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Boudreau at Bat for Feller In Breach of Contract Suit BOSTON, Mass., May 18 UP .—Shortstop Lou Boudreau of the Boston Red Sox went to bat for pitcher Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians in superior court today during a trial of a 5,000 breach of contract suit filed against the hurler by a T-shirt dealer. s At the opening of the jury-waived trial, expected to last a fewhours; John Jenner told Judge Eugene A. Hudson that Feller violated an agreement to help promote sales of a T-shirt bearing his picture and autograph. Jenner testified Feller had signed a contract with his Tirm, Jen-TJ-Wear Co. of Boston, to appear at a Cleveland department store June 26, 1948; He said Feller did not appear and that most of the ,500 worth of T-shirts sent to the store were returned unsold. Boudreau, who managed the Cleveland team in 1948, testified that at the time neither Feller nor the Indians were "doing so well." He said Feller was so busy writing two books, doing a radio show and making personal appearances that after a conference with owner Bill Veech. "I asked Bob to curtail his outside activities." The Cleveland Indians ultimately whipped the Red Sox in a playoff to win the American League pennant that year and went on to defeat the Boston Braves for the world championship. Happiest person in the court room was Harold Weiner, 7, of Sharon, waiting to appear in another case. He sat beside : Boudreau and Feller. The players put their , arms around him and chatted with him in whispers.
