RED FACES IN NEW YORK

BROADWAY FANS BET HEAVILY
ON AMERICAN LEAGUE.

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Reports From Far West Say That
-Louis-Baer Bout Wouldn’t
Draw More Than $100,-

000 Gate.

By Eppie BRIEvTz.
(Associated Press Correspondent.)

NEw ‘vorx, July 7.—Lots of red
faces around this town today....
Broadway lost its shirt betting on
the American league....Fourth of
July must have been pretty tough
on Mike Jacobs, who still is laid up
with lumbago....Mebbe reports from
the far West that a Joe Louis-Max
Baer bout in California wouldn’t do-
much more than $100,000 had some-.
thing to do with it....They’re toss- |
ing a big party in St. Louis tonight
for J. Ed Wray, who has been sports
editor of the Post-Dispatch there
for thirty years....This grand vet-
eran of the sports world is celebrat- |
ing his sixty-fifth birthday.

The minute the National Boxing
association named Tony Galento No.
1 heavyweight challenger, Tony

sign across his

bar reading

‘Bring On
That Big Bum, |

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Wally® Berger

began clicking

as soon as he

left the Polo

grounds to

wee. Texas bas-

etball fans
think Promo-

ter Ned Irish

tars ats = will be making

Clicks with the Reds. Scere aka
the Texas Longhorns in his visiting
list for Madison Square Garden next
Winter....Coach Jack Gray can’
start an entire line-up of ex-John
Tarleton boys, and John Tarleton, |
if you remember, is the school which
won eighty-four in a row before hit-
ting the well known dust late last

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Nebraska State Baseball |
‘league is made up of cities from |
‘ho less than three states. ...The guy
with the broad grin is Coach Howard |
Kissell of Findlay: college out in
Ohio, and no wonder....He lost only |
three men off his crack football
team; his basketball squad comes
back to the campus intact, and only
one lad will be missing when the
baseball team reports....In other
words, he is sitting pretty....Enos
| Slaughter, who is going great guns
for the Cardinals, has been made an
honorary member of the fire depart-
ment down in Roxboro, N. C., his

home town.

_ Cincinnati is—and always was—a
red-hot baseball town when the Reds
are winning....When the club gal-
loped off with the bunting back in
1919, a rabid fan in Cynthiana, Ky.,
walked sixteen miles every day io
learn the score....George Moye, for-
mer Florida football star, will fill in
for Jeff D. McCord as diiector of
Athletics at Emory university, while
McCord takes a year’s leave of ab-|
sence....Healthy sign: the way the.
Illinois boxing commission sat down |