Evening star., 1946-04-23
Third Sacker Finally
Delivering, but Bosox
Homers Are Fatal
BY Burton Hawkins
Stor StoH Correspondent

BOSTON,, April 23.-Sherry Rob.
ertson, who was supposed to come
apart at the seams, vanish in clouc
of smoke or be a suitable subject
for an asylum when the going got
tough, strangely is one of tie few
Mats who isn't disturbing Manage,
Ossie Bluege. Sherry is giving
Washington a tolerable sort OF
third-base job, and his .292 hitting
is creating no complaints.
Robertson doesn't constitute one
of the items ailing the Mats, who
have lost six of seven games against
the leagues top competition. That
alone is a moral triumph for Sherry
who has been having an uphill
scrap of it all the way after com-
mitting five errors in the Mats first
exhibition tiff this spring.
Sherry required a break to wedge
into the Mats opening day lineup
"a break which amounted to a frac-
tured ankle for George Myatt, who
was slated to start at third base
At least until Myatt's recovery
which will require another month
Robertson will have squatter's rights
at third base simply because he's
the best the Mats have at the mo-
ment.
Gil Torres was ticketed to take
over at third any time the Mats
were facing a southpaw pitcher, but
one game at New York with Torres
on third convinced Bluege that
Robertson represents a better gam
BILE, so Sherry remains regular.
Robertson's Hits Wasted.
Sherry is beginning to unleash
the brand of baseball he was playing
at Kaneohoe Bay, Oahu, during the
war. Surprised major leaguers re-
ported back to Bluege that Robert
son was one Of the sensations in the
Hawaiian Islands, so Ossie decided
TO give him a chance. Thus far he
isn't inclined to regret it.
His third-base play hasn't been
spectacular, but it has been accept
able and that's all Bluege anticipated
in his fondest hopes. Meanwhile,
his hitting isn't harming the Mats,
who have seen their own pitching
hammered for nine home runs in
seven games.
Robertson collected two of the
Mats eight hits here yesterday, in
Guiding a double which missed home
run proportions by a matter of
inches. He scored one of the Mats
runs ana smashed across two others
with a sharp single to right as
Washington grasped a 40 lead, but
that margin evaporated as Bobby
Doerr, Rudy York and Ed Pella-
GRIM blasted Sid Hudson for homers.
Sherry's third-inning double, fol-
lowed by Stan Spence's single, gave
the Mats run and Washington
manufactured three more in the
fourth as Cecil Travers tripled and
Jerry Priddy, Al Evans and Robert
son slashed singles.
Bosox Do 1t With Homers.
Hudson, who had limited the Red
Sox to one hit in the first three
innings, pitched a single to Ted
Williams and Doerr whaled a home
run over the left field fence to re-
duce Boston's deficit to Al. The
Red Sox picked up a run in the fifth
as Johnny Pesky was hit on the head
by pitched ball and Frankie Pytlak
and Williams singled
York's tremendous homer over the
center field wall locked the score at
A in the sixth.
Ed Pellagrini, who had replaced
Pesky at shortstop, ushered in his
1916 season auspiciously with two
out in the seventh when he clipped
Hudson for another home run over
the left field fence.
That was the ball game, it de-
veloped, for the Mats were getting
nowhere against Mickey Harris fol-
lowing their early uprising. Harris
gave the Mats only one hit in the
final five innings and famed Evans
Ray Goolsby, Mike Guerra and
Robertson successfully at the finish
Beaten by the Red Sox in four
straight starts, the Mats were to send
Walter Masterson against them here
today with Southpaw Earl Johnson
slated to pitch for Boston. The Mats
will drop down in cheaper company
tomorrow, returning to Washington
to face the Athletics in the opener