Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-04-06
Spring Training Briefs
Spring Irolning Briefs
SuddenKidney AttockPuts
Eddie Robinson Hospital
BY the Associated Press

GREENSBORO, N. c., April 6.
Eddie Robinson, Yankee first
baseman acquired from the Phil
adelphia Athletics last December.
was stricken with kidney attack
today and taken to a local hos
pital.
The 33-year-old Baltimore
athlete. who formerly played for
the Indians, Senators and White
Sox. had seizure as the Yam
KEGS rode to the ball park for
an exhibition game with the
Greensboro team.
DR.. c. T. Wilmington exam
ined Robinson and recommended
that he be taken to the Wesley
Long Hospital. There was no
later report on the players con-
dition.
Robinson's attack was a sud-
den one. He seemed in good
shape when the team travelled
here by train from Charlotte,
N. c., where the Yankees played
yesterday.
Robinson came to the YAM
KEGS with Pitcher Harry Byrd in
an 11-player deal last Deem
Der 16.
SPARTANBURG. S. c.. April
6 (P.-"All 1 know is I'm IA and
hitting the ball." says Ted Ka-
zanski, the good-f1eld, no-hit
shortstop of the Phillies who
currently is clipping the ball at
a AIT pace.
The 20-year-old Kazanski has
20 hits for 48 times at bat. He
has had at least one hit in each
of his last IA games. It's mighty
strange for a PIT hitter re-
nowned for hitting one-hop
grounders at infielders.
Manager Steve O'Neill believes
Kazanski has learned to hit and
that he'll add at least so points
to his 1858 batting average,
maybe more.
Its all a matter of his left
foot" O'Neill said. 1T was too
far from the plate. We got him
to put that foot up closer to the
plate and drop his right foot
back little"
Kazanski's draft status is in
the hands of his Detroit draft
board. He expected to go last
October but wasn't called. II
haven't heard from the draft
board since last October" Ted
said.
NEW ORLEANS. P.- Bob
Rush, the Chicago Cubs usual
opening game pitcher, is being
pushed for the assignment by a
couple of other veterans.
Rush held Baltimore to five
hits in seven innings Sunday and
was thought to be almost a GER
tainty to get the call.
But yesterday Johnny Klipp-
stein. 26-year-old Highlander
from Silver Spring, Md, allowed
only one hit in seven innings as
the Cubs BANKED the Orioles,
20.
Manager Stan Hack also is
considering Paul Minner. He
checked Baltimore with four hits
in seven innings Saturday
That's pretty good pitching"
Hack says, land certainly rates
him consideration to pitch the
opener"
MONTGOMERY, Ala, (P).-
Bobby Shantz, the little south
paw who became the American
Leagues most valuable player
only to spend most of last year
on the bench, has regained his
old form.
ShantZ convinced Manager
Eddie Joost yesterday that he is
ready to open for the Athletics
next Tuesday against the Red
Sox. Although beaten, 10. by
the Pittsburgh Pirates. Bobby
yielded only three hits over the
full nine innings.
The one run-a homer by
Frank Thomas the only
one he's given up in 20 innings
Bob Purkey, a 24-year-old
right-hander up from New Or
leans, went the distance for the
Pirates. He scattered six hits
and didn't walk anybody.
NEW ORLEANS (P). Yves
WeStrum apparently has moved
back into the No. catching Job
with the New York Giants.
Westrum, bypassed during the
early training season by Ray
Katt and Ebba st. Claire, was in
the starting lineup yesterday for