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STOP! ' ,; who led She motor leagues in stolen
bases last vc c . ?1. C. S. Strong of tbs Fhoenix. Am. police
department ■ ; '‘c -a and Strong wore lust downing around
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Hsar Althea nTo Wed; I
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MONTCLAIR
fhea Gibsor- U.- :
■who left the
York to gain r
hence a? a t- nn
was reported s> i ■
iff. her quest e *
bledon tenns" ci. • ;
come the bride of V.
the brother of IT
an old friend of ',h
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VISION OF Ht' ’IS —1 f his injured
*,*• I« Improving for • i . mdv Saddler
lUtt .hopefully into a , ~,1.-1 m New
lark City, March - t ; 0 v a <.<.l- his title
••i < ’< rlrs Dumas j
” . . ;vi- trophy was j
;!? Roy L. Losgins, •
ii! ' f mi.hy wiiich was |
i : irlie Dumas, the:
•.(. 1 ,i7-foot high jumper.
Mono; 1 a; the’ most out standing
■ ■ hl> f,p of the year, j
r i ,•: tii« club's first
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isored Weekly
To Continue
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’ : , . ! ■ sinc-r the an
r .■ * .j '.-oncoming >
.Ci the regular
- :V •kc Gos I3C bouts
i :;:.i;:..iv nr.; Friday even*
■ r c.-.iv-.-k after carefully
• ■ Av)vaster J. Ry
: rod the fol
t under which we
• - Ernst bell applies
' ,» or title bouts
I. will not
c .. mi litrirniree of the
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i rt'ir v nig ht non
r a r-Robinson Middle
v Inch has been
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no comment to
a i -j.iiiiy reported
.ht lie altar-bound
' • r jo.n mg plans for I
! o i cd to support i
as Althea j
■ iai’Hvi! that she j
good rest from
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’ plans to cam
•I Jen and per
u omen * singles
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| oiy of the late pioneer Hollywood j|
i studio catering company presi*
j dent.
Mr. Loggins' two sons, Roy, Jr., |
| present company manager, and
j Arthur, assisted in making the
| presentation to Dumas, currently
enrolled as a student at the Uru
i versity of Southern California.
ular Wednesday and Friday
night telecasts comprise ap
proximattrty 100 shows annual
)y which are not Involved In
the litigation, and the court's
decision is concerned with the
six or eight championship
bouts held in this country each
year.
Lester Malitz. vice president of
the. Lee Burnett Co., producer of
the Wednesday night non-title
bouts, advised Mr. Norris today
that he transmitted a telegram to
the American Broadcasting Co,
stating that, the exising yearly tel
evision rights agreement does not
involve title bouts can therefore
be continued. Two weeks ago the
Gillette Co., extended its Friday
night non-title series for two ad
ditional years.
The basic allotment for peanuts
in 1957 will be the same as last
year ■■ 168,51 S acres for North
Carolina.
Interviewed at the Darbcn home ;
by reporter Samuel ,A. Haynes of !
the Baltimore A fro-America, Miss |
Gibson refused to discuss the ru- j
mored wedding, but talked freely j
about her tennis. Asked about her j
future plans, she commented, “All :
: ' plan.to do is rest and prepare for ;
the 1957 Wimbledon matches."
Sitting beside her as she
spokp, was her purported hus
band, William, a quiet sand
some aviation plant employee.
If the proposed wedding take:
place as reported, Miss Gibson 1
would be the second top tennis stai
to v.-ed in' recent weeks. Shirley
Fry. her tennis nemesis, wedded in
I Australia recently.
when partial' blindness. ftit.«md in an auto accident. tHro:>! -n.* } 1
his sight, has been undergoing treatment at the hospital Reports •
indicate that it healing continues as it is presently, he may b< able i
to return to boxing. I UNITED I* HESS PHOTO). 1
THE CAROLINIAN
MAN IN THE MIDDLE Vinnie Cohen, the star Syracuse forward, dribbles away from Connecti
cut's Boh Osborne ill) and Bill Schmidt (40) as teammate Gary Clark (right) plays hands off during
the opener of a triple header kicking off the NCAA Eastern Regional*, March 12. Two other Grange
men seem rooted to (hr Madison Square, Garden boards in background. U NITED PRESS PHOTO).
Jackie Robinson To Be Main Speaker
At Dinner Honoring Abe Saperstein
CHICAGO (AMP)—Forme; base- ,
ball star Jackie Robinson will be j
! the main speaker at. a kick off” j
dinner for the "All Chicago Salute
to Abe Saperstein and the City of
Hope Medical Center.” Sponsored
by a committee under the chair
manship of Judge Fred “Duke”
Slater, the dinner will take place
Wednesday evening, March 27. at :
Parkway Ballroom
The City of Hope, at Duarte,
Calif., has been one of Robin
son’s favorite charities since tie
was a football star at UCLA
The ex-Brooklyn Dodger will
fly in especially for the “kick
off” dinner from New A'ork.
where he is vice-president in
charge of personnel for the
Chock-Fu H-Of-Nuts Company.
Other leaders on Slater’s com- J
mittee include Alderman Ralph j
Metcalfe, Jesse Owens, Truman ■
Gibson, Sr. Aaron Payne. Dr Wil- |
liarn J. Ziegler. Dr. H. W That- j
cher. Dr. T K. Lawless, Wendell !
Smith and George Harris.
The dinner »t. (he Parkway ball- ;
room will seek to spark support !
for the 'All Chicago salute" honor
ing Saperstein. founder of the Mar- >
i !em Globetrotters, to be held in the I
| Grand Ballroom of the Hotel Shoe- j
man, Tuesday evening, April 23. j
More than 1200 civic and sports j
leaders will attend.
All proceeds from this testimon
| ial dinner will be donated to dedi
cate the Abe Saperstein Interna-
I tional Hall at the City of Hope ■
which serves the public, regard bus
|of race, color or creed The hall
! will serve the medical center's pa
j dents, most of whom are being
| treated for cancer, tuberculosis
I neart disease, and leukemia.
The hall also will contain
mementos and citations from
each of 58 countries in which
Sapersipir' and the Hat if m
Globetrotters have appeared as
‘America's unofficial ambassa
dors of good will." Some of the
mementos will hr ori display 3t
the Park wav Ballroom for the !
i
I soufhsidc dinner, I
! Primarily known for his basket
i ball enterprises. Saperstein also
has been active in baseball. For
many years he owned the Chicago
Tan Player Puts
Adrain In Meet
ADRIAN, MICH. -(ANP> Henry (
Hughes, 6-4 forward v. ho holds |
every Adrian College basketball j
(scoring record, was the sparkplug j
who led the small Michigan col-
J lege to a berth in the NAIA tour
ney now under way in Kansas
I City, Mo.
The senior forward from Ink
ster, Mich., has totaled 420
points in 19 games for a 22.1
average. He also is tram lead
er in defensive rebounds
“f don’t know what we would
Coach Pleased
With Football
Practise In Fla.
TALLAHASSEE "We are sa
tisfed with the showing of the boys,
and 1 do think we accomplished
what vc were trying to acum
plish.” declared Coach Jake Gai
ther of the Florida A and M Uni
versity Rattlers
Gaither was leaving the
field after watching his prize
quarterback, Janies Williams. |
Fort Lauderdale, spark the
Whiles to a 30 to 6 victory. !he
game concluded a 20 day
spring session at A and "'l.
i Although William,*. \\ as r key
i figure in the Rattlers try for na
tional honors last season, and -cor- >
cd one touchdown and pass for a
notber in the spring so inure::.", h
was not the pla.ve-r tsU cd about
during practice this •? Bonny
Stokes, a freshman from. Jar:;-•••••- ;
ville, hi: been the talk of the Rat
I lev., spring c.r p Slot.:- is a j
i"inh'-thrrat quarterback v- ho ;
! stands six-‘>ne and », ah- ton
“He is an < ye."-1 ;• j :
runner, punt ', and pas.v-1 can- ,
it ented OadhT -bout Afo!---
Stokes kicked on e point and
looked good in hr- fi ,t criiu- ,
mage session with tb • rfattlt»c»
Al ( h:*vls seontrd " t v
early in the fb-d pc ''>-1 In
Stive Ihe It biles an >-,.)> ; (n
fi lead. sTokes kick front place,
merit was good Kmiimip j
Lampbin. frr qu-rler
hark faked (o hv (est and oq!
hack ttuoi’ch taeMe ar>d went
;trt yards tu pul Ihe Grenrtes
hack til Ihe [ r.|»< <v..»n.
Barker failed an attempt In
run the evt>-;i point and the
Greenies trailed 7 to 6
Willium* **»'>!' to if • »i> with
rif’e-likn passes Me i-ni>-.pl ir| !
97 yurrirrr to I,< cov fiord' - to -<•!
tin the second Whit** TO The
Whites moved fi thp one. but ;i !
perns it y placed the ball back hi Ike
six Williams went over from the
dx and A! Verecn ran the con*
verr-nn William* toßs«ii to Thomas
Marshall for the fm:d Tally of ih*
game The try fro the PAT failed.
Final srore: ’.V - 70. G * 6
Backs singled nut for nut;vUndirvg
perfomtacncc were SfrAos. Wil
liams, Chavis. Vercen, Lampkins.
Hardee, MarOu’.l! T’orlcer Clstcnce
Roysfot and Karl Young. Stalwarts
on the lit • itidudi- d Chnvlfk* Hines,
Willie Taylcr, Zeke Burrows, Bill
Johnson Vernon Wilder, and
Jamas Hid
Since the national advertising
j nsropaig!' for wool wes launched
i wo years ago, per capita consumn* J
j (ton of fippurel wool In the U S
' has Increased 12 per cent Total
j mill consumption of apparel wool j
■ is up 17 per cent. *
f American Giants in the Negro
i Baseball League. While' a member
| ->f slv’ Cleveland Indians organtza
i 'ion, he signed Larry Doby as the
I first Negro player in the American
I League,
, hare done without him." say*
| Coach Stan Alabeek "He does
everything welt.”
Hughes has scored 1,803 points
■ in four seasons and missed one
j semester because of scholastic dtf-
I Realties Against Detroit Tech in j
! 1955, he set an Adrian single game >
| mark with 50 points.
Another tan player on the Adrian
j team is Leon Harper, who also is j
i a sharpshooting forward.
WilfGrea
Os Ellswo
CHICAGO iANP)— Ellsworth j
• fSpider) Webb spun his webb a ]
J little wider and firmer here last i
j Wednesday night,
| The Willowy Chicagoan chalked j
| up his 19th straight victory, beat- j
irg eager but outclassed Wilf |
Greaves, a last-minute replacement,
for Handy Sandy, in 10 rounds be- j
fore 1,188 paying customers in the
Chicago Stadium.
Webb, ranked No. 3 among
Ring Magazine, was to have
fought Sandy, who recently ex
tended Joe Giardello, in an at
tempt to strengthen his claim
for a title bout. As it turned
out, however, Sandy hurt his
hand in training and Greaves
was substituted. And he was
no match foi the clever, sharp
shooting Webb,
from the first through the 10th :
■ und, Webb beat a steady (atoo on ;
j\his Canadian opponent, stabbing
him with punishing .jabs and iar
, ting hooks to the bead and body
; He won ns he pleased, and was
ebailengod only once during tbs I
! encpHPto! That was in the eighth j
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Autograph
NEW YORK r.ANPt—Jackie Rob
inson's first week as vice president
of the Chock Full of O'Nut.e cos
-1 fee restaurant company was r
j unique one,
I Instead of being permitted to set
| tie do\v«s quietly to his new rote
of a top executive, the e*.Dodger
alar was beseiged by autograph
seekers who urged him to put his
"John Hancock" on paper napkins
and envelopes as he visited the
chain's restaurant* in New York.
Brooklyn and Newark.
Although Rnbmson is called
"Jackie" by the customers and
Mr. Robinson” by company em*
ply ores, ' he is equally admired by
both fans and employees Mean
while, the company president sent
| Robinson off to a flying start in j
! his first week on the job.
i William Black, wrote a memo
| to the ! .000 Chock Full O'Nuts em
l plo.vcck describing Jackie to be “as
| honest, us straight-froni-the-shoul- |
j der a guy as ymj'v° ev-t known," j
and added: "You will find in him !
i the epitome of fair play Pica re put I
j your trust in him. He will not faii J
I you.” i
WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 195?
Baseball Openers,*
Graining Gets Double
Win Over Wiley College
R¥ COLLIE J NICHOLSON
GRAMBLING, La. (Special)
Righthander Georg" Johnson qual
ified as a genuine rally-stopper
here Saturday as Grambling op
ened its baseball season with two
victories over Wiley College.
The Tigers edged the Wildcats
6-5 in the opener and defeated ;
Coach Forrest Geliy’s boys 5-2 in
the nightcap.
Johnson, a reliefer with ex
ceptional control and a good as
sortment of pitches, was the big
gun in the first game. He en
tered the eontest in the third
inning on the short end of a 5-0
seore and allowed only two hits
in the four frames he worked.
-Hollywood** "Icng.” Oarft Gcb’.a ■'m
senpt o! "Bond at Angels," on location in Baton Rouge, La., a*
two youngsters who appear ccs tiros in the Warner Bros, i \
look on with interest the WamsrColar drama, which also stare
Sidney Peltier, will mark the screen debut of model Cur*- »
Drake, iormer love interest o l crooner Billy Ecksime. (Newoorew*
Photo).
tves !s 19th Victim
rth (Spi der) Webb
] when Ellsworth was caught off i
j guard and got tagged with an over- j
I hand right which blooded his nos#, j
| However, throughout most of the :
j fight,. Greaves was on the receiv- j
i mg end.
The decision was a fore- j
gone conclusion;;. It was unani
mous. Referee Frank Sikera
voted 19- Li. and Judges L, L.
Frankel and Frank McManur
bad it 48-41 and 50-41 respect
ively. Th latter gave every
round to Webb. i
Mit Campbell Equals Indoor
Hurdle Record; Murohison Wins
MILWAUKEE (AND Milt j
! Campbell, Olympic Decathlon j
champion, turned in another bn!-,
iiont performance here Inst week, |
equalling the world indoor record
for the 50-yard high hurdles with
|y clocking of 6.1 seconds. Ira Mur-
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■urMif 0131 fiats n;r.; : • .i‘R <an bunko wki&kiv. 86 noof tan MtiKimu. onhm.
His pitching gave teammate; ad
ditional time to com .-nt ato v i
their hitting and the locals si.:,;
a complete turn-about.
Grambling used a ivo pi. - '•
lop by Levi Washington Uu •’
high, fluffy singles, two walks r.:vi
a pair of errors to push across ali
I its runs in the fifth inning.
Wiley plated all its markers
in a big third stanza on a hom
er by liihdte Ingiain, a triple
by Charles Collins and a trio
of run-prndiicinir singles.
The Tigers grabbed a one-step
lump on Wiley in the second game
and won without too much effort.
Louis Wiggins’ fourth-inning bom*
; cr did most of the damag'-
/
Although, O -caves was a ■-
placement in the nationally f!
vised fight, the victory boo,hod
Webb’s stock, since Wilf gave
champion Gene Fullmer a rca)
scare tn a 10-rounder recent i,
Fullmer goes into training shortly
| for his title encore with the dr
i posed Sugar Robinson, and Webb
hopes to challenge the winner of
that bout foi the championship
Webb’s now boasts a record of 20
wins in 21 pro fights, 12 by knock
I outs.
I chr-on, another tan speedster, also
j turned in a creditable performance
I Hinnii'g the 50-yard dash in 5.3
I seconds
! Also winning was Arme Sowell.
I the University of Pittsburgh's great
) middle distance runner