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Show ' SPORT SHORTS ' V . DAVE ROBERTSON. There are reasons to believe that Dave Robertson, one-time Giant, and 'now with the Cubs, has been a victim J of too much management, He was al-Iways al-Iways rated as a potential .350 hitter, but only once in his career did he surpass sur-pass .300. Finally he broke with Mc-j Mc-j Graw and last year started anew with . Chicago. Dave says: I "I suppose the public thinks that IMcGraw has treated me with-forbear-lance. My main complaint with Mc- Graw was and is that he tries ta treat everybody alike. It is a system ) that will never develop a star. My . baseball 'career up to date has been a disappointment to everyone, most of I all to myself. I am quite certain that I 1 could have developed Into a .350 hit- . ter if let alone". I prefer to make in- ' field hits for an infield hit gets tho v infield up in the air moro than any other ono thing. No pitcher is jU3t like any other pitcher, so you havo to i study them. The so-called big money !in baseball Is no temptation in itself. - 0 I I would not hold a job that paid $25,- " 1 000 a year If that job was not con- genial to 'me Now with some of the best years of my playing life already gone I cannot tell what the future has in store for me." |