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A1) s PORTS, Earnshaw, Sim OFFSET HARRIDGE'S HAPPY PREDICTION Yanks Wiil Be In by July 4,/ Say George and Al—Com- iskey Is Riled. 20 YEARS AGO IN THE STAR. AM CRAWFORD says that un- less he, Stanage, Dubuc and Cobb get the salaries they ce- mand from the Detroit ball club they will not report In the Spring. Manager Clark Griffith of the Washington team has released Pitcher Paul Musser to the Atlanta club of the Southern League. The Nationals again will train at Charlottesville next Spring. Philadelphia American League players who have signed contracts include Lapp, Thomas, Coombs, Pen- nock, Crabb. Collins, Barry, Eddie and Danny Murphy, Walsh, Strunk and Oldring. Georgetown U. basketers decisive- 1y defested New York University’s BY PAUL MICKELSON, Associated Press Sports Writer. HICAGO, January 14— President Will Harridge's | sweet dream of a tight fit- | ting American League | racz in 1933 is becoming a night- mare with a pair of high priced players in the goblin role. | No sooner had the American League chicf issued his arnual good will state- | ment in which he predicted a sizzling pennant fight than George Earnshaw | and Al Simmons came up with fabber- | gasung forecasts of a one-team race. | “Those Yankees should be 25 games | front of the field by the last of | Ju Simmons advised a startled newspaper reporter at Milwaukee where to supply base hits “Who's going U | % o prediction promoted an fe around adquarters. His | hite Sox boss, Lou Comiskey, | didn't like it either. | Then big George Earnshew, one of the props of Philadelphia’s 1933 pen- pant hopes, chimed in from Agua Caliente, Mexico. “Unless something happens to the | Yanks,” big George said between golf | shots, “it won't be any race after July | 4. I don't see anything to stop them | unloss they split up the club.” | Henry Pierpont Edwards, the busy | American League service secretary, read Earnshaw's prediction and then Sim- mons’. He ripped up his depe shect. A sad look spread across his face, “Isn’t that great?” he asked. “Here we are convinced that we are going to have a good race for the first time in years and these fellows come out with stories that some other team besides their own is going to win the pennant.” Ccmiskey, riled up completely, arose from his hospital cot, forgot about his reducing camapign, and quickly issued | an answer. | ST looks as if Simmons and Earn- I shaw have been following the col- lege foot ball coaches too closely,” Comiskey said. “It's the game, you know, in college foot ball for a coach to predict defeat so as to build up over- confidence in the other club. Maybe that’s what George and Al are aiming at. Maybe they're just kidding. Any- way, the Yanks are going to have one terrible time repeating this year. To win in 1932, every member of the doubt- ful group—Ruth, Lazzeri, Combs and Sewell—had to come through in great style. ‘They did. Well, perhaps the; won't do so well this year, and if they don't, Joe McCarthy may be in for a lot of trouble. There isn’t any ques- tion but what Chicago, Boston, Cleve- land and Washington have been strengthened by trades, and if I know Connie Mack, I'll say he will have some good youngsters on hand for the fight.” Just the same, Simmons and Earn- shaw had better stay out of President Harridge’s way for a while, COLEMAN, GARIBALDI MATCHED BY TURNER Stocky Cnli’ominn Beaten Only by Londos—Wilson Wrestles Daviscourt. BE COLEMAN, stocky California A Jewish star, and Gino Garibaldi, ranking Italian matman, have been matched for the feature wrestling bout next Thursday in Promoter Joe Tur- ner’s weekly show at the Washington Auditorium. Coleman is the newest of the so- called ranking matmen. He sports a| near-perfect record, losing only to Jim Londos. Standing only a few inches| above 5 feet and regarded as the small- est heavyweight in the game, Coleman also is rated one of the fastest of the grunt and growl boys. Garibaldi is well known here, his series with Rudy Dusek being remembered by fans as something of a classic in a barroom brawl way. Popular Dr. Ralph Wilson, a former favorite here, will return to the audi- torium after a long absence to grapple Dick Daviscourt, & prize mat villain, in the semi-final. The leading preliminary will pit Paul | Jones, Texas scissors star, against Hans | Kampter, crack German grappler, whose | Midwest campaignir~ has produced vic- tories over Jim Mc&%lan, Rudy Dusek, George Zaharias and Gino Garibaldl. PONZI WIDENS LEAD Takes Two Matches From Rudolph | in Pocket Billiards. | NEW YORK, January 14 ((®)— Andrew Ponzi of Philadelphia has‘ widened his lead over Erwin Rudolph | of Cleveland in their pocket billiard | exhibition match. i Ponzi won both of yesterday's blocks. He captured the afternoon session, 125 | to 123, in six innings. His high run| was 51; Rudolph’s 50. Last night lhc; score was 125 to 80, Ponzi rolling up | @ high run of 72 against 40 for the| Clevelander. The total score now favors Ponzl,| 1,250 to 1,179. | ENTERS BRITISH GOLF Somerville, U. S. Champion, to Play in Amateur Tourney. LONDON, Ontario, January 14 (®).— Ross (Sandy) Somerville of London, Ontario, United States ama champion, has announced he will com- pete in the British amateur at Hoy- e June 19-23 3 Somerville also may enter the British open which will be held at St. Andrews 10 days later, but his entry in that event will depend upon his ability to make arrangements for a longer vacation from his business affairs. Varied Sports teur golf | quint, the latter scoring not a single court goal. Jack Martin, Waldron, Campbell, Foley and Wetzell all played well for the Hilltoppers Willie Hoppe, champion billiard- ist, is here for an exhibition at the Leader parlors. 5 Vean Gregg, Willie Lefty James and Nick Cullop give the Cleveland Neps a formidable array of southpaw pitchers BATTAGLIA NEATLY TROUNCED BY JEbY New York Boxer Wins From | Canadian in 12th Round of Bitter Battle. By the Associated EW YORK, January 14—Ben | Jeby, durable East Side He- brew, today held one leg on the disputed middleweight championship of the world. Jeby stopped Frankie Battaglia of Winnipeg in the twelfth round of a 15-round match in Madison Square Garden last night and earned official champlonship _recognition _from the | New York State Athletic Commission. His title claim, however, is fer from clear for Mercel Thil of France is rec- ognized as 160-pound titiecholder by Battaglia, who had k zocked out Jeby in a_single round in an earlier bout, | had little or no chance with the New | Yorker last night once Jeby floored him | with a terrific left to the body in the second round and then landed a left | hook to the face a few seconds later | that burst a blood vessel under Bat- taglia’s right eye. Canadian was always dangerous in the sense that a puncher al- ways has a chance to land a fin- ishing blow, but Jeby was too wary to give Battaglia many openings. For the most part, the Canadian, with his right eye swollen shut, was forced to take a fearful beating, although he did rock the Jewish boy in both the first and fifth rounds. Battaglia went down for a count of nine in the eleventh round and was taking a pasting in the twelfth, when Referee Jack Britton finally called a halt after 1 minute and 46 seconds of fighting in that stanza. Jeby weighed 158% pounds; Bat- taglia 159%%. | A slim crowd of 7,000 persons S:l\'il the bout. HUNT SIXTH IN TENNIS Gilbert Hunt, District and Middle At- lantic junior singles tennis champion, has been placed sixth in the national tennis rankings of 1932. Frank Parker of New Orleans was put in the top spot | in this class. Hunt is regarded as one of the best | young racketers developed hereabout in | some time. the Natfonal Boxing Association. | Shadows of the Past BY L C. BRENNER. JIMMY COFFROTH. HEY called him “Sunny Jim" and “Sunny Jim” Coffroth he has remained to the Ameri- can sports public regardless to what line of endeavor he puts his brains Yes, Coffroth was “Sunny Jim” from. the’ time he put on his ing show in San Francisco cause of his success with the weather man in every outdoor ve ture he has undertaken the name still sticks to him. T longer dabbles in fights, mains in the fleld of sports, his present activities carrying him into the racing arena. “Sunny Jim,” who lives in San Diego, Calif., during the off son, has a beautiful race Agua Caliente, and there ar- ries on surrounded by many of the boys who years ago helped him gain fame and fortune in the roped square. In the old days, when Coffroth was staging 20-round bouts at his famous Mission street arena in 'Frisco, he brought together some of the greatest fighters in history, and he provided bouts that went st nd be- Mitchell, | | ter R. Sioefen, Los Angeles THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D.- C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1933. MILLER NEW RULER OF RING FEATHERS |Southpaw Outpoints Paul to Gain N. B. A. Throne on Third Attempt. BY WILLIAM WEEKES, Associated Press Sports Writer. HICAGO, January 14.—Freddie Miller, slender southpaw from Cincinnati’s Rhineland, today at last had caught up with the will-o'-the-wisp featherweight cham- ship. On his third try for the title—at | teast as far as the National Boxing As- | sociation . is concerned—he .collected llnm,’,r‘!! after a bad start to take the crown from Tommy Paul of Buffalo, N. | ¥, by a decision victory in 10 rounds | at the Chicago Stadium. Friday the {i3th may have had something to do with it, but Miller's skillful campaign, once he was started, would have taken care of the situation on any day of the week T was Paul's firs of the battle in defense itle he won in an N. B. A ment at Detroit last year, and orough- ing away from Miller’s southpaw shots, he fired away with a straight right to chin and jaw that earned him a sub- stantial margin. He reached the peak of his effort in the third when the right sent Miller flying into the ropes, well shaken, In the fourth, however, Miller shifted to boxing. His jabbing right kept Paul busy, and a swinging left to head and body produced punish- ment to slow the champion down. A small cut on his nose suffered in the fifth annoyed Paul, and Miller's right reopened it in every round thereafter. ‘The decision of the two judges and Referee Tommy Thomas was close but unanimous, and satisfied a disappoint- ing crowd of about 5,000 spectators. RATINGS AND'BUMS ARE BIG NET TOPICS U. S. L. T. A. Delegates May Have Warm Session Over Both Next Month. By the Assoclated Press. EW YORK, January 14—A raid upon the rankings and another attack directed against “tennis bums” are expected to provide the material for the delegates at the annual convention of the United States Lawn Tennis Association next month to ponder, debate and perhaps battle over., According to the custom, the ranking committee has placed the naticnal champions, H. Ellsworth Vines, jr., of Pasadena, Calif., and Helen Jacobs of | Berkeley, Calif., first in the singles rankings it has reccmmended to the convention, but further down the “first tens” show some surprising changes. With Mrs. Helen Wills Moody left unranked because all her playing last year was done in_Europe, only five of the 1932 women leaders again appear on the first 10. Among the men, 7 | out of the 10 again appear in the select group, but in a greatly altered order. 'HE recommendation of the Amateur Rule Committee continues the process of “bearing down” on ex- penses, which has gone on for several years. The proposed changes in the rules concerning club accounting of players’ expenses forbid the granting of “round figure” allowances for expenses, demanding detailed reports; allow transportation only to the cost of one| railroad fare and lower berth Pull- man fare for a group of players travel- ing to a towrnament in the same auto- mobile, and require separate account- ings for expenses allowed to wives of other non-players accompanying com- petitors. Outstanding among the many changes in the men’s singles rankings are the | rise of Wilmer Allison, Davis cup star, from ninth to second place, and of Lester Stoefen from fifteenth to sixth, and the drop of George Lott from sec- ond to eleventh. Carcline Babcock of Los Angeles, a junior in 1931, earned third place in the women's rankings while another young Californian, Josephine Cruick- shank of Santa Ana, rose from twelfth to fifth, ERE is how the Ranking Com-| mittee listed the first 10 in the men's and women’s singles: Men: 1, H. Ellsworth Vines, jr., Pasadena, Calif.; 2, Wilmer L. Allison, Austin, Tex.; 3, Clifford Sutter, New Orleans 4, Sydney B. Wood, jr., New Yor] Francis X. Shields, New York; 6, 7, Gregory ;8 Keith | Gledhill, Santa Calif.; 9, | | John Van Ryn, Philadelphia; 10, David | N. Jones, New York. Women: , Helen Jacobs, Berkeley, Calif.; 2, | . L. A, Harper, Oakland, Calif.; Caroline Babcock, Los Angeles: 4. Marjorie Morrill Painter, ham, Mass.; 5_Josephine Cruickshank, | Santa Ana, Calif.; 6, Virginia Hilleary, | Phile: 7, Alice Marble, San | Prancisco; . Mrs. Marjorle Gladman Van Ryn, Philadelphia; 9, Virginia Rice, Boston; 10, Marjorie Sachs, Cam- bridge, Mass. The No. 1 rankings in other divisions n to the following: 's doubles—Vines and Gledhill. Intercollegiate singles—Clifford Sut- ter, Tulane: doubles—Gledhill and Jos- eph Coughiin, Stanford. Juniorsingles—Frank _Parker, New | Orleans; doubles—Gene Mako, Los An- geles, and Jack Lynch, Taft, Calf. ys’ singles—Donald Leavens, Mosi- Wis.; doubles—Robert - Kamrath, and Edward Weller, Austin, Tex, S. Mangin, | down as epics. He reigned in a day when California practically had a monopoly on boxing, just as New York has now. He was in those days what Tex Rickard was to the PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY, International League. Buffalo, 6; London, 3. CanadianWmerican League. Philadelphia, 3; Quebec, 1. American Association. Kansas City, 4; Duluth, 3. COLLEGE SWIMMING. Yale, 57; Pittsburgh, 18. Frien of Bll!imfl!é' 37; COLLEGE HOCI > St. Mary's, 4; Michigan, M (overtime ) 'Micnigan Tech, 5; Wisconald, fs sport in the last few years. Coffroth gained his nickname with the aid of the weather man, for he was able to run off with his shows in the outdoor Mission street arena practically without interrup- tion almost any season of the year. He was a shrewd promoter and a daring one. A guarantee with him was taboo, until just before he wound up his career as a fight pro- moter. He made fighters work on a percentage and he had a system whereby he never got less than 40 per cent for his promotion work. “Sunny Jim” still loves his fights, but he lkes his better. He is extremely wealthy and a good ss man. [\ Covveians, #6862 Girls’_singles—Helen Fulton, Win- netka, Ill.; doubles—Gracyn Wheeler, Southern California, and Katherine | Winthrop, Boston. Mat Matches By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA.—Jim Londos, 200, Greece, threw Ernie Dusek, 217, Omaha, 49:48, BOSTON.—Henri Deglane, 230, France, defeated Gus Sonnenberg, 215, Boston, two out of three falls ( glane, 7:07; Sonnenberg, 2:25; Deglane, 12:37). SALEM, Mass.—Fred Moran, Newport, R. I, defeated Lloyd Stewart, Lynn (one fall each, Stewart d SCHENECTAD' noff, Ukrainia, thre T A PAIR OF YANKEE ROOTERS. MUTINY | M | % P 0 (G ¢« YESSR, THERE GO THE FIRST | SHELLS IN THE 1933 BASE BALL WAR... GEORGE AND AL QUGHT T KNoOW— BUT IF THER DOPE THERE'S' Going To BE A Lot of | FISHING TMIS SUMMER -.. s Aom DoER -: IS COARECT All-Time ReC(;rd Against Foes Of °33 Portends Rough Sailing On Gridiron for Midshipmen Special Dispatch to The St NNAPOLIS, Md., January 14— That the 1933 Naval Academy foot ball schedule is difficult can be gleaned from the statis- | tics of the all-time rivalry between the schools in foot ball. Navy has previously played 106 games | with the adversaries of next Fall. In these games the Midshipmen have been victorious 39 times, compared to 56 reverses and 11 ties. The Middies’ best all-time record against opponents for 1933 has been made at the expense of Virginia, a team which hasn’t been met since 1907. In nine games with the Cavaliers the Mid- dies have won 8, tied 1 and lost 1. Mercer will be met for the first time next year while the Pittsburgh Panthers will be met for the first time since 1916 when the locals were toppled 29 to 19. In four games with Pitt the Naval Academy has won 1, lost 3 and tied 1 game. Basket Ball Tips BY JOE GLASS ‘UGH McDERMOTT, University of Oklahoma coach, has his team employ a very fine strat- egy when a jump play is called in defensive territory and the man jumping for Oklahoma is getting the tip. Finis play develops with bewilder- ing speed. Say, for instance, that center (3) is making the jump. He tips the ball to the outside on the right. Right forward (1) comes in high and in turn tips the ball fur- tfr outside, where it is caught by right guard (2), who immediately dribbles down toward the basket, Simultaneously with 2's t movements are ‘The Middies have lost to Notre Dame | on_every occasion, the last six years. Columbia has been victor in 3 of 4| games but on the other hand the Tars | have won from William and Mary in 6 of 7 games, losing last year for the first time when the score was 6 to 0. RMY, Princeton and Penn, the regulars of the schedule since | the begnning of foot ball, all hold | an edge over the local eleven in all-time | tilts. The Cadets have beaten the Mid- dies 18 times, compared with 12 Te- verses and 3 ties. Against Princeton, | Navy has won 6. lost 13 and tied 5, | while Pennsylvania has been topped in | 6 encounters, while winning 11. An- other Tar-Quaker game was deadlocked. The _statistics indicate that Na would have a successful season with an | even break in 1933. However. it must | be remembered that, despite the statis- | tical score, the Middies have won | 4 of the last 6 games from Penn and have been topped by the Tiger since the 17-to-14 game of 1924. ! SENIORS HOCKEY VICTORS| —— | Central High Girls Score Heavily | in School Tourney. Senfors have won an inter-class hockey tournament just ended among Central High School girls. They de- feated the juniors 3 to 1 and 2 to 1,| and the sopkomores 10 to 0 and 5 to 0. | The juniors downed the sophomores 4 | to 0 and 6 to 1. | Seniors who made goals_included Clara_Tarbett, Florence Fox, Ethel Nel- son, Betty Albrecht, Isabell Craddock | and Clare Langmack. Juniors who| counted were Peggy Keyser, Margret | Waldecker, Kathryn Shook and Marian Pincus. Milis Las Pinas was the lone sophomore to register. Anne Harrison served as hockey man- | ager, with Betty Hawkins and Mar- | gret’ Waldecker assistants. ENGLISH LEAD CRICKET |Score 236 for Seven Wickets in Australian Match. ADELAIDE, Australia, January 14 | (). —Successfully challenging the best efforts of the Australian bowlers, Ed- | ward Paynter and Hedley Verity had carried England’s score to 315 runs when lunch was taken today in the third cricket test match. The young English batsmen had added 87 runs in their eighth wicket partnership. When stumps were drawn | last night the score stood at 236 for 7 wiekets. BOWL GRUBB "STAKES Twenty Expected to Compete at Silver Spring Tonight. With a field of about 20 expected, the Brooke Grubb Sweepstakes will be bowled tonight at Silver Spring. Ten games, starting at 7:30 o'clock, will constitute the test. Entries will be accepted up to start- ing time. The fee is $12, including cost of games. ! 7 | smelled it before. i/ W 7\ SARNSHAW'S SPORTS. mons F labbergast Chiefs : Yanks, Giants Seen as Docile Employes —By TOM DOERER 771?\““?; fl“ £3) - OSE AITTING; WE'RE FRANKNESS MIGHT BE CARRIED ONTO . TANE FleLo.... S0 .we cANT Win, ERE Hhpe wouro Hade AAPPENED To GEORGE. (F MC GRAW MANAGED HIM W THE © LD DAYS.. Earnshaw, Simmons Audacious Salary Twist Seen in Prediction Yanks Will Breeze to Pennant Again. I think I hear the drums of war beginning to roll in base ball. And this time it is not among the pappies of the peaceful pastime at one of their lodge meetings, but a battle in which the hired men of the slumbering sport will pit their might against the tall hats of the game in an effort to gain more coin of the | realm for their 1933 efforts on the ball fields. A new weapon apparently is being | wielded by the players. The boys are selling their teams short. And the trade is gasping at their audacity. While the moguls must be| fleeing around in consternation. OR instance, George Livingstone Earnshaw, right-hand hurling ace for Connie Mack’s second-place Athletics, and Aloysious P. Simmons, the new head heavy artilleryman for the White Sox, are quoted as saying that the American League race is al- ready in, and that the Yanks will take it in a walk. Mr. Earnshaw is quoted as saying that the flag will be won by the Yan- kees by July the Fourth; Mr., Simmons adding that the Yanks will be 25 games in front by the last of July. Gentlemen, if there is not powder in those remarks then I have never No matter how far back I can toddle my memory I cannot recall having heard, or read of, two outstanding players in base ball getting up on their haunches months before the season opened to say that their teams did not have a chance. They have made remarks in private, Il agree, and were right. And maybe | these public remarks of Earnshaw and | Simmons are correct, but, as much as | I admire frankness, I'm afraid the boys have looked into the wrong end of the gun, F all of the American League is as agitated as Uncle Clark Griffith, the gray ranger from the cactus country, then I'm here to tell you that there is a lot of sunbonnet gossiping going on over the various fences in the younger loop. “I understand the Yanks are in and the American League race for 1933 is to | be dropped in favor of pinochle,” I tell | Uncle over the phone by way of/ warm- | in, PARDON my agitation—but g up. | “What do you think of players like | that?” shrieks Uncle, beyond doubt’i having given the subject plenty of | thought. “If they were players of mine, who were publicly saying that my team did not have a chance to win the flag, I| would chase them off the reservation | with a base ball bat,” he said, answer- ing his own question. Uncle went into a series of explosions to indicate that the remarks made by Earnshaw and Simmons touched a sore spot in the make-up of a club owner Who expects his players to boost his club, and not ridicule it. 'UST whether the league or Judge Landls will spank the pair of gab- bers for their remarks which could . But it is not a question but that ball players with probable axes to grind will be muzzled by the leagues for mak- ing remarks unfavorable to their clubs, in_the future. You can bet on that. When the full force of the reaction to Simmons’ and Earnshaw’s the reach Chicago, there is little doubt that the high commissioner will get up on his horse, and go riding. And there is every reason to believe that the Sox and the Athletics man- plaints with Howard Pll'fl:;‘ k won the event last season. L statements that the race is over before it starts. And it is this angle which will disturb the club owners. Various reasons are advanced by the unprecedented remarks of the players. One is that George's contract is g- ing to be of the shrinking variety this season, while Al's wili be of similar nature. As a result the boys are pop- ping off verbal guns in the hope that their bosses Will understand how they about working figures. On the other hand, there is a feel- ng that the two young men merely felt that way about the race, and could see no reason why they should not express an honest opinion. UT no matter what prompted the remarks they will ring around the American League to cause plenty of discussion during the next few days. 1t is possible that they will be spanked and the matter dropped, then again, it is likely that examples will be made of them to show that free speech is all right so long as players favor their own clubs. But no matter what becomes of their remarks you have got to pass out a few medals to a pair of young men who, in times like this, have enough courage to get up and flick off their bosses’ hats. Particularly youngsters ‘who are pulling down wWeekly money that reads like a treasury report. Gentlemen, the fight is on, and I'm rubbing my hands in glee. If there is anything that gives me a lot of fun it is to see a battle on in the peace- ful pastime. Yet, and how true, the Messrs. Earnshaw and Simmons have not got a chance of winning out. for repression MAGNATES BELIEVE HOLD-OUT WAR OFF Too Many Eager Players Out for Jobs to Worry Over Malcontents. BY ALAN GOULD, Assoclated Press Sports Editor, EW YORK, January 14— Whether they are just whistling in the dark, or enjoying the caim before the storm, the offices of the New York Giants and Yankees today radiate a marked confidence that the so-called “hold-out war,” an annual affair, will be conspicuous this year by its absence. Their feeling may be fairly typical for the reason the Yankees are riding high now, while the Giants face a strug- gle to get out from under. Officials of both, including President Charles A. Stoneham and Col. Jacob Ruppert, be- lieve that the athletes will be quite will- | ing to take such ’ or largesse as the magna 1 they must or can dis- tribute. They already had had mani- festations from their employes of a willingness, if not actual anxiety, to get their signatures on the dotted lines be- fore anything more “bearish” happens in the base ball market. Giants at one stroke got a new manager and ended a holdout's career for the time being when they signed Bill Terry to a two-year contract as John McGraw's successor. Terry only a year ago was one of the most conspicuous holdouts. Fred Lind- strom, another 1932 holdout, is gone to the Pirate craft. Of the new talent obtained by the club, including George Davis, Gus Mancuso, Ray Starr, Bill Shores and Byrne James, contract terms probably already have been agreed to for 1933. As one official expressed it: “There are too many folks out of work now, and in base ball, too many good play= ers anxious to get out and hustle for less money than ever before, for much discontent to exist with what we have to offer. The club owners must make further readjustments and the ball players realize it, especially as most of them are being dealt with fairly.” [E Yankees, from a business stand- point, hope the vote of confidence in them for 1933, already offered by Al Simmons and George Earnshaw, was misplaced. Al and George say it will be another “breeze” for the world champions in the American League, despite the reconstruction already done or contemplated. “It will be all right with us,” smiled Secretary E. G. Barrow, “if all eight clubs are tied by July 4, still dead- locked by Labor day and the Yankees do not clinch the pennant until the last week of the race. “Actually I think the race will be much closer. There will be at least four strong clubs, the Yankees, Wash- ington, Athletics and Cleveland. All the others will be much improved, es- pecially Detroit and Chicago. The Red Sox ought to bust their way out of last place.” Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. CHICAGO.—Freddie Miller, Cincin= nati, outpointed Paul, Buffalo, N. Y. (10), won National Boxing Asso=- ciation recognition as world feather- weight champion; James J. Braddock, Jersey City, outpointed Martin Levan- dowski, Grand Rapids, Mich. (10); Varias Milling, Los Angeles, and Johnny Pena, New York, drew (8); Paul Dazzo, Chicago, outpointed Johnny Mitchell, Detroit (8). NEW YORK.—Ben Jeby, New York, stopped Frankie Battaglia, Winnipeg, Man. (12), won New York recognition as world middleweight champion; Jack Kid Barger, Idaho, outpointed Tony Dominqyez, Cuba (5); Frank Knauer, Chicago, outpointed Angelo Zimbardo, New York (5): Frankie Klick, San Francisco, outpointed Lou Jallos, New Orleans (5); Paul Delaney, Seattle, Wash., outpointed Mickey Bishop, New York (5). CLINTON, Iowa.—Gorilla Jones, Ake ron, Ohio, knocked out Young Stuhley, Kewsanee, IIl. (4); Bill Connell, Mon- mouth, TIL, knocked out Jimmy Con- nelley, Minneapolis (3). S S T LURAY TEAMS WIN, LOSE. LURAY, Va, January 14—Luray High basketers ‘conquered Bridgewater High, 20 to 19, last night. Shenandoah High girls swamped the Luray High sextet, 40 to 9. BASKET BALL NOTES LAYERS who formerly held forth in the American Basket Ball League will be seen in action tomorrow with the Pater- son Professionals, when the New Jersey tossers are entertained by the Aero Eagles in the George Washing- ton gymnasium. Hen Kurtyka and Jack Reismuller, erstwhile standouts for the Paterson quint of the American League, head the invaders. Others are Dick One for the Book it BY CHARLIE WHI' honor of pitching a double- header allowing only three hits for both games belongs to Tim Keefe, pitching for the Mets (New York) in game with Columbus, A. A., July 4, 1833 (one in first, twoin sec- ond game). Fred ‘Toney, Cincinnati, and Herman Bell, St. Louis, were hit for six in double- headers in 1917 and 1924 ‘Walter Johnson in his career as pitcher for Wash- ington Club, 21 years, pitched 113 The largest number of runs by one club in a game is 36, made by Chicago N: game with ationals in Louisville, June 29, 1897. The next largest is 28, made by St. Louis, National League, vs. Philadelphia, second game, July 6, 1929. (St. Louls will | Crawford, claimant of the foul shoot~ ing championship of New Jersey; Ray Newman and Jo: Bockoski. Sholl's Cafe ard Fort Myer will meet in a preliminary to start at 2 o'clock. Freedman led A. Z. A. basketers to a 39-to-9 win over Simpson Pharmacy yesterday, scoring 14 points. Displaying a well balanced attack, Triple Tau_downed the Eagles day, 29 to 8. Brookland -tossers were too strong for the Whirlwinds, romping to a 35-19 victory. With Understein scoring 20 points, Olmsted Grill nosed out Fort Wash- ington last night, 49 to 47. Neighborhood House turned back the Northeast Boys' Club, 3¢ to 14. Varella’s 12 points enabled Terry's Service to whip the Yorkes, 28 to 20. Swann's Service was a 30-19 winner over the D last night in the lone Communit: ter League game. The flo nited Typewriter Grays stopped ¢ y War College in a hard-foug!: e to be played today by teams representing the Knights of Columbus. The 100-pounders were to have played thes Savoy tossers at 11 am. and at 2 o'clock the 115-pounders were to engage Peck Memorial, n’?“”ig‘l’letri;rhcliulm for the K. of C. ‘on: e 115-pounders will oppose Mount Rainier at 8 o'clock on latter court, while an hour later the 145-pound quints of the two organiza- tions will clash. With Harrington and Painter show- ing the way, Fire Department downed Naval Hospital, 36 to 22, in the Gov= ermnment League last night. In another l!o_;vwm;_;,ch Fort Myer whipped G. P. 0., — gl TU. §. SKATERS TRIUMPH, PARIS, January 14 (#).—~The Massa-