PAGE FOURTEEN
J. C. CAROLINE SIGNS WITH CHICAGO BEARS
Patterson j
Decisions |
‘Hurricane’ i
TOW YORKTireless Tommy j
ffiTurricanei Jackson loss a deci- j
•ion to Floyd Patterson in n hea- j
vyweight fight, staged at Madison j
Square Carden here Friday Thr
fight was given to Patterson after
close fighting in 12 furious rounds
Although referee If ur y
’Kesiley scored bis card in fa
v«r «f Jackson, both judges
»ot«d for Patterson, a 21 5 ear
»!<3 fortnor Olympic champion,
hr * eoHd margin The Mggpst
to oongrejrsle at the
©•Mem In years war, on hand
for the ftgbi
Patterson mar set * match in
September with Archie Moore, the
fight-heavyweight champion, for
th* heavyweight title which Roc- ,
ky Marciano vacated recently.
However, nine® Pad- rrsnn broke
• bone hi his right, hand midway \
the fight, there is some question
a* to whether he will be able to
meet, Moore in September. A doc. ,
tor «ald that It would b* born 1
eight weeks to three months be
fore the young fighter would be 1
*ble to punch 'again.
The speedy fists of paHer
ten. a sharpshooter with a d.>T
rllng combination of punches,
offset the flapping blows of
the Hurricane whose '”■••• •
haastMe energy keel him In
♦he battle all the way.
The closest thing to s knock
down came in the sixth round
when Patterson, the 5 ro 1 favor
ite, flopped on the floor from *
combination of a slip and ? body
punch by Jackson. Rf f - ■ l ' s '
*ler ruled it no knockdown.
Patterson weighed m Jack- -
K>3 and one half
Judge Harold Barnes had Pat
terson out front 8-4 and judge Bert :
Grant scored for Patterson /
Kessler's score card showed a 6-5
for the Hurricane*.
Charlotte
PAL Teams
Open Play
CHARLOTTE The ChsHoHe
Progressive Athletic League open
ed its baseball campaign here
week, with Hickory r.-wv, W f '-si
Charlotte. Southside, and Firsi
Ward posting victories.
Impressive, crowds attended th f
four games played last •- k. “bl
- the PAL <■ one of
most successful campaigns.
The Hickory Grove Sluggers
outplayed the Oaklawn B> v es,
$. for their initial win of the rea
son And the West Charlotte Sena
tors, with Reginald Pryor standing
out, whipped the Double. Oak In
dians, 7-0
Pryor, s sto* with the Vte*t
Charlotte l Jons earlier this
spring, held the Indians to
three hits in pitching the vic
tory, Reginald was even more
troublesome with the bat, pol
ing a home run with two on to
give the Senators their margin
of victory.
In the other games, the South
- team outscored the Brooklyn
Dodgers in a wild 17-11 battle
which saw the Southside nine tal
ly Ifi runs ;n the first inning.
First Ward picked up an 3-2
verdict over the Cherry team
The schedule for the week of
June 15.
MONDAY
Brooklyn at Cherry
Double Oaks at Hickory Gro'-e
First Ward at Oaklawn
Southside at West Charlotte
TUESDAY
Brooklyn st Double Oaks
First Ward at. Southside
WEDNESDAY
Oaklawn at West Charlotte
Cherry at Hickory Grove
THURSDAY
First Ward at Brooklyn
Southside at Cherry
Double Oaks at. Oaklawn
West. Charlotte at Hickory Grove
Coaching Clinic
Opens At Virginia
State College
PETERSBURG. Va.--Three fa
mous athletic, coaches will Re
members of the staff of the Elev
enth Annual Coaching School held ;
at Virginia State College begin- i
•ing June 18 through the 22. it
was announced recently by college
officials. They are Ara Parseghian,
head football coach, Northwestern
University; Corner Jones, line!
cooch, Oklahoma University and i
Branch McCracken, head basket- \
bail coach, Indiana University.
At thirty-two Parseghian is the
youngest head coach in the ‘‘Big
Ten”. His undefeated 1035 team at
Miami University scored 226
points against 47 and won the Mid- j
American Championship In 1932, I
be was voted Ohio's college coach
of the year. After graduating from ;
high school in Akron, Ohio, he en- i
. listed irj, the Navy and played ser
vice football at Great Lakes. Fol- i
lowing his discharger, he entered .
iSiihi University where he com j
| ‘Sugar’ Ray Must
I Pay Off Tax Debt
NEW YORK (ANPI - Middle
! weight champion Sugar Ray and
| • ./ficials of the Internal Revenue
j Department have reportedly
1 agreed to a plan whereby Robin-
I son would pay off his tax debt by
' the end of 3956.
! The announcement was made as
; ter Robinson and Truman K. Gib
j son Jr., secretary of the Interna
tional Boxing Club and nay’s ai
torney. met with officials of the |
department.
After the parley, Gibson
announced that Pay had paid ‘
Ted Rhodes Takes Medal
In Area Golf Tournament;
Tops Field, Makes History
j CHICAGO (ANPI -~ For the
1 f. - time vn tts history, the top
representative of the Chicago Dis
! trtet in the National Open Golf
! Championship June 14-16, will be
| a Negro,
He, is Ted Rhodes, former Nash
; ville. Term caddie who seared to
great heights as a player and
I tx-acher of such outstanding ath-
I !eto? as Joe Louts, Ray Robinson
and Jackie Robinson.
Rhode- last week led a field
of Ml enuuifting for nine
berths m Hie C hicago District
sio 1 f trial-, here He shot a 36-
Cene Fullmer Also Mentioned
Bobby Boyd's Manager j
Wants Robinson Fight I
By f'harles T. Livingston
CHICAGO (Special) An iro
pre-sive TKO win over rugged Mi
lo ba’. age in the Chicago Stadium
here last Wednesday moved Chi
earns Bobby Boyd closer to the
middleweight title and strength
ened his demand for a title mat in
September.
Fighting «n even terms in
the first, five rounds, Boyd,
who now has won nine,
■-freight fights, took the play
away from Milo in the late
■■•tansas, with a salvo of blows
that left the game Savage
bloodv and helpless at 27 sec
onds of Dip 10th round. He
Tlamp’ Sues
Bus Company
For 3 Million i
' '
NEW YORK CANP) Band
leader Lionel Hampton, his wife
' and 27 members of his band theat
i rical troupe have filed a $3,216,-
| 736 negligence suit in federal
; court as a result of a bus accident
j in New Mexico in 1955.
The defendants named were the
I Charter Coach Corporation of
| Newark and the Firestone Rubber
| Company.
Hampton had chartered thp bus !
to tour the country. On Oct. 1, j
. 1955, the bus wont off the highway j
| near Socorro, N. M., after a front j
: tire had blown out. The plaintiffs !
are suing for injuries, loss of earn- |
ings and damage to musical inst.ru- j
ments and theatrical equipment, j
Ethiopia To
Play Football
In Russia
ADDIS ABABA < ANP' The
Soviet Football Federation issued
an invitation to Ethiopia to send
her national football team to Rus
sia. The Ethiopian delegation eon- j
| sisting of 18 players and four o/fi- j
i trial,- left Wednesday for Moscow |
byway of Athens, Greece and Bel- !
grade. A Soviet plane will pick j
then- up m Belgrade and fly them
to Moscow.
All expenses are being paid by j
the Soviet Federation Ethiopia!
and Russia have close diplomatic j
relations. Russia maintains an ern- j
bassyin Ethiopia which is the lar- j
diplomatic staff kept by any!
other nation. She also supports a !
i large hospital in Addis Ababa !
j staffed with many Russian physi- j
| cans.
peted in football, basketball and i
baseball.
“Money isn’t everything, j
but it helps until everything
«mes along.* i
I *
the government a, ''substantial
amount” of his $90,708 purse
from the Ist Bobo Olson fight.
The government had attached
Ray’s purse following the fight,
in which Robinson successfully
defended his newly-won mid
dleweight title against the man
from whom he won It last
Dec, 9.
The. government says Robinson j
owes back income taxes for the |
periods 1944 through 1949 and 19-
59.
36-72 round over the. difficult j
Medina!) Country Club green,
and a 68 over the par 70 No
1 layout of 6,563 yards, for a ;
total of 110. He played over a I
total of 6,359 yards for the
double 36 figures.
Rhodes' nifty 340 won him the
District's qualifying medal and as
sures him a trip to Rochester. N.
Y for the national meet. He is the
first of his race ever to win the
area's qualifying medal
Ted's closest competitor was Bill j
Ogden, North Shore, who was on®
stroke behind with 141
| dropped Savage twice with *
flurry of lefts and rights he
fore Referee Joe White step
ped ir> and halted the bout
Boyd's hand was hardly raised
| in token of victory, before his
j manager Bernard Glickman began
i clamoring for a title bout with
i Ray Robinson in September, Boyd j
I also demanded the bout,
| In his dressing room following j
j the fight, he divided his interview i
| with reporters by discussin first ;
; Savage then Robinson.
“We want Robinson,” be
Insisted. “Robinson is a very
good boxer, but the better the :
boxer, the better I fight. I feel
1 ran handle him,"
Asked if he feels he Is ready
for Robinson, he replied: “Yes,
Robinson or Fullmer. One or i
the. other.”
Glickman was louder and per- j
j sistent in his demands.
“We don't care who we fight.
• W.-.- can beat anybody (middle- j
j weight) anyway, including Rob -1
j inson, ' he boasted. But he made it |
| clear that he believes Bobby!
| should have first crack at the mid- j
i dleweight title.
j T - ;
Althea Favored To Capture
Singles Title At Wimbledon
By BUI Brower for ANP
This month when the famed
Wimbledon tennis tournament
opens in England, a 28-year-oki
woman who started playing the
game on the streets of Harlem will
he the favorite to capture the fe
male singles title.
Grabbing the coveted honor
would be quite an accomplish
ment for Althea Gibson from
the good old V, S. A. And it
would be another of those in
spirational climaxes to a
sports story in which democ
racy triumphs.
Last week. Miss Gibson won
her fourteenth tournament, on
an International tour. She won
the Surrey County lawn tennis
championship at Surbiton,
England,
But the week before, the long
legged Althea reached the high
point of her career, which, inci
dentally, has had ups and downs,
by overpowering Great Britain's
Angela Mortimer, 6-0, 12-10, to
win the French women's singles
title at Paris.
. .Until their Paris meeting. Miss
Gibson, in her globe-circling jaunt,
had not been able to conquer An
gela Mortimer on the tennis court.
Her triumph also marked the first
major singles tennis title that she
had ever won.
To many of us Althea’s story is
familiar. At the age of 20, she was
dominating Negro women tennis
competition. She was looking for
new worlds to conquer and that
meant the United States Lawn
Tennis Association tourneys. Hith
erto, of course, players in USLTA
sanctioned events were all white.
But In I9SO, Althea got her
chance. And she gave Louise
Brough, then National cham
pion, the fright of her tennis
life before yielding to greater
experience. Althea continued
to play in big tournaments
here and abroad. Although she
never brought home the bacon
of a major championship, she j
was a competitor to be reek- i
®ned with iafi by 1522 aise i
the seventh rsnklMr i
llmfr 1 i'/fi 11 ■
WILT "THE STILT" VISITS
A&T COLLEGE—WiIt The Stilt
Chamberlain. right, freshman
basketball sensation at the Uni- ;
versity of Kansas at Lawrence,
stopped off at A«S:T College re- I
eeiitly to visit with a few of
bis Philadelphia chums there. ;
Strong Cl A A Track
Contingent Goes West
BAKERSFIELD. Calif. The
Greater Bakersfield Chamber of i
Commerce has rolled out the wel- |
come mat for the CIAA’s dazzling j
track stars from Morgan State, N.;
C. College at Durham, and Win- !
ston Salem (NO Teachers College !
A new one and one. half million ■
dollar Memorial Stadium adjoining j
Bakersfield College will be the!
scene of the 1956 USA Outdoor j
Track and Field Championship? j
expected to attract the highly tout- j
ed Easterners here on June 22 and i
June 23. Even the weather ha?
been predicted for the time: 94.1
degrees, June 22 and 92.2 degrees
June 23. Some 12,000 fans from
Los Angeles alone may attend,
Californians are eager to see
more of Morgan's sensations!
high junipers Boh Barksdale
and George Dennis and the
Bears’ speedy mile relay spe
cialists I,inwood Morton, Bob
Gordon. Ed Waters and Ken
Kave. The feats of Elias Gil
bert, the young Winston Salem
timber topper, have also at
tracted rave notices out here, i
player in the nation.
For a couple of years, after fin
ishing her college work at Florida
A & ill at Tallahassee, Miss Gibson
was on the faculty of Lincoln Uni ■
versify at Jefferson City, Mo. !
where she taught physical educa- j
tion and coached the men’s tennis |
WireorMH weiitfsrtn met-wan .... . _ ...
EXPERT TENNIS TIPS Christine Truman, 15, right, who
recently won her first international singles tennis match at
| Surrey. England, listens to words of wisdom from American
net star Althea Gibc-on- who capped a victorious European
tour by winning the women’s singles title in the .French charm
j pionships. Miss Gibson vme. practising for a match at Surrey
| wh«B sb* me! Christine (N© wrorest Photo)
THE CAROLINIAN
Chamberlain, who stands seven
feet even, almost dwarfs Aggie
varsity men, Joe Howell, 6-even;
; Charlie Harrison, 6-7 and Vinson
Miller, 6-6 Ail are graduates of
Philadelphia High Schools. Mil
' lei is Chamberlain's !nrnt?r
| teammate.
The NCC contingent Including
Die great lee Calhoun, hurd
ler extraordinary, and team
mate Charles McCullough, high
jumper, are already familiar
i in this area,
Some 45 hotels and motels with
I over 4,000 air-conditioned rooms
priced at. virtually any level you
I can. mention are going on a first-
I come-first served basis. Roland
i Woodruff, Bakersfield attorney, is
! general chairman for this yean
i AAU Track and Field meet.
Tickets are being sold for a spe
cial $3.50 on a combination for the
two nights or $2.50 per night for
single night tickets.
As for Memorial Stadium, it ac
comodates 16,539 persons, has 10
full running track lanes around
curves, and 280 1,500 watt flood
lights. The City of Bakersfield also
claims to have. 139,846 of the “most
hospitable people in the US”.
The CIAA stars were scheduled
to participate at the NAIA champ
ionship? at San Diego on June 6
and at. the NCAA Championships
at Berkeley on June 15 and 16
team.
j The U. S. State Department.
| which has found tan athletes use- j
; ful as traveling showcases of:
; American democracy, sent. Althea
: on a goodwill tour last fall That j
j was a break both for Althea and
l the .State Department.
Former U. Os iif’nois Great
(Reports To Bears in July
CHICAGO (ANP) The Chica
! go Bears announced here last week
i J. C. Caroline, former gridiron |
I star at the University of Illinois. |
j has signed * contract to play with !
I the National Football League club
| in 1956. Caroline will make hia i
I first appearance with the Bears in I
! the 11th annual Armed Forces
1 Benefit game at Soldier field here i
i September 21, when the Chics- j
j go,ms take on the Cleveland J
Browns.
In signing with the Rpur*
i Caroline ended a stint in the
| Canadian Football League,
during which he played for the
Toronto Argonauts and Mon
treal Alotiettes,
| Lining Up New Business:
Bosses Os Famed Magicians
Find Little Time For Rest
I SAND SPRINGS, Okla.-~Thts u 1
I the place where Marques Haynes. 1
I co-owner of the Harlem Magicians. :
I makes his home, and where he is !
I expected to rest, until the 1936-57 ;
I basketball season rolls around.
I But. according to a recent press 1
release, there will be hardly any |
vest, for Haynes, who along with i
co-owner “Goose" Tatum is busy !
i at work lining up business which j
will keep the Magicians busy sii \
through the winter and next i
spring.
At last report Haynes and i
! Tatum were busy as proverbi
j a) bees: (3) planning for next
season, and (2) recounting and
reappraising events of last sea
son.
They totaled up the year's
MOOR?. RET APIS TITLE Light heavyweight champion Archie Moore, loft, lands a Song
0 | left to ihe chin of Yolanda Pompey, of Trinidad, during the ninth round of their recent title
boui crt London's Harr in gay arena. Behind on poirtls for eight round?,, and obviously weak
fned h-oo a weight-reducing bout, Moore opened up on Pompey in the ninth, and scored a
TKO in the tenth The cruiser weight long will next face the winner of the Hurricane Jack*
son--Floyd Patterson elimination, for the world s heavyweight crown- (Now sprees Photo)
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Caroline, two years ago, was 1
(he talk of the football world.
A smart, shifty halfback with
tremendous speed, he broke
one record after another and
set the college campuses on
fire, tie was named the most
i valuable player of, the Illinois
squad in 1954. and elected eap
♦aln for the following year
He left the University of Illinois
last year, after being ruled scho- j
lastically ineligible to play with
the team in 1955 He was not per
mitted to play in the NFL, how,
ever, because he was then techni
cally still a collegiate. Tberefr.ro
! be played in Canada,
1 basketball activities and came
tip with tbeje Interesting fig
ures:
The Magicians played 179
| games in a season extending
from Oct 3 1956 to April 3.
1956. They won 'em ail!
The court stars, who combine
| comedy with sharp shooting, tra
j veled 67.000 miles. They played in
; 45 states excepting only Vermont,
i New- Hampshire and Arizona,
j Fans evehywhere turned out to
| nee the team, which headlines Ta
tum as the “Clown Prince of Bas
ketball’',and Haynes as the World’s
Greatest Dribbler "
Meanwhile, a report issued by
Haynes on the activities of other
members during the off season
j Caroline had a fabulous career
| at the Illinois institution. Name.*
I All-American in his sophomore
j .year, ho shattered 'all Illini rec
j ords for total of fens*, and also
i broke the Western Conference
! rushing mark
He rolled up a lota! of 1,67(1
yards in rushing, to better by
some 400 yards the long-stand
ing rerord established by Har
old ; tied" Grange.
\ Caroline was hampered by ia
j juries as a college junior last, year
! •!- C. was selected by the NFL
| Bears *t a player selection meet
-1 tne last. January. He will report to
; the Rears in July
shows that the team is mad* up
j of a group of serious minded men
; with an eye for the future Others
; are busy at. other athletic pur-
I suits.
Two good examples of the di
versity of talent, of Magicians'
■ are.
Boyd Buie, the one. armed
star, who Is currently opera!
ing », gasoline -service station
In Los Angeles, and Van Phil
lips, a promising player from
Arkansas, who is playing
baseball with the Detroit Stars
of the Negro American Lea
gue
Most of the players are
working although, as Tatum
i puts it, they were supposed to
rest up for next season.