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WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1953 Is’«<^< .- Cftlfl&S#- ' c*< 3- „ *« ; 4 ' * rJ*'> NOW TIIKRF AHE TWO —ln » move which set the baseball world on its hep In, the Brooklyn Dodger front ofHre tied a can to no-lnnger-JoHy < ’hurley Dresscn, who had Knitted the “Riwim” to two consecutive pennants, itressen was fired in a hassle over money, Dodger prexj Walter O’Malley reported (Ml week. Dressen (center) is shown in spring training welcoming star Jackie Robinson (right) and the “rock” Roy Campanil!*, who moves one step closer to becoming the first Negro major league iwtM ger with the ouster of ( hurley Dressen, (Newaoreas Photo.) Smith Bulls vs WSTCRams In Oct 31st Homecoming \ CHARLOTTE, N. G. -Johnson C Smith University will celebrate homecoming during the week-end of October 31 when the "Golden Bulls" will engage the Rams' oi Winston-Salem Teacher; College in a football game at two o'clock. The Homecoming activities will begin Friday evening before the; game with the Coronation of the Homecoming Queen at 7:30 o'clock in Biddle Memorial Hall. The T ; ’ Aldridge Dramatic Guild «ill pre sent two plays f<>l( ivi g ri " nation. “I’m a Fool” by Sergo! and “The No 'Count Buy' by P. Green. The Charlotte AJ'- :,v >s:i e-apter nil entertain visiting alumni at. a dan ce at Club Mona Lisa to climax Friday's actjvine.-. Saturday morning at ten o'clock the General Alunini Assv.unH-jn ; will hold a meeting in the Library ; Annex. The homecoming parade i will leave the campus at 12:15 for ttir- football game which will be ■ played in the A.nenrar. Ley ion 'Memorial Stack :r at two ••'clock ! ~ I * • . .y, * .. .. i , -bn; :. {I!MI i\ I f ! S I , \ i •\ j f i i H p : i ■ I Mil Ixj- \ i j i S i i tlll\, NEW YANKEE POWER—The first two Negro pH Ayers ever to Appear on the World Champion New York Yankees’ roster were acquired last week. Tire Yanks announced the purchase of the con tracts of first baseman-outfielder Vie Power (above) from the Kansas City farm of the American Association, and outfielder Elston Howard. (Newspress Photo.) A RlMtlT N. C. COLLEGE | VS — ■ j TENN. STATE O’KELLEY FIELD AT NCC SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 2 P. M. j' Other NCC Home Games j ADMISSION $2.50 j November 7 J. C. Smith Univ. _ __ _________ __ i i After the game President and Mrs. Liston will receive alumni ••d foi mer student.-- at a banquet in tin University Reflectory, at which time persons chosen for the Alumrn C'-rtificate of Merit' v.-ill be honored. Following the banquet, alumni, faculty, students; and friends will join in a grand Jackie Robinson Edits New Sports Magazine NEW YORK Provocative, in tormative OUR SPORTS MAGA /.UBE. edited by Jackie Robinson, now on the n-wstands with an imposing list of articles covering !“<• enhr- gamut of sports. Two a: rides destined for considerable , (ii.-cussion are. “Why Do Negro | S:.-. , Get Buried in Tin- Minors?” _ ' ' I fellowship at the Armory audito- : riuni. The homecoming activities -.'. ill i close with a worship service at i 1 eleven o'clock Sunday morning : when the Reverend 1, P. Pogue, j ; Jr. of Cleveland, Ohio, will deli- [ ' vor the morning sermon. by Larry Marthey and “Will A i Negro Ever Win Top Amateur A ward'.'" by Sam Lacy. The authors supply the answers to both con- j troversia! issues. It is Marthev’s contention that ' many truly deserving Negro min- j or league diamond stars, who coulc j surely make the trade in the 'ma jor.-, art denied the. opportunity,: through prejudice barriers have j supposedly been destroyed. Then j are three reasons for this situadfir , recording to Mat they: 1 —-Saturn | tion, with. Cleveland and Brook 1 lyn the mime examples. Thes 1 teams with several Negro star, j ‘do not want want too many ir j the startnu.' lineup." Marthey says j though hiving players in thei ' iwiin who coi.id definitely be re I velars. 2—Prejudice is still an ob j vious barrier, is only half th< sixteen major nine-- have Negr ' players. 3 -Ecor.oaiic*. witere th< i N ninyer .;-,ifers the .-aim' .•'i ;ht e- tin.i talented minor lea •'ucr who is lie. chattel of t.deiu-laden parent »rgani/.atior lore the issue Is simple: None (. the major league club owners ar j nclined to donate any of Lit': j talents tr. rival without prop* j pay ment. 1 Ivu.v did a great deal of resoarc. j n his artich .tt> mi no-, to di • over whj no Negro amateur at:- j He has ever won the Sullivan . I wai'd in its twenty-three yea: i visa oce There have b'-eu cany Negro athletes who vnu deserving recipients of Ibis •ard to athletes "who by his e | ter performance, example and in lienee as an amateur, has do ! he must during the year to a ance the cause of sporlsmaoshij •'et. this honor eluded the immo j ai Jesse Owen* and last ye; j la! Whitfield, the greatest tnidd | distance runner ever, and Harriso I Jillatd, most outstanding hurdle n track history, trailed high jun -or Ken Wiesner in the comittee stimation of the best qualifier ions Jo win the Sullivan Award Lacy says it isn't actually “alt 1 ether fair to say that one has 1 )e born white to win the Sulliva Award. An -xamination of the si’ ation by this reporter > hat race may play some sma . art in the picture, but the age-nl ugaboo of economics is the re» • 1 e term in iag factor.” Amateur athletes receive ex penses for their ."iicipa-tfon in tarck meets. And according to Lacy's report though athle tes of both races may submit “exorbitant expense accounts.” the officials seemed more prone to rebel at ibr amounts asked by Negroes. This, con sequently. Incurarcit lilwiU and may be the rea-on no Ne gro has ever received the Sul livan Award. Haskell Cohen. Publicity Direc for of ihe National Basketball As •••ociatlon. was assigned the tas' ;-f selecting a prevue Negro Col ege All-America- five. Cohen se ected Dick Ricketts (6-). Jin ruck* »• -6-7) and Sihugo Green* {• Z 1 Z}, ad us L ,|0( Bertrand (8-2) and Maurice Stokjf ■O-I}’, St. Francis, Pa., as his ‘•.Dream Team of College Biiske teeis.' Cohen, a renowned bas ketball authority stated: 'lt is a mythical array that safely could repel any other aggregation, should they ever be assembled as ;.!•» actual Troup,” United States farmers must, he prepai to nroduce enough fbod j for 200,000,000 citizens by ’T?S North American farmers expect ! to produce about 1,785,000,000 bii- i rhels of wheat this year, 214,000.- I oiio lets iuaut in. 1062, j VHBnHHHki^JRNM^^JSBRNSBHHiBRB ; NEW YORK, (GLOBAL) We j thou-ht we knew a chain pern.-hip | team when we saw one. We said to j ourselves "This 1953 Dodger team iis it. They are hitting, running, I fielding fools, and they’ve got spi i rit. They're determined to win ’ We scant'd the bating averages i and compared them with the ! Yanks and decided that this time i the Yanks would go down, be- I cause they never before had com j pared so unfavorably with a Na- ;. | tional League rival. We analyzed ! them player for player and the • Dodgers still came out ahead. We i said, "This time they couldn't | miss." So. we predicted the Dod i t'err would take the series in four. . and settled back in our seat in ! Yankee Stadium to watch the un -1 folding of what we thought would |be th..- most dramatic Series yet j played. And it was. \ We scanned the batting averages i ship team is. You can throw the j record book out the window. Nt-ver ! i Beating The Gun LMIKAKIDED CHAMPS IN AN INPUBUCIZED SPORT j CHICAGO - (ANP) Here in 1 i Chicago where the city's athletic j ! teams in baseball, football and o , trier sports are not faring too well 1 j in competition with the cities, we I | nave a championship team in one j •of the world's oldest and most j I popular sports. Unfortunately,! | this team’s achievements are an- j | beraleded because this sport is tin- 1 ! publicized in the United States. Our local champions are the j South Park Cricket club who re- j - cenr.ly completed a season league • •nder/oateo. The South Pork ; ; Cricketers not only won all their j : league games, but they also won j : di their exhibition tilts, and to | j climax the season, defeated the ; I -CL All Stars in the final game j d the year. Cricket, most .-ports fans vago dy j ! ecall, is the game that preceded i oaseball and on which ba.sebak •f th. British Comonweall-h oi J tas its roots. It is the national j I .port of England and virtually all | Nations. It is similar to baseball i .n that it has a batsman, a catcher I I mri a pitcher icalled a biywlere),! ( >nd a hatter L« out if the ball is j i aught, on the fly Out _ side oi j j nese points, the two games are • i iuite different. j This reporter has not seen en j ,i!gh games to appraise cricket, • i iroperly, but he cun say the game! j .as this past season. But let’s get! s quite interesting. Next, year he j . viil take in more games than he i i qcx 1,1 the Sown. Park team. This club is tlir first in the 22-year history of the H E to finish a season unbeaten. The league includes white, Negro and mixed teams. Membership in the South Park dub Is basically Negro. It is an out growth of the old Melbourne Cricket club of the earl> l'ftO's. j The old Melbourne club was" so | I ,uned by veteran players, West j idians attending college, and i iw American recruits. Such men j Albert Hall, Percy And'-rson, D. Barthelmy and Joe.tua Pal j er pioneered in localizing the 1 . terest in cricket and building i ',i South Park. During World War 11, cricket , ns virtually dead, but it was ro ved with greater enthusiasm in e post war era. With Palmer chaining the South Parkers, they ve won six championships be- j : ?een 1945 and 1953. Us top play- j s not only are former West lind- j | is but. also native Americans j | Four ace batsmen are the core j : ven converted baseball players, j •:io have taken up the sport, arid ! the South Park offense—John - :rown. the league batting cham- j on with an average of 50 runs j r game. Frank Bourne. 40 runs; j id ft ißoogsie) Johnson and C. j •ilntyre with 25 runs each. At the final game of the season— | -• which South Park defeated the ,'JL Allstars 75-56---Richard Krell. i 'crctary ofj the league, presented ! 10,000 Expected at A&T j WTSC Gridiron Classic i I GREENSBORO, N. C.--A sell iif rrnwd tyf pear 10,000 is expcc ed to pour into Greensboro Sta luiri on Saturday night of this eek (Of:ther 24) for the A. and i '. College Aggies, Winston-Salem .'eachers College football gome. ■ 'he expected bi tter than usual at •ndanev may result from a spe ial Merchant's Night promotion vhich was reinstalled this year or the first time since the pre vat- years Hundreds <>f Greensboro mer * hants .:'.: taking I!'m. Icadv' chib n making this game a top at raction. They are passing out to heir patrons special tickets which nay be redeemed, in advance or al the gate for one-half of the tenoral admission cost Mich. State College Honors ! Hampton's Gideon Smith i HAMPTON. Va. ■- Michigan | i Sum.. Coil*--- 1 . Lansing, Mic- 1 j higan, has extended an invitation j jto Mr. Gideon E. Smith, a jne*m- J j bet ct .t.s tasiitute facui* I THE CAR GLINT AN mind things like batting averages ■ and fielding averages, and age, injuries. These* things mean very, little when faced with a do-or-die i situation. And that was the key i to the Yankee performance. When - there were men on base, they j were delivered whether the batter ; up was a slugger, a 2CO hitter, or the pitcher. In contrast, the Dod ger power would come up and leave men stranded on base time after time. They just didn't come through m the clutch. The Yanks are the undisputed champions. They won decisively; on the basis of the daily box and all of us dodger rooters have to admit it. Come to think of it. : scores in the Series, we‘d still pick the Dodgers to win, because they look better on paper. But the Yanks delivered the goods. And so, no more of that paper stuff: for us What the Yankees have, you can’t put on paper. But it shows in the final tally every time. ! South Park the K. A. Auty chain-, i pionship cup. Because of the tremendous play jof South Park, Chicago cricket fans arc talking about importing ! top British teams to play here. 1 Some* folks are even talking about i the world's championship, j Nothing can be done about that: ! dream this year, but if the South j Packers arc as successful next j year, you may be sure that you I will read more about cricket than you ever have in the past, and j cricket also will attract new fans. JUST A BIT OF CHATTER j Ever since J, C. Caroline hit the ; football headlines at the Universi j y of Illinois, there has been quite ; a lot of talk about the fact that !he has no given names, merely i initials. Few sports fans may re i .'all that a great athlete of two de ! ados ago—-an all time great—also u»d only initials, and his initials oincidentally **« re J. C., too. add Beating the Gun . sports j Fans now know him as Jessie, ; Owens. His original name was J. i Owens, but he lias had it legal | y changed to Jesse. Actually his ! tdrnirers in calling his initials ! ’gave" him the name. Jesse . Two Negroes will be on the All j '.tars basketball squad that faces j he Minneapolis ■Lakers, world , ihampions. in the 1953 Basketball | 11 Stars game Friday night, Aug. il3 at the Chicago Stadium. This | itle is sponsored by the Chicago American, a newspaper that has I .romoted the cage sport possibly more than any other daily., In the old days before the ab sent of organized basketball, the American used to promote world j hampionship tovuments. In thes*.. I neets, the Harlem Globetrotters | he New York Bens and the Wash j ington Bears achieved their great | "tamest. | In Friday night's game, Wait. I Dukes of Scton Hall, last year’s , i greatest college player, anti Junius ■ | Kellogg of Manhattan, the player j i chose -honesty saved intercollegi •tt- basketball, will play with the All Stars. Dukes probably will b< i * key man for the squad and Kei- ; !ogg, although very noble, ts j likely to sit out much of the game . on the bench. The Lakers are most likely to I i win the game with George (Mr I j Basketball) Mi 1k a n as usual i I /Tabbing the spotlight. At last Negro colleges art: get ting the right idea. They are hiring j our great athletes. It has been j | gratifying to note that Althea Gib- j ! son, the tennis queen rated among j | the top ten women players in the j j United States, and Nell Jackson, j S former Tuskegee track ace, have : ! been employed in their fields I 1 Miss Gibson works at Lincoln : (Mo ) and Miss Jackson teaches at j : her alma mater. Thanksgiving Day will be Hear/ I Kean Day at Tennessee State* Uni* ; | versify when the sports \v* * I ’ill j i pay deserved homage ••• . /real! ! coach and sports 1« • “If the Idea, woiks out”, col- : IfTt officials stated, “'We will j use it again next year on an- j other of our popular home eon tests," The plan received warm approval of the Gren*- boro Merchants Association ! i and it was through this organ!- j station that she idea got its big boost. ; Nobody knows what effect live i- j ' ciea will have on the a tendance. j | but by the end of the third dav 1 ' of distribution, calls for more tie- I I j kets kept the college's ticket com- i I mittee busy delivering mors, j The two keen rivals, both state j institutions and neighbors, will be- j I I gin butting heads at 8:00 p. m.. in j | the local ball yard. ty, to be present for the purpose > of joining other members of the 1 undefeated 1913 football team which will be honored oh Octo ber 17 by the coliege, Smith play ed rest tackle art ike 19*3 clam- .. £ GOING FOR A TOUCHDOWN Speedy Jerry White (14) of low* goes through the center for A. U-y*rd gain and ftirst down on hi* own 39-yard Sims in the recent giMiru> against Michigan at Ann Arbor. .Jerry made It all the way just one play later, hut his efforts weren’t enough to stop the Mtchigaa jug gernaut (Newspresa Photo.) .. Trojans and Pirates in National Grid Classic WASHINGTON. D. C.—Coach, Sylvester R. "Sal" Halt, the Afro- j American's 1952 "Coach of the Year'', and mentor of Virginia; State College football teams, is | apparently out to cop another championship crown for his Tro-: jans m 1953. They were Central intercollegiate Athletic Associa- j ’ non champions in 1952. and played ; i in the National Classic that year. : i beating North Carolina A & T j College bv the fat score of 47 to • ;0. The Trojans have already horse . ; collared three conference oppon-1 ents in a walk-away 47 to 0 over j Bluefietd Stat* College and 41 to ; 0 over Shaw University. The Vir- I Jinians blasted N. C College last , 1 Saturday, 15-7. Coach Hall has developed many j outstanding players since taking. ! the helm of Virginia State* athle- i Bears To Meet Broncos j In Homecoming Tilt SALISBURY. N. C.-Homecom ing wiP b* held r***> • at Living stone Colle;.*, i Saturday, October 24th when the Livingstone College ' football team plays the visiting Fayetteville To ;*. rh*• r a College High School Stadium A large i Broncos at 2:79 in the Hoyden 1 number of alumni and former stu dents. parents of students and friends of the two schools arc ex pected to be on hand for * u gala homecoming parade, football game end social activities. The parade is s.’heduled form West Liberty Street down .Main Street to West florah and hark to the campus. Tne kick-off i'*r the came .vii' be at ai with two very fnv : UiVingstono Coilige Bears will bi j Hawks & Miilinder T o Piay j National Classics Dance Erskine Hawkins arid Lucky Millinder and their orchestra are I playing for the National Classic ; Dance on October 24, it has been : mnounced by Thomas *F. Johnson, j National Classic Chairman Hawkins has been prominent in the amusement world for over a .eeadc. since the release of his opular Tuxedo Junction.” Some ; imes called -'The Twentieth Cen ; tury Gabriel’’, he was selected by ! pionship team and was selected he first Negro to play football at Michigan State, Gideon Smith came to Hampton j nstituto in 1921 after holding po ! -ritions in the teaching and coach ! ing field at West Virginia State j College, Virginia State College j and Maryland State College. H* ! served in tin* United States Army j during the years 1917 to 1919. Hi-: coaching record includes | five CIA A champion football j teams and ten CIAA champion* •'hip track teams The activities at Michigan State will include the football game be | tween the college and Indiana U i Diversity, a special stag planned .(Continued on Page 16) d cm ' ost% SEVEN S I VK I s j . 90 PROOF l l $2.30 $3‘65 auMtoM iMIUD • ttttff tlVtt&a / :Mi Sicuttsd Whisks; S 8 jMsi. Tit stiw£» vknlin an 4 jmtx rmmK Jlfc* ltni|tt whiskey iIViX nM spirit* distilled fraa grain. 15% straight whiskey 4 year? eUL IS* jag. Straight wMskty S *im aH VAX straight whisht) I fairs aid WOMIHAM « WOftfS ITP , MOW*, UUNOI) tics. Team Captain Steve EUerbt*. a graduate of Washington’s Car doso high school, was named on the Afro-American AILCIAA de fensive team in puckfiold, and was cited by the Norfolk Journal and Guide in its defensive team , selections. Normaii Day, 210 pound lines man from East Orange, New Jer sey. w.i.* named on the 1952 All-A merican team of the Pittsburg . Courier, anti on the All-CIAA j teams selected by >im Afro-Amor*.- \ can and Norfolk Journal and ; Guide Edward Allen, 230 pound tackle,! former Cardoza student, was list- j ed on the Journal and Guide's se cond team. He may be a candid ate for top honors during the cur- j rent -;«p.scn. teams staging the contest. The j risking their undefeated record j when thev meet the "Broncos" .of f a.vetteville. At half-time ceremonies will Ik ; lighlighted by the crowning of : 'Miss Homecoming", "Miss Living stone" and "Miss Alumni", and ; ; he demonstration to be put on b> •hi \ oung ladies' phusictil educ- , j :tion group under the direction .? Mrs. I* lei fence Mitchell, direc- ' | or of women's athletic sports. Following tin game tne annual ! ocia! will he held on the campus ! j or students and Fie Alumn ! lance will be staged at the Price | * fij-h School Gymnasium. This i j remises to be one of tl.>»* largest | omecomirn; games at Ikvingstoni ; j i recent years. • RCA Victor in 1950 to record anal bum of W. C. Handy melodic: ; ■ Hawkins was a natural choice. Hi j j orchestra has always re ; fleeted a feeling for the kind o j I music Handy composes. The al- j bum became a item up- ; ’on release. Lucy Milinder and his orchestra • will co-star with the Hawkins | combination at the Classic dance j Milinder has starred on both stage j end radio for many years. Because Ii of his swing style arid acrobatif , ’ stunts as leader of his orchestra. | he is called the “Dynamaestro of j | Swing.” It is said that Lucky's j ! ! ,-eignt varies by as much as la s pounds during a week of heavv en i I gagements. TIL pep is reinforced j :by a special vitamin diet prepar- i ed by specialists of the famed j 1 John Hopkins Hospital. Both Milinder and Hawkins are competent players of everv Instrument tn their orchestras, an uncommon fesit among dan- j re orchestra leaders, Hawkins learned to 'play each . ■ ' instrument early while subsfitu-' j ting for absentee players in his i orchestra. Lucky learned to play | each instrument in his orchestra i through study at Paris Conser- j PAGE FIFTEEN Among other Trojan players who have won athletic distinctions are Wilbur Wilson, 175 pound Half- Lack from Memorial High, Had d- ■ afield. New Jersey, named on the Journal and Guide All-CIAA team; Charles Thompson, 190 pound end of Jefferson High. Al ton. Virginia, Journal and Guide All-CIAA defensive, Charles Wil liams. 195 pound guard from Brad docK High, Braddock, Penn. Also Charles Pretyman, a bril liant defensive end, from Douglas High, Baltimore. Maryland, named on the Afro-American All-CIAA defensive team. The Hampton Pirates, coached by Harry "Big Jeff’ Jefferson, will also field some prospective All-CIAA material. Captain of the Pirates is William Rayfield, 195 pound left tackle from Baltimore’s Carver High. vat'Ties long after his orchestra •ad become internationally fam ous. Selection of the Millnder- Ha whins combination for the Classic Dance brings together two dance orchestra leaders whose musical styles appeal to varied tastes. Hawkins is a blues stylist and MtUnder is a swing master. Both feature late recordings. Milinder re cently waxed When I'm With you.' Hawkins latest record in'! is "Walkin by the River.” The public dance starring Haw ins and Milinder follows the fnot •all came featuring Hampton In tit* 11 e and Virginia State College aid earlier in the evening. Both •ctivitief are conducted by the ’ental Intercollegiate Athletic \c. .■, .elation to provide funds to ...not'd athletic prorams in the x tee n membet colleges of the '.I A A FIGHT * NIGHT FOOTBALL ★★★ ★ ★ GREENSBORO MERCHANTS 8 NIGHT A w AND C T* r '" 1 AGGIES WINSTON-SALEM Teachers College Sat., Oct. 24—8 P. M. Greensboro Stadium Gen. Adm. 51.50, tax in cl. BUY FROM YOUR GREENSBORO MERCHANT Get special merchants’ FREE tic wet which when presented at gate is god for one-half of aditslfeion price. COST TO YOU, ONLY —75 c Tax Included