SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1945
THE CAROLINIAN
PAOBnVK
Behind The
Play In Sports
BY DON DE LEIOUBUB
NEW YORK — This is a story of
a gentleman who came from the
very bottom and who has been in
there punching ever since. For o
while he punched for himself and
did well at it. Now he is punching
for Uncle Sam,
Somewhere in Europe you will
find Sergeant Harry N. Wiley, Jr.,
with an Engineering Regiment. You
will find Harry still making hLs con
tribution to mankind while so many
of us are at home sleeping undei
warm blankets in cozy rooms as he
sleeps in fox-holes with his ceiling
tiie sky, snow to keep him warm
and eating C rations because he
has the guts to keep slinging.
Harry Wiley is boxing in its grass
roots because he came up in such
a way that his every experience has
been tied up with some phase of the
fight game.
Alvin Moses once wrote about
Wiley's having guts in the ring and
on the streets as a kid. Before Har
ry ever boxed with any knowledge
of the craft, he would crawl under
the ropes and try out such fellows
as Wilbur Cohen, Wee E..rton, and
Danny Edwards, who were actual
ly his teachers.
ACCIDENT STARTED HIM
AS TEACHER
Harry had a naccident which put
one of his legs in a bad way. and
his dad stopped his boxing. HoW'
ever. Harry's love foi the game
forced him to continue in the best
capactiy he knew, teaching other
lads the art of self-defense. The
road was rocky but he never turned
around.
From water-boy for Harry Wills,
Jack Dempsey. "Panama” Joe Cans,
Leo Johnson, and many others, Har
ry reached his goal as the first Ne
gro Olympic Coach on a boxing
team. That was in 1932 at Los An
geles, and he took such gieats as
Richard Carter who, imder Harry's
tutelage, won six amateur titles in
one year; also Marc Hough, Tom
Chester of Brooklyn, and Lou Sa-
lica, former World’s Bantomweighl
Champion.
That was when Harry met Henry
(Jackson) Armstrong. "Hammering
Hank" of later years who was box
ing in the 118 lb. class. Armstrong
fought in the elimination of the
Olympics at the Civic Auditorium
in San Francisco. Harry Wiley w-is
the coach chosen by the AAU for
this monumental task.
Harry likes to recall that in
he met Joe Louis in Boston where
the future Brown Bomber was a
sensation in the A. A. U. finals in
the light heavyweight brackeU.
PICKED BY THE AAU
The A. A. U. picked Harry Wiley
year after year to coach the Metro
politan National and Junior Na
tional Championship Teams at Bos
ton and as a Golden Gloves Coach.
The indominatable spirit of Har
ry Wiley has never been quieted,
war or no war. His record shows
boxing stars. He also assisted Har
'ry Armstrong in coaching Henry at
vamp and in the ring.
AbVSiilMAN OfcTa aAI CARD
Harry Wiley lists among hts great
est accomplisnmcnls the incident
when he and Adiiaii Ue Costa,
hand in liana, got Aby!>sinian Bap
tist Church an A. A. U. license. The
Rev. Adams Clayton Powell, now
Councilman, appointed him as dele
gate and represemativ'j for the box
ing club at Abyssinia on the AAU
Board and, 1 understnnd that Powell
nus written Wiley to lake up the
work again when he comes home.
'1 have given all 1 could to iny
race and my country,” Harry writes
to me. "Even now 1 am on the front
line doing niy share. 1 have work
ed hard m the army. The second
day I entered the coach at Camp
Upton picked me js his assistant
I hadn't even been processed, but
1 Was in the field fixiiiK up a ring
tor hiS exhibitions. "
It was Harry who set up things
for Pete Scalzo, former champion,
and Ray Robinson. Incidentally, il
was Winnie Johnson, the beauteous
chorus girl who intioduced Harry
to the millionaire Staten Island
broker. Harry then made airange-
ments for the sportsman to take
over the sensational youngsiugger.
I He next got Bill Robinson, the tap
dancer, to manage Tommy Hogan,
a more than promising young light
weight.
Promted Bouts for A.A.F.
1 understand thdt during the last
fifteen months that Harry has been
overseas he has promoted innumer
able boxing shows for the R.A.F
and played a large part in balancing
the Joe Louis' exhibitions in Eng
land.
Harry predicts lliat ti.e one boy
wito Will make good lifter the war,
if it doesn't last loo long, is Charles
Perkins of New York City, a form
er amateur, who boxed on all of
the Louis' curds in Europe and has
n't lust a fight. Wiley also thinks
highly of Burdette Burton of De-
iroit. He is training botii Burton
>id Perkins on his team.
Hurry plans to return to Harlem
.'Ume day and do bigger things than
aver. He has been saving his mon
oy, I understand, and has a pretty
good nest egg with which he intends
kU open another bar and grill and
promote fights on a bigger scale
^an ever attempted before by a
Negro
The boys overseas swear Harry
Wiley and this is borne out by the
numerous letters your columnist re
ceives in wliich Hurry is mention
ed very favorably by the boys in
khaki. It wouldn’t hurt to mention
also that Harry Wiley also trained
Canada Lee when the celebrated ac
tor was a threat among the welter-
wetglits in the ring.
Elmore Harris Seeking
Five States To Be Repre
sented At Tournament
N. C. EAGLES DOWN
SMITH BULI^, 48-27
Pvt. Fcldmoo Motley, now sut-
Uoiied at Fort Huachuca, Arizona,
has been the subject of much re
cent discussion. "Winter football
quarterbacks " are still praising his
"Flying Tackles,’ while playing
right tackle on the Post Football
Team of 1944. Pvt. Motley is a na
tive of Anniston, Ala., and attend
ed Delaware State College.
WINSTON-SALEM —Teams from
five different states are expected to
attend and take part in the Sec
ond Annual Boys Invitational Bas
ketball Tournament to be held at
Winston-Salem Teachers College,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
March 15. 16. and 17, 1945.
Lust year. Avery Institute of Char-
le.stoii. South Carolina, won the
tournament Runner up was Elkhorn
High School of Klkhorn, West Vir
ginia. Both teain.s are expected to
ruturii this year with strong teams.
From all reports. Mary Potter
School of Oxford, North Carolina,
!promi.scs to push last year's chum-
ipions; also word ci>mc->- from Booker
It. Washington Higli School of Col-
! umbia. South Carolina, that they are
! expecting to carry home their
'share of ihe tropliics. A team from
Asbiiry Park, New Jersey, Inform
ed me that they ha\e no intentions
of traveling this tar South and go
home empty iianded, A good, well
baUnced tournament is expected so
be on hand, don’t mis the fun and
MORGAN SWAMPS
SmTH, 61-35
BAl.TIMORE, .Md. - On Fviuuy
nigiit, February 16, Morgan State
Coitege ovc-wheUned a scrappy
aohnson C. Smith University quintet
ol-35, m the New Albert Auditorium
III Baltimore.
After constant iniaiies by both
..lUcs Smith jumpi-d oil to a 1-0 lead
on a foui by their center. Rain. Mor
gan soon look the lead on u foul
ahot iiy Irvm and a field goat by
Brown, iht score was now 3-i
Bowers, on a nitty sliui, once again
put his team in the game oy tying
ine score at 3-3. Morgan assumeu
khe lead on Day's foul at 4-3. uua
was never lieaded or tied through
out the game. The score at half time
was 30-13.
Morgan lesuined its scoring right
after the beginning of the seeonu
period. Brown and Irvin worked the
ball and advanced the score to 46-
16. Mills, who scored more Diiin
half of his team's poin*,s, constantly
dropped in baskets during this per
iod, but to no avail, in the mean
time Brown and livin continued
their scoring pace until the score
was 50-24. At this point Coach Hurt
rushed in a new team. From this
point to the end of the game each
team scored >1 points.
Brown of Morgan and Mills of
Smith were tided for scoring honor.s
at 20 all. Brown had ten field goals
while Mills made nine field goals
and tV(o fouls. Morgan thus aveng
ed its lost to Smith back in 1943
when the varsity had been crippled
by the calling of the enlisted re-
M-j-v- mwi inl.i anly. .Inly.
New-comer Wins in
SpUt Decision
NEW YORK (C) — Johnny WU-
lianis, a new brownskm scrapper
from Montgomery, Alabama, beat
Iviaxie Shapiro, an cast side Ugnt-
weight in a split decision before a
sizeable gathering at the Broad
way Arena. Williams, substituting
fur Monte Fignatore, confused the
favorite Shapiro in the early rounds
will! his jabbing, j.ggy style. How-
ever, about halfway, Shapiro gain
ed control. Ringsiders thought Max-
ic had a shade but judges voted:
Jack Benning for a draw 4-4; Harold
Barnes for Williams 5 and 3 and
Referee Harry Ebbetts for Wil
liams 4-3-1. Williams scaled 138 1-J
before bout.
excitement.
ino iiuinovi ui teams this year
will oe iiinued lo 2-t, invuauons
will tie sent lo teams in me near
luiure, dead line tor. accepting m-
.anon will oe iviarch t), 1945.
Harris Set 16 Give
Herbert Still RatHe
NtW VORh. iCj — Twenty year
isliiiurs Hams, is all set to give
jiniiny Hcibert, veicran nuler,
soou UuUie baiuruay nignl at the
iscw Vork AC gullies at Madison
04uai'c Garden. Coach Von islUng.
WHO also coacited Herbert four
>ears when tie was NYU ace,
iieves Harris to be in line fettle ue-
spue his deieat to Herbert in the
oou mile MiUruse games last week.
Explained von isliing, "Harris
sliowed his lack of indoor runnmg
experience again in Boston. Every
lime some one started to pass him,
c.lmore challenged alternately, sput-
liig and lagging. He used up a lot of
energy he snould have saved in the
stretch. 1 don't think he will make
the same mistake again.”
Sports Writer Hype
;oe Dies
NEW YORK (C>—Veteran sports
writer Hype Igoe of the Journal
American, died here Sunday,
was 67. Besides his liberal writing
for the Hcarst-owned Journal-Amer-
lean, Igoc penned a biography of
Joe Louis rolled "The Brown Bomb
er " which was released in 1936 just
before the first Louis-Max Schmel-
ing fight.
It's a good time now to have cot
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Harold Hunter of Kansas City, El- vUle.
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American" Gaines of Marmoneck. N. I lege 24, Smith 12.
y.. and Frank Galbrcath of Fayette- Officials; Williams and Bumctte.
DURHAM — Johnson C. Smith's
Golden Bull cagers, playing iiere
Monday night without the services
of Cal Pass, Bill Turner and Isaac'
Thompson, their veteran stars, drop-
ped a lop-sided 48-27 contest to
North Carolina. The Bull cagers are
academically inegiblc.
Three waves of Eagles reserves
wore the Bulls down. ■
As the Eagles won their lOtb vic
tory in 11 starts. Coach John 13. j
McLendon, Jr., announced that
charge into a nuuble-hemcr With
Delaware State and Fayetteville
Teachers in Durham.
Henry "Big Dog" Thomas ex-
Navy enlistee, paced the Tar Heel
scoring attack against the Bulls |
with 16 points to le'd his hig). tal
lying team-mate Stanley Burt, who
accounted for 12.
In the forefront cf North Caro
lina's great defensive ga:nc were
Willie Williams and George Sam
uels of Durham, Rioluird Miller and
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The indominatable spirit of Har
ry Wiley has never been quieted,
war or no war. His record shows
that he has promoted succesfully
boxing in Harlem for the Golden
Gate Arena, the Renaissance Ball-
room, and the Lido Pool. Harry
even tried a new kind of Jack
Dempsey Bar in Harlem also, the
Golden Gloves Bar and Grill where
he sold tickets for all the big fights
and it was the only place in Har
lem where one could pick up tick
ets for the big ring shows at the
Garden, the Polo Grounds, or the
Yankee Stadium.
It was Harry Wiley who co-
haudled Ray Robinson. Buddy
Moore. Tommy Hogan, and other
jewels In the tiara of modern-day
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Elmore Harri.s Seeking
Track Record. Ixises
To Herbert
NEW YORK (C) — II was a bit
ter pill lor Elmore Harris to swal
low Saturday night when he lost
the Sheppard 600 to 29 year old Jim
Herbert at the MiUrose games in
Madison Square Garden. 21-year-
old soft-spoken Harris had set out
to shatter the 1:10.2 murk of the late
John Borican and later equaled by
Hugh Shoit. "I've been working
out the NYU’s track and 1 negotiate
the turns nicely" he had told re
porters. "But, the main think is the
fact iht I've never raced 600 yards."
This is probably the main reason
for his defeat. Harris, himself,
blames his defeat on his own racing
mistakes. "I'm not going, to lay
back and let anyone else set the
pace next time,” he promised the
Shore AC speedster. I'm going right
out, grab the pole and give it- the
gun.”
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In Tile News
Cpl. John Moody. All-American
full-back and former star of Morris
Brown College, once again rose lo
prominence in the Spaghetti Bowl I
game played in Italy, on New '
Year's day, accordlngto Tom Meany.
veteran sports columnist of PM.
Scoring the first pair of the three
touchdowns which enabled the
Fifth Army to defeat the Twelfth
Air Force. 20 to 0, Moody was as
sisted by Sgt. John Brown, center,
formerly of North Carolina State
Teachers College, Mr. Meany re
lated in an interview jointly by
USO Camp Shows and the Army
Speicul Services Division.
"Moody, who played end for the
Los Angeles Mustangs, looked a lot
like 'Bull' Karcis,” Mr. Meany said
"He plunged hard for those touch
downs and then he had to pick one
point after touchdown three times.
Each time he split the uprights but
some penalty would disqualify the
kick. He went back five yards farth
er each time and kept on until he
made it good.”
“Brown nut only feo him the
ball perfectly each time but was ail
over the field. The boys got a great
hand from the 25,000 service men
who saw the game."
Mr. Meany acted as master of
ceremonies in the USO Camp Show
unit and was accompanied by Leo
Durocher, manager of the Brooklyn
Dodgers, Joe Medwick, New York
Giant outfield, and Nick Etten, Yan
kee first baseman. The unit covered
some 20,000 miles in less than two
months.
More than 90.000 farm boys and
girls in North Carolina will man
thbir battle stations during National
4-H Club Week, March 3 to 11, in
an all-out effort to help win the
war.
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