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The Washington times., 1935-03-11

the contest mail ON hand.
Because of all this mail, he can
not possibly announce the winners
in the Play Ball Contest today.
He plans doing it tomorrow, how
ever, positively. So he asks you
to be patient.
Since Saturday, the mail has
been tremendous. Literal truck
fuls have come in and it's kept
your Play Ball Editor so busy he's
hardly had time to do his regu'
lar work.
That's the way it goes in con-
tests of the sort. The response is
threefold at the last minute and
it always holds up the "woiks." :"
Week of ShOwings
The sound film, "Play Ball" I"
which George Moriarty, the ia
nous umpire, introduced at every
showing last week, had it's last
showing Friday at Dunbar High
School. Before that it was offered
baseball fans at the Palace The
ater, Hine Junior High School,,
Roosevelt High and Central High.
In every case, those who saw
it stamped it as the best picture
on baseball they'd ever seen.
Pitching points we're brought out.
Throwing, fielding, base-running
and the real inSides of baseball, i,
which every fan would like to
know more of, but which few
really know when you get right
down to the subject.
Big leagers throughout the
American League were seen in
the film, including Babe Ruth.
Jimmy Foxx, Lou Gehrig, Mickey
Cochrane, Lefty Grove, Earl
Whitehill, Wesley Ferrell, Oral
Hildebrand, George Blaeholder,
Fred Ostermuller, Joe Cronin,
Buddy Myer, Willie Kamm,
Jackie Hayes, Heine Manush,
Goose GoSlin and Charley
Gehringer-to mention a few.
Be Patient
In all it was a great picture.
OF course, your Play Ball Contest
Editor realizes you liked it now.
Also he realizes you want him to
announce the contest winners.
He will as soon as he's had the
opportunity to scan every answer
to the three questions required
in the contest. And that fans,
takes work and plenty of it.
The winner will get a season
ticket to all games at Griffith
Stadium during the coming
season. The next five most skill
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''The head and shoulders Of
the catchers often interfere with
the plate umpire's view of the
last few feet of the course of
these low pitches and we have
to depend on sort of sixth sense
to clock those balls and strikes.
As all baseball fans know, fair
territory for pitched ball is a
space II inches wide, the dimen-
sion of the plate, and between
the knees and shoulder.
Tough Ones to Judge
"The high ones we can see
over the shoulder of the catcher,
but the bOrderline ones down
there about the knees have the
catcher doing all sorts of Gales
themes with his body and legs,
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Hadley nor Weaver had a success
full season.
Now We drop to the relief
pitchers for a few moments.
Thomas. with an earned run aver
age of 5.48 per nine inning ball
game famed AZ htiters in 152
innings. Rusesll. also relief pitcher
who allowed 4.16 earned runs per
nine Ginning game struck out 38
hitterS in 158 innings. Six
pitchers, then. four starters and
two relief pitchers struck out 262
hitters all season.
Rowe and Bridges of the Tigers
between them struck out 300
hitterS. Rowe got 149 and Bridges
ISL. Ruffing and Gomez be-
tween them whitfield BIT hitters
throughout the season.
Exception Proves Rule
The Cleveland Indians finished
second with no outstanding strike
out pitchers on the lists, but there
again the exception not only
proves the rule, but causes argu'
mentS.
Veterans of the brave old days
will tell you that the great
Christy Mathewson never was a
strikeout pitcher. They'll tell you
that he let the boys hit him almost
at will until something happened.
But how did Matty stop them?
He struck out the tough guys.
But we're not writing about
Mathewson, nor the great Eddie
Planks who for 10 consecutive sea-
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full answers will get two tickets
to the opening game between the
Griffmen and Philadelphia AS at
Griffith Stadium. April 16, while
the next 10 will receive one
ticket to the same opening game.
Nice awards, and even nicer
when the winners are announced.
But be patient, will va?
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PALMETTO CAP
WEIGHTS SET

Frank J. Bryan, secretary of
the National Steeplechase and
Hunt Association. announced that
weights for the Palmetto Steeple-
chase handicap, which will be run
at Aiken, S. c., March %. would
b. as follows: Our Friend, 1863;
Tereys, 161; Cloncowan, 100;
Argonaut, End, 154; The Stag,
2nd., 1872; Aughrim Boy, 1852;
Vanarino, 1A8, and The Spy, 145.
The event, sponsored by the
Aiken Steeplechase Association, is
for hunters registered with the
National Steeplechase and Hunt
Association,
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an average of
almost 6 runs
per game to
slightly m or e
than 4 runs per
game last year.
Those figures
might be alarm
ing if consider
ed as a true
indicator of the
power of the
club that will
take the field
this season. But
we are haffled
in reck oning
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and about 30 or 40 per cent of
the total throws are Obscured
from the umpire's view when
they cross the plate. But we
have to call 'em, and call 'em
quick.
'It gets to be a sort Of second
sight with us, calling those low
ones. We have to judge largely
by the direction the ball is TAX
ing when some part of the catch
er's body eclipses it from our
view, which is very often"
There's an admission which
many an umpire less courageous
that Moriarty would hesitate to
assert, but "Morry" makes no
bones about it. He doesn't
claim to be superhuman, or
otherwise able to oftimes look
through a catcher's anatomy to
follow the ball to its destina'
ton.
WI OOS44AOp0 AAVN4 ,
Moriarty is the easiest-going
sort of fellow off the field. He
is extremely human. Over the
two hours of a ball game, George
is all business, because he feels
he has a duty and a respon-
sibility to the players as we'll as
to the fans, but the other %
hours of the day he's a great big
softy and would get out Of bed
in the middle of the night to do
you a favor.
Why, the man is so big-hearLed
he is supporting a total of four
families. Once in Detroit I saw
him tip a waiter one dollar in a
little joint after buying IS cents
worth of food, because that
waiter was a broken down
former baseball figure who had
to accept menial work as a live
lihood.
Moriarty, incidentally, is a
great admirer of Washington's
own Bill Werber, third -baseman
of the Boston Red Sox.
In Georges 80 years in base
ball, he declares he hasn't seen a
more natural base-runner than
Werber and he predicts Bill will
steal between so and SIS bases
this year, as against 40 he pill
fered last season.
Donates His Winters
The dean of active American
League umpires is the type of
man who seems to be "born to
baseball" His love of the game
is transcribed by only one or
two other things in life, his
family and his devotions. Next
to those he lives, breaths, dreams
baseball, so much so, in fact,
that he spends his winters
spreading baseball gospel with
out recompense from any
source.
The league pays his bare ex-
penses going around the coun-
try with the twin films, "Play
Ball. and Batter Up" and he'd
rather do that during the off
months than spend the winter
itching for the season to open.
He's satisfied and happy and
contented baSking anywhere
within the reflection of baseball
and mingling where baseball
people gather.
'Morry" holds one OF the most
unique records of the American
League, that of having stolen
home more often than any other
player in the history of the
loop. He performed that feat
IA times out Of II attempts in
two seasons. recently asked
him if his expertness at that
particular type of larceny was
what qualified him to be an UNI
pire.
To which he replied, "Well,
after all, you know there's diff.
ference between stealing home
in the daytime and sneaking
home at night"
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season conditioning.
The second and perhaps more
important task confronting Har-
ris is finding pitchers who can
protect whatever lead the team
may take in any games. The
punch of the Griffmen as repre-
sented in the scoring column for
the nast two years dropped from
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MINOR INJURIES
BEGIN To HIT
GR|FFMEN
BY FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL

Dy + MANN DOOA ~ ANAAAA
BILOXI. Miss, March 1.-THE
minor ailments of a baseball train.
ing camp are beginning to bob up
in the home of the Griffmen. Not
only is Earl 'Nhitehill bothered by
a sore arm, but Sammy Holbrook
has a swollen left hand from
catching the speed offerings of
the young pitchers, and Buddy
Myer has stone bruise on his
left hand. Myer has his favorite
bat, turned by a friend of second
growth hickory over in Alabama
all wrapped with sponge.
Jack Redmond is levelling away
with his hitting more and more
as the days pass. There was some
fluke connected with that PA Of
last year. Jack is a chatterbox
behind the plate and you'd think
batting practice was a regular
game.
"He does more work than the
pitcher" said Harris this morn
ing.
The rain storm that hit the
town in midafternoon yesterday
rounded out solid week of down.
pour. Fortunately it held off in
the morning and the players were
able to get in some hard practice.
jake Powell showed the boys
something about feinting a hit
and bunting down the third base
line. It was the niftiest bit of de-
ception that we've seen this spring,
and it was not lost upon Bucky
Harris.
Fred Schultz shook hands with
Powell yesterday at noon time and
passed the time of day with him.
These men are rivals for the cen
ter field job, with Powell a better
than even money bet to make the
grade.
Frank Peticolas warmed up yes.
terday afternoon, and with his
sore finger healed looked more
like a real hurler than ever. This
boy is only kid, but he's some
thing to see in action. A year in
some good league in the North
where he will receive intelligent
handling should fix him up for
1896.
Joe Kuhel is moving around
now in full confidence that his
ankle will not trouble him in the
least. After the first workout it
was sore and a little stiff, but now
it is all right, and the big boy is
ready. He is lighter this year than
he was last and seems ready for
a big year.
Jack Redmond bats with the
little finger of his right hand over
tapping the nub of the bat han
die. Says he doesn't feel at home
with the conventional baseball
grip.
Russell think his most effective
delivery is fast ball kept low. He
says he is faster this year than
he has been in other training
camps, and thinks he's in for a
big year. He is another Griff who
is enrolled in the "on to Florida
movement"
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PICKUPS AND PUTOUTS
By GEORGE A. SIMPSON

r. Riley, the "Mr. Foster" Of
Navy sports information down
Annapolis way. Warren Rab.
bitt is pulling for Company F
in the District A. A. U. un-
limited basketball champion
ship. because of the presence
of Spider Chase and Rufus
Vincent with the Guards. =.
Jimmy Sullivan expects a rec
ord turnout for the Golden
Gloves boxing championships
opening Wednesday night In
the Catholic U. gym.
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Frank LOzupone has an es.
pecial interest in athletics at
the Chevy Chase-Bethesda High
School. his nephew was a
member of the basketball squad
likewise, Tim DonOhue, former
trainer of AZucar, keeps an eye
on sports activities at st.
Johns Prep. where his son
performs for the JohnnieS. =.
Hugh r. Riley, jr., who dis
penses sports news for Penn
State College, Is the son Of H.
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1934-'35 winter
i n t e r c o l.
legiate season
fittingly closes.
G or 6 e t own
a n d Maryland
clash in basket
ball at 8 o'clock,
their first since
1914, and Mary
land and Catho-
lie University
S q u re off in
boxing at 9:45
o'clock, m a r k.
ing their first
meeting in the
The Washington times., 1935-03-11

Schoolboy Rowes, through means Of his
sound film, PLAY Ball, brings to light the
fact he is the type of man Diogenes must
have been looking for.
Now honesty is trait not ordinarily as
sociated with an umpire in the mind of your
average baseball fan, but lot of you will
have to revise your viewpoint after listening
to an admission Of Big George of the mask
and chest pad.
Moriarty doesn't have to be backed up
against the wall to admit that he and every
other umpire are called upon each year to
call balls and strikes by the hundreds of
pitches that they never actually see 60 over
The Washington times., 1935-03-11
Riverdale Boys
Meet Wednesday

The Riverdale Boys Club will
meet at the Maryland gym at 8
O'Clock Wednesday. All members
are urged to be present.
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Earl Whitehill ONLY
Strike Out Hurler
On Griff Squad
By FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL
Times Staff Writer

BILOXI, Miss, March 11Seeking punch for the Grffmen
1885, only of the tasks confronting Stanley Buck
Harris the club advances toward the final stages of its
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the plate.
There certain type of delivery characteristic of such
types low ball hrowers Gomez Ruffng and schooboy
Rowe that the plate around the batters knees which
take such downward they leave the umpres vision
from 8 to 10 feet in front of the plate.
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Md. Meets
Cards and
Hoyas

BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON
The local college sports lane
leads to Ritchie Coliseum at Col.
lege Park, Md, tonight where the
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One More Day Needed
To Select Winners of
Ticket Contest
Help, Help, Help!

This is your Play Ball Contest Editor shouting, fans
Shouting because Of his need for aid in wng through all
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Umpire Admits Many
Balls and Strikes
Elude Vision
By KIRK MILLER
Times SnOrfS Editor

Half dozen chats with George Morarty American League
umpire who devoted last week in Washington to exploiting
merits Of the Ruths and Hornsbys and Gehrnger and
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Basketball, Boxing
Lineup Tonight
AT Maryland
BASKETBALL At 8 P. M.

BAShGI BALL Al r W.
No, GEORGETOWN Pos. MARYLAND No.
80 Gibeau ......L. Foo. Waters l
Sc Hargaden ...R. F....7S BusCher 19
81 PARCELS ....Center. r..-'. wills 20 20
55 ZOla .......IA G...oo Andnrka ~
60 COrless ....R. G.......o Keller 81
RESERVES
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 6D, Esenstadt
(5O), Eckenrode (5A, Ragis (59l, Haney
(53). Observation-Disclosures (2S) Soth'
orOn (2D. ScheeIe Q5. DAILY (39)'
StOnebraker Q0.
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TOp-NOtch Senli-PrO
Foes on Turin Card

The Sterling Beers, claiming state
semi-pro sumpremacy, will clash
with the local A. B. G. Negro club
at Perry Stadium Sunday in dou-
header. The first game will be
called at o'clock.
The Beers will have the services
of a pair of the states top-notch
semi-pro twirlers in Johnny Twigg,
southpaw, and Russ Paugh. right
handler. Other members of the
team include Mills, Sigler, Drissell,
Powers, Tobin, Russell, Seal Martin,
Babcock Daily and Fornell. Clyde
Hcffa is manager.
The A. B. c. roster includes Bald
win, 2b: Patton. SO: R. McCauley,
SIS; Gill, Id; Charter, RI; Seagraves,
CT; Taylor, If; baltimore. C; Cocker
ham. c; McCauley, Hannibal and
Steele. pitch. and c. Day. utility.
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81
The little guy. feeling called upon
TO offer some assurance that therell
be no repetition of last years score
less tie, flattened his nose against
the ticket wicket and confded.
You'll see solle scoring this year,
yes STREE"
He didn't have any more idea who
would commit the scoring than he
did about the location of a Gate-Q,
Row-42 ticket.
1t might be the ALL Stars he
said. with a flashing running at
tack by Cotton Warburton and
Buzz Berries. Or, on the other
hand. it might be the Bears with
the plunging of Bronko NagursN or
a field goal by Jack Manders."
The little fellows ruthless opin-
ions smacked of having been lifted
from some of the expert ones in the
daily press. which. stirred up and
boiled for 80 minutes over a slow
fire. assured the clientele:
!. That the chances of another
ScoreleSS tie are something short of
MusSolini's at a Negro Baptist camp
meeting.
. That the margin of scoring
won't be more than seven points.
3. That the Bears will try to run
the All-Stars razzle-daZzle with
passing
l. That, no matter who wins, it
won't settle the argument over
whether the gridiron supremacy is
the Collegfans' or the professionals
The battle between the fellows
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Detroit Club
Scores Double
Win Over As
Pushes Lead to 9l2 Games;
HOrnSby TerroTS Strike
Again From Cellar.
BY HENRY SUPER
United Press STAN Correspondent

NEW YORK, Aug. 28.-If the De-
troit Tigers capture the American
League pennant-and it seems that
nothing short of arming the opposi-
ton with hand grenades can halt
them-they would do we'll to extend
vote OF thanks to the st. Louis
Browns.
The hapless Browns have kicked
around in the cellar virtually the
entire season and are 80 games be-
hind the Tigers. Yet they have done
more to aid the Detroit cause in the
month since the Bengals grabbed
the lead from the New York Yankees
than any other team in the league.
So efficiently have the Browns
functioned since July 27-the day
the Tigers moved into first place
that if standings were published
covering that period St. Louis would
be third topped only by Detroit and
Philadelphia.
Wreck Havoc Among Leaders
While the Tigers we're increas-
ing their margin to the 9i2 games
they hold today over the Yankees,
the Browns played an important
role by humping off pennant con-
tenders right and left at a time
when those teams needed victories
to stay in the race.
Only three clubs hold an edge
over the Browns since July 27-De-
trOit, Cleveland and Philadelphia.
In winning 10 of "a games since
then, the Browns have set the
Yankees down three out of five,
Chicago four out of seven and BoS-
ton four out of six.
On Senator's Heels
At the same time they aided the
Detroit cause immensely by losing
two out of three, bringing their sea-
son total to three victories and l3
losses against the Tigers-the great
est margin rolled up against the
Browns by any club.
Their sensational drive may vet
carry the Browns out of the cellar
and boost them into seventh place
ahead Of the Washington Senators.
Roger Hornsby'S men swept a dou-
ble-header for their fourth straight
over the Senators yesterday, en-
aiding them to climb within two
games of the capital team. Scores
were 1916 and Ill. The Tigers in
creased their lead by defeating
Philadelphia, 6-5 and SO, while the
Yankees split with Chicago. The
Yanks won the opener, 1910, and
lost the second, 4-3. The Boston,
Cleveland game was rained out.
The Tigers won their first game
with a run in the ninth when
Rookie Pitcher Carl Doyle passed
Goose Goslin with the bases loaded.
Schoolboy Rowe scored his sixteenth
victory in the nightcap.
In the National League Cincinnati
and Brooklyn split. The Reds won
the first, TO, and Brooklyn captured
the second, 10-1. Other games were
rained out.
Yesterdays Hero: Rip Radcliffe,
Chicago outfielder, whose homer in
the seventh inning of the nightcap
with man aboard enabled the
White Sox to beat the Yankees.
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Ryba Goes Up to
St. Louis Cardinals
Versatile Columbus Player
Will Report at Once.

By UHttCd Press
COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 28.-Mike
Ryba, the American Association
leading pitcher, was sold today by
the Columbus Red Birds to the st.
Louis Cardinals The deal was a
straight cash transaction, but the
sale price was not announced. He
will report to the Cardinals imme-
diately.
Ryba has won II games and lost
six this season. In addition to pitch
ing he plays on the inf1eld, in the
outfleld and catches. His batting
average is .343.
Ryba. whose home is at Delaney,
Pa, is 80 years old. He broke into
professional ball in 1928 with Day.
ton, O., in the Central League.
Since then he has played with
Scottsdale, Pa. Houston, Tex, and
Springfield, Mo.
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Skeet Champions
Crowned at Meet
Young Clayton and Mitchell
Win Shootoffs.
By [ nitcd Press

By LHitcd Press
CLEVELAND, Aug. 28.-BilIy
Clayton of Calvin, Okla, and Clar-
ence Mitchell, Waltham, Mass.
shared national honors today as the
smalbore skeet shoot champions.
Clayton, who is only Is years old
and weighs barely 100 pounds, tied
with H. B. Joy Jr. of Detroit by
breaking "a out of 100 targets in
the smallbore contest of the ma
tional skeet championships. In the
shoot-off, Clayton broke 25 straight
to win the title.
Joy also was the victim in the
sub-smallbore contest. At the end
of the regulation 100 targets, ne was
tied with Mitchell with a score of
&c. In the shoot-off Mitchell de-
feated JOY, % to 81, to take the
title.
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British Speed Daredevil
More Concerned About
War Than 300 Trial
By United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 28.-Sir Nal
colin Campbell, Britain's king Of
speed, departs for Utahs salt beds
today for another gamble with
death. He will attempt to boost his
world automobile speed record Of
276816 miles an hour to 300 in his
laundering giant, Bluebird.
Campbell arrived yesterday and
was more concerned over war in
Europe than with his newest speed
campaign.
Really, there's not much to tell
about Bluebird," he said. shes the
same girl we had at Daytona Beach
this year"
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YGnks Fail to ShOW on
AU-AmericG Ball Team
Dean, Rowe and Cochrane Are Only Leftovers From
Writer'S 1884 Squad; Vaughan Most Improved.
BY DANIEL VI. DANIEL
Times special Writer.

NEW YORK, Aug. 28.-Though the major league baseball
has another month to run the all-Americas Of
1888 already stand like clearcut ntagos against the
background Of achievement in something like 120 games.
Before the books closed Sunday Sept 90 there will
be shfngs the batting records and pitching tables But
the major impressions of the campaign already have sunk
deep The SUperatve ratings not likely to be disturbed
In listing the of this amazed the changes which
short
designated AlAmeras hreeDy Schoolboy
Rowe and Mickey Cochranehave MANAGED TO retain their places
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Mcconnell Accepts
New Albany Post
Princeton H. S. Net Mentor
Will Succeed Ballard.
By United Press

By United Press
NEW ALBANY, Ind, Aug. %
c. A. Mcconnell, basketball coach
at Princeton High School, will sign
a contract for similar position at
New Albany High Schcol next week,
it was announced today.
He will succeed J. Wendell Gke)
Ballard, who resigned to accept a
position at Shelbyville.
Mcconnell repeatedly accepted a
coaching job at Washington High
School yesterday, but later he said
he had not been approached BY
school officials.
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ACES AT HAGERSTOWN
State Stars and Espinosas Billed
for Golf Exhibition.

BIZ Hifrd Press
HAGERSTOWN. Ind. Aug. 2S.-
Abe G. Espinosa, Chicago. former
Western open champion. will play
an exhibition golf match here
Sept. l.
Playing in the fourSome with Es-
pinosa will be Neal Mcintyre, Indi-
annapolis: Earl Thomas, Richmond,
and Robert BrySon Jr.. Hagerstovn.
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who play for the fun of it and
those who work at it for coffee and
rolls undoubtedly will produce bet
ter lineL2s on each side. The Col
legians line WI. average 21o pounds
per man.
In the All-Star squad of 40 are
several straining to cut loose with a
showing which would bring a pro
offer. Damon Wetzel, a line smash
er from Ohio State, will 60 into the
fracaS with an All-Star jersey on his
back and Bears contract. in his
locker.
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MARION BOXER WINS

bY LNtItu FFtSS
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.-Geno Saliva
tore, 1856, La Sale. Ill, outpointed
Willie Davis, 1872. Kansas City, in 2
feature 10-round fight here last
night. Patrick Henry, lat, Marion
Ind, knocked out Mickey Nolan
147. Chicago, in the third round OF
a scheduled fve-round prelim.