N. C, High School Tennis Tournament Starts Friday
Aggies Sniasii Out AlO-6
Win Over Winston Rams
GREENS BORO--V no AA-r r- ,
lege Aggies rc-rur :rd to
form and smashed out a in 1 •
tory over Winsu>n-; s al<’s; T< r.
College in a baseball e::nv h.-
at Memorial Stadium Wedn'ih ;•
April 2ft.
The local* overcame ' 1
lead, pieced together by t ■ i'
rhor« In the first uvo-iru 1
get hack into th? w:n C'-hi'ini
They scored 3 runs n ter
tom bail of the second •.cent on -
scoring spree with 7~vu'\ in h'.e;
third to ice the bah come
During the clinching timing. |
Winston-Relem pitchers, Spen- j
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NEW YORK (AND ‘This
young baseball • season has form'd
up some of the darndest things
Imaginable—and of course, they
happened In Brooklyn, home of
the world champions
Most talked of player this
year over the river is you
know who—Mr, Eobinson. He’s
playing the best ball oi bis
career even though, he isn't
stroking the ball like he can.
When he stole home the other
day, R was the 19th t;me in
his ten-year major league-life
he , had accomplished tkv
What other athlete can match
this record.
At that rate, catchers may look
for Mr. R. to pilfer hmv=«> plate
once more this year. And his field
ing has made all other third ba-e
--rren look alive. This Jackie Rob
inson is a tremendous man- that's
all there i*.
What? Know ye not that
your body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in you,
whseh ye have of God, and ye
are art your osra7—{f Corin
thians ft, 19.)
St. Paul reminds ns that
fee Heavenly Father created
ws in His image, that He
dwells within us as our souls.
Oar sins and transgressions,
therefore, are. against Him;
in kwe and humility we must,
seek His forgiveness, pray for
Bm gawteoee and help.
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,r Patterson and l.inville
»* •5 1 -bin were sent to the
> me s, victims of (be Aggie
balling power, .tamps Brown,
relieved and completely
throttled the locals, bolding
them scoreless during (he re
malndrr of the game.
K ■ *i K • Aggie righthand
',- !..>s b'd his troubles dur
■ ■ n,. of the ••■•••••cn. was ef
i‘» *iv« : n thn dutches and settled
••!(>•■ ; h- bold the losers in one
run f.-, : in tht remaining fourth
and seventh innings,
Boston Celtics Get Russell
In Pro Basketball Drafting
CHICAGO fANP) - Proses-j
sional basketball moguls had their i
annual pick of college stars last |
Major League Roundup
CHICAGO (ANP) - Willie
M • jinxed by Chicago Cubs’
pitchers in 1955. set. out to prove
immediately that fie intended to
suffer no such, hex this season. In
his first meeting with one of his
mound tormentors of a year ago,
Warren I.acker, in W.rigloy Field
in Chicago, Maya blasted two trip
les.
One the three-ply wallops
drove in a run, and the other
set up a tally for Willie him
' self, to give the giants a nifty
2-to-l triumph to open their
first western swing.
Mays of course, wins ma n y
games defensively. Ho saved a
victory the following afternoon
With another sparkling catch in
centcrfield. With Ernie- Banks or)
first after a single, another Chica
go batsman clouted a high drive
toward right center. Mays tore
over, leaped and came down with
the ball. That was in the. 34‘h «in
Term. Stale Univ. To Host
MWAA Track, Field Meets
NASHVILLE Tennessee A A- I
University. Nashville, Tennessee
will ne host institution for the
19th Annual MWAA Track and
Field Meet Friday and Saturday,!
May 11 and 12.
Each of the 5 remaining mem- j
her colic.ccs. Central State, Jack- j
son State, Gra.mbling, Kentucky I
State, and Lincoln University is!
expected to send strong cinder j
pa;hs teams and a battle royal!
for top honors is anticipated.
Defending champions will be !
Central Suite College, winner of j
■ 13th Track and Field Meet by
scoring 52 points. Other records
for l,v- year's meet arc as follows:
Lincoln University. 41 2-5; Tennes
see Stale University, 40: Jackson
State College. 31: Grumbling Col
ic: \ 26 1-5; Huston-Tillotson, 18
1 -ft; ami Kci,tacky .State 16 1-5.
Hurt on-Tdlotson is no longer a
Tiger Schedule Shows Niue
Gome 1956 Football Slate
BY COLLIE J. NICHOLSON
GRAMBLING. La (ANP)
T:io National Negro championship
Grambiing College football team
will play a paulsating nine-game
schedue next fall.
< ‘narh Fdd i e Robinson re
leased the card last week and
indicated that his boys will be
p r pared to greet opponents
with a crackling attack, bul
warked by the return of al
most three dozen lettermen
The Tigers will play teams from
GDSG
CUBAN CUPPER—Lightweight Orlando Zuluele of Cuba
(right), dirts Johnny Busso with a right uppereist on th» chin
in th« sixth round of their recent ! 0-rounder «t New York’*
St. Nicholes arena. Underdog -Buses■ of New York, pounded
out a split decision over the more expeiiwoecl Cuban.
(Newepress Photo).
Hillside Hornets Os Durham
Out To Retain Championship
DURHAM—The North Carolina
Negro High School Athletic Asso
ciation will sponsor its fourth an
nual tennis championships, singles
and doubles, for boys on North
Carolina College’s courts Friday
and Saturday, May 11 and 12.
Drawings will begin at 9:00
a, rn on Friday with play
starting immediately thereaf
ter.
Carl L Easterling's host Hillside
High School Hornets are defend
ing champions in singles and dou*
j week and Bill Russell snd other |
| tan stars were prominent in the t
! selections.
mrig of a ball game by striking
out Cub third baseman Don Hoak.
who. incidentally, set. a record of
six strikeouts in a single game.
Banks hit his fourth horaer
of the season, and Solly Drake,
a Chicago surprise in center
field, his second. Gene Baker
also had a home run.
Versatile A1 Smith of the Cleve
land Indians has been hampered
since the start of the season with
a bum leg. In his first 1D56 ap
pearance in Washington, the Tribe
rightfielder gave evidence that he
was sound again.
Smith belted a home run for
the tying run in a close hall
game. Then he drilled a dou
ble, making second on fast
base running and a belly slide.
After he moved to third on a
hunt, singlp, Smith scored the,
winning run in a 3-to-2 de
cision or, a sacrifice fiv.
Joe Black gained a relief pitch-
member of the MWAA.
Tennessee State will have
Willie Stevens, MWAA cham
pion fn the high and low hur
dles prior to entering the ser
vice. Tom Arehie of Gramfciing
I College was hurt last season
and did not. participate in the
hurdies but from all indica
tions. the Gjambling speedster
is ready for action this year.
He, Stevens, and the current
j champion, David Mosley of Jack
j son State College, are expected to
| make the hurdles the most hotly
contested event of the meet. Back,
again this year for another try
will also be Robert Perkins, Lin
colns 440 yard wizzard. Only one
new re-cord was set during last
year’s meet; however, coaches and
sports lovers expect several rec
ords to fall this year.
five different eortferenc.es and six
states.
Major road blocks include Ten
nessee State, Bethune-Cookman,
Prairie View, Morris Brown and
Bluefield State College.
Morris Brown and Bluefield are
newcomers to the schedule. Both
exploited precision “T” patterns in
the Southern Intercollegiate Con
ference and Central Intercollegi
ate Athletic Association.
Morris Brown replaces Wiley
for the annual Louisiana Fair
Game in Shreveport, Oct, 22,
hies play.
Coach Harold Hunter’s Willist.on
High School nutters from Wil
mington loom as one of the pre
tourney favorites. The Williston
club defeated Hillside earlier in
t.he season to give the Hornets
their only setback in their present
record 4 1
Hillside, High School has
won singles matches for the
j past four years in succession
! and TS. Jones Hieb School of
j Washington has dominated
i The d-foot-10-incb Russell, the
i college basketball performer of
| the year, wound up with the Bus
ing victory over his former team
mates. the Brooklyn Dodgers,
when he replaced Brooks Law
rence on the mound and hurled
creditable ball until he had to
yield under a barrage of Brook
1y n home runs Tb e Cincinnati
Releg batters themselves collected
a basketfull of home runs—includ
ing the fourth of the season b.y
George Crowe—to win 10 to fi,
Roy Oampanella socked one
of Brooklyn's home runs, .and
another, his first hit of the j
season, was propelled by little !
Sandy Amorog, Jackie Robin- j
son helped send Lawrence to :
an early shower when he clip- 1
ped him for a bases-loaded |
double in the first inning,
Harry Simpson's sacrifice fly!
brought the Kansas City Athletics !
an 8 to 7 win over the New York ;
Yankees in the first meeting of the ;
two teams in Yankee Stadium ;
Simpson, Hector Lopez and Vic
Power had key hits in the game.
Power had been in an early sea
son slum p, but show signs of
emerging from it by slashing out
three hits, including a double, and j
driving in one run. Lopez also had !
a pair of hits.
Elston Howard contributed a j
pinch single to the losing Yankee i
cause. Earlier in, the week. How-;
ard was a big man in the Yankees’ |
9-to-2 victory over the Detroit!
Tigers. H:s two singles accounted j
for three runs.
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TIP THE MITT—Lea Walla of the Pirate# boats the peg
to scora in the sixth inning of a recent game with the Brook
lyn Dodgers at Ebbete Field, Backstop Roy Campanella seem#
to have the ball on the tip of his mitt, as tardy throw comes
in from Car! Furillo. The Bums boat Pittsburgh, 5*2. but lost
a double-header the next day. (Newspress Photo).
Police Intervention With
Beiafonte Show Is Probed
WASHINGTON - (ANP)—Con
gressman Charles C, Diggs, Jr,.
iD., .Mich.) has called upon the
District of Columbia Board of
Commissioners and the Chief of
Police, Robert V. Murray, to make
a full scale investigation of the
recent, incident which took place
at Constitutional Hall,
According to reports, the
producer of “Sing Man Sing,"
starring Harry Beiafonte, was
forced by a police captain to
delete an interracial dancing
act or the entire performance
would be stopped.
Telegrams sent to city heads by
the Michigan Representative de-
IRE CAROLINIAN
doubles competition for the
past two years.
The Hornets’ big gun in singles
play is I. R. Holmes, Jr,, who
teams with Levern Harper in
doubles competition.
In addition to Easterling, tour
ney committee chairman, other
members are Harold Hunter, Wil
liston High School, Wilmington;
Robert L. Graver., Atkins High
School, Winston-Salem, and D. L.
Lash, Carver High School, Win
ston-Salem.
ton Celtic*, as did hi* teammate,
j K C, Jones, and or,# of the two
players picked from all-tar col
leges. Theo Lloyd, Maryland State.
Numercfally, the Si. Louis
Hawks led in the drafting of
dark-skinned talent. Actually,
the Hawks’ first selection was
Russell, but sent him to Bos
ton In a trade.
St, Louis’ second choice was Wil
lie (The Whale) Naulls, a brilli
ant. player for the University of
California at Los Angeles. Naulls’
teammate, Morris Taft, Michigan
State's Julius McCoy and Indiana’s
Wally Choice, were other choices
by the Hawks.
Bob Hopkins, the Gratnblfng
(La.) star and one of the
greatest collegiate scorers in
basektball annals, was among
j those acquired by Syracuse.
! The Minneapolis Millers land
' rd Elgin Baylor, an ace per
former for the University of
! Seattle.
j Superb Si Green was the first
| choice of the Rochester Royals,
! which (passed up Russell to take
! the great Duquesne star. Another i
| selection by the Royals was Carl |
! Cain, the great, rebounder of the j
; University of "lowa.
Temple’s Ha! Lear wa* s ‘
natural choice for the cham
pion Philadelphia Stars and j
their selectors made him their
first pick.
j Russell, Jones snd Cain are on
| the U S. Olympic, team and will
j not be available for pro basketball
j until December The Harlem Globe
i 7.otters are said to be willing to
; bid high for the services of Rus- ;
| sell If they succeed, it is likely |
j that Jones wdj follow his illustrl- !
| ous teammata to Abe Spaerstein’s
troupe.
manded. an investigation to deter
mine whether Captain Embrey
actually interfered with the show
because of complaints relative to
the interracial performance.
“If this report la confirm
ed,said Diggs, the police cap
tain “should be severely re
primanded and dismissed from
the police force,”
The policeman's threat to stop
the show was described by Diggs
as “the most fantastic misuse of
authority," Such action, he said, is
directly contrary to she acknow
ledged policy of the President of
the United States and officials of
tbs District Government. j
SWEET BEVENGE —Former lightweight king Kid iGavilan. ducks away from a left theewm*
by Eagkmd's Peter Waterman in a recent return match at Earl's Court Garilan gatsaed
i “revenge** when he took a 10-round decision over the young Britisher. When they mel kft
-February. Waterman won a highly-disputed decision, (News**©®# Photo).
GOSSIP OF THE MOVIE LOTS
BY HARRY LEVETTE
HOLLYWOOD (ANP) -- DE
CLARE A NATIONAL HOLIDAY!
SOUND A TRUMPET FANFARE!
This is the 30th birthday of this
column, "GOSSIP OF THE MOVIE
LOTS”—Didn't think 1 was more
then 30. did you say? Oh yes, and
had done a lot of globetrotting be
fore. settling here and obeying the
orders of ANP main office to start
a weekly package of Inside Info,
about, the movies, and the sepia ns
who were working in them, just
changing in 1926, from silents into
semi-silents and talkies.
Wan* to write a birthday
greeting to the Ol Kolyum?
Then just address it to Harry
Levette, 4286 S, Central Ave„
Los Angeles It, Calif,
Incidentally, did you read about
the book that Willie Coban, of the
Covan Dance School, is preparing
to write? Tentative title: SHOW
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WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1956
GO, NOT HARLEM" Have you
any pictures of persons and places
of the ’’good old days?’* If so, send
them to us at the school, 4is;t and
Hooper Ave., Los Angeles, because
he has delegated this chronicler
to help him with this important
history.
HAPPENED SSN C E WE
LAST MET—"TEEN AGEUS”
new singing group, made a big
hit In appearance on CBS
show last week after a special
trip here for that purpose . .
BEVERLY WRIGHT, young
Hollywood Bowl lyric soprano
“discovery,” scored on the
program staged by the Zeniths
at Orem Park, under the di
rection of the famed La 11 y
Finley JOE LUTCHER,
former hand leader and
younger brother of famous sis
ter, Nellie, opened JORDAN
RECORD SHOP. 5305 S. West-
ern Ave. Leroy Hurst is gen
eral manager of the aew firm,
which features Joe’* newest
for hi* “converted'’ saxophone
LOVELY, SHAPELY L'TANYA
GRIFFIN was hostess to a preview
party at MGM last, week for
Bhowani Junction. Included s
tnong the attractive ladies at her
party was Mrs. Count Basie
SUGAR RAY ROBINSON'S train
ing camp has been drawing large
crowds daily out at Willie OrnerA
ranch a few miles out of town,
Willie, who until it was destroyed
by fire, operated the famous Main
Street Gymnasium and has long
been a friend to colored fighters.
Many famous' ones, Joe Louis. Tig
er Flowers, George Godfrey. Hen
ry Armstrong. Baby Joe G.a ns,
Young Jack Thompson and Jack
Johnson, during his last exhibition
tour, trained at Willie's three-story
punch palace.