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WEEK ENDING SATURDAY. JULY 20. 1957 Floyd Patterson And “Hurricane” \ Bout To Be Under New Sponsor BEATING TilE GUN' | BII.X. BROWER A young woman flow homo to j Kr.rlem this week with her glory, I emblematic of women’s world ten- 1 nir supremacy. The young woman was 29-year- j fid Althea Gibson, who won the j Wimbledon Women's Singles ti- j He, defeating her fellow American. I Darlene Hard, Montebello. Calif ! 6-3, 6-2. Althea accomplished this be- J fore Queen Elizabeth and 17,000 | other tennis enthusiasts who crow ded the famed center court of! Wimbledon near London. Thus Mi as Gibson scaled the j heights she set or.! to attain in j 2950. She carv s a niche in sports | alongside Jackie Robinson. Joe j Louis and Jesse Owen., She became the first tan ten- ; nis player of etihes sex to win a ; major tennis championship Howl she reached her goal is quite a ‘ ftnry, j It was not an easy path to fame , for this native Smith Carolinian, " ho got. rer star’, in the game on the streets of Harlem. It was a : sometimes discouraging route. The true fact is that 18 months ago Althea had seriously consid ered giving up the s-,mc on a na- 1 t.onal competitive basis She had i just about decided to devote her j time to •’ c.w'fei a physical edu- ! cMion instructor st Lincoln <MoA | University. Then came an invitation, in Sep- , teraber, 1955. from the State De- \ partment to Althea to join three 1 spring of 1956. after the goodwill | of Southeastern Asia. Althea ac <•'■ pted. She rot only won a raft j of tournaments, but gained many j friends for this country. In the j spring of 1956, after -thea goodwill ! tour had ended, Althea won th, French women’s title '-hr hart hoped to aeoirve her i?st year at Wimble don. She was defeated, how * ’ ■ ■ Hie ■ tml-finils by Shirley Fry, who proved quite an obstacle in Althea's path. Shirley vanquished Miss Gib son later for the American ti tle at ! Orest Hill. Miss Gibson had been (he perennial women’s titlisl of the American Tennis Association j before she entered national competition, tn 1950, she blazed a new trail in -ports when she entered the national title play at Forest Hill. She came close to healing the then Wim bledon champion, Louise Brough. Tt was the next year that she re ceived her first invitation to the famous British tourney. She receiv- J fd a helping hand (financially) from .Toe Louis, among others. Her participation both at Wimbledon and at Forc-sf Hill was not marked \vjfh s U?cC*?S5 f . She received encouraging help flora Alice Marble, Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Danzig and Mary Hard wick Hare, former national cham pions Yet. she could never climb the heights that many had predic ted for her. It was after her world tour, that Miss Gibson got that feeling that she could go all the way. In that tour that started at Rangoon, Bur ma continued in New Delhi. In dia, Egypt and Europe, Althea won 16 of 18 tournaments, 11 in succession. She had victories over Miss Brough and Miss Fry, her foremost rivalries. Even though she suffered set backs at the hands of Miss Fry at Wimbledon and Forest. Hill last summer, she knew that she was on her way. She campaigned last winter in Australia and then this spring returned to England Wim bledon was her sole objective Ulie did not defend the French championship and con fined her play to grass tourna ments in th# British Isles. »liP|QjJrait'" r ' f “'«" / t v -JP^'W^V [ v^’5 J Js(sV i.%;/jh-/tyitf * *V''l, v'f^ 3ffiaß»3Kafc* f : -r..; ws> . :\ :^v. ■OME IS THE HEROINE— | Raising' her (lass of milk in 3 j toast, Althea. Gibson, thf new i women's Wimbledon single j This well mapped campaign paid off last week. Althea recognizes her debt to a great number of benefac tors. There was Buddy Walk er, playground supervisor, who first detected her natural ab ility. There was Fre.l Johnson, her first coach at Cosmopoli tan Tennis ( tub in New' York City. \ i# jfjpjK .j 1111,........ m T WW!- ( B Am i i J s % # 4 FISS OF TRIUMPH — Chicago White Sox star Minnie Minoso, whoso spectacular defensive play in the ninth inning stopped rally of the National League, kisses the hall which he ait down Gus Bell ot third, insuring the American League a 6-5 win over the Nationals in the Ail-Star game at St. Louis. (Nawapreas Photo). '■ 'i A DIM VlEW—Floyd Patterson's seven-month-old daughter S&’neca. takes a dim view of things as she watches her pap during a training session at his camp in Greenweed Lake. N. Y. Patterson fe preparing to defend his wer’d's heyv-pwaight against Tommy "ftuxrizcm" Jackson in New Ycrk cn July 21, Lovaiy Sonora Patterson doesn t scam worried cLout tfco out* «am« of W hubby's defense. (Newppsw Kioto). champion, shows she's glad to be home, as her pro’id parents. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Gibson stand by at (he Gibsori home i There v.wiv t we. physicians. Dr. R Walter Johnson, Lynchburg. Va. ••r.d Dr. Hubert. Eaton, Wilmington. V C . who made it possible for tier t" roii ortc in ATA tournaments. Then there was Jake Gaither, coach at Florida A and M College, where Althea oarr.vd her bachelor of Science degree on an athletic scholarship. ; (I.l# West 143rd St.) New York, July »th. Althea, the first Ne gro ever to win a singles title at the world tarniiiis tournament, First Time In Years For I • j ! New Setup; Louis Was Ist |BY ALVIN WHITE FOR A N F , HURRICANE FOUGHT THEM I ! ALL NEW YORK 'AND When _ On the other side of the fence | Floyd Patterson defends his j Hungry Hurricane is handled (and j heavy weight title, on Monday, j,f you tnink Cus D’Amato did a July 23, against Tommy ’Hurricane’ ! job—give pause to what this man Jackson, it. will mark the first I 10 d°> b.y Lippy Brcidhardt. . ~ _ who ordinarily is the clothing in tone m years that Mad son Square , ~ , .. , . 1 who ordinarily is ,n the clothing Garden or its octopus successor industry, Or is it the fur inrius- Twentieth Century Sports C.lub try. Lippy also took an amateur had no finger in she promotional and guided him through the mill# P Je but his job wasn’t as simple as it besides, there are many inter- ; them all— some of the top names esting angles to this fight It fob | sounds- lor Hurricane fought lows a pattern broken by Joe Lou- I j„ the division is where he was champion. Priori while D’Amato has bem criti- > to that era, it was the kiss C j 7-C( j j or protecting Fluvd. Lippy . o' death to match two colored hns been accused of ,* different ■ battlers—no matter what their rat- orime-hes got. a fighter who is ,ng happened to be - in a chain- j S( , unorthod’ x and so obtuse to pionship fight. Louis and his tan j every rule ,>nd form of boxing, opponents proved this just another critics ask themselves i* he human | ot the unfounded myths of sports- and why does Lippy go along with ’ j bum. him. | HURRICANE OUT FOR REVENGE BALKED BY I ! OHIO BOYS Another "angle’’ sees Hungry j n the D’Amato stable of hand Hurricane eager to avenge a lers he ls backed up by the two former defeat at the hands of Florio boys, Dan and Nick, strong Champ Patterson when both silent men who know boxing and . were struggling light heavies— what to do with a fighter. Either j well on the way to the top, !S a jewel in a corner and training | i eager for a shot at the champ camp- -D Amato has 'em both Be- j of the world, tn that widely cause of them, Floyd has only ex- \ discussed fight. Patterson ! pert advice and attention, broke his right hand, thereby Meanwhile, Hurricane has ji sidelining him and making his j no it }j ots handling him for Lip- j i bout so the world title in the j py—the best cut man in the heavyweight division a quesli- ; business as well as the most on. Some observers felt that j astute teacher and corner man the Rockaway Hurricane won <,f the game Whitey Hlmstein. that contest. looks after Hurricane. Still another ••angle” involves the Interesting then, is the forth i managerial staffs of the two camps, corning meeting for the beavy ; Looking at the Champ first, astute, weight babble. But Jackson is a j j diploma lie Cus D’Amato is top little late in getting this crack -J men and Cus never uses a simple the title. There was talk in the ! three letter word when an involved Marciano reign that s fight with j three syllable word will do the the champ "was tn the bag' for j ! same work. Homburg hatted Cus r- Hurricane-—but. he blew his I is always eager to talk about his chance by losing a warmup to a j ; man whom he has handled since non-name. And that has been i his amateur days and when he was Breidhardts difficulty- all through a hotel worker for his daily bread. Hurricane's career. Unpi diet-able Cus steered Floyd as carefully Tommy has a mind of his own. i ■r Wily A! Weil guided his meal When jpe tries to go fancy and ; ticket Rocky Maricano. a And for adhere *o the Marques of Querns- j ticket Rrocky Marciano. And for berry form and stuff, he flusters ; this Cus has been widely criticised, easily. And it was in jus! such a uut the net result of his campaign- state that Hurricane got his set trig proved that he had the right, back two years ago. Today is a j absolute correct formula. He took nother matter Jackson believes the lan amateur right out of the Olyrrt- heavyweight title belongs to him i pics at Stockholm and made him and he is out to wrest it from the ; 1 a champ in less time than it takes quiet, apparently studious Patter- j to toil so it seems. i son. What will be the outcome’ i | Sepia Performers Dominate ; Stadium’s Week-End Concerts NEW YORK (ANP) —Stadium, a poem by the great German 1 i Concerts Inc with its symphony j classic poet, Goethe; and the Sym | orchestra, after 40 years of sum-' phony in c minor. Op 68. mer events, the first of their j The “Alto” Rhapsody, which kind in the United States, has Manan Anderson at one tint# become a tradition of pride among I recorded, is a short, sombre music-loving New Yorkers »'? r , k aesthetically orchestrai- Entering upon the 2nd week of «* d for aI ° s ?'° and U cho ' this summer’s series, it is interes- Portraying * ‘«‘™ «>*" ’ing to note that both Negro cias- j embitteted bj his sad ot t sic and jazz performers have been l!/ e ; Matt ha lapioi. - j chosen to draw enormous crowds. Metropolitan Opera, sa % s Prior to this distinction, how- ’ n « ,C 'Z ever, an all-Brahms program was s,sted f by “fi* given last evening which should # not be overlooked. The Academic Albert Fracht, conductor, gate Festival Overture. Op 80; the the work, the_ overtu.e enln “Alto” Rhapsody, Op. 53. set to i ened by rollicking German co j " 1 | lege songs, arid the master- j fully, buoyant symphony, in Fib liy. there were her mother l foresting readings. • Oii father, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Celebrating the 4th of July, an’ Gibson, New York City, who al- a ll-Gershwin program was pie ways gave Althea the kind of c-n- sented; Strike Up The Band. Fj couragement that, an athlete needs major piano concerto, played most, i when she encounters stumbling scrupulously by Eugene List; the blocks on her way to the pinnacle raucous American in Paris; and of success, excerpts from Percy and Bess, j Whatever, those stumbling blocks sung most acceptably by Camilla : | have been, they have been devoid Williams, of "Madam Butterfly ■■f racial implication. “I encount- fame, and’ Lawrence Winters.. | ered no color barriers and none of world’s leading Negro opeiatu • the players have ever been rude baritone, punctuated by Ghstles to me.’’ she once said. Smith’s mixed Neero chorus | received a hero’s welcome on her arrival lit Manhattan, UNITED PRESS PHpTO). THE CAROLINIAN Gershwin, in this folk opera, rose to his area test height , re- ' vealing an unmistakably. strong personal creativity. The piano concerto, too, is orchestral! u povv- 1 erful and full of ideas. But, cut off in his youth, so to speak, he did not have time to develop these \ ideas. Consequently, the work suffers \ in form, in idiom and in the im- i portance of it? pianistic figures! as compared with those of the j standard concert for that instru* i mcnt. Saturday following the 4th. the j George Shearing Quintet, the Er- ] roll Garner Trio and the Loujf Armstrong All-Stare are reported to have drawn the largest, stadium crowd in its history, 25,000! George Shearing proved to he quite a witty emcee. Errol! Gamer performed in propor tion to his extensive reputa tion, aitho his percussive type of chordal playing would doubtless have been stilt more effective had he used the lam er of the 2 grand pianos. The Gouts Armstrong 5 harmonized strikingly as is their custom, and “Satchmo”, together with weighty Velma Middleton, singer and dancer, provided considerable humor. Trummy Young, trombonist, Ed mond Hall, clarinetist; Barrett Deems, drums; Squire Gersh, string baas: and Billy Kyle, piano, were the "International Anitjfts sador's “assistants, with whom he i shared Individual spot and ap- j piause. United States agricultural ex ports are expected to set an ftll time record of about $4.5 biiion in J 958-57. PICTHER READY Light hi*avy v champ Archil* Moon* (S (; ohallfnjw Tony Antiion:* arc i!I set July 9th to sicn a con tract—at lea\t they have a pen Willie V aughn Gets Revenge; Stops Hernandez In Round 7 CHICAGO (ANPi Hard-luc't Willie Vaughn turned tlie *:* =•• on Eusebio (Che bo i Hernanclc r. : r; a nationally televised 10-round- : In the Chicago Stadium hist. Wed nesday night, stopping the ruru .1 Mexican battier from El P- Tex., on a TKO in the- 7th row, .*. H was a reversal of the re sult ©f their meeting (href years age when Chebo stopped Vaughn in the second round at Juarez, Mexico. Prior to that they fought two JO round draws in Hollywood. Still smarting from the knock out in Juarez, which Willie >:.*.;d might have been admini.*; -.1 with ‘ loaded gloves,” Vaughn en tered the Stadium ring last Wed nesday night determined to square matters. However, he had to wea ther Hernandez's second round gloves storm to achieve victory. In that frame Chebo a two fisted fighter with a lethal punch backed Vaughn against the ropes . and flailed him with a bombaid • Inks Pact With Canadians JACKSON. Mir. -- Robert) “Chick” Thornton, former st;.r j tackle with the Jackson State Col- j lege Tigers. left Jackson via plane j Wednesday for Hamilton, Ontario. ! Canada where he will work out ; with the Hamilton Tiger Cals ; "flodgings” in an effort to win a : position with the Canadian League team, Thornton, an aggressive 2m I pounder, was one of the main day l ; i ;n the Tigers’ forward w all last ’ ! season when Ccoacb John A- Mo; - j | ri.tt’s squad was ranked seventh a- I ! mong the Negro college elevens in . | the nation. He was selectd to : | All-Mid-Western Athh* ic A, j lion squad. Coach J. W Trimble’s hope fuls begin practice July <’> Candidates arc free to report j prior to that date. During his high school days Thornton played end and quarterback under Professor E T. Hawkins at the old Scott County train inf School. He will he the sec | oud Jackson State footballer to play north of the Border, j Robert “Big Bob” Hill from i Charleston played with the Koch* ; ester Rockets. Hiss has an mi- i j from the Los Aangoles Rams for ■ this season, but he hes derirfd lo | !go with the Minneapolis Blue j Bombers At Central Park; Calloway Ams Cotton Club Revue Open : i NEW YORK (ANP) Murray j Wsinger’s “Cotton Club F: "W"-" fresh from * nicer ; r.f«l run in Mi ami Beach, Fla, opened it Theatre Under the .Slavs in Or,• tral park here last week, The show headlines Cab Gallo way. Lenie Sattin. George Kirby Abbey Lincoln and Norma Mil ler and her dancers. The cast, also includes Will Gainer*, Joe Chisholm the Anjoel trio. Snvar dancers. Cotton Club beauties, and Csl-sj orchestra under the direction of Eddie Benefield. Aithea Gibson Top Seeded At Clay Tourney CHICAGO (ANP) Wimble don women’s singles tennis cham pion, Miss Althea Gibson, has been top-seeded for the National Clay Courts tourney which opened Monday and continues through Ju- j ly 21, nt the suburban River For- , est Term;3 Club. Next in line lo Mis l Gibson >- I her losing rival in the Wimbledon, j Miss Darlene Hard of M'*nl«boi!a. • cil —but title fight hones for Los i Angeles on Sept. Hth are ail tangled up The California Box- 1 in<r Commission lias not approv- ment of punches to the head and body. Willie weathered the storm by going into a shell and rolling with the punches. And the end of the round found him counter iny iffectiv sly. Vaughn started to take com mind of the bunt in the third round when he switched to long i ;i ll ve i i'- hting. u‘; w-m: ■?■ a \v-%■ - . u;-.-, left iab to keep his opponent | off balance. He turned on the steam for I good measure in the sixth round. ■ i orittsr with short. jolting count : cr punches. Hernandez kept fight ins back, though and was a > threat almost to the end. In the seventh round Vaughn nailed Chebo with a jolting left hook and quick!? fallowed up his advantage. As Hernandez staggered in his own corner, Vaughn swarmed over him and didn’t let up un til his game foe sank dizzily to the canvas, Chebo regained Straight Kentucky Bourbon g^mmeexmmimk 1 : , ,|1 pm fat' C years fcj £ J D pin ' !ff v>it/lJpc. m </i 3!&m- fak • gfennelrtW !■ P'taiq/tt* ,•/.’>■ ,v iSotl uh-.v Phiefu/Ptf e/aJithdaccft'uii'Hft to t/hfincU jCrCil liMoiftoOnA t, I !',TILLED ft BOTTLED 8> anciint a<;i. ok. tilling * u rsAN.,rom keutvcxt * 'l«» *U STRAIGHT KENTUCKY BOURBON WHISKEY, 86 PROOF ANCIENT AGE DISTILLING CC. ( FRANKFORT, KY. PAGE FIFTEEN e<i the pact and has told singer actor I rank Sinatra to cel a li cense if he wants to promote the bout. (UP PHOTO) bis feet at the count of two i but Mas forced to take the mandatory eight-count. But Chebo war. out on hi? feet, unci Referee Frank Sikora wisely hailed the bout at 2:19 of the round. Vua .hn .-.aid afterward that he v- .: not. hurt, m the second round .•mi knew what he was doing all the time. He said he planned the i nt carefully He added that, he had improved smet their meeting a. Jiiurr.* and FTt confident h« ! couiri take Chebo, Vaughn in recent, weeks earned t the nickname of a ‘‘hard-luck lighuu. when he decisioncd hard i;uiTh:n: Jo.*,v Giardello only to have Missouri Athletic Commis sion throw out. the decision be c;.u,»c In? refer* e in that bout used the wrong scoring system. Wednesday night’s fight di-'v only 1.183 ringside custom ■ • it was one of the smallest nirnouTs m the Stadium's history nd tire gross receipts were just 77 5? I* ch fighter cot. $4,009 j from ihe radio-television till, how-
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