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WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1957 Fine Crop Os Tan Prospects j Reported In Braves’ League MILWAUKEE, Wis. < A.NP' .... IThe Milwaukee Braves have 15 tan players in their minor league organization—and two of them fre considered surefire major league caliber. One of them—Juan Pizar ro, 19-year-oid Puerto Rican who has won ,13 games in hi* organized baseball debut last season—is being given elose The Cubs And Ernie Banks (Editor's note: This i« »- bother in the series of stories on major league teams with tan players.) , CHICAGO I'ANPi— The Chi cago Cubs w. n- a dismal last place i in the 5958 pennant race. This is r (he time of year for optimism and the Cubs’ front, office and field lea dership which underwent a com plete shake-up last fall, are opti mistic. There can he no discussion of the team's hopes without it pivot lug about Ernie Banks. Banks suf fered an arm and hand injury last season and tailed off during the final third of the campaign. Before he was hurt, Erttir bad batted .387 in 106 games, bit 25 home runs and drove iri 69 tallies. After the injury, he hatted only .267, belted only Chicago Beats New York In Gloves Bouts As Two Cities 9 Bronze B oxers Dominate ( HIC ago (ANP i Wit!} j bronze boxers from the two cities j dominating the spotlight, Chicago j defeated New York, seven bouts to j one, in the 30th annual Inter-city ! Golden Gloves tournament in the ! f Chicago Stadium last Wednesday ! night. While Chicago, with one of the j strongest teams ever assembled in j the history of the event, virtually j swept all the contests, the tourna- i merit was unique i/i that only one white competitor was among the 16 contestants vying for the eight divi sion titles. He was Pat Moore, and i be was filling in for .1 mmy Jack- 1 son, another tan bolt •. who was J id However, he \v outclassed by tan .Albert Pell, New York ban ♦im . —ht champion and 1956 AAU rhnrmv n who scored an impres- i eivp h -vision in the seventh of the eight-bout card. The young fighters, all of whom reached Intercity com- j petition by winning In cham pionship tournaments in the two fighting areas, put on a' good show for the 6,646 ring side patrons and millions others who viewed some of the bouts on coast-to-coast television via the American Broadcasting Company’s network. Several of them showed signs of develop ing into future top fightrrs, ■ and one, Ernest Terrell, 17- year old High School student, with the deadly instinct and prowess of a profession'll. Some experts even predict that Ihe "all-action" Terrell is headed for a future professional title. He is termed another "Hurricane" Jack son, but with much more ring class. He is a light-heavyweight. Terrell stromed Eddie Bramlett, "! and New York sub-novice cham pion, from bell to bell to win an unanimous decision, However. Bramlett, game to the core, refused to go down under the unrelenting attack. But the best fight on the card, :*- -i; '- ■ :^(^.'~.ys~,^i}^^ ,^>^.{r - T ~ , -f *| : '■<;^^.7'/!^-^Y»e pi 'ff.-y^M |: '>v .s 5; -' : A' -»^aMWSM|jß|fc -,' -j> ••’•' L^£fe^^aL.^aawl;'... ,< -■ jPS- ' ?3? >t' V \.s^^V'^"'v'v '''-^'vi'wl^.:,’^^^..ss&< -f If ~'tiw3i.l '«H§ffls^ > “' : jS*P $ |||| J ‘ $ sWk 'SkSu* iR f--V yjf&> w - >,. ’'irtySn • fWKKKw - Ip '^pHMHHHHRHBHHBH^r A CRYING SHAME A dream ends bard for the bas ketball team of Kwdaie High of Kansas City, Kansas, as the entire squad slumps crying on the bench after losing ther final gam* of the Kansas inspection at the Braves’ 5; training base a t Brandcnton e i Fla. i I The other v, ith the can’t-raiss r | label is Lee Haves, a lefthand | hitting outfield. Maye. with evens- I Ville, Inch, of the Three-Eye Lea gue la.' f year, batted .330 and hit j 24 home runs. He has been pro ! moted to Wichita of the Ameri ! can Association for the coming three homers and drove In 16 Kills. The slender shortstop's 1936 re cord of .297 at th plate was higher than his .290 mark of the previous season. But there war, a big dif ference otherwise, in his second full season in the majors, Banks clouted 44 homers, a record for shortstops, fie also hit. five homo rues with the basts loaded. No one had ever done that b-. fore in the entire history of baseball. He drove ! in 1)7 runs. With Banks operating on ail ry- j linders. the Cubs’ chances, of j i course, will improve. But Manager | Bob Schoffing also is counting on ’ his keystone mate, Gene Baker for j a fine season. Baker’s name was freely bandied ! about in trade talk during the win- I ter months. No deal materialized, j however, and he and Banks arc ! I from the standpoint of all-out-ac- , tion, involved Tommy Reynolds, St. ; j Louisan representing Chicago, and j | Thomas Smith, New York bantam- j weight champion. Although Tommy | scored two knockdowns. Smith put j up a good scrap and opened a cut j over bis opponent's left eye. j Joe Shaw, who repres nt d the i United States in the 1956 Olympic, j scored the most convincing win for | Chicago. He electrified the crowd with a quickie knockout over James Chavis of the Eastern squad in 1:10 of the first round. He won ! the welterweight title. in other bouts. Brown Mr- I Ghee. Chicago, beat Norman Smith, New Yyork, in a good scrap for the featherweight title. Billy Braggs took the 3 Studios To Film Stories | With Strong Racial Themes NEW YORK —(ANP)— Three | major studios have turned their j facilities to the making into film ! three important novels dealing j with strong racial themes. First ; Twentieth Century Fox brought "Island in the Sun’’ which has been completed and will be released a round July Much has been writ ten about the co-starring of Doro thy Dandridge and Harry Bela fonte, both playing opposite white stars - their love interest, but as to be expected, all the tender warm scenes in the famous Waugh book bave been emasculated or minimiz ed. Robert Rtiark's “Something of Value” a cruel, harsh story of the Mau Mali uprising in A frica is being worked over by Metro Goldwyn Mayer. It is going to be highly interesting to see what they do with this widely discussed, controver sial book, especially thp Mau Class AA basketball champ ionship in the Wichita Uni versity fieldhouse. Center Boh Brown (34) breaks down o penly, as Dave W'oolerv iser- I ond from left) sheds his tears, under a towel. The team, from | season. j The list of tan Braves in (he i minors include: Winston Brown, a right handed Panamanian pitcher with Austin, Texas League: outfielders Hut Johnson and Leonard Williams, with To peka, Ivans., of the Western League; Shorts ton Bill Lucas and Outfielder Nat Peeples, with Corpus Christ!, Tex., of j due again to form one of the best. ! middle diamond duos in the game. Baker batted .258 in 1956, 10 points below bis .168 mark the previous season. He Is a good bet to improve on his showing last season. In fact, be is striving to regain the eminence that earned him a place on the 1954 National Lea- i gne All-Star team in tits rookie year in 1954, There is no question about his I field ms He is considered the Cubs’ \ i top second baseman in the last j j two decades In ISSS, he led the j ! National League’s second sackers l | in total chances. | Center/ield has beer. 3 weak spot j | if', the Cubs’ lineup for years. I That’s why :he club wanted so had j ly to trade Baker for a player of j the caliber of Richie Ash burn of - Uv Philadelphia Phillies. lightweight title by outsenring Ernest McClendon rallied to Vincent Shonio, New York: heat william Pickett, New i ! York, for the middleweight title, and Joe Hemphill pound ed out a decision over ponder ous Lee Williams, New York. Elimination tournaments leading up to the Intercity contests were held in cities from coast to coast. The Chicago a-ca stretches from California to Ohio and from Min nesota to Texas, while the New York area ranges from New Eng land to Florida and westward to Pittsburgh. The Intercity tournament was I sponsored jointly by the Chicago Tribune Charities, Inc. and the New York Welfare Association I Mau rituals - but since the moving picture public loves ‘voodoo’’ an such muniho jum- I bo, it lriav be expected that this will certainly feature the film. Tine relationship between the whites and the blacks planta tion friendships and paterna lism also poses a problem. But. more serious is the task fac ing Warder Brothers with 'Band of Angels” the story with a Loui sians background where it is dif ficult to tell one race from another, In fact, the loading female role is of. a mulatto who thinking she was white, was surprised to find she was not - - "Band of Angels’ can be watered down much as have j been other heavy stories invciv- j ing touchy racial themes. However, the trend toward film- j ing best sellers, regardless of the ! racial angle, portends much work j for hundreds of hungry colored performers j the smallest school of its class in the stftte, roared thru the tourney, only to drop the final to Kansas' largest high school, Wyandotte, also of j j Kansas City, SO f>3. —(United | ' .Press Photo), | the Big State. Outfielders Prank Ensley and i j Horace Garner, Evansville; Cat cher Howard Rouse, Boise, Idaho,! of the Pioneer League; Shortstop I Cornelius Washington and Out- j fielder Ray Reed, Eau Clare, Wis., j of tire Northern League; and An tonio Diaz, Cuban righthander, and Outfielder Clarence Powell, Wellsvllle, N. Y„ of the Pony lea gue. BEATING | THE GUN | KY BILL BROWER No! long ago at Tuseon, Aiiz.. | training base for the Cleveland In dians General Manager Hank Greenberg made an incredible statement. The tube front office, he said, had turned down a 5100, 000 offer for Billy Harrell, who has I been knocking about the Cleve | land farm system for several sea ! sons. Hank said Use offer was re jected because Cleveland brass counted on Harrell eventually making the Indian varsity. That possibility still rematns for the former Siena College basketball star currently is in the thick of the battle for the vacant Cleveland third base job. But. none-the-less. Greenberg’s statement was incredible. Harrell! prior to this year - seems never to have had an honest chance to stick with the American League club. A1 Lopez, then Cleveland Mana ger, rather shoddily shunted him to Daytona Beach, Fla., last year. Daytona Beach is the camp for the farm clubs and, of course, Harrell | returned to Indianapolis for a- I nother season in the minors. Harrell may or may net cut it ; this year. But his is just another example of the numerous tan play ers and perhaps some of their white counterparts - who get cau ght in the shuffle and get only a casual chance to prove their worth as major leaguers. An astonishing rase in point is Bob Wilson, an outfielder now in training with the Brooklyn Dodgers at Vero Beach, Fia. Wilson has spent ! the last five years in the Pod- | ger farm system and has never j hit under .300. For the last des tination usually Is Montreal or St. Paul Wilson was discussing his plight the other day. "I can hit anybody,” he said. The Dodgers sorely need right handed pinch-hitting strength. Wilson recalled that Gino Cimoll, last year’s right-handed outfield sub batted only .111. “I believe I could hit .111 left handed." he said. Manager Walt Alston and his coaches ostensibly frown on Wil son because of his fielding ability. "They looked at me a little last spring,’ he said. "But they told me I didn't field good enough to play major league ball. But 1 was just getting the hang of the outfield They moved me off third base be cause they said I had an erratic arm. "Well, I'm not saying that I’m a great outfielder now, but I can play left or right field Pretty good. They picked tne for right field In the Interna tional League all-star game last year and I don’t think it was just for my hitting. Os course, It’s true that I was hitting like a house afire,” ; Wilson is supremely confident a bout his hitting. “I can hit any kinds way,” he said. "I believe I could wake up in December and hit. I just know I’m a good hitter, and I don’t think there’s anybody who can get me out. I can hit the best of them and I can hit anything they throw.” The point of this essay is, what : team can use a good hitter? • At least. Wilson deserves a genu j ine opportunity to prove whether ' or not he is, say, half the hitter he thinks he is. If the Dodgers don’t want to j Rive him that: chance, maybe some j other major league team would be interested j We know quite n few whtch I could use another good hitter. | Harry Belafonte | ‘Pack ’Em In’ At j The Latin Casino PHILADELPHIA (ANT*)—Con - ti rating a record-breaking tour ! that finds him the biggest single I attraction In show business today, balladeer Harry Belafonte took this city by storm at his opening at the Latin Casino last. Thurs day night. A turnaway crowd of 600 wit- I nessed one of the most Inspiring performances in local might club i history and showed Its apprecia- | I tion ns never before. It was' fitting | tribute to the brilliance of Bela ] fonte who did what few other art j Ista have done in this city—-com pletely endeared the .audience to j him. i There was absolute silence as. Belafonte opened with ‘Did You ji Hear About Jerry”, then Scarlet Ribbons” and “John Henry.” Not until he called for the audience to sing the choruses to “When The Saints Go Marching In” and "Ma i tilda" was there a sound other . than that of his expressive voice With sUil more thal a week j remaining, Belafonte has brok j cn several Casino records. The first went by the books when | he sold out six nights only ! two days after his coming was I announced last January. Hs topped this off by making It » THE CAROI.fN!AN |r jwjjy > r ACCUSED OF STOCK j FRAUD Norman Skinner, shown in the days when he | was'a Columbia University basketball star, has been bar red from dealing in securities I in New York because he al legedly attempted a $200,000 j stock fratsd. Thirty-year-old Skinner, who captained the Columbia team in the 1949-50 season, may have possible criminal charges brought a- Baseball Spring Training Nates CHICAGO (ANP> —Billy Har rell is the leading candidate for the open tiiii ct base )cb for the Cleveland Indians. But tha TMbe manager. Kerby Farrell, continues to cast doubt on whether the 20- year-old former Siena College bas ketball star will start the season in that position. Farrell insists that he Is not sa tisfied with Billy’s ability to pull the ball. Harrell has been hitting timely and playing sensationally a field The Indians' top rookie pros pect, Larry Raines, was set back irj his bid for a regular job when he suffered a toe fracture. Raines had been one of the teams’ leading hitter# i in the spring exhibition games. However. Farrell had found jault with his lack of aggres siveness. Hank Aaron, the National Lea gue batting champion in 1956. has indicated that he also might be a home run threat this season. In the first, week of exhibition competion, the 23-year-old Milwaukee out fielder powered five home runs Speaking of home run hitting, Andre Rodgers, topflight rookie candidate for the New York Giants. ! hit his fourth in an exhibition game Sunday against the Cleve land Indians. Ossie Virgil, another recruit with the Giants, also blast ed one. Rodgers has also been starring afield at shortstop. Virgil, after a slow start, has parked up ar. the plate. The team’s best player -Wil lie Mays, of course - is having a hot spring. Although Mays has hit only two houif runs, he has breis otherwise raining j base hits and is well above the | .400 mark. The Chicago Cubs received good news last weekend. The sore shoulder that has been hampering the throwing of Er nie Banks Is not regarded as too serious after he underwent medical examinations in Los Angeles. Ranks was expected to see action soon. Earl Battey, the 22-year-old cat cher who is trying for the third time to stick with the Chicago White Sox, probably will make it this time. Manager A1 Lopez is using him frequently in spring training encounters and Battey haf responded with a polished job of receiving and handling pitchers and has come through with some good hitting. Larry Doby. the veteran Chi sox centerfielder. also is having a fine spring. Batting in the clean up slot. Dobyis driving in « flock of runs. Elliott Coleman, the recruit ! the Baltimore Orioles picked up from the Birmingham Black Barons, was kept in the Birds’ training ramp at Scntts- I dale. Ariz,. for closer inspec tion. He is due to go to Knox ville of the South Atlantic Lea gue. Joe Durham, the Birds’ rookie outfield candidate, has been im pressive at the plate. The Birds have sent out Charley White, a catcher who has failed again to stick in the majors. and Charley Drummond, a pitcher, to the Van couver club of the Pacific Coast complete sellout two weeks be fore opening night. ... It Is the llrst time the Casino has ever been sold out in advance, Aromatic tobacco of satisfactory j finality is now being produced in ! Piedmont and Mountain counties of North Carolina. j . ... mu nil i—w.KiHtna ; gainst him as a result of i re • oprted phoney company Skin ner set up in his New York City home to bilk investoi Skinner is accused of issuing a prospectus in which he claimed that his “Liboor Cor poration” had obtained tim ber. coffee, and cocoa rin..- from the Government of Li beria. ft had no basis in fad. United Press Photo From Files'. i League. ' Js entileh years S 5 cli&ttt'tbd (ifcc’idtna /<>//!<> fun&U eld t’uula^n*. OISTIUXD & BOTTLED BY \ ancient abr distii.i.ino < o. . CRAMXFOfft. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT KENTUCKY BOURBON WHISKEY, U PROOF ANCIENT AGE DISTILLING CO., FRa’NKTORV, KY., , - I KANSAS ('TTY, MO Wilton ; (The Stilt) Chamberlain, a seven footer from Philadelphia. Pa. who plays center for Kansas Univer sity, was voted the Most Valuable j Player in the National Collegiate ; ! NCAA Basketball Tournament won ( by the Tar Heels of the Univer sity of Ninth Carolina, Chapel i Hill. Saturday night here. Chamberlain, was tin only unanimous choice on the \ll- ! Tournament Team selected by j 50 sports writers arid broad- I Archie To Sisn 37 'T'” • 1 n . for hue bout K NEW YORK (AMP 1 Light I heavyweight chitmijjr.u At chic : MuOi:: t'ili'iy iti.si aer r. WHS O.v --| pectod to sign to deitTid his title ■ m June. Manage)* Chat le.v Johnsoi ai I tain he will sign .soon.” when ask j cil about Mote’s plans to defend. A M. c ¥ I I At r vracuse U.: IVmritQ Cohen Is First Play w: To Score 500 Pts. SYRACUSE. N. Y - ANP > , ! Vinnie Choen. 6:1 senior from I i Brooklyn, N. Y.. became the first j I Syracuse basketball player to! I score 500 point,-' in leading the I j Orange berth i nth, NCAA j |b4B points, and average of 24.9 a! | ter in five games tills vest*. Considered a likely pro pros-* I -_♦ L. «• . * t - PAGE FIFTEEN casters who covered the NCAA finals. He edged another Ml-Ameri c.t, Lennie Rosenbluth of North i i rot in a, by two votes for the most valuable award. Rosenbluth, one of the greatest ■ln-iters to appear in the tourna ■i-it missed u ing a unanimous choice by three votes. Others, on the first team were * Green. Michigan Stale: Gens i !ww«, San Francisco, and Pete I Brennan North Carolina miTim n tii—ll ■mmii irnwiwi m ■wuasiw iuiimiu— A winner of a contender’s battle be tween Chuck Spieser of fanning, , iviicii. and i’ony Anthony oi New ■ York, Spieser and Anthony are i i. b’d No. 1 and 2 among the eon i i lenrii r.;. Their fight takes place in ■; .Detroit April! 6. Moore will defend against the . i winner of that fight in the De troit Olympic, June 7. iHe ~ an outstanding pre-law stu i dent ut Syracuse. , The GLG j. f \c- v, \\.v B IPn*\ ■Ff.) v ff\ /t* irhflh "Tn! of us don’t put. our h; si foot forward until we get the other one in hot water I'*
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