Joe Murray
Competition results
- 1923 AAU national four-wall handball championships, Singles: champion
Dated facts
- 19 March 1923 to 24 March 1923 (dated from the issue it appeared in): 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.
Schinner (Milwaukee, national champion) beat George Sudheimer of St. Paul 21-?, 21-9 in the first round on 19 March
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
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
- 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