WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1956 FS Sports Scene IT MAY NOT MAKE SENSE TO YOU, BUT Old Pete Hogan was among the most happy people in the world at 7 o'clock last Saturday , . . It was shortly after his Thrift outfit had outscored the National Carbon Giants in « City-County League thriller. Pete could hardly contain him self "Best game we've ever play ed.” ho would shout to anyone willing to lend an ear. ''We were ready for ’em.” The manager of the Tigers, who is one of the oldest and best liked active persons in the game, was right. His team had been trying for three games. Their big moment came Saturday, and it was like n child excitedly enjoying his first Christmas. The Tigers dropped the sea son opener to their hated ri vals by a wide margin on the 7Ut of April. They then came back to lose a heartbreaker on tire ifith day of May. In the second encounter, young .Toe Black pitched a masterful no hitter for seven breathtaking innings and lost only when er rors let in the winning tally in the ninth. Pete threw Robert Morrison at the loop leaders Saturday And. with the exception of Edward Wil son and Haywood Watts, Bob had the Giants literally eating from the palm of his hands His teammates, meanwhile, were banging hits ail over the field. Pete even had words of praise for the umpire. ‘Mr. Byrd (Nel son) called a real good game,” hr said. ‘ Best game we've ever played We were ready for 'em," Pete kept saying over and over again. This week the Tigers will train their guns on the Belmont Blues, with second place at stakes. And the Pneumafil Red Sox. the only other team in the league to master National Carbon this season, will take on the Giants. A victory for Thrift and a National Carbon loss would put Pete and his Tigers on top of the world. Actually, they'd he In a two-way tie with the Car bons for first place ... ABOUT THISSA AND THATTA Kenny Powell will spend several weeks with his parents in New Ro chelle, N. Y, prior to calling out the football candidates at Second Ward High .... Jack Martin may' lose Reginald Pryor, hi.s No. 1 can didate for the quarterback post . . . Seems as if Fryer is more interest ed tft baseball than running with the pigskin . . . . Score Was 8-2: Tigers Clobber Giants In City-County Tussle By BILL JOHNSON Carolinian Sports Writer CHARLOTTE —.The Thrift Ti gers, one of the hottest teams in baseball at the moment, poured runs across the horns plate In mass production fashion here Saturday to outscore the league-leading Na tional Carbon Giants, 8-2, in a Cx- Demand! flip mm till m HALF QUARTS iiw BcS " srsaiure s? refrsshment Now! Enjoy genuine H Miller High Life || quality in popular King Size Half ;t|: On The Charlotte With “BILL” JOHNSON Roy Miller is thinking of en rolling at Smith this fall ... He and J. C. Staten would give Coach Robert Jackson the set of flank men in the CIAA West Charlotte has two opening dates on its football schedule .. . Teams interest ed in meeting the Lions should contact this column , , . We ll do the rest .... Frank Robin son, sensational outfielder with the Cincinnatti Reds, was the only Negro in the starting line up of the Alt-Star teams at Washington Tuesday because YOU didn't vote .... The traditional homecoming cel ebration at Florida A and M. Uni versity will be held the weekend of Nov 3, . . . The great quarter back. Lonnie (Tisket) Williams is enrolled in the current summer i session. . . . ; The 11)50 Orange Blossom Classic will be staged in Miami on Satur day, December ! . . . And the sec ond annual Florida Classic is slat ed for Saturday, October 27, >n Jacksonville .... Rumors have | the local commissioner refusing to | put the stamp of, approval on a | heavyweight fight between Leo ; Johnson and Chubby Wright . . . | The commissioner, they say, fig j ured a card featuring Negroes in j the top bouts would not be a good > drawing card . . Leo and Chubby were winners ! on a recent card .... Wright who j was impressive, probably will get l another fight here in the near fu | lure .... Leo, the spoiler, will | definitely be one of the headliners | on the next card here. . . , The Carolinian Is interested I in printing the standings of the. Charlotte Progsessive Junior League .... The league is sponsored by various civic and social groups around town, has youngsters between the ages of i 5 and 17 playing three games a week . , . .NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE WHETHER THE LOOP HAS PUBLICITY, OR j NOT .. . : Park troubles may cause th< j postponement of the scheduled Ci ty-County League twinbill at B-i mont tomorrow (Friday) night The league planned tn pit the Thrift Tiger? against the Belmont Blues and the Gastonia Sluggers against the National Carbon Gi ants . . , | Our hoy Charles McCullough is | home, enjoying himself after a ! treat showing in the Olympiad I Trials in California recent!v .. . . ty-County Teague headliner. It was the seventh victory In 11 loop games this season for the Ti gers: who moved un to within two games of first place. The National Carbon team has now won nine and lost two encounters, but still leads the circuit by a full game over the second-place Belmont Blues A tremendous home run by first baseman Edward Wilson set the Carbons off to a rousing start in the first inning, and a pair of singles added another tally in the second. Thrift got hot in the second when Ulton Morrison led off with a single and J. C. Fox followed with another one-blow. Cornel Fox fixed out, but Sonny Mack smashed a terrific double down the right field line to score Morrison and Fox, thus knotting the score. In the third a double by Robert fOxi Erwin and a single by Amos McDowell produced two more runs to snap the tie, giving the Tigers their initial victory over the Car bons in three games this year. Irby Watts set the pace in the 11-hit assault against two Giant hurl ms with three singles, while Mack was pounding out a double and single. Edward Wilson had a home run and single for the losers and Haywood Watts contributed a pair of singles. The. Belmont Blues crept to within a game of the top spot with a 8-4 verdict over the Charlotte Black Sox. William Davis was the hero of the victory. LAST WEEK'S RESULTS AT GASTONIA Pneumafil ..Red Sox 7 13 2 Gastonia Sluggers 3 3 4 Smith and Washington. Herron; Guthrie and Stackson. (W-Smith, 200; L-Guthrle. 0-1) AT THRIFT National Carbon 2 8 2 Thrift Bi| 2 Broadway. Crier and McCullough, Withers; Morrison and Watts. (\V ' Morrison, 3-1; 1,-Broadway, 0-11 AT CHARLOTTE BLACK SOX Belmont. 8 9 3 Black Sox 4 5 5 Stewart, Walker and Lumpkins; David, Forney and Grier (W-Da vis, 1-0, L-Stewart, 1-2) HOW THEY STAND National Carbon 9 2 Belmont g Thrift 7 4 Pneumafil , g g Black Sox 3 9 Gastonia j j-q Where They Play Saturday (July 14th > Pneumafil at National Carbon Thrift at Belmont Gastonia at Black Sox for his initial win of the season, Davis poked a home run and a single to share the leadership in the Blues’ offense against Donald Stewart and. William Walker, Charley Grier and Edward Craig ‘Rei Hoi’ psuii Reported Between Jackie Beilinson Anil League Prexy Warren Giles Out To Get’ Dodger Star? NEW YORK (ANP) There is a red hot filed going on between Warren Giles, president of the Na tional League, and Jackie Robin son. veteran Brooklyn Dodger;: st.ai according to Milton Gross of the New York Post, who last week aired the controversy in his col umn. Robinson, Gross reported, is smarting from a SSO fine slapped on him hv Giles be cause of an altercation with umpire Angie Donate!ii. it hap pened during a same between the Dodgers and the Cincin nati Reds recently. Rooimon bad grounded out on a ball which he contended hit bis toe in foul territory before roiling fair. Donatelli disagreed, and when Rob in son attempted to protest, the umpire wnuidn t let him. Jackie then became angry and threw his helmet away. As he did. Donatelli said' "You threw your behind. The rules say I got to throw you out "1 don't give a damn." Robinson countered, as he left According to Gross, however, Robinson is n«i leveling his bias! at Donatelli. He is move irked by the thought that Giles dislikes him (Jackie) anrl is out to "nib it in." And Robinson wants to know why. in baseball, a man may be fuied without redress lav another who is judge, jury and prosecutor rolled into one. He has written Commis sioner Ford Frick about the entire matter. Gross 'looted Robinson as saying' 'I vc not only written to trick to tell him what i think of Giles, but I've written to Giles to tel! him what I think of him. He’ll get his fine, hut Em going to get my chance to hear why I always get slapped down for a minor incident while others get away with a lot more and get no punish ment whatever. What is this ’ game coming to if a man ha n't a right to protest a decision in an important game and has n't the right to ask why he is being fined?" Regarding Giles. Jackie said: • "A league president should be lair and if Giles is fair then I'm an aviator and 1 don't know one wing from another. I'm just hoping 1 can get lace to face with Giles and tell him what I think of something like this." However, Gross said Robinson doubts whether Frick will do am thing about the matter because U is out of his jurisdiction Jackie just wants to get his protest on the record with the commissioner. Colts Hire Bob Hill, Star Back JACKSON, Miss. - ■ Robert • Big Bob" Hill, former Jackson State College star back has been ordered by Donald S. Kellett President of the Baltimore Colts, to report for training ai 12:00 p.m. July 19 The Colts v ill train at Western Mary land College, Westminster. Mary, land approximately 30 mixes north west of Baltimore The players will l; V e in Mac lea Hall. Six pre-season contests are slated by the Colts beginning with an intra-squad scrimmage August If The Colts open a twelve-game conference schedule September 30 against the Chicago Bears Hill, m the meantime, is working out daily in accordance with a schedule mailed to him by the Colt official and is apparently confident that, he will st ek with the '‘play for piny" team. ‘Sends’ Stadium Audience In NY NEW YORK (ANP)—A crown of 25.000 persons, the largest in the history Lewisohn Stadium, hoard Harry Bela son to in his concert here last week. Tickets for the concert week sold out a day in advance Belafonte sang » mixture of A merican Negro spirituals, West In dian folk songs, Haitian Creole and Israeli folk songs and prayers. The concert was Belafonte's first major engagement since a re cent throat operation. In addition to pitching 5-hit ball were other Belmont players who contributed heavily to the triumph. Craig drilled a home run and two singles, while Grier was hit ting a double and single. Tn the final attraction of the day, the Pneumafil Red Sox broke out of a prolonged slump with a 7-3 victory over the Gastonia Sluggers. Calvin Smith was the winning hurier, holding the Sluggers to five taps, four of which were gar nered by Manager George Craw ford and John Thompson who each came through with a pair of sale ties, Jerry Nance, with four singles j and. Herbert King with two hits j were the leading hitters for the ! Red Sox, * | :K V / ■ - N 4*. -- ' /\ s x * ’ f . L.v-'V '**>• -N . v • A BUBBLE BURSTS - The hopes of millions of sports en thusiasts. that a Negro would wear the Wimbledon tennis crown lor the first time, were dashed on an English court last week, when heavily-favored Harlem athlete Althea Gibson (above! was beaten in the quarter ftnal round by Shirley Fry of St. Petersburg. Fla. Despite the loss. Miss Gibson will get the famihar New York ticker tape treatment when she return# home. Monachs Sink Lower As Stars Hold Lead CHICAGO t'ANPi - The De troit Stars last week still lead the ; Negro American League, but the once mighty Kansas City Mo na rehs sank further into lh e league's cellar, dropping five I straight games in seven days. The Memphis Red Sox and Bir mingham Black Barons, the other 1 minis ;n the four-team loop, con- i tinned in the No. 2 and 4 positions. Figures released by the Howe i News Bureau here also showed ; some changes in the batting line up. Taking over the lead percen tagewise from B. Moore of Birmingham was R, Johnson of Detroit, with a hefty .40 i. Moore was pushed down to the No. 3 spot, with Kennedy of Hampton Pirates Open 10 Game Slate At Fayetteville HAMPTON. Va - Harry Jeffer- j son, Director of Athletics and head football coach, has announced that j Hampton institute will open its j ten-game football schedule with a j home game against Fayetteville j State Teachers' College on Septan ber 15. Other games on the Pirate sched ule are; Sep. 22, Bluefield State College at Hampton; Sep. 29, Mary land State College at Princess Anne; Oel fi. Deleware State Col- ! .xr J'.Ofc.w ' WORLD BEATER Lou Jonas of Army brocks the tape in the 400 meter finals for a new world record of 45.2, in the recent Olympic trials at Los Angeles, He clipped two-tenths a second from his old mark, set in 1955 Jim Lea of the L'SAF (hidden bv Jonas) was second, J, W. Washburn, right, waa fourth, end Charlie Jenkins of Vilianova. third. THE CAROLINIAN Kansas City moving up to No. ’ position. With an average of .398. he’ was followed by R. Washington of Memphis, who v as hitting at a .389 clip. .1 Soter of Detroit and Shade, both of Detroit, followed w ith averages of .374 and .372. There is virtually no contest in the stolen bases department. L Harris of Memphis with 21 is way ahead of his competitors. There is a close race in the pitching department with five hurlers —Robinson, Memphis, Mc- Collum, Memphis; Barnes. Bir mingham; Winston, Detroit, and Finley, Birmingham—all tied with 1000 percentages. However, Robin son and McCullom have won the most games. Each has three victor ies. lege at Dover; Oct. 13, Winston Salem Teachers’ College at Hamp ton; Oct. 20. Virginia State College at Petersburg, Oct. 27, Lincoln University at. Lincoln; Nov, 3, Howard University at Hampton (Homecoming); Nov. 10. Morgan State College at Baltimore; Nov. 22, Virginia Union University a; Hampton. All games will be played at 2 00 p.m. except the final contest wrm . is slated for 1:30 p.rn. At The Ringside I By UHAS. J. LIVINGSTON Light weights Carrying Tlx* Load One of the oddities of boxing ’ is that the little men of ru.i-.,: who. as a rule are consistently bettor fighters than their bigger contemporaries, have not been able to reap the financial harvest nor enjoy the prestige and popu larity accorded the heavyweights. This, despite the fact that the lighter divisions have produced some of the greatest fighters the ring has ever known. There is no effort here to dis credit the heavyweight class. The accomplishment, of such champ ions and ring greats like Joe Loti is Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson i Gone Tunney, Rocky Marciano/ Jack Sharkey. Harris Will;; and , scores of others clearly point to; the contribution the* heavier di vision has made to boxing. The point herein made is that although the lighter rnou ’nan.* been frequently called upon •■> carry the load they have been comparatively neglected and vir tually ignored in the publicity de partment. This is an ill which boxing must. cure. Pot if the ! i .1 game allows its middleweight, welter weights and lightweights to con tinue to go hungry, wv may soon witness a lack of talent even in these divisions. One gets a picture of the finan cial plight, of the ImhtvehTit.-; when it is considered that it would take the welterweight or light,- : weight champion about three or * four title fights to earn the same ! a mound of money that old per ; formers like “Hurricane" Jackson ; or Bob Baker would haul down • from a heavyweight champion | ship contest. This condition exists because for years now public attention has been directed to the heavy weight, ranks. Fight fan;; nursed hi the Louis-Dempsey-Marciano knockout, tradition look only to | the heavyweight ranks for action, I but fail to note that the lighter . divisions have also produced ex citing fighters and men of sock. : Men like Ray Robinson, Henry : Armstrong and Beau Jack are I splendid examples of what the lighter divisions can and do pro duce. Yet It is doubted if any of the I three ever received wages et.-m --| mensurafce to their skills or over all ability. This is a question | which promoters who na* quick j to set a S4O or SSO ringside price I for a heavyweight title fight and a S2O top for a middleweight or j welterweight, championship bout ; would do well to ponder. \ —' ' Ft, 3*BS 4-3 Qt I I II | g I oi-r* i Sunny Brook | ; | BRAND j§ j ! KENTUCKY BOURBON ' ( ;. I WHISKEY-A BLEND J 5-i t . £: «oru«■ *- ' r.'AD IIF AT HtJBDLEBS Finishing in a dead heat in the 119 meter hi oh I- r. ** are Lee Cartoun (North Carolina), bit. and ; -. Lav is (Navy) in the meat thrilling race ol the Olympic n CoHo.-v Hot even high speed pictures could w:a.-k the w ... who clocked oit the distance in 13.8 second* Sill Banning Interracial Sports How Before Senate | BATON ROUGK. La. - J mix-j 1- a between Ncgm.-s and while;- m ! ' every form imaginable irt sports ; j was hustled through a T.oui.cuna j senate Judiciary - * mn-iU-e ! and rushed to the full Stale Senate ; where' final h-c.islatiVe action ap - proving the njoasure seemc-.i at ! most a i cvl.:-?;t j The action by tin- committee ; I taken is si week < n the b;H sppn j sored by two North i.ol;isiahti law : makers, Reps T.a - . rice Gibbs of j Ouachita pa.’ish attd K. D. Gleason ■i V-\ . i-y -.s Ilowcv-r. the bill contained a provision, effective Oct. 15. j permitting the Shreveport baseball team in the Texas League to complete its season, 1 Negroes have been playing in the ’ ! ',-.es League for the past several seasons. The si; in gent measure, which e j vet) prohibits the drinking of \va • ter from the same fountain end ail i other forms of personal cor tacts, ! court throw Louisiana Slot-- uni i versity into a ditcher, by knocking i out the schools long range planes : in football and .basketball. LSU has i scheduled two games here in 1957 ! and iTAG with the University of ; Wisconsin. Wisconsin has eonsis j tent!.' carried Negro players on its 1 ; ■ ' j } j-j C Tin* bill will also affect Loyola university of New Orleans, which has also scheduled games with top basketball teams. Loyal a also end • d id segregated seating in its field-house. '! !i? bit! contains the follow ing restrictions; !. Prohibit “dancing, social functions, entertainments, ath letic training, games, sports or contests and other such activi ties involving personal and so rid contacts in which the par ticipants or contestant* are members of the white and Ne gro races.” Require segregated seating and “separate sanitary, drink ing water and other facilities for members of the white ami Negro races ... * 3. Require Negro students at tending LSD and three state colleges under court order to -;i apart from the student bo dr in a segregated aectfois at col lege sports. The measure passed the Louis; ana earlier by a vote of 71-0 The; e was no reason to believe that th; senate would vote otherwise, SUPPORT LOCAL SPORTS ACTIVITIES