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WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DErEMBFJt 20. 1045 THE CAROl.INTAN PAGE FIVE Nesjroes Great Sport Figures-Russian Negro Athletes Should Be f lushed ForGloryOf Nation BY CHATWOOD HALL ’ MOSCOW 'ANPi — Arncric;m Negroes are among the world’s toP' ranking sports ligurcs. according to my recci l conversations with Rus sian sport writers. PNi.ies.': iimHEemciit at Amer ica's attitude toward them and the laiture to pusn tncm upward. BY ALVIN MOSES MELTIN' POT NEW YORK «ANP) — Beau Jack and Willie Joyce, one out ot stead of being discriminated against George and the other from they say America shou I push them Hosier slat. . Indiana, thriller 15.- forwarc for the glory of the nation. who paid around $70,000 t. That is Russia's policy, the utiUza- see them fighf 10 rounds in Madison tion of her citizen's achievements to Square Gardne. Friday. Decem^r glorify the nation and themselves. »*- Pardon me. dear readers, if I Sports circles here expressed keen the world “fight in the i-pen- tnte«sts in the recent annoncemeni, ing sentence, -^ese two brown- that Jackie Robinson hod been sign- skinned gamecocks engaged in the ed to play major league baseball by,I"ost savage imbroglio ihwe eyes the Brooklyn Dodgers. They char-1 have v.-ilnw.sed s r :e 'he night we acterize such a step as a progre.s- Battalino fight Kid slve victory in Ameria's struggle Choc, la^ a decade or so ago. against racial discrimination. ''^|®h I had a device wuh me that American Negro delegates to the, would have recorded the numbi- reent world conference of demo- of actual punches thrown by those ratio youth in London and the In- two crowd pleasers. The amt.z.ng temational Students Congress in Jack, after an month l;i. Prague. Czechoslavakia. are visiting here as guests of the Soviet Anti- Fascist Youth Committee. MARVA GETS JOE'S BLESSINGS IN NEW VENTURE CHICAGO lANP) — Mrs. Marvi Louis will open her new cosmetic concern here with the next few days with all the bles.sings of her divorced husband. Sgt. Jre Louis, world heavyweight boxing cham pion. Learning that beauteous and pop ular Marva planned to launch i business career that wMl feature ihe beautification of womanhood, Sgt. Joe immediatelv branded the move as the best idea she ever had. His enthusiastiev approval of her ultrn- modem cosmetic shop, which will off. turned in a mighty neat eve-| nig's work to win over the unprc-l dictable master of the left hook, from the city of Gary even though* the wise guy betters had it dopcdl out the way Frank Forbes, Leonard? and company voted the thing 7:3.* 7:3, and 7-1 leveni 2. The rumor that has Beau Jack tangling a bit with “John Barleycorn", wc haven't confirmed as yet but. say it isn’t so. Jack, for that Is one opponent the bottle) you and no other scrapper will ever whip, savvy koed? ’Unhappy” Chandler, the $50,000 baseball boss with as much author ity (compared to Judge Landis) as Chieng Kai Shek has with Com munist China, fizzled again. I for ono didn’t expect anything savoring of fairness f .r baseball's problem child (Status of future Negro play ers) from the ex-govcmor of the border stat-- - Kentucky. Chandler never had been what you and I cail "right" on the color question. Be that what it is. we did think the ex-football sta*" would from the standpoint of political expediency fn Tenn. Meets Texas In 5th Annual Vulcan Bowl Game wii.i.iKjovi;i'; AIMING FOR CHAMPIONSHIP Orlean Of ho ^00,000, Gross says Ills 'V i. a national program f 14 fights. Joyce's take-home pay has amounted to ab. ut $50,000. MOW TO RANK WITH KINGB BIR.HINGHAM. Ala. — Te« nes-sce State, Champions of Midwest Con ference, and generally ranked io .iJlv bv virture of their outstanding record in inter- I onfcrence c.«mpetitio:i will meet Texas College, second only »o Wiley (, .11 n.itiunal ranking due to H defeat 8-S in the last minute and ' •' 1 ol p’liy after leading Wiley 6-2 until that time, 'Thrse two teams are not mush room claimants tor national ranking. Coach Kean of finncinee State and Coach Durlej of Texas College .luvo consisicn’.lv proudee outstanding teams. Texas Both teams feature l^>ng passes and wide end runs and the history of their games show that these tac tics are succesful in scoring point.' Texas College has scored 164 potnis in ten games Tennc^see State. JO'J in ten game-. Texas nas allowed 4’- points to the opponents and Tennes see 63. nVISH SC HOOL INCLUDES NEGRO COLLEGE IN SPORTS PR.OGRAM ;.JUthri Beautiful and alluring Miss Alice Galloway, togged in pig skin attire, emerged in King Cot ton. headed for the Cotton-Tobac co Bowl Football Classic in the Greensboro Memorial Stadium. New Year's day when unbeaten and pow‘'rful Allen University. Columbia. S. C., will clash with outstanding Johnson C. Smith University of CharoUte. Mis.s Galloway, an A. and T. College sophomore, a graduate of Washington High School, Reids- viile, lo%'er of dramatics, basket- b-ll. music, and modern dancing, hopes some day to become an of ficial secretary. She if the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Onnie Gall"- way, prominent citizen of the Piedmont Section. present a c..mplete line of Marva 1 his own behalf, bring the matter of toiletries for milady’s dressing la-1 policy for our players out into the ble, indicated that he favors bu?i-1 opening. He could have driven to ' nes for her over her brief theatri- ! cover the forces who have stripped cal career I of all hi« voting power until ne Mrs. Louis, frequently rated as ['lands as nothing more than a lorl- one of America's best dressed Negro ! f.cld office boy or baseball oppor- women. brirg.s to her new venture 11 tunist highly-trained business mind. She ; W'' will wnlinue to fight on the was employed as a secretary in a 'bieis of fair play for ia> colored downtown office jiefore she married players signed to contract by minor Joe and has since profitably utiliz- or major league clubs having full ^>d her business training in many ’ippoii if magnates around the She has staged succceslul circuit; (b> a fair shake of the dice- style and fashion shows, often pre- ’ox fo- Negro League Club Own- santlng her own designs, in most of era in the matter of prices for the largest cities of the country. t.layers taken from their clubs siml- One of the reasons why .she plans l lar to present arrangements wifh to make the name Marve Louis a .white leagues et al. etal. 1946. does beauty trade mark for American 'not have to be as dismal for our women is to estabish future econo- ball players as some of us think, inic security for her daughter. Jac- Of a verity we cannot win our ! ' . • s_ (bl* this mnnectlon Behind The Play In Sports BY PON DE LCIGUBUB Conference Champoins) in the 1943 Vulcan Bowl Gam.c. 13-10. Tennessee State defeated Tuskegee (Southern Conference Champion.-) in the 1943 0. These two previous Bowl Winner.' -I'! each other in th * first posi-war game. The pre-game sale of ticket.' re- ' fleets both the popularity .if these I team and the desire of the public to celebrate their release from w.tr ‘ anxieties ur.d restrictions. It is i most 8 L’crtainty that at game j Jvery box and reserve scat will I sold. j The interest is further enhnnco l i by ihe desire to watch in i ction six j outstanding playtrs of all Amt-.ican i ability. On the Texas team. Ray J mond Lewis, Tex:irkana Sophomor'', jhal. back and Yera Smith. Fresh man end of Houst'n will combine I their offensive ability and on t. - 1 fense James Mreks. Forth Worm Garrd, Freshman, will continue his ■en-ationjl line play and will give he kickers pleniy of trouble. Ter. ncssee State will offer in enmpe- trtion the veteran combination Wil- I Bas-s, Senior halfback o' Pitts- , burch an William Smith. Louis- [ ville Soph »more End on offen.-e • and on defense. Robert Drummcnd, ; Sophomore tackle and lorn I Bn - ' infngham bov will be n thorn In the Texas offense. Both teams will gam ble and throw pas-ws or run from their end zones. A. A. U. TAKES NATIONAL RACK CHAMPIONSHIPS TO TEXAS: WILL NEGRJ ACES COMPETE? New York — From Richmond. Va., we learn that the Amu:.'ur Athletic Union has awarded '.he ime men's outdoor track and ticld championship games to San An- icnio, Texas. I shink that every body knows where Texas is. And I’m not presuming in aassertiii.g that every body knows what Tex as means insofar as Negroes an- cuiicernc^, that is in cOTinoction w:th interracial affairs such as the national AAU outdoor track and Without ther , AAU champion- siiips 'f the past would be in the nature of a Shriner's Convention o; intra-cluss exercises. Now they’re getting a rounu s*ap in the face because the hard heads of the AAU who support reaction and race bias, in spite ot the record, insisted that the South should get a break by awarding Uic annual games to cme of its cities. Pincus Sober! of the Metrcpoli- tan AAU delegation to Richmond, with his fellow delegates fought a losing fight to keep the gamc- in the North. Sobe.'.s argued v ‘- htmenlly that an injustice wouii NTW YORK (AKPi - Negro col leges will be included on Yeshiva University’s sports program In the future. During the .-ichool's 17th annual ,-innri’ at the Astor hoie! here l.asi week, it was revealed that Yeshiva's cage schedule this winter includes meeting Virginia Union Univers.'y at the 15th Regimcnt.il Armory oi. Dei ember 22, and Morgan Stale Col lege at the Olyi pla Stadium in Philadelphia on December 27. In .addition to basketball game: with the two southern schools, of ficials of the Jewish school dis- clo.sed that a western Negro C»1 fege will also be included on Ycj- hiva's 1945-46 basketball schedule. NFAt YORK (CNS) — Willie Jo'.c IS a man with one ptirpote these days. Despite the $300.or>0 h” hu.s drawn tor six iiiaich:' i year. Joyce now ha.' his eye on > t thing — (he Hgthweight champion- sr.ip. Whether bv bus to battli- Montg .mery's N. V. crown or .kv- Williams' NBA title s immlaerial i’he m-iin point . to t.rt the cham.- pionship .I'ld cle; up the ihroii>' oom dispute oVfi. m.i uiger. f.ou Gross, ha' been negotiating for n Willi; n. match in Chicago Stadium. Accord ing to Gro.'s. Charles Schust.r who is J. yee's -optrarl is willing • guarantee only $20,000 wheriM- Ike’s manager Conn •• McCr.rthy has been a-'king for $3i>.Q00 Montgom ery. recently r’iscl.irgoo from the Army, is expected i’> make his first tunciip effort in February at New By WHIism Henry Huff for ASV If one i.s ble«?d with vision Hi* sees bryond his nose And makes a real decision Which to the '--.bstanee goes. If one can sec the beauty In doing worthy things As f in line of duty. He'll surely rank with kings. CAPITAL CbCA-rOi BOTTLING CO. 515 W. Morgan Si. IF YOU WANT TO GET THERE IN TIN.E 9259 CAPITAL CAS Oa M BOOa WUiWKE 9^ j\%.TS%'X%%.Vk.VWk%''t5Ct6yr!tStSS3S9Sa A Lifetime in Flames Why taka chances ee buzaifig up a lifetime’s effort In a slagta terrifying hour when It's so simple and Inexpenilva to pfO- iect yourself against' any possi ble mishsn Your heme uid family c be absolutely pro tected from ANY disaster ti but a few pennies a day. We'll show you how. 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M.irva re marked. "selects her cosmetics with as (treat care as she select' her food." JACK FAVORITE OVER JOTUF IN FIRST BOUT SINCE ARMY NEW YORK 'CNSi — Making his start since he was ecently hon orably discharged from the army, Beau Jack is a 2 to I favorite to de feat Willie Joyce this Friday .it Madison Square Garden The ex- lightweight champ meet.' Joyce for ten rounds. R R Bennett, a iiaHvc of Stokes County .and a State College grad uate of 1934, is the new Extnsion to bacco specialist. t'l.tyers signed to contnci by minor fT rr.a)or league clubs having full iippnrt if magnates around the circuit; (b> a fair shake of the dice- x fu- N gro Leagi e Club Own ers in the m.itter of prices for nlayers t.iken from their clubs simi 1 lar to prc'ent arrangements wifh white leagues et nl. etal. 1946. does not have to be ns dismal for our ball players s.s some of us think. Of a verity v e cannot win our common fights in this connection simply by guzzling gin in a cocktail lounge with the customary popping off: we've MB million Negroesi got to line up soUly behind the Bur leys. Bostic. Rollc Wilson, Smiths Graves, Washingtons. Moses and others, who carry the ball agains* the opponents . n a day in and d.iy out b.i'is. Only in this way can we win in 1946 or in 2046 . nd — that's that N n 'We will answer question: from readers throughout the coun try following our 1945 sport.' sum- marv i V FATHER DIVINE CLAIMS ORIGIN OF .ATOMIC ENERGY PHII.ADEI.PHIA, P.T 'CNS> —. .. " am the aiith ir and the finisher of th.- Ttoinie “inergy," claimed Father Divine in a .'crmnn here this week "1 have harnessed it' 1 .say harness ed iti 1 am bringing ill of the atomic energy into subjections .ind by it T ..m bringing out monv invention'! That i.' what I am doing on earth on I e.ivcn today!" he ended enthii.sias- I'cally, Now York — From Richmond. Va.. wo learn that the Amateur .Mhletic Union ha.' awarded iho ni46 men’s outdoor track and ncld cht-mpionship games to San An- lenio, Texas, I tnink that every- liody knows where Texas is. And I’m not presuming in aassertit.g tiiat every body knows what Tex as means insofar as Negroes are coucerned, that is in connection with interracial affairs .such as the mtio.ial AAU outdoor track and field championship camos. j I'll confess, I dori i know' wimt -will happen next June when the 'f,ame comes off down in San An- Jtonio, Texa.'. Maybe, the state ha.' 'finally come around to the point .where it will pass a re.'olution that temporarily Jim Crow lav.-. iiiguinsl .Negroes will be lifted lor the two or three days the gam.'S '• •ill be held to allow such Negro stars as Jimmy Herbert, the ex- NY’’ 600 meters champ; Kddie Conwell, the distance running t'.ins, Maurieo and .Stan Callen- det, of NY’U. Ed Dugger, the king of the hurdlers; Eulace Peacock. Cliffoid (iiildstein, the CCNY dis- taj.ee star, James Wilson, the di.%- lance walking ehampion, and oth er colonxi ace.s who have helped moke the .AAU whiit it is today, to compete on a ba.sis of equali viap in the face becau-se the hard- heaids of the AAU who support reaction and race bias, in spite of the record, insisted that tlie South sh(..uld get a break by awarding the annual games to one of its cities. Pincus Sobert of the .Metropoli tan AAU delegation to Richmond, with hbs fellow’ delegates fought a losing fight to keep the games in the Nortli. Sobers argued ve hemently that an injustice would be done the Negro athletes who have contributed so much to the cause of national amateur athlct- He was talking up a blind a1- 1( y. The South wanted to sho\,' what it could do by being host to llic AAU games, and the South was appeased. As 1 said before, maybe some thing is in the W'ind. Maybe there’s an about face on racial matter.' eoncrrning sports coming up in the South. But it didn't come out i;i the reports from the .AAU con vention at Richmond. And by th- V ;,y. why aren't there Negroes al i.'iieli conf( rences? N«*groes have je’ene enough for the AAU In war- |i:int repre.sentation. Don't you think sn? Southern white people do .strange thing.' at times. Maybe it L'n't bad as it appiiir.'. It rmild ha\e been AiaDaina or Mu'SL'sippi instead of Texas. Av ery Brundage of Chicago, and the other behind the setne.-i boy.-; at till Richmond. Va., confab, might know what's cooking. But w’c Farm real c.'tate values in North Carolina are up 8G per cent as com- u red with before the war. 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B, Taylur !' ( m P-. nn, Jes.'e Owx n.' from I Ohio State. Sol ButUr from Du buque, Frank Dixon from Nev Vfrk University, Johnny Wood- ! ruff from Pittsburgh. Johnny r>rican from Virginia State. Bar- , r.ey Ewell from Penn State, John :P.rook.s from Chicago, Bu-Hd.’ ' Yeung from Illinois, Don Bark - ' d..lc from UCLA. Mozel Ellerbe f;om Tu.skeger. Her!. Thompson f, em J- rscy City. Bill Exum from ' Wi.>.con.sin. and on down the lin ■ T.'vse were some of t::-.- Negro. - \ ho pulled AAU national .-ham- , pionship games out of the red and I brought them (the A.^U "am’.') 'World-Wide notice and attention Cotton-Tobacco Bowl FOOTBALL CLASSIC MEMORIAL STADIUM , Greensboro. North Carolina I NEW YEAR’S DAY Kick-Off Time 2:30 P. M. UNBEATEN ALLEN UNIVERSITY I SEA A Conference) Columbia. South Carc-Iina VS POWERFUL JOHNSON C. SMITH UNIVERSITY Charlotte. North Caroline ::ccording to the ClArt Rat.,ig: Frist Division; Morgan. Howard. Second Division: Delaware. Lin coln. A. and T., Hampton. 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