PAGE FOURTEEN
Sore Arm Ends Joe Black's Major League Career
BEATING THE |
GUN
BY Bin BKOwrn hh;
ASSOCIATED M CKO PK ESS
At th# beginning of the N
Football League season. it ex
pected that Willie Gal:-'',-Me ui."!d
give Jim Btov n r n:n (■■. • ■■ !:•>
onr S the rooke -n! ’!:• -ye . i' .•
th" Cleveland Rh -'W r v t i'•> ,1 k
has turned that particular rare min
contest
True, Ga' • h ■
tily sen sat ior.nl for (.
Tears He had hi- er t* < <
neiop against *h«-
"hen he scored for t. : nd u
to match a record ‘ 'i >
North Sttlf,?
Rrown. tip until i.i i «ees..
had been ploddingis eon u-nt
He had not. broken awa•> with i
kind that breaks opeo a Mo*e
hall tame A rouple «f week*
•re he took over Uu MG
mshlnt leadership, I u-gci. h>
'auae the Rams' Tom WiHon
had hern releratf-d to pi
time do tv after leading flir '•••
first half of the «easmi.
Then Brown re-d II 1 •
hot only did he ,
to the rookie-of-the W
but put himself in c'-Mitei-ur.n
th* best runtM’-.c -
for 1937
ft® n - as p'xruO' V ■. ! ■
Rams He sro> ed on--,- nr - ("'■
romp set up i - oiko: f
*6 and 33 yard run- and tr■■■';■ ■
237 yards on the r.r' iind c-> ' n<
league ■ record ('Kvebuid ■■ ■ ■ - -
to 31 larceh he ■ >!: <
terrific perform-;,e -
The former s.v an re t
star, the Brow r> ■ r!
for this season, mover) in', th
record books shear; of" V/ or.
a rookie last season. T >u
Irded 223 yards acniuid G•' ■" 1 '• ■
in the last game of 11k
\fter his performance
the Ram', Brown : ,r c’■
• r he knew Ik had c t o!i 1
new single gai'.e r,, !-■ 1
"No. f bad no idea 'h- -'d
fad, T didn t ■ ■ ■ - ■
house It's mce M
tpt 5 record uniil so ■ 'd
tUined if to m*’ here ~
pretty good ”
Dodgers Ted'
Proud Record
To California
EOS ANGE I FS • VN" W; .-p
the Dodgei'- n>ov« .;•«>. h ~ Ai r
next. Spring I s " i! I
them the p ■■ ■ ■ clrf ■ '> ,i : u
long hi;--1 ■ ~ of t A* T
gue. Not even t!;o fabulouc Gi- io
of John McGrav., the , ied ff '
of r: ,inV i re, no- she «■',
Cardinals r.f Rio ( l.u-ht urc G
eca Cc.n viall h t :■ "'f ti"
rc -w and inor- idu ii L ;!
plished bv ih-'- n idgors : •' V.
War 11
In the Plfci-n seat
teams returned •-> D i-Wat ■ o>- :
th in 1947 dv D •• .I? have i
i.fll more ga-i • : than the’ l "
f.v*l« the Borton-Milv ' ' F‘ •
l'r* \ composite s’arid'.U;.' O it
N a: iri'iat T.ra r
would find the Dori Tli-i
e« anead of llk • e.. or,- •
Champion;, jpr! i 1 e ',i t ■ <
ira'.s " ould he c a ii i;v ' ' ■
behind Ih°rii m tK i, ■-{ pi,
The Giants, in fourth nl
" - ou!d he 133 h'r)L';li ; a >
their old irtr hoi, ;>i
they rppijpijr fhe-i>' rhiui,;!
tl e Wo 11 C*o
The Dodger have r . ■ .
for thirteen conso.-iit:v.-. . , le
a National League ■ A? s
matter of fact, they hat < ? u
lower than third e-nly •>: ■■ ■ 1 -
th In 19441 over the I , * run ■
seasons If they fini.-h in •:e ti :•
three during tl;e |n:*H . >.. ■ t y
will match ttm fourteen v 1 3
record of the S’ ,i}-.c«• lieoi i ;i n,
1939 Oi pr the hi t I ~
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INVOIVED IN TRADE
The Chiragu Whitp Sox ;tnd th«
rirvti ind Indians swung a play
er d-. iI it Colnrdao Springs. Col.'
10 Ci? ~17 3, Scaalvi Iflbot. J :
f.r > ripht, an ctvowed Milwcrake® Bravo fan. foitawg th«
of N’ilwaukee slugger into lha future, os th» pair diseumee
the team’s chances of repeating m World Champions in 1958.
Tl:e p; u n’.o t at l!:o recent National Urban League Dieter in New
York. (Newsrs’ess Photo),
1 liras Sepia Gridders In
‘i Ming For MVP Honors
i!CI u:on ANT 1— Th:*-- tan
an ti,-.i !, ■ earned honors as their
tv >'• - in.;'>!>' pin* cr a< the
: <'M>cr N lional League learn has
o■ - •" 11 y iiist-divi-icn base-ball.
M<| 'o' S.l’-- t who helped the J
Ood:;oi- in 'heir post-war era of
! donniuinc’t an- still with the club, j
; Roy C nip..nulla, tin ice selected as]
' r - .11 -
1 le. u; ~ hi 19,'iK i r.ntract. Dun ;
Nc m. >. hose t'.vontv seven j
u, i" 1. ... lit von uu: only MVP j
ts'Ooi I- il 11 Ihe fust Cv Veiling '
’’Tl'TMrefilfWV 1 illiT?i'l jnj'
- '■ A
laa* Wednesday. Player* In
volved are shown In photo*. Th#
Indians gave pitcher Early Wynn
■ Rig Ten competition for the annual
conference award nears a conclu
i sion
) Those named included Jim Pace
, Michigan, Wilmer Fowler, North-
I western, and Dan Lewis. VTiscon*
j sin. all halfbacks.
| Pace, a 5-foot-11 inch, 195-pound
j senior from Little Rock, scored 10
j touchdowns and gained 664 yards,
| averaging 6.4 yards per carry, to
Ih ad the Big Ten in scoring and
•rushing. He caught I! passes for
122 yards end two touchdowns.
| Fowler, the Bit! Ter- 100 and
j 220 yard dash champion, was a
j 60-mtrudF man for the Wildcats,
j excelling on offense and defense
! He averaged 4.6 yards per carry.
He is a junior from Mansfield. O
Lewis, like Price, a senior, regis
tered several touchdowns on long
| gainers. He averaged more than
[ sis yards a carry His home is In
Montclair. N ,T.
Award as fhp top pitcher !n base
ball, 's still on the roster.
Gi! Hodges, who holds the N.L,
record of 13 Grand Slam homers
will be shooting nt the fences here
again in '56. Former home run, to
tal bases rind slugging champion
Duke Snider will be performing
' next year for the home folks. Pee
j Wee Reese, Junior Gilliam, Clem
j J abine. Carl Erskine, Johnny
' Bodies and Car) Fudllo hope to
arid to previously spotlighted a
chievements.
Harold Johnson
Boxes Sid Peaks
(hi December 17
TOLEDO. O (AND—Harold
Johnson, Philadelphia's light hea
vy-weight title contender and
ranking heavyweight, will meet
Bid Peaks. Louisville, in 0 10-round
bout Tuesday. Dec 17. at the Sports
Arena.
Slaughter of U. S. fen cattle this
fell is expected to he about as
lareg as in the fall of 1 <»■,«.
Start lambs on n epn feed w-heg
they're two weeks old u*tas nark
ed yellow corn
*\o f |
(L) and outfleidrr-lhlrd base- j
man A! Smith c’tnd from ieftt
! to the White Sox for the third j
| On The Charlotte
| SPORTS SCENE
With BILL JOHNSON
IT Os ff R> TO ME
CHARLOTTE •- That someone
should hand out a --ouple of pats
tin the harks of Robert Walton and
Ernest. Cherry . . . These young
men have turned in what appears
.... jto be the best job ]
: s. t f«4||sMte|v 'of coaching here- j
- jf ibnuir I'm- quite j
■Mp&gfe. * Chcn -V unbeat-
JflHjK >gPr gs en at Northwest
j School, while j
i I w ' Wall 11 ;• l-I at
i I Second Ward
J:* w*Clarence Barnes
S % leading the
u 1 scorers
JOHNSON a hot, 19 point av
erage, but Harry Womack, the 6’5"
senior, ha* the better shooting av
erage, The big center has dropped j
West Charlotte ,
Second Ward Off
: To Good Starts
CHARLOTTE - West Charlotte
and Second Ward High Schools,
teams not figured to make any
I loud noises in the North Carolina
! Negro High School Atheletic As
i sociation’s basketball campaign,
opened the season here last week
i with impressive victories.
The Lions of West < harlot
te fired a 53-12 victory over
Belmont Reid with Galvin Mr-
Don ell’s iR points triggering
Die attack. Larry Albert scor
ed it for the winners and Ros
roe Hager raeked H for the
; losers.
j The Second Ward T’K’i't. lost
! a non-conference skirmr. ti to C
! A Johnson at Columbia, S C
i Tuesday nieht 86-44, but came
1 back strongly Herr Friday night
l to ret down Kannapolis Carver,
j 83-47,
Frank VTcMtiller sel the pace
for the Tigers with 21 points
while James Truesdale was hit
ting for 19. and Center Wylie
! Harris was cleaning the hoards
for 37 rebounds.
j Kannapolis, which failed ro keep
up during a blistering second half
attack by the Tigers, got brilliant
scoring from Ray Massey who bit
23 points Center Willie Meyers
scored H pot nisi and grabbed 24
rebound*.
j Pros Draft B|
j Pace, Lyle
PHILADELPHIA (AKPi T-o
tan players Jim Pace, Michigan,
nnd Leonard Lyles. University of
Louisville, were among the first
draft, choices of National Football
League teams in their partial ne
lection session last week.
Choices in later round-, included
.rim Jones, University of Washing
ton fullback; Proverb Jacobs. Uni
versity of California guard; and
Enrich Barnes, Purdue University
end.
JEa«e. Big Ten raahlng leader
and one of the fastest college
hacks tn the nation, «.t* the
first-round choice, of Sun ITun
cisco Forty-Niner*, lie was r»
cently named Michigan's most
valuable player for the Hi, 7
season amt was the hip scorer
in the Big Ten with £0 points. 1
Lvles. the tcsdtng college voref
in the nation with 132 points, is
styled by Louisville partisans
the "fastest nutn in football," and
the Baltimore Col*-; picked him for
his speed Lyles was repentlv nsm- J
rd on the Little Ai! - American
ten tri
Jones, one of the best hicks on
the Pacific Coast. ", .-rd to 5 03 An
geles Rams on the. fourth round, j
Jacobs v.ns the second round
choice of the Philadelphia V A
clc*. Hr- is considered one of
the best linemen on the Pi
cific Count.
Barnes, who was shifted <0
cud from halfback f|n« sc* .on,
went to the Chicago Beats on
i Hie lourth round.
Such stars e? Aurelius Thomas. ;
j 'tar guard tor Ohio State, and M»l j
THE CAtfDLINIAJS
• V i j • ' ; t U Jfc£
* 1 v’JtiSi/
1 its*?
haseman Fred Hatfield (3rd
from left) and nutfleldey Mioote
lllnnm tR). (TNITEiJ PRESS
TFI.E PHOTO),
omitted in tbs selection* a* the
PhiadelphU session They are ex
pected to be among the early
choices when the drafting u com
pleted in January,
seven of 12 attempt# for a 33 3
shooting mark. Handsome Harry vs
also leading in rebounds with an
average of seven per game.
Howard University's sharp bas
ketball team and Wylie Harris,
Second Ward's fine center, must
have set some sort o' records hers
last week. Howard hit 2k cut of
30 chances from the free throw
lines against Smith. And Harris
pulled down 27 rebounds against
Kannapolis’ Carver
Jack Rravboy h i* hi* finger#
crossed. Seems as if wvoral «f
his basketball hopefuls are
hanging en the borderline with
their bonks, Commissioner Ar
my Armstrong lias given Sec
ond Ward the “all Mcar" signal
on Norman Moore, their best
rebounder and scorer In pre
season dills.
An encouraging note can be
found in tho fact that Second Ward
will discontinue its piri's basketball
team after this year. The prelim
inary games on the Second Ward
schedule will hr- played by the
junior varsity, beginning with the
1338-88 campaign.
Speaking of Second Ward, the
school has lined up several out
standing programs for the inter
mission at halftimo at, their bar
kethall games . . , en excellent
idea.
Alvin Jackson snd Kcrsnv
Diamond, leading Smith scor
ers last year, have scored only
22 points between them this
reason. Kenny and Alvin are
averaging only 5.1 point* per
game with two contests on re
cord,
Rny Mclllwain, football star st
Smith in the middle fifties, is
coaching basketball at Plato Price
High m Mecklenburg County .
Jack Martin appeared lost, at the
West Charlotte basketball game
here last week. First time in mem
ory that popular Jack has bad some
time nff during either the basket
bull or the football season*
Total 11. S. cotton exports are ex
ported to fall between five and
six million bales this season com
pared to 7.6 million bales in iOVi-T?.
■' || .
CALVERT Di&TIIURS COMPANY, NfW YORK CITY* BItNDF.D WHISKEY* SA PROOF • 6V* GRAIN NEUTRAL SFI® 1 -
Pitcher Who Put Brooklyn In A
| World Series Retires From Game
Joe Brown Wants Dupas, Lane
if ter Stopping Lopes In
Eleventh Round U Chicago
CHICAGO lA.NP*- You can't
j say thia for many fighters, but you
can say it about Joe Brown: Hr
j always wins the big one.
A good evidence of this « *« hh
11th round knockout win over game
but outclassed Jog Lopes in theh
nationally televised bom in The
Chicago Stadium lest Wednesday
night.
Only three month* xg-n Lope*
held Brown to a draw In the
same stadium, receivinc the
nod » the ballot of one of the
judge*. But Wednesday before
; a ringside crowd of 4.194. who
paid a cross of 5t2.421.f1rt at
Ilbe gate, Brown was a different
fighter. Not only did he not
hnv Lopes in most of (he
round*, but be exhibited rarot
sharp accuracy, rutting down
his opponent with counter
punches to the head and body
| When ! opes, a two-fisted Tauter
from SafT.vr'Knio, Cahf. d• •: r*.»r>
1 him with still bedv punches, the
■jolting champion from 'tnv Or
leans shook nff the punches and
rallied to the attack. He was e•
■specially adept at puhchlng (nMd*
t opes ove*-hand and rourdhouse
pur-che*.
Almost, from the outset. It, war,
obvious that Brown was in com
mand. A notoriously slow starter,
i be opened up in the seventh round,
[ i decking Lopes with a hard right to
' j ihe jaw, Joey got up at the count
;| of four srtd lasted through the
round, but it was obvious that he
_ ] was a sitting duck for Brown’s
’ I punches.
j However, Brown biddecl hi- time
and v: ' d un*'' ihe lUb round.
Hi -
ift > f . iKgfra&sfaPll •■,
IDILIVERING A LONG
H M l, Willie 3’aughn, left, of
l.o* \ngetrs, < aiifornia, rinse*
hi* eyes to take a tong left in
WEEK FW)m<s SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 19*
when he again dropped his man
» dh combuMUon* to Pie hr ad and
i body Lopes got up. took another
right-and-left that put, him down
j Once again he got up but was in
j no condition to continue. Referee
| Joey White halted the oonb -t at
! that point, as one of Lopes seconds
j was rushing to his aid
Upon leaving the ring. Brown got
| a hero * reward from his chief
1 rooter, His pretty, chapely wife,
j Elaine, met. him in the corridor
| and planted * kiss on his cheek
! saying ‘ Baby, baby, you wore
| great"
In Ms dressing room. Brown
his third title defense sucres*
fill and hi* title stilt intact, got
doum to serious business. He
got down to serious hustne*.
said he would like to fight
either Ralph Dupas. the No. 3
lightweight contender, or Ken
ney Lane of Michigan hut in
(Heated hi* preference for Dm
pa*.
Dupes, he said, the hotter
fighter and would make a fttre
drawing card In M* hometown
Dll pas, also. Is fropi Mew Or.
leans However, he noted that
j such a bout i* Impossible in
New Orleans because of »
Louisiana law banning mixed
j hout*.
Brown v,id Lopes never bug*
| him “He never landed » solid
j blow." he said. "I was only biding
! myself until T could set him up
! for a right hand punch ”
Brown also said bp plans to
: fight two overweight bouts then
j make another defense l , probably in
'’nii-ion. Tex. against Dupas.
Ihe j*u- from Ralph (Tiger)
.•one* during their middleweight
hoot ai ''Dußson Sonar* Garde"
rerentlv. Vaughn won over lah*
NEW YORK fANP)—Fabulou*
•Toe Black has finished with base
ball A sore arm brought about
Ihe retirement of the pitcher who
put Brooklyn into a World Series
and earned him the title Rookie of
Ihe Yea>- in 1952
Blacks last pitching assign
went xi, ah with the Washington
Senators for whom he appeared
in seven cames. with a record
of no wins and one lose last
season.
Black had been with the Cinein
j nali R«-ds who released him after
! the Brooklyn team let him go
.Toe nlans to teach school in Plain
I field, N. .),
Rut he leave# a record Ijs
baseball of which he ran b*
Justly proud As » rookie for
Brooklyn, Black had * season
record of 15 wins and two 100
ses. mostly as % relief pitches.
I appearing tn 50 rtntpa In Th*
I 1052 World Series against th»
Yankees, he beat them the fir#
game. HI. and Tost a later gaas*
in that series 2-1.
.Inn made thousands of friend?
i when he was pitching for the then
; Brooklyn Dodgers and ore
I of them Is pulling for him 1b his
| new career a* * pedagogue
Howard Gagers
| Get §6 To 51
| Win Over VSO
PETERSBURG, Va,~ A Howard
| University five outlasted the V*
; Stat« College "Trojans" 56-51 in
| their borne opener hers Tuesday
| night at Daniel Gymnasium.
The “Trojans” moved to *
quick 10 point lead in the open
Ing minutes of the first Quart
er, but it was erased by tb«
j ‘Blsons" who fed 25-17 at !h»
half.
'nattier from Tonker*. N V by
a. Miumlraou* 'lertstort lUNITEB
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