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Jtoening Jjfef Braves* Tobin 4,003 See His Two No-Hitters D. June 1944—A—12 Only C., 23, Regrets Washington, Friday, 2,556 Attend as Vet Needs Second to Put Sports Program Lose or Draw For Local Fans TODAY. Win, * Handcuffs Phillies Lifetime Average GRANTLAND RICE. Baseball. By Washington at Boston, In Game Over .500 Mark Camp Springs vs. Cameo, West Two 9-Footers Are Latest Boxing Mastodons 5-Inning Ellipse, 5:30. Er the Associated Press. By JOE REICHLER, After the of Primo Camera at the hands of Max Baer, TOMORROW. collapse BOSTON, June 23.—Pitching two Associated Press Sports Writer. right and left, it generally was conceded that the day of the mam- Baseball. no-hit ball games in less than that Jim Tobin, after eight years as a moths and mastadons was about ended. Joe Louis, ranging from 201 Washington at Boston. Jim major league pitcher, boasted a .503 many months is very thrilling, Cameo at Fort 5:30. to 205, waa figured to have the ideal heavyweight make-up. Then Billy won-lost percentage today—and Myer. Tobin, the Boston Braves’ star you Conn, at 174, almost overtook Louis. This was another crack at the can chalk up that .003 surplus to admits but he does pachyderms In favor of faster-moving animals. knuckle-bailer, yesterday’s-no-hltter—his second of Apparently you can’t keep these dinosaurs out of the picture. The lament that a total of only 4,003 saw the season—against the Philadelphia Bridlespur Show List Phillies. troglodytes keep beating back. him perform those prodigious feats. A day or two ago I took this matter up with Damon Runyon, when A skimpy crowd of 2,556 was al- The Boston Brave ace had a tough time For who should drop in but Eddie Walker? And who should Eddie Walker most lost in the vast Braves’ Field hurdling that .500 mark. After Sunday Is Varied when Tobe retired losing 31 games in 1942, the most in be talking about but big Ben Moroz? stands yesterday Bridlespur horse show will be held a double- the league, the veteran knuckleball It seems that big Ben Moroz is a Ukrainian, born in Philadelphia all but two Phillies during starting at noon Sunday at the header that was called expert had a lifetime pitching record 23 years ago. Big Ben Is 7 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 293 pounds. He nightcap Meadow brook grounds on the East- after the fifth inning because of of 60 wins and 60 losses. Last year is 9 inches taller than Camera and some 25 pounds heavier. West highway. On also he divided 28 decisions to retain his darkness. April, 27, here, Five hunter classes for the fox Walker says Moroz looks good in a gymnasium, that he moves .500 only 1,447 cash customers saw Jim level. Prior to yesterday’s game, chasers also admits there Is some include a hack and hunter, around neatly and punches very well. He back the without a hit big Jim had won seven and lost turn Dodgers ladies’ hunter, working hunter, road room for and that Big Ben won’t be rushed until he the dis- seven for an 82-82 won and improvement over regulation nine-inning lost hack and green hunter. seems to be ready. • tance. record. Jumpers can do their leaping in a Then we ran across Good-Time Charley Priedman. who has a "Where were all the fans, where's The hardest working pitcher in warmup, novice Jumper, knock Chinese In tow, 7 feet in height and weighing close to 300. Good-Time the photographers?" the grinning the majors—his 13 complete games down and out, open jumper and Charley is the prospector who dug up Camera. Tobin wise-cracked when baseball is tops for both circuits—allowed modified Olympic. writers swarmed in to congratulate only two walks in the abbreviated As a variation to the usual local Willard and Camera Were Best of Giants him for his No. 2 no-hitter. They contest, which was called at the end show program a flve-gaited saddle explained that threatening weather of five innings because of darkness, class is carded. It might not be a bad idea to match Charley’s Chinese against probably frightened away many of with the score 7-0 in Boston’s favor. Poet entries will be in order. Ben Moroz and let nature take its course. Big his admirers and that failing light Only one other pitcher, Johnny The two heavyweight giants who reached the top were Jess Wil- had sent the photographers scurry- Vander Meer of the Cincinnati Reds Thorn of NRS Clouts around 6 feet 6 inches in lard and Primo Camera. Willard, height, ing long before his latest epic was LAST FOUR—Here are the semifinalists in the Women’s Western Open golf tourney at Chicago, in 1938, has hurled two no-hit games halted. weighed in the general neighborhood of 260 the day he met Jack reading left to right: Betty Jane Haemerle, who upset the defending champ, Patty Berg; Dor- in one season. Vandy’s were regu- Homer for 5-2 Win lation Dempsey, 25 years ago this coming July 4. Wants Limited Credit. othy Germaine, Babe Didriksen Zaharias and Jeanne Cline. —A. P. Wirephoto. nine-inning games, however. Naval Receiving Station nicked But the most mastodonic of heavyweights was an Ottawa Negro "Never mind how many saw you ■ ■ ■ -—.—---- ♦ ------- .. Phils Win, 1-6, in 15 Frames. Fort Myer, 5-2, yesterday, although by the name of Henry Johnson, who scrambled around from 1898 to do it, you’ll go into the record book The Phillies took the opener of the latter outhit the winners in sn with Vander the 1900. Johnson was taller than 7 feet and weighed more than 300 Johnny Meer, only the twin bill, 1-0, in 15 Innings on Industrial League game. other to turn in two Leads Are at Stake Three Girls pounds. • major leaguer Zaharias, College Ron Northey’s home run. It was Leftflelder Slim Thom got a no-hitters the same season,” a con- the season’s 1-0 and homer in the fourth with Weight, however, can be an overplayed proposition. One of the longest affair, two on. soling writer said. Then he asked Bill Lee and Charley Schanz eol- Fort Myer_OOO 000 020— worst fights I ever saw came about in the meeting of Willard and Carl In Western Bows * 12 S Tobin, "Don't you wish you could In Boys' Club Tilts Semis; Berg loborated to shade hard-luck Bill NWS-010 301 00s— ft 7 0 Morris. Their total ran a trifle more than 500 displacement pounds finish up the last four innings?” By th» Associated Pres*. pion and a junior at Rollins College who went the route Linden wood and Stalllnci; Zimmerman Tomorrow’s scheduled games In Javery, for the and Overly. and on that night neither could have beaten a good welterweight.. CHICAGO, June 23—Three col- in Florida, gained the semifinal Braves. “No,” Tobin replied. “Let is stand the Boys’ Club Baseball League may Fitzsimmons. weighing around 165 pounds, came close to killing as it is. I’m to have it round of the open for the third time Whit hurled his first very happy break a deadlock for first place in lege lassies and 30-year-old Babe Wyatt com- Mott and Teams Id Dunkhorst, at 300 pounds, almost tearing his head off with a single Let in six years. She drew one of the of Logan that way. Vandy continue to be the midget section, where Central Didriksen Zaharias entered today’s plete game the campaign, allow- top favorites, Dorothy Germaine of the punch. acclaimed as ‘double no-hit.’ I’m Branch and Palls Church are tied ing Giants only six hits as Gain Diamond Titles semifinal round of the Nation’s No. Beaver stu- satisfied to be known as ‘one and Philadelphia, College Brooklyn won, 10-3, over the New with six victories each, and may see women’s Mott School holds the 1944 sixth- 1 wartime golf tournament, dent who won the 1943 Western Yorkers. Jeffries Was Remarkably Active for Big Man five-ninths no-hit’ Tobin.” the lead change hands in the close The triumph evened the baseball the Western Amateur and last week took first in grade championship and The most active man I’ve ever in Any one but this self-effacing in Open. four-game series. big seen the ring was Jim races peewee and Junior loops. Logan has the fifth-grade laurels, as 54-hole Red Cross meet took This was 1903. At Jeff 31-year-old right-hander probably The youngster of the field, 18- th*»^peclal Pittsburgh both ends of a Jeffries. around that time weighed 215. He Mltrets. at New N. Y. Both a result of playoffs on the Banneker would bemoan the fact that he did Jane who Rochelle, girls double-header from 9-4 could run 100 m the immediate of 10 seconds and Merrick vs. Grays. West Ellipse. 11 a m.; year-old Betty Haemerle, Cincinnati, diamond. yards neighborhood vs. are 20 years old. not have three no-hit performances Bellevlew Nets, South Ellipse. 11 am.; will be a sophomore this fall at Font and 7-4. Rip Sewell won his ninth he could high jump in the vicinity of 6 feet. It was something of a Central Branch v«. Hearst. East Ellipse, l Miss Mott laced Van Ness, 7 to 4. and in his 1944 record, for Tobe turned H.