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T«F. CAIOUNIAH TFEYK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1955 14 AVendell Smith Again To Broadcast Title Fight & SEMES TIME FINE —David Sim® of Duk* wins th* Special Invitation 100-ycsrd dash in «h<* SSfelfr Annual Perm R«!ay Carnival at Franklin Field, Philadelphia. Coming in second is William ■Woedbouse (right) of Abilene Christian, Texas., with Robert Brown (left) of Penn State m third gßpo'-ltion, Sime’s lime was 9,7. (Newspreas Photo). I Major League Roundup ■‘CHICAGO - (ANPi - The (aaliriEg training batting impetus the? Ernie Banks the leading slug- Iphr in pre-season competition c-ir |Hed right over into th- early ‘ the major league regular cam* llpgfi |||| The smoking bat ct to- 27-: shortstop «-•-.? m tr -, SBjtia early surge of the Chicago Cubs fill* the top ot the National Le* ;ue, Ifslie of 'the young season - surpris showings. In seven games— in |||lbich Chicago compiled a 5 win, ifiglost record—Banks collected 12 |l*jitß in 27 appearance- Hi? .444 av- BBage was the second best in the |®iague BBUrnie, who smashed 42 home runs pii 1957. demonstrated that he ha? srapst none of his pou er. Hi? th rants were good enor :h 1 n tie for second m that jPßepartment. He had driven in fUgght runs, good for third place. Ull Among the ML batting t'-ad ers was Willie Mays, tor whom mm * big season was predicted with Ifgthe shift of the New York B| Giants to San Francisco j n the &f||j first eight ramps in the uni ■ form of the San Francisco Giants, the exciting center |j||| fielder had made 15 hits in .16 IHI trips to the plate pKpgt Veteran players were vr>c the ones turning in standout nm. HHfcrmances in the firsl two weeks. H C. Stevens, 23-year-old rookie jSjlrst baseman for the Pittsburgh cemented his chances of Slicking with the Bites. In his first |l||u.ir at bats, Stevens made four Two of the hit? were home |||a.ns. He drove in four run? Two ||||' the runs accounted for Pirate Swctcries their first wins in seven arts mm Another youngster. Veda Pinson. aßHpg Cincinnati Perilec*’ rookie nut- X3T VALUABLE"— Fordhnm University basketball contor.- Gadmy of Hackensack, N. J„ receives a certificate ncan n to the Catholic Digest fill-America Basketball Team, ling the award us the Rev, Victor Ycmiteili of the Fordham McCadney, who graduates in June, was (elected the Valuable Player" by lus teammates, (Nevrejceas Photo), vilan’s Auto Strikes A destrian; Boxer Arrested I HAVANA. Cuba f ANP) For- . er world welterweight boxing 1 tampion Kid GaVilan was arrested I ire last, week after his auto i ruck and seriously injured a linese pedestenan named Jose I fielder, blasted the first home run ; ;of his major league career —a j i grand slammer — that gave the : Redlegs a 4-to-l victory over the ■ Pirates Fob Thurman, who cave the Rc.dicrgs many an early season victory last "car with his time 1y plnrh-hitting, up to h>« old tricks this year. Thurman came ! through with a 14th inning j single to drive in the winning I rill! in a ttc ' trij|mph over the Philadelphia Phillies. ! Last season. Thurman had 47 hits in 190 plot? appearances. Sixteen l of the hits w«re home run? and j many of them came in his early season splurge as a clutch batter Another home run hitter last : v.wa; Hank Aaron, the most > vos m He Ni last s*a • a : -r-’-.in drive in the fourth irnv'mg so; up a a-to-2 vic i iory for the MUwr.uk«e Braves | ever Pitlsr-urgh ft va? the young ; outfielder'.? second rmmdtrtoper of ! the season. Orlando Ccpeda. the Giants' tal i ented rookie first baseman, was off i to a bad start in the first week of ‘be season going one-for-16. Then •■miin?< 1 Ancr-te* Dodgers. . r,m.••!•■> hit hi? second home run of : ‘he ?ca?r*n and collected two other .hit? in an 11-tn-4 San Francisco j win. Admnu toe S». T.nuis Cardinals. C'opcd.i rmoyrd t-vo conseeuthe rood nights at the plate, getting ix hits in 10 trip?. One of the ; blow? was ft triple that drove in a ; pair of runs and ret tip an Mo-7 ! ninth inning win for the Giant?. 1 j There are an average of 226 309 i coeds per pound of tall fescue grass i Control weeds for bigger yield?. . 1 Cheap food heirs roost livestock ■ 1 production The man was seriously injured. Witnesses told police Gavilan was driving at excessive speed when he. hit, the man However, police made a preliminary investigation then released the fighter. Stephens-Lee Takes 2 Tilts Vs. Concord ASHEVILLE - The undefeated Stephens-Lee High School baseball team continued it? winning way by defeating the Logan High team of I Concord 7 to 1. Joe Boseman, p.t- j ! ching for the Stephens-Lee Bears. , j limited the Logan boys to four j i raftered hits in getting his third 1 straight victory. The Bears came back to make it j two in a row over Logan High de feating the team 8 to 2 Boseman re lieved Worthy in the second inning j pftpr F.ogan hnd tnlror. a 2 to n lead The Bears moved ahead " hen , , Roseman followed Earl Thompson j who has doubled with a 387 foot j homerun over the centerfieid ; | wall. The boys from Asheville car- > j ried 12 hits in registering their sev enth straight., victory Bcwdryßeats Hinnant In TV’ed Bout CHICAGO - (ANPI - Jesse Bowdry, 20-year-old former Gold en Gloves champion from St. Louis, | turned in an impressive perform j anee m the Chicago Stadium Wed j nesday night when he won an un animous 10-round decision over Clarence Hinnant of Washington, D. C, in a nationally televised bout witnessed by 1,330 ring side fans. The sturdy tan fighter, noted for his devastating punch but who has also been plagued by a fragile jaw, handled his more experienced op ponent with ease, winning seven of | the rounds. However he was un i able to stop Hinnant. who provid i ed a moving target by crowding in | and mauling at close quarters With the exception of- the Sugar Ray Robinson-Carmen Basilic title bout, the. fight was one of the best presented here in recent, weeks Both Bowdry and Hinnant provid ed plenty of fistic action and the crowd cheered both fighters a? well as the decision. TAN JUDGE OFFICIATES One of the two judges was Bill Doty, a Negro and a referee on the staff of the Illinois Boxing Associa tion He reached national promin ence when he refereed the Kid ; Gavilan-Johnny Bratton weltcr i weight title hoi it here some years | back. Doty scored the bout for Bow dry by s wide margin, as did the referee, Walter Brigotmore, and the other judge. Police Cant Louis Capparelli, Bowdry now has won 22 of hu 24 pro bouts, scoring 1? knockouts. He has lost, only two. Some ob servers feel that he will be ready to challenge Aichie Moore in s bout. six or eight months However Jesse end his manager are in no hurry They feel that, time is in the youngster's fevor. The fight drew a net gale of sl,~ 141.62. Each fighter shared equally in the gate and received 54.00 P from ’he radio-teievisipn pool. 11 Milk is one of man's most , j healthful foooa. I o,£c£ I «** "Good health Is the thing ! that makes you fr.el that now is the best lime ot the yea* I' 1 Pioneer Sportseaster Picked To Handle Championshi p Beat Again NEW YORK i ANPi Wen- j , dell Smith, veteran sports writer for the Chicago American and Pittsburg newspaper, has been cho- | sen for, the second time to do the ! radio commentary for a title match for CBS, and will handle the col or and between-rounds commentary for the Joe Brown-Ralph Dupas 18- j round championship match in Hmi- i ston, Texas.. Wednesday night Smith, a boxing expert, he irame the first Negro ever In IBS’s Small Club Product Shoots For Television Spot CHICAGO (ANPI The fast rising Jerry Mortal! gets a severe test Tuesday night when be take? on Indian Buddy Jackson in an eight rounder in the Midwest Gym hero. MorteJl, hard punching. Chi cago West side welterewight who has won 13 and lost four with eight in a row. is shooting for a big chance on TV if he can get over Jackson, whose record includes over .20 victories and only two ZWmrmmr *S5£.Si2S£EP£.t ‘ fTKgrr-'lg-n ?na Wiiaagggr!, WUB9SM OQt!9W ™- • ‘ “ LANDING AFTER LEAP —Greg Bell. Indiana, is shown landing after his first leap of 25’ 1-4 ' under the watchful eye of the referee in the broad jump event at the Penn Relays. Bell, who broke the Relay record the last two years in a row. is hopeful of winning th® broad jump crown for the third straight year. (UNITED PRESS TELEPHOTO). Winston-Salem, Triple Penn Relays Champ, NCC Seen As j Threats To Morgan’s Rank BALTIMORE. Md. Will Wins ton-Salem Teachers College, triple j championship winner at the Penn j Relays, de-throne Morgan State as j Cl A A track champ? That question will be answered i when the thirty-seventh annual I CIAA Track and Field Champion- j -hips are held May s>-10 at Mc-rg i ** ’ ~ May 11: Clowns, Hawks Plan Game In Bessemer, Ala. HOLLYWOOD. Fla (ANP* The Indianapolis Clowns, four-time champions of t.he Negro American League, will play t.he Los Angeles Hawks at. Rough Rock Road Park, Besemor. Ala,, May 11. it was an nounced here at the Clown? head quarter?. The Clowns were originally *rh*> ! duled to play the Birmingham I Black Barons at Birmingham on the May il date. but. conflicting ! road schedules caused the change in i plans. 1 The Clowns have so far broken ; all previous attendances in games j played to date. They previously de i seated the Hawi-.s, 5-3, at Bartow, I Fla., in their season opener Covington’s Knee Healing MILWAUKEE, Wis - (ANPi - ! The injured knee of Milwaukee j Braves outfielder Wes Covington, injured when he jammed it in a I slide in an exhibition game April 9. I was reported healing by the jeans | pbfoician, who ordered Wes to con- broadcast a title. light when hs | worked with Jack Dree® tm the. j Sugar Kay Robisison-Catmen Basilic* hunt in Chicfwo InM March 29. The CBS Kadi''’ Network will pre en!, exclusive radio coverage for I the bout on s program sponsored | by the Mennen Company' and Mile? i Laboratories, Inc. The fights will , j also be televised nationally. The blnw-by-hlow descrip j li«n of the eharnpinmMp bout i losses. Mortel! Is one of the product* of the JBC’» small club bouts, which h»ve kept the locaJ fight ers in action and gaining ex perience. If he can get by Jack son Tuesday night. Mortel! could well earn a shot on the semi windup at the Stadium un May 2S. Managed by Frank Sagilio. for ■r.er welter great himself, Jerri lights like. Vos manager did. with i an’s Huges Stadium. I Morgan will be defending the j i title she's won nine years in a row, | and for the first time, Bear chances ! of holding or, seem seriously thre : atened. T honestly don’t see how we can win It,” Coach Eddie Hurt said, pointing to the magnifi cent performance* of Winston- Salem’s Rams and the North Carolina Eagles at the Frank Un Fieid Carnival. In. that meet, Morgan cams tn second in « thrill-packed mile re lay, pushing Villanova to a new 3.11.8 record. Bobbv Gordon placed \ second .in the 100 yard dash and i the Boars garnered thirds in the I freshman mile relay, th® quarter, j half-mile relaya But the Rams sot * new record of | 56 6 in the 480-yard shuttle bur dice j won the 120-yard high hurdle? ! through the skill of Elias Gilbert, j and came in first in the class mile relay. North Carolina won the freshman mile relay, Hurt who ha» mentored numer ous cinder aces, saw in these per* i fi,nuances* "plenty of trouble for Morgan” in the conference meet, 'They're much stronger; we re much weaker," the Morgan coach i declared Hurt think* that Wicwton-Sn l.-m and NCC can chaJUmKe nod probably heat the Bears In a i ; number of relays that Morgan | baa traditionally won, and that i the Tbirn» should have clear , j sailing in the hurdles. Both i schools nrr stronger than Mor- I tinue light, workout Covington, a star with the Brave? | last year and, during their winning | World Series, has been sidelined 1 since the. injury. The knee was to be checked ■- : sair within a few days. nih be broadcast by veteran ring commentator, Steve Kills. Smith will do the color and comment on the record, ability and «!her forts concerning the lighten*, ami rtisems (tie prny- of the bout. Smith is one of the nation s ablest | sports writers, whose stories up- ! pear regularly in the American, one of Chicago's five leading daily newspapers. He also writes a col umn. titled “Wendell Smith’s Sports Reet,’* in th* weekly Courier. , take two to give one style that Sh« I crowd loves Already he ha* a fol | lowing of 500 or 600 who never ; miss one ot hi? bouts because they know there will bo plenty of a-c --] lion, | Mortoll is an alumnus of the lo | c.il St. Phillips High School where j ha played football and ran on’the : track team. He is only 22. but he I punches like a veteran as several of his victims can attest. ga,o in the field events "There’s not a single event we can be r ure of winning this year,” j Hurt said, predicting that the | championships should be the most | exciting in a decade with competi | tion so strong. The eighteen CIA A schools and | approximately 15 high srhools will i enter teams in the two-day meet. | Action get underway on the after j noon of Friday, May 9 with one fi nal, the sprint medley relay, ache ; duled for that, time The other fin als will come on Saturday after j noon, Singing Debut For Althea Gibson Set For TV On May 25 NEW YORK iANFi Althea Gibson, world champion tennis player, v-<ll make her television singing debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show” Sunday, May 25 <CBS Tele vision Network, 8:00-9:00 PM, EDTI She leaves for England soon afte-i her appearance on this program. On Sunday. July 13. Miss Gibson will again be Sullivan's guest when “The Rd Sullivan Show'' originate! from the Desert Inn in Las Vegas Nevada. Miss Gibson’s television appear anees have been approved by th* United States Lawn Tenni: Associ ation. Rslghliors ' Ipltt “.-.and furthermore, l j i want a tthare of the profits and to examine the Woks every month 1” ) v OFF TO A GOOD START Cleveland Indians’ rookie pitcher ’ Jim (Mudcat) Grant, kisses a baseball and hold* up two fingers in ,i victory sign. Grant wm? hi* second game of the voimg season by i limiting the Detroit Tigers to four hits as the Indians von, 4-1. ! (UNITED PRESS TELEPHOTO). Brown Predicts Knockout In Title Bout With Dupas j CAMP HOLDEN. Tex. (ANPI |—- Lightweight champion Joe j Brown predicted that he will stop | challenger Ralph Dupas inside of i eight round* end keen his title i when they meet in their 15-round ! bout in Houston Wednesday night I Brown made the statement a? he was preparing to break camp here ! Ho has been in training for more ; than four weeks, working rigomus ! ly each day. In the Houston bout. Brown. 31, tangles with a fellow home i town hoy. Roth are from New j Orleans, hut a Louisiana law passed mor* than two years ; ago prohibit* Interracial athlef ! le competition. Brown Is a Ne j gro. Pupa?, after a struggle of several weeks, won the right to | fight as a white boxer tn the I Crescent city. j Brown, though he h'tr b<-* n vir ►I ! * f.U UASr 1 KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON 86 PROOF * STAQG CIST. CO., FRANKFORT. KENTUCKY" tttally unchallenged as * champion sines he won the crown from Wal lace t'Bud) Smith in 1956, is rot overlooking Dupas’ ability as a hnypr Wo \IT ZaTi i ;C’.v Dupas down and finish him. off be tween eight or nine rounds This will he Brown's fourth title defense. Early this year he join, r.eyed to Cuba and knocked out tin champion of that island in a non ntle bout A boxer-puncher. Brown has chilled 31 of his opponents. He has bad 92 professional fights, win ning 70. losing 14, and fighting 6 draw* Proper sanitation helps cut dovr on livestock losses. Watch out for poisonous oreads h pasture; they can kill livestock, A general clean-up around tl\ barn and home can prevent mans form accidents.