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Scribe Says Williams Suffers Severe Pain in Injured Arm PORTLAND, Me., June 14. UP . — Blaine i Davis, sports editor of the Portland Press-Herald, said today that Ted Williams, star j slugger of the Boston Red Sox, has played baseball this season under severe pain from an operation on his elbow last summer. In his column, "Maine-ly Sports," Davis said that "Contrary to all reports, the operation last July to remove bone chips from Williams* injured arm didnt pick out any fragments at all." The lanky slugger fractured his elbow in the All-Star game when he crashed into a fence. Davis said that this information was passed on to himby Gene Letourneau, wildlife editor of the Press-Herald. Letourneau, he said, was told the true story by the late Dr. Joseph Shorten, who performed the operation, during, a fishing trip in Maine lait August. According to Letourneau, Dr. Shorten i j saH that the chips were left in Williams arm so that he could regain "at least 90 per cent efficiency." Dr. Shortell told Letourneau that removal of the chips would have left the sluggers left arm only 50 per cent efficient. Dr. Shortell said that Williams knew that the chips were being left in his arm and also knew that he would suffer severe pain every time he swung a bat.
