SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1915
THE CaBOLINIAN
PAGE ETVE
I
Behind
Play In
The
Sports
UV 1)0\ l)K LtlGilHUK
i BASKETBALL IIV
PUERTO RICO
DKilAiiT lUlUiARI) MENTION
ED AS COMMISSIONER
NEW YORK — Much conversa-
tiuu has been heard about appoint-
iiiu u cumtni>sionci' S>r Negro base
ball. For years, since the abortive
experiment with the late .Majoi R.
R Jackson of Chicago f ated to work
out suiisfuctonly, there h:..': been
iliiite a hue and u cry in the hinter
land fur someone with faith and
honest judgment to step in unJ sort
of ^trailthten out the dismal .itfai.-
of the Negio vei.sinn of our favonte I*'*-*^
pasttime.
Before llie Major J.■ck^^>n cxperi-
inent. there wa.> Connnissioner
Ferdin.iiid (J Morion, who incident
ally. is actually a coinniiSMoiier bv
virture of his place on th- New
York Civil Service Cumm..'.sion hr
approximated more closely ihi Ne- i-
gro conception of .1 Judge Land.- •
than anyone else bat certain thing- l*’-
happened and the i-ointi.isrioiH-r I
was eased out.
To siiccossfiilly sit in the ih.1.1
of commissioner for Negro baseball.
one has to have the expercince of ■
riding a buck and broiic •. P T ' ’
boat in the m- Isl of 1 quail, sitting
erect while riding the whip-lhe- >i'
whip at Coney Island in Ne.t Yoik -i’
or RivoiN’iew Park in Chicago, and
running through the revolving tun-|h'
nel. all with perfect equihbriun. jUiiii.ni.
in cilhcr words, ladies and gents, -ti'eis
il‘.« a tough job in anybody’s league' Hiihhai
when one sits down to handle the N' itio n.
.iffairs niggoa, tough, uncompro-' lui
misiiig bimch of brethren wlio own ' I
t,.c v.uiNiis ehib> in oi hiinir-ed baiiC-’i'i
ball ll'
CUM I’OSI.\ S DI I.ICATE I?) ni
HAND ’
Of late, llici'c has been a sort of ly
eonceatraloci campaign on foot to c"ii t;
•ut through .Uidgi’ \V C Huc.'-lon haw
of Washington, of the Elks, as the abdii
lOA'i Negro .lodge Landis. Siispi- in tl:
cio’i.sly the movement >ti’ms from u'li
Homestead, Pennsylv. nia where’ "O' ;
resides one. Cumb.-rhmd Posey,
who owns Hie Homestead Grays
which play out of W.ishington. us
ing thrum Clarke Orif'ith's Stad
ium. Cum has become incre.ismgly
insistent on getting W. C. in oul of
the cold into Negro baseball sjwc-
where Cum has done quite a lot if
button-holding. c ar-wh..s|jern.g. and
hack-slapping on the .subject and
has thus succeeded in Mfuec/ing W
C.'s big toe through llie door but
that is all if indications from the
West and certain part- of the East
any criterion of public opinion . Hubb.
• irovc-im III.-, Pliil.idvlpi.ia to ‘NVw
'•oik. lo Chiciigu where the killing
was accomph.'hed. Whether the
laU’.-t brainchild of Posey's is tak-
■ n SLiiiaisly lo heart by the boys
and biought to frxction in the nam-
in.. ul W. C. to a job that could
paj ten gland but winch is almost
•lie lo wind tip or about $1,.^LK) rc-
1. .0',- to be seen
Di; HART lll'BBARD
TltMT.n SCORE
Wheiever .-pun» are discussed.
01' Uc Halt Hubbard is
n a- the broad-jump
king at the Umvor>ity of .Michigan.
In dll' l!il’“- Htihljard achieved en-
dui.i.g in'einata.nal fame. His work
III I'lnui.iiotj ill public recreation
aid healtii has giwn him the back-
O'Ui.d 11. de.iliii.: with organized
(•'II' a t'oininis.-ionei should
^•■'.o in ..dddioii. Hubbard has
d L.i-eball, i.a- owned his own
velalid, jn(
A Inch havi
. point- .11 Ohio
i hmhl.v succec-fol
lObiid would hung recogiiued
iii>'i..il . i.d bU'-iiKs.- qtiahfica-
.0 po-i ot Negro Commis-
ei of Ba.-eb.ill th.il other consti-
a- pro iim.ihly might Lk* with-
with tin •xceptiOM of a few -f
namr*. prop,.sed. such a.'. Judge
i.m. Il:i di' and one or two
made
-oUglU
I'hall at
T -liKly
old. di
•s 'incerely
J Its futuic. Hr
Ilf it that should
Negro baseball
•lehy. get an ob-
If ‘ fforts In pro-
»Y HAROLD PREECE
: don't like to see
— except basket-
Puerto Ricun'
anything caged
ball.
They swore to get out of tlie cage
that the American Sugar Trust has
locked them in when 3l),000 of them
gatherc’d at the Puerto Rican inde
pendence congress, in San Juan, a
w weeks ago.
But their star athlet s from the
University of Puerto Rico did isome
migiity good work of putting bas
ketballs m cages when they met
pretty good players from this coun
try at the annual ba-kelbatt tourna
ment held in New York's Madison
Iquare Garden during the recent
Christmas holidays.
It was the first time that these
darkskinned lads — future leaders
i.f what will be the next free col
ored rc|jublic lif our hemisphere —
had ever p!ay d on the American
mainl.iiid. Tlii'y liked the boys that
they went up against, and they
liked everything that they saw in
New York from the hot dog stands
on •i^nd Street to the pigeons beg
ging foi peanuts in Bryant Park.
On the whole, the boys from
Puerto Hno did some pretty gopd
handling of the ball there in the
big Garden. Maybe, they were a
Utile bit weak in their defense
and a little bit off in their shooting
since baskeball unlike, baseball, is
still a new game to Puerto Ricans.
But players like Guard Fernando
Fabregas, who sel a one game rec
ord of 2() points for the team; like
six-foot. 23-year old Captain Pedro
Bonds, iiid like handsome Rafael
Viella, gave’ their Good Nelghb
' f the United Sttaes — and partic
ularly those on the team of
John's Col'i-ge in Brooklyn —
plenty of ons fur their marbles
PASS PEAV
•Their playing style and method.s
are somci'.iing of a mystery,"
one
ST. AUG. LOSES
THRILLER, 4241
By Alexander Chalmers, Jr.
RALEIGH — St. Augufltme's Col
lege of this city lost a thriUing
game to Biucucid State in an over
tune period by the scotjc of 42*41
last Saturday. 'Ihe score at the end
of the regular time was 33 alL
Bluelield took a 1-U lead at the
beginning of the game. This lead
they held for five minutes only. St.
Aug jumped into a 4-i lead on two
field goals by little Joe Saunders.
St. Aug’s Stanley and Saunders ran
this lead to 19-7 with five minutes
to play in the first half. At this
point the Saints tried to keep the
ball from Blucfield as much as pos
sible, but tlie Big Blues' S. Walker
got five more points before
SHAW DROPS OPENER
TO BLUEFIELD
J. C. Smith Bulls Defeat
Winston Teachers, 33-26
youii'j ill relati*.
business j York sparts scribe wrote of the j
rl T- tompar.'itivc-Rican visiting team. "But ill
pro|>.‘
. ,.-Tto Rican visiting team,
the other; impression that they tie floor
.....TU‘s have! i,p jo an intricate pass play
His judicial pattern, just as the Cubans (who
“•'" proni'iinccd as the guest Latin American
-■i i-e had ii.'id to ni.nke docl- team to the Garden the year before)
M'li ill the pa,i that have worked ,
"ii' all to the c'lod in the propo-wls when the Latin American teams
III whiih hi- judi’nu'iil was a.sked. ’.^.t that uass play developed to a
IM'Rlt.MtIi M.W Of MSION fine art our best cage squads may
Ii would he of considerable o.h:tTd time maintaining U. S.
lie If men of the type of Hubbard l „ the go d natured and
wet. I'loiu-h- into the Negro base. U,„,f,diy game of basketball,
.'ill pictiiii \\ h.ii with ch.ingcs go- Maybe, says Coach Felicio Tor-
iTitf oil a- Hlated to the war ■ ,'ogrosa of the Puerto Rican hoop-
and the juii-dictal. problems thatij^,gj.j co^c when the
,ie ct..|-piri/ up on all sides between basketball team of Latin
'll'.'- ’I the Negro National Lea-. meeting the crack
guc and the Negro American Lea- basketball team of the United Slates
•ae of the West, iis well as promot- friendly rivalry to determine tho
o, in Mexico. Cuba. Puerto Rico, champ squad of the Wc.stern Hemis-
•Hi South .America, young men like .
..ubb-.rd could perhaps see the s'** T Basketball receives more finan-
luatioiis with a keener viewpoint i support than any other game
*ll this move. . , ■ j Viai ( \j>ao wM.w.
Several year ago Po . y, the than some of the persons named Puerto Rico, Coach Torregrosa
scholarly Tnoma.s Wlil on of the \'l. i aio not identified wtih P”®*lsaid in between inspecting his boys
^^.Itimore Elite Giants and prcsi- ball or have not been identified ^ ready to go into
i nt of the Negro National League. ‘ ’
and
or two others, carried .
liuM
* action. He pointed out that more
lid i.s presently with the ^o.OOO is appropriated :n-
C-rtarti*'.! ITrkiicIri'r Aotlinritv i ‘ . . . .
major war against naming Dr. C. Public Federal Housing ' nually in his country for sports
B. Powell . r New York OS com- at 207.3 Fast Ninth Street, nevcland. that “ihe top layout of cash is
missioner, who was .sponsored for i » f)hio. It wmild be wise if for- basketball.
the past by Effa an.-l Abe Manley vOard lookm;> b;e.i-baU executives, ••Baseball i.s our national game,
WlNSTON-SAlvEM — The Gold- Turner on both boards could not be
on Bulla of J. C. Smith Universi-i yy^rlooked even though he was
ly, ChirlolU', for ihe second Umc j high scorers. For the
this season took Ihe measure of the I
"Fighting Teachers- of Winston-1 Teachers, W. Uavls leas
Salem Teachers College in Winston-1 »“'«■ >»
Salem, by ihe score o( Tl-aO. The “‘F ■*“* ¥““2. lidl '•'e all around
half ended with bi. Aug leading 21-
12.
The second half was one of the
most thrilling ever played in Taylor
Hall. At the end of the third quar
ter the Saints lead had been cut to
27-23. Woods and P. Brown tied the
score at 33-33 as the regular game
ended.
After the rest period the Saints got
hot again when Joe Saunders put
three successive set shots through
the hoops and Stanley got one to
run the lead to 41-33, but three of
the Saints' starters had fouled out
earlier in the game, and this spelled
the margin of victory. The Saints
were unable to freeze the ball. S.
Walker put Bluefield in the lead
with four goals after Yeild had
made a free throw with only ten
seconds to play. The game ended
'42-41.
Joe Saunders of St. Aug. took
individual scoring honors with
points. Stanley of St. Aug. was
next with 16. S. Walker with 15 and
P. Brown with 10 lead the Blue-
field attack.
Halftime score: St. Augustine's.
; Bluefield 12.
Officials; P. Williams and J. Keck.
RALEIGH — In what started out
lo be a close game, was a complete
run away for Bluefield Teachers of
Bluefield, West Virginia, over Shaw
University, as Bluefield walked olf
the floor with a 54-27 win last
Friday night.
Bluefield took a 1-0 lead but
Shaw tied the count when Bowers
made a charily too good. The game
was tied seven limes in the first
half. Shaw held a 15-11 lead at
one point in the first half, but this
was soon ovcrcomed by Blucfield's
S. Walker and T. Walker. The first
half ended with Bluefield leading
23-21 after Yield broke a 21-21
deadlock.
After intermission it was a dif
ferent story. Bluefield quickly ran
the ! their lead to 43-21 after ten minutes
half endtxl 13-U in favor of Shaw.
Johnson and Harris scored It and
8 points respectively.
Half time score: Blucfield 23, and
Shaw 21.
Officials; P. Williams and Keck;
Edmonds, timekeeper; Barfiield,
scorer.
VWVWWWV^^WVWWtfWl
of play in the second hall. At this
point Bowers made a free throw to
break the ice in the second half.
Blucfield then ran their lead to 50-
25. At this point the second team
entered the game. They held Shaw
to two points while collecting four
themselves. The final score was'
‘W-27'
S. Walker with 18 points, and T.
Walker with 1C, paced the Blue-:
field attack against Shaw. Bowers;
scored 11 for the losers.
1*1 n preliminary same the Shaw
Burettes defeated the Bluefield girls
30-12. holding the losers to one
point in the second half. “The first
A Lifetime in Flame*
Why lake chances on burning
up a lifetime's effort in a single
terriWing hour when ll's^ so
lie ■ ' * ‘
simple and inexpensive to pro
tect yourself against any poui-
ble mishap. Your home and
family can be absolutely pro
tected from ANY disaster at
but a few pennies a day. We'll
show you how.
SEE YOUR LOCAL AGENT
BANKERS FIRE INS. CO.
DURHAM. N. C.
-/NVCNTORV
Teachers all but up.set the dupe
sheet ill its return game, ut half
time they enjoyed an eight point
lead, by the score of 22-14.
The visitors tame out in the sec
ond half with blood in their eyes,
they slowly but surely, and in a
sy.^tomatic fashion cut down this
lead to tie the score 22 all, then
they forged in front, there they re
mained until the final horn sound-
ptuy of C. Cooper was of high
caliber.
In the preliminary game the
women of Teachers College downixl
the women of Bluefield College 24-
11. For the Teachers B. Savage was
high scorer with 10 points paced by
A. Jones, a Freshman with 7 points.
In the guard wall Captain C.
Hines played a superior brand of
ball. For the visitors L. Payne was
9i
and 22. N. C. College at Durham.
There are two openings; October 27
and November 3.
Abandoning football during the
season of 1941, Shaw ’xthletic offi
cials will be faced with the prob'
lem of complete re-organization. In
cluding that "common war-time"
problem of finding experienced
players around whom a nucleus can
be built and making an addition to
it coaching staff.
ed ending the game, The Fighting'high scorer with 4^ pointt,
Teachers during the entire second
half were only able to score four
points, while the visitors gathered
19. The box score shows J. C. Smith
made 11 field goals and 11 foul
shots, the Teachers 6 field goals
and 10 foul shots.
The game in general was well
played, and the sportsmanship
.chowed by both teams, was a credit
to their respective institutions. For
the visitors Pass was high scorer
with ten points, but the work of
by A. Norman with 3 points. In the
guard wall R. Etheridge was out
standing.
This week the Teachers meet
Bluefield men on Tuesday, January
16; A. and T. on January 19; and
Fort "Brag men W. A. C. on Jan. 20
Shaw To Resume Foot
ball Next Season
come their leading scorer.
The Big Blues tied the Eagles
several times during the contest and
RALEIGH — Shaw University
will resume competitive inter-col
legiate football next season, it was
announced this week by Coach
An application of 1 1-2 pounds!
-3 f€ • ’
of 4-9-3 fertilizer per square yard ;
is recommended for tobacco plant'
beds by the State College Ex
tension Service. Topdress with ,
nitrogen, where necessary.
SALVAGE CO.
WAKE
We Buy and Sell Everything
of Value
FURNITURE — STOVES
REFRIGERATORS
TOOLS — RADIOS
■Tfl
and that 7he top layout of cash
Powell I'f New York as com-•jit 2073 Fast Ninth Street. Cleveland,
missioner, who was sponsored for l'’* Ohio. It would be wise If for-
tho past by Etta anri Abe Maiiloy •••ard l.bkitii! bnsoball cxcoutives. ..Basob,,, j, national gaitia,"
Of the Newark, Nrw Jersey. Eagles, -urh ns Effa Manly, Alex Pompez, . , . j jhink
Jamse “Soldier Bc-y" Scirler of the and Ed Gotf b of the Phlladel- . basketball will surpass It."
New York Black Yankees, and phi.a Stars took a look his way and ‘ .JL- a b^sketfc T league
■gxandi-r •'Melancholy" Pompez. do some investigations on their own. . - imlversify ams out-
M ot tb.. Caban S.ar.t, Broiher In him tboy probably tvould find "da ^lub toamr'nd “rt'eams.
^scy and Company vorc succcs.s- the answer to many of the problems
fill in tho strategy involving three affecting Negro baseball tc^ay.
AtlTC LCANS
TIME TO GET STRAIGHT
FOR THE NEW YEAR
Get A Loan On Your Car
And Pay Off All Your Debts
Pay Us In Easy Monthly Payments
Starting In February
Individual Auto Sales Financed
10 Minutes Service—No Parlring Trouble
DILLON MOTOR FINANCE CO.
Wilmington at Davie -'
Phone 3-3231
What happeng to the
money thouiandg of
North Carolina Mutual
Pollcyholdera pay ag
premiumg? Jj it locked
B a vauH for gale keep-
Mb, NorOi CaroUDB
Mutual dollars ara Iwt
aeoftantly at work, nc
ntenay not needed to pay
oumnt policy
Md orating axpenaed
h aafuy Inveetad In ae-
aurltlea which yidd ecn-
*Mant retunu, aiarrt>y
Nduelng tha ooet of your
Inaunmce protaetioD to
you through tha pay
at divldanda
Maka the future of
your family secure with
dependable North Caro
lina Mutual poUoiea.
We hope eventually to form a con
fer‘ncc of leagues in Cuba, Puerto
Rico, and Mexico."
GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP
What » sight that would be — to
sr crack teams of the Latin Amer
ican countries playing each other
You can bet, too, that you would
see Negroes on those teams. Ne
groes are among the students and
professors of the University of Puer
to Rico and the father of modern
education in that country was the
saintly Negro shoemaker, Rafael
Cordero.
Good sportsmanship in Latin
America means what good sports
manship should mean everywhere—
the right of any man or woman to
participate in any sport or recrea
tion with anybody else.
Coach Torrcgro>a swears by the
good sportsmanship of his friend.
Coach Clair Bee of Long Island
City in New York. Clair Be« is a
fi icndly, sociable fellow who took
his team down to Puerto Rico lo
test out hi^ toys in basketball
games with the dark-skinned lads.
It was the lours of Coach Bee
end his team which did so much
to encourage basketball in m
country," Mr. Torregrosa tells you.
The Cubans are the closest rivals
— and the closest neighbors — of
the Puerto Ricans Only a strip of
water m the Caribbean separates
the two countries where Negro
faces are seen as often as white
f.oce.s
Which means that it's easy for
j Cubans and Puerto Ricans to get to-
: gether for basketball. Coach Tor-
regrosa's cugers are rr'nerally rc-
'garded as the present .hampions of
Latin America, and their closest
rivals for the laurels are the play
ers of Havana's crack team, the
Prudo Prides.
During 1943. the Puerto Rico
University boys won three oul of
four hot games with the Havana
• hoop artists. They d*d belter than
jthat in 1944. taking six out of sev'
' en games, including three in i
row. from the Cubans.
' But the Cubans beat the crack
team of LIU at the 1943 Garden
tournaments.
Which shows that in basketball
’ as in love, there’s nothing certain
N. C. State Eagles De
feat Bluefield Five In
come their leading scorer.
The Big Blues tied the Eagles
several times during the contest and
were out In front until the last
seven minutes.
North Carolina was unable to
send an effective quint onto the I
court to sink morkers to pace tha
fast scoring Sam Walker.
Score at half time: Blucfield, 23;
North C.iro1ina. 22. |
Officials: Burnette and Williams.
RALEIGH — Shaw University
will resume competitive inter-col
legiate football next season, it was
announced this week by Coach
“Jimmy” Lytle
The following schedule has been
completed:
October 6, A. and T. College at
Raleigh; 13. Bluefield State Teach
ers College at Bluefield; 20, How
ard University at Raleigh; Novem
ber 10, Union University at Raleigh;
17, Johnson C. Smith at Charlotte,
ATruJt
We l^eep
We keenly appreciate the trust our clients
place in us and we make every conscientious
effort to keep faith with them. Elvery dtail, from
first to last, is Riven careful supervision. Noth
ing is too small, too unimportant to do—if by
so doing we can console or be of service to the
family.
CAPITOL FUNERAL HOME
1012 E. Hargett St. Phone 8-2415
RALEIGH. N. C.
FURNITURE — STOVES
RrrRiOERATORS
TOOLS — RADIOS
337 S. Wilmington St.
Phona 2-2327
OA/aX ? ciarHtivc CO.
■. «. 'Ave.'^CmCMO 9. UL.
NORTH CAROLINA
MUTUAL INSURANCE
COMPANY
C C SptmUimg, Pm
ipuui, nnnuM9im
Conference Tilt
DURHAM — North Carolina
State College's "Green-enough-to-
grow" basketeers, trailing a fast
and aggressive Bluefield (W. Va.)
State Teachers’ College quint 23-22
at half-tmte, came from behind to
defeat the West Virginians 54-44
here last Thursday night.
This was North Carolina's first
conference tilt.
Sam Walker, Bluefield forward,
scored 23 points to take individual
honors for the night's tallying, Hen
ry Thomas, North Carolina’s tower
ing center who was injured In the
Bluefield contest last season, scored
18 points for the Tar Heels to b«-
Confidence
.. YOU CAN BE SURE OF IT WHEN
YOU MAKE A PERSONAL LOAN
WITH THIS BANK
If il is oecessary for you lo get money in a
hurry, to get it witho'at implicating a friend
and without paying exorbitant interest, you
will apprec.ate the services of this bank.
Our cashiers or one of their aasistanta will
be eager to help you. You’ll be able to put
all your confidence in the person who han
dles your business, for he will treat it as it
were his own. This bank is composed of
individuals who want to serve, individuals
in whom you can have utmost confidence!
Mechanics & Fanners Bank
DURHAM-RALEIGH
Member Federal Depoait Insoragiee^ Cerp.
JOIN
OURCHRISTMAS
SAVING CLUB
NOWFORMING
Be Ready for Santa next Christ
mas By Joining Our 1945 Saving
Club. Himdreds of others have al
ready received checks for their
Christmas shopping this year be
cause they took our advice last year.
AllDepoaita Up To $S,000Insured With The FDIC
MECHANCIS and FARMERS
DURHAM BANK RALEIGH