Smithson said trust banks' loans to corporations and commercial banks' loans to individuals for real estate could be hit hard by a major downturn in the overheated Japanese property market.
Smithson decided to charge Sliva after reviewing videotapes of a Jan. 14 game between Escanaba and Traverse City high schools.
"People are talking about price-earnings ratios again," Mr. Smithson says.
The market "managed to finish up, but it wasn't very convincing," said Simon Smithson, manager of the research department at Kleinwort Benson International Inc. in Tokyo.
After Mike Smithson replaced Bob Stanley, Worthington flared a 1-0 pitch into left-center field past Ellis Burks' dive, foiling a Boston formation of five infielders.
"It's clear the Japanese banks will be pressured to take on a more philanthropic role," Simon Smithson, an analyst with Kleinwort Benson Securities, said Thursday of Japan's Third World debt exposure.