The Archive · 1940

NATIONAL LEAGUE

St. Louis 0 6 o New York oe 7 Batteries: Davis, Lillard, White and Padgett; Melton and Danning Chicago $5 o Brooklyn. $ 3 Saticrles:' Lee, Raflehiberger, French Tamulis, Kimball, Thompson, cruiser weight titleholder, expected to Barr: der Meet, Riddle and Lom-retain his crown against Gus Lesnebardi, Bakers Erickson and Lopez vich on June 5 at Detriot, a Garcia-Conn clash in August would be a ^natural" and draw a huge gate.

The announcement made by Jacobs was not expected since it was under-

THE FANTASTIC BALLET

stood that the winner of the Conn-Lesnevich clash would meet Bob

Louis, world heavyweight champion. com this summer, paving the way

THE

a possible title bout with Joe

—United Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account