Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-17
Florida Cold /.
Keeps Veterans
Out Of Shape
Bruton, Kryhoski
Kuenn and Bauer
Added to Cripples
sy the A,soeiassd Pres.

Inc longest llSts OF spring
training injuries in years and
a siege of chilly weather in nor
mally sunny Florida have ma
jor league clubs worried.
Outflelder Bill Bruton of the
Braves. Shortstop Harvey Kuenn
Of the Tigers. First Baseman
Dick Kryhoski Of the Orioles and
Outfielder Hank Bauer Of the
Yankees joined the list of the
incapacitated yesterday. Hardly
a club has escaped as more than
two dozen players have been
hurt in less than three weeks of
training.
Meanwhile veteran players
and managers were complain
ing about the difficulty of get
ting into condition while "cold
waves" prevail in Florida. Fans
wore topcoats at several games
yesterday. and low temperatures
were in the mid-forties.
Can't Get Loose.
Despite their seventh straight
victory yesterday. the Dodgers
were disturbed.
Outfielder Carl Furillo, the
National League batting cham
pion, isn't swinging with anything
like his usual power. IT Just
can't seem to get loose" he
moaned. MY back and shoulders
are tight as a drum. When is
it going to warm up?"
Jackie Robinson, nursing a
stiff knee, said: This weather
is brutal. How can you get
ready?"
I've been coming down here
since 1920" said Manager
Bucky Harris of the Senators.
and I've never seen anything
like this weather. The players
have to get that warm weather
now. You can't expect it on the
trip north"
Started With Porterfield.
Accidents to stars like Bob
Porterfleld. Ted Williams and
Bobby Thomson have focused
attention on the injury list, but
the overall number of mishaps
would be impressive in itself.
Porterfleld started it February
n when he was skulled by a line
drive. Then Williams fractured
his collarbone attempting catch
March !. and last Saturday
Thomson broke his ankle while
sliding into second base.
Two Of yesterdays injuries
came on Al Lang Field at st.
Petersburg. It was the fourth
straight day an injury has oc-
CURED on the field.
Kuenn. who won American
League rookie-of -the-year hon.
ors in 1858. suffered a badly
bruised left wrist when he threw
up his arm to protect his head
against a close pitch thrown by
Harry Byrd of the Yankees. A
few innings earlier Bauer turned
his ankle running out an infield
grounder. Both will be out sew
eral days.
Fred Hutchinson, Detroit
manager, and Byrd EXCHANGED
hot words after Kuenn was
hurt. Hutchinson criticized Byrd
for throwing close to the player.
Byrd shouted back: "You get a
bat and get up there"
Lang Field linked.
The injury epidemic at Lang
Field started Saturday when
Thomson fractured his ankle
He'll be out two or three months.
The next day Bill Miller, Yankee
left-hander. was hit on his pitch
ing hand by a line drive. On
Monday it was Ken Raffens-
berger. veteran Cincinnati south
paw, who sprained his right an
kle when he stepped on a loose
ball in the outfield.
Bruton sprained his ankle
when he stepped into a hole in
the outfleld at Tampa. It was
the second injury for the fleet
footed center fielder, who hurt
the same ankle March z sliding.
Miller also is a two-time loser
having been hit on the left leg
by. another line drive in an
intrasquad game March 4.
Jim Piersall, who hopes to
nave Williams playing alongside
him in the Boston outfeld by
early May. also has been injured
twice. His latest came Monday
when he bruised his hip crashing
into a wall while going after a
long fly.
Orioles Timing Good.
The Orioles misfortune was
OFFSET by good timing. Kryhoski
learned yesterday that his wrist
was broken when he was hit by
a pitch by Jim Mccall of the
Giants Sunday, but only a little
while before, the Baltimore club
had purchased First Baseman
Eddie Watkins from the Phillies.
continued on Page C-3, Col. S.