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KING ACt'ION Wayne Bethea (left) lands a left to the head of Nino Vatdes in the seventh round of their ten-round heavyweight bout. April 3rd. Valdwt went on (;* win a split decision. (UNITED PRESS TELEPHOTO). The Shaw University Bears base- j bail team got oil to a fast start j here Friday v.dth seven runs in the j second and went on to a 15-3 vie- j lory over the Hampton Institute Pirates of Hampton, Va., Friday. On Saturday Shaw University j defeated Howard University, 12-2, «l Chavis Park. In the encounter with Hamp ton. Stanley Pettway paced the Bears with three hits in four tries Janies Drake, Reginald Spears, and Eugene Hammond all had four SMILING THROUGH Slugging Redlejrs’ «,uif?elder Frank Robinson flashes a wide grin from his bed at Christ Hospital. April Kith, in Ohio, lie's recovering trout a beaie.ug suffered in an exhibition game. Robinson received a eoneussion when struck on the head be a pitch thrown by Cainiio Pasc.ual of the Washington Senators. (UNITED PRESS TELEPHOTO). Negro A th lete Mi § taken Fo r f IT'S * § ¥ XT* • ® a . « ts White m Virginia Article PORSMOUTH. Va. (AN'Pi V, T ith a!! the fuss if;. Virginia over (i<. segregation in the pubur schools, ine record of sbane Negroes is such Rial they are still Doing pubiinz ed as white or white organizations. The latest error in this total **fe ?i:.:,;nce" state was made in the case of a Negro high school half back. The eutitandirsg Negro ath lete Is Joe Burden. A dally pa per carried a story on him this week identifying him as a gra duate of Wort lew High School, j an a”.white -a hool in Norfolk, Sat IJdtdc n, who broke ali t’ir- i Tpkj inter-Scholastic Assoeia -,-,vi scoring records ms pull Nun ome High School to a 10 8 fit 1057, i* a graduate ; of Norcotn High School, an a!i- N.'sio institution in forts int news had reference to Bur- : dtn'.- s‘'-lection to attend lowa I Stale Col I egn this fall. Borate Mil* j h-r, former Wilson High School | fullback who is now an assistant i < “arh at lowa State, did the re ('■ oiling work oa Burden Wilson “It’s a pity that people can’t i exchange problems. Everyone i knows hcesv to solve the other fellow’s.” ], j hits. The winning pitchci. Wilbur j Lytle, gave up just four hits and i struck out eight men. | Catcher .fames Hinton smacked j two homers arid Stanley Pettoway got a third for Sbaw as the Bears ! • whipped the Bisons of Howard %u- i Varsity, Washington, D. C. Sat- ! urday. Hinton hit solo home runs in the i fifth and seventh innings. Peru- | way, who hit two for five, homer- i ed in the first with ore man on | base. j High is in Portsmouth, and it is i ! abet an all-white school. Burden scored 21 touchdown* I and six extra points tor the Greyhounds of Xorcom Hi<h | School as the players took a tie : for the VIA championship. He i chose the Hawkeyes over three i other Big Ten Schools. Actual- j i Beating The Gun j my Bill, BROWER FOH ANP ■ Frank Robinson predicted last j reason that he would hit 32t in his second season in the majors, j The young outfielder of the Cin- j | rinno si Rtxilege proved himself a 1 j pretty good forecaster, lie ended I the campaign with a .320 average ■ | Before the Redlfgs broke from , : their training base at Tampa, Flu . j Robinson allowed himself the hut- I ury of a few predictions--ho hope- • | they will be just a* good ac hi?'! i 1957 soothsaying effort—-about the i new season. He thinks he can bay 1 {•the National League triple crown— { j leader:hip in batting, home curs i | and runs batted in, « * - * There might he & tendency j on the part of some to scoff at | Hus ambitious objective by the | 2Si-year-o!d player. Dissenting j voices will hastily point out. i that Robinton Is in the same j league with Willie Mays and Hank Aaron—to say nothing of Stan (The Man: Musial. * 9 • * It might be argued not with- I j out gome justification—that May? I lor Aaron, even Ernie Bank: will j -.it more home runs. Either Mays i David Cobbs got three for five, while Hinton and Louis Garvin hit ; two for foui each, in Shaw's 11 bits. Clarence Crutchfield, sophomore i ighthunder. hurled the win, which | ts Shaw’s third in four starts, i Crutchfield allowed five hits, struck i out 13 men and walk: d one in j paining his second victory, i James Butts Humored in the : | ’ikth with nobody on for Howard, j The Bears were scheduled to ! meet Bluufwld State at Chavis ; ■ Park Tuesday of thi week. i ly dozens of colleges were in | the bidding for the 170-pound I 5-9 halfback. ! Burden's major a-s-et was his { speed, but he can line-bust when . it becomes necessary. He is a good | track men, also, running the 100- | yard dash and the 520-relay leg in | addtion to the brood jump. i or A won conceivably might cut i lot Robinson. Then, oi course, there is that formidable competitor for ! the batting championship—Musial, | u S’.’ven-tia.'.e winner, But we ere not one who would write oil KobihscuV.* chances. V7e I blink th.it they are favorable. For i t xample, in 1958. bis fieri year in I the N#PLcarue he hit more j home runs «3i>» than Mays, Banks i or Aaron. That season s>y the wsy, '! he had a wild .290 batting average • and was acadaimcd the SVt is oc>ki 1 oi-Uie-ycsr. There wasn't j tmy o&fattstt for (hot hono-. With bh .320 avoi age lest ?##- ! Ron. Robinson rm&shed 20 home j runs and he accounted for 75 RBl's. I The young;- R.-t is row Cincy's top plugging attraction, with Ted Kius zowski no longer around. And it ! was Robinson himself who set his | sights on the triple batting title. 0 * ♦ «r Hr wants to hit between .340 and .3.10 collect 40 some runs and drive In 125 tallies. That’s a hie order. Muslal's .351 mark led the league last season. Aa ron's «! home rims end 132 BET* were tops in those de partments. Campy Regains strength In Arms j Mmjffislim |j| :y.f v,' m Hope Looms For Injured Dodger Star GLEN COVE New York - -AN Pi Roy Campeneila. injured Los Angeles Dodgers catches is re ported gaining in his battle against the paralysis that has hospitalized him since last January when he broke his neck in an auto acci dent. The Glen Cove hospital where Campy is confined reported that he is slowly regaining strength in his j arms. However, he is not yet able to pick up an object, and is slid paralyzed from his: waist down. Attendants roil him over every ; three or four hours, as ho is not j ' able to do that himself. \ The hospital is expected to issue ■ a more optimistic bulletin on Cam py's. condition soon. Meanwhile, the Dodgers in 9 sentimental gesture last week, de- j liver ed the playing sear of Camp- j aneJla to a locker assigned to him at the dub’s Los Angeles dressing i i loom. FAMU Wins S. Carolina Track Ucct i § Ipiiyplm IVIUVI ORANGEBURG. S. C. (ANP) - The Florida A and M Rattlers ; nosed out the North Carolina ! Eagles in the third annual Track j and Field games held at South , Carolina State College Track field j field recently. ( Florida scored 49 points to win • the meet, followed closely by North i Carolina College, Durham, with 47 and Winston Salem Teachers Col- j I lege, with 41. Fourth place went to ! , S. C State College, with 14 points. ; Oilier reams scores were Alaba ma Teachers 12. Johnson C. Smith j | SO, Claflin College. 6. Benedict Col- j I lege 3. Morehouse College 3 and ; | Area Trade School Denmark, S. C'., j j 2- | j * * * * “I don't think I've set my sights j too high.” Robinson said as the | i Redlegs wound up their spring j conditioning. T consider my first two years j j as a ;ort of a trial period. 1 had a ! j real good year in home runs. ‘ln my second year 1 did all ; rights in the batting average de- i purtment. Now I am ready to put I l oth departments together. If l : do the third department, the RBIs. j will come automatically.” Robinson, who was voted the ' NL’s sophomore-of-the-year after j the 1957 season, explained: «- * * * "I didn’t drive iti as many run- as 1 should have. 1 was a little anxious with men on bases The pitchers wire mak ing- me hit their pitch. They knew me for a first bail hitter and with men on base they were giving me their best pitch and 1 went for it. I know I left a lot of men on base. This year It will be different ..” * * * « Robinson could make thing* in- 1 | teresting for such power hitters as Mays. Banks and Aaron. And that would maek things interesting foi | us. I ' l " ~ * v "'- i . - • i f .MA-c y "" m '**■ ' e-r , ■« MH T ■* y * \ T. ■gift* : ' . >••.•*?&• •" iiirtgarr.TiriftiTr*V l ii'-f tk C u ■ iii|K ■ 7 wp« mbh • ■ ,&&* ■ 'y&vmW''*M im. j . . ■ • -W ™ MWMzte } Mm 1 fjuff: ~y£i a atjHrffiS-nSlSySflr t&w&ftC, p>iaMKmWaBWBrß X-RAYS TELL THE STORY Yankees outfiel i of his fractured right wrist by Dr Sidney Galnor |St. and Park Ave.l, New York, April Bth. Simpsoi the wrist when struck jjjtji pitch thrown by Phi) | v.Ule, S. C., jtpril 7th. i’S will be out of action fto Happy Khmer New Year. ** ■ mmrm m •*. AFICIONADOS’ VIGIL lit this c.a«e the early bird cute hex the tickets, as the line -tarts to form April 10th tor tht-3,700 tickets to be sold lor the West Coast opener of major league baseball A tr I 18th, when the San Francisco Giants play the Los Angeles Dodgers. First in line was William Heidi- (second from left of tan lean,no rirsi m one was vvumtm iteioc i second irons leu. oi >an l.eattuio “Satchel” Paige Taught Me Curve, Cards’ Pitcher Sam Jones Savs PENSACOLA, Fla. < ANP't j spin the yarn last week ns he and ; Pitcher Sam Jones oi the St. Louis j Ins teammates huddled here follow• ! ! Cardinals had plenty of time to |mg a 4-3 loss to the Chicago White I A s May Improve If Power. Looez Click —j • EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the hist in the series of stories on the prospects of major league baseball teams with Negro play ers. I CHICAGO (ANP) Last sea- ! i son, near the June 15 majo* league trading deadline. Kansas City Ath letics astonished the baseball world j when the team dealt Harry Simp son's departure left Kansas City j with only two tan performers--Hec tor Lopez third baseman, amt Vic | Power, first sacker. All winter l long there were reports that the | team desired to trade them. No j deal could be arranged, so Leper. | and Power are with the A s in training. Power, regarded only a couple i of seasons ago, as potentially one ;of the best hitters in the Air.er.i Boston Celtics’ Bill Russell Loses $1,3Q0 To Mass. Crooks READING, Mass. (ANP; Un sportsmanlike thieves broke tnto the home of rebounding star Bill Russell, of the Boston Celtics bits- j Lethal! team this week and made j off with a tape recorder, record , ! player, cameras, portable radios, j * and a suitcase all valued at $1,300 according to police. Mrs. Rose Russell reported that the break occurred in the daylight hours when she stepped out of the j ler Harry Simpson (left) is shown an X-Ray photo mkee club physician, at Lenox Hill Hospital (76th iffrred No hairline fractures of the ulna above •uthpaw Curt Simmons during the game at Green-' bout four uccfes. (UNITED PRESS PHOTO). 1 I can League, certainly did not look j the part last year. In 129 games Power batted 259. ! This was something of a come down for him. In 1958, he batted .308, and in the previous ye n. ,3)9. Spokesmen for the club this year have been outspoken about Power, i They insist that he- will have to j forget his playboy tendencies and 1 put out all of the time, not just, when the mood strikes him. A? Things stand now. the versatile Vic will be the A's first baseman. In 1958, Lopez, playing 123 yames for Kansas City, looked : like a coming third sacker in t -e j American League. He batted .290, ; hit la home runs and drove in 88 I funs. He fielded Ins position ca- I pably. house to attend a fashion show’. However, police were puzzled r to why none r.f Russell’s neighbors ! noticed the thieves carting off i then loot. j Milk Is one of man’s most healthful foods. Farm land regularly used in the production of crops may be in cluded in the Soil Bank's Conser- J vation Reserve. r-.Uf., who will have been in line 24 hours 30 minutes when the sale starts. Thi> curly <r . vri r.ime equipped with raincoats, hot coffee, a kerosene stove, and sleeping bass. (UNITED PRESS TELEPHO* • TO). er : Sox, a game marked by one of : "Sad Sum's” wild spells. Wild though he v as in the game, * .tones who came to the Red bird, from the Chicago Cubs, has been impressive in spring training, and his "niaies” are banking on him to pace the Cards to another banner j • ri.v-in, possibly the National Lea gue pennant. Anyway, pennants weren’t on Jones’ mind just then He '.-.as re , uung his baseball experiences and j the question of how he acquired j the sweepin curve ball loggically j , came up. Without a moment's hesi- j lotion, J ones, a 32-year-old tan j righthander, gave full credit to the : man who, years ago, taught him : how to fling the torturous pitch. ' » .. Straight ; Kentucky Bourbon s / years jPg * ■ |v(; StIAISET ‘ r gftfiaiyh t iftcuUwi &kle/u&$ f otaJMdaco*>uknf $ "' ."7 i/ i: ' ,: 1 STRAIGHT KENTUCKY EOURBON WHISKEY, H 6 PROOF ANCIENT AGE DISTILLING CO„ FRANKFORT, KY. f “I learned it from Saleh (Paige i; ' Learned it when 1 was just 18,. pitching foi the Cleveland Buck eyes m the Negro League." he said! ” “Saleh* was with the Kansas City Monarch.-"and real nk-e to us kids, -Jones added. He went on to tel! the story of how Pi-.ige wait heel him one day .spinning a curve off the side of his rinsers with his thumb slicking tin. a dead tip off to hater*. Paige stopped him, hr said, and shooed him how to tuck Ins thumb a-. <y and come overhand u( "i lit* curve. That helped .lop-s to control his big curve without tell-tale effect. Jones is noted for fouling hat 1 - 1 • ith his wide breaking . eu;:y*St" Sometimes it see ms the | coming tip behind ymi and -t i ff. lumps and breaks over the’ i (tone, teammate Dei Ennis i .y j cd. Jones durig his -tint w;'\ VI ; Chicago Cubs, pitched a r 'T . 1 came acainst the pjttsbu • ’i ! ate* in 1955 15
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