. Tom Wright and Pete Runnels sparked Washington's nine-hit attack while Shea and Johnny Dixon limited the Redlegs to eight singles.
Gerry Staley twirled two-hit, shutout ball for seven innings to lead the Cardinals to a 6-3 triumph over the Chicago White Sox and give St. Louis a 14-8 Grapefruit league mark. Staley, an 18-game winner in 1953, has permitted only one run, one walk and seven hits in his last 20 innings of pitching this spring.
The Yankees, meanwhile, completed the poorest Florida training program in Stengel's six - year regime when rookie right-handers Bob Purkey and Fred Green pitched eight-hit ball to give the Pittsburgh Pirates an easy 9-3 win. It was the fifth straight loss and the 16th in 24 games for the Yankees.
The New York Giants took advantage of rookie Rudy Regalado's double error to score three unearned runs in the first innings and went on to beat the Cleveland Indians, 4-2. It was New York's ninth victory in 12 games with the Indians, who were held to seven hits by Jim Hearn and Don Liddle.
The Brooklyn Dodgers outsugged the Milwaukee Braves, 10-7 despite two home runs each by Ed Mathews and Johnny Logan in the only other game. Gil Hodges homered for Brooklyn—a 450-foot blast off Ray Crone in the second iming.
Doctor Postpones Williams Training
Miami, Fla.—(U.P.)—Ted Williams was described by Dr. Herbert Virgin as "jubilant" today despite a last-minute order to postpone his spring training program at least a week.
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Williams was scheduled to begin working out with the Boston Red Sox tomorrow but Dr. Virgin cancelled those plans with an announcement that he doesn't "want Ted running or doing anything that might hurt him."
Dr. Virgin said he would tell Williams when he could begin workouts after additional x-rays are examined on April 7. Dr. Virgin hopes the tail slugger will be able to head for Boston immediately after the examination and start working out at either Harvard or Tufts.
Williams has not indulged in a single workout since he suffered a fractured collarbone attempting to catch a fly ball 10 minutes after he
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Dr. Virgin said x-rays taken yesterday indicated "good progress" and said Williams was "ubilant" when
donned his uniform on the first day of spring training.
from duty in Korea with the Marine Air corps, has been trying to keep in shape by taking daily exercises. He weighs 210 pounds - about over his normal playing weight.
he talked by telephone last night with General Manager Joe Cronin of the Red Sox.
the 35-year-old outfielder, who hit .407 last year after returning
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