# Joe Murray

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Active in 1923.

## Competition results

- 1923 [AAU national four-wall handball championships](https://handball.theperfectship.com/history/championships/aau-national-four-wall-championships.md), Singles: champion

## Dated facts

- 19 March 1923 to 24 March 1923: A.A.U. national handball championships at the St. Paul Athletic Club: Joe 'Red' Murray (Olympic Club, San Francisco) beat Maynard Laswell for the singles; holder Art Schinner eliminated; scores reported two ways [Sources disagree] Newspapers reported the scores of the 1923 national singles final in two different ways; this entry follows the Associated Press dispatch from St. Paul. Source: [The Omaha Morning Bee (Omaha), 20 March 1923, p. 11](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024326/1923-03-20/ed-1/?sp=11) (OCR lines 118-124)

  **Detail: sources disagree.** The value from the stronger source (the lower rank number) is preferred.
  - Schinner (Milwaukee, national champion) beat George Sudheimer of St. Paul 21-?, 21-9 in the first round on 19 March (preferred, source rank 2): [The Omaha Morning Bee (Omaha), 20 March 1923, p. 11](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024326/1923-03-20/ed-1/?sp=11) (OCR lines 118-124)
  - Murray won the national singles title on 24 March over Maynard Laswell of Los Angeles, 21-9, 20-21, 21-6, having beaten 1922 champion Schinner, Haedge and a Baltimore player (also given, source rank 2): [San Antonio Light (San Antonio), 25 March 1923, p. 51](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85060004/1923-03-25/ed-1/?sp=51) (OCR lines 374-391)


## Sources

- [US Handball Association, "National Champions" (seen 28 October 2026)](https://www.ushandball.org/about/national-champions/)
- [The Omaha Morning Bee (Omaha), 20 March 1923, p. 11](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84024326/1923-03-20/ed-1/?sp=11) (OCR lines 118-124)
- [San Antonio Light (San Antonio), 25 March 1923, p. 51](https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85060004/1923-03-25/ed-1/?sp=51) (OCR lines 374-391)

## Corrections

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