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Rams To Compete In Carolinas AAU Meet May 17 Raleigh To Host Annual Meet; Elias Gilbert Tops WINSTON-SALEM - One of trie most sensational track teams in the nation is a small band of young men at Winston-Salem Teachers Col lege in North Carolina, a small school with only a few more than 200 men out of H a total student body of 900. This team will face an ex treme test on Saturday, May 1* in Raleigh, when they com pete in the Carolinas A AII meet against top colleges in North Carolina and South Ca rolina, Last year the Rams o( Winston-Salem Teachers Col lege won tire AAU races In competition with such noted teams as Duke, University of North Carolina and other big schools in the area. Key man on the Rams’ team are Elias Gilbert, generally rated the best hurdler in the nation; Fran Washington, hurdles and sprint Lewis are co-captains. Gilbert and Washington sparked Holder Os Ph. D. To Start For A&T Alumni “Oldtimers” Versus Aggies GREENSBORO A holder of J the Ph. D. degree will be the start- I ing pitcher for the A&T College J Alumni “Oldtimers 1 ’ as they take j on the A&T College Aggies varsity ! in a baseball game to be played here Saturday, May 10. AARON, SPAHN AWARD WINNERS—Hank Aaron, Milwaukee Braves outfielder, received the Kene law Mountain Landis Memorial Award as the National League’s Most Valuable Player of 1947 and Warren Spahn. left, Braves pitcher, received the i y Young Memorial Plaque as the Most Valuable Pitcher of 1957 In ceremonies before the Braves-Philadelphia game recently. (UNITED PRESS PHOT 1). "Naptie 99 Clowns Helped Hank Aaron Reach Majors ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - (AN- , ?) Here in the training camp of .he Indianapolis Clowns baseball team an interesting story is going he rounds. It is how Hank Aaron, prized Milwaukee Braves outfield* nr, made the successful jump from the Negro American League to the majors. The story tells of how Aaron, whom the Clowns sold to the Braves for SIO,OOO in 1952, was dis covered on a sandlot and developed into a crack Shortstop and later in to a big league player. According to the story. Syd Pol lock, the Clowns general manager, »nd field manager, Ed Hamman. spotted Aaron in the spring of 1052 Playing with a sandlot team in Mo -I’ilo, Ala. They had glimpsed the |p <' wh mmmrnrn m*nmm i t*. •• ' ."I*-.-r-r' *L» M&i *&'?'¥■: kr . ■B “ MmM s ->?3 J- > * - '•rclffi: £»&- •y |^| '% | ?% p; «” 4, If twrf ” <• i Ak iSSi $ ifUlf RM’ORD BREAKERS The Winston-Salem Teachers Colic* foursome, above, broke the Penn Relays 480-yard shuttle hurdles sV- Uy record before 52.018 fans in Philadelphia recently. Shown with heir plaque and trophy are, left to right, Carl Brown, Prats Wash ingten, Joseph Middleton and Elias Gilbert. a shuttle hurdles relay team in the recent Penn relay,' to a new mem j record of 59:6 in the 480-yard shut- j tie hurdles relays. This mark was j only .2 off the American record, | Helping them were Carl Brown and j Joseph Middleton. Coach Wilbur Ross predicts that j some day this quartet will break j all existing records in the shuttle hurdles. Ha also predicts that Gil bert will break lots of records, Gil bert specializes in the 120-yard and : 110-mcter high? and 220-yard lews during the outdoor season. Washington is a good hurdler and and improving sprint ace. He runs a fast leg for the Winston-Salem mile ( relay squad. Lewis anchors this i crew. Their partners are Robert j Smith and Herb Conaway. This ! squad posted a new Penn Relays j record for small colleges by win- ! fling in 3:16.4. Lewis is defending champion ace, and Charley Lewis, fast-mov- ; I ing quarter miler. Washington and j •fir. Charles U. Deberry, Eliza- j bcthtowß, principal of the Bladen | County Training School, star chuc- i ker for the Aggies when a student j here, hack in the early, thirties, will ! start' the game. He will be sniported by an array j of outstanding players who have j j boy once before on a barnstorm- i ing tour with the Jackie Robinson J All-Stars, and he had impressed I them. So when the Clowns regular short top was injured, Pollock sign i cd him up to fill in. Aaron played I so weii and hit, so consistently, the I regular shortstop never got back in the lineufi. MOVES UP QUICKLY But Aaron was not to remain j v. ilh the Clowns The Braves v/ere jon a talent hunt and quickly bought his contract Hank was sent 1c L..UI Claire where he made such an impression that he was moved up to Toledo. There lie ran into his first snag and the Clowns came to his rescue. Lor some strange reason, Aaron In the < arolinas AAU 440-yard run. Conaway, who surprised with a third place finish in the 440-yard low hurdles, hopes to do better in Raleigh. In Phila delphia he trailed the Olympic champion and defending relays champ. Godfrey Moore is the team's hope in the broad jump and tne hop, stop and jump. Snuford Brown is improving in the high jump. If the timing is right. Coach Ross also races squads in the 440- yard and 80-yard relays. He refuses to "wear my boys out" by entering them in too many events too close continue their success. The Ram? are proving themselves to be the surprise track team of the current season, and hope to continue their succes.. On Friday and Saturday, May Ki ll, the Rams will be seeking to usurp the authority of Morgan in the CIAA championships, run in Haiti i.i.re. They also will have to stop North Carolina College. ’.'erformed or. A&T championship teams over a number of years. The game is a feature of the en tori ainment program connected •• iih the annual meeting of the A &T College National Alumni Asso ciation. slated to begin that morn ing at 10:00 o'clock. was used only in. spots then put in the hands to “get some pointers.” He quickly contacted Pollock and told him he wanted “to play ball, not watch.” Syd in turn called John Mullen, the Braves farm director, and Aaron was sent to Jacksonville !h«> Braves Class “A” team. From then on it was n short jump to Milwaukee and baseball fame. A standout since reaching the majors. Aaron last year was the National League most valuable player, in addition to being the home run king. This year, the world champion Braves, in appreci ation for his fine work during the regular season and the World Ser ies. are paying him $40,000. Charley Neal Injured; Out Os Bums’Line LOS ANGELES - (ANP) - Charley Nesl, Los Angeles Dod gors second baseman, suffered a bruised wrist and was out of the Dodgers lineup .the early part of lost week Neal was hit by a pitched ball from Cardinal reliefer Frank Barnes. Although it was at first feared, tiie flashy field star may have suf fered a broken wrist, X-rays later revealed no fractures. , -nr-irwriTiu- r li dj^ Vertical integration in farming mean? producing a commodity un der eontri rt, often with the sale price guaranteed. Poultry is one of the South's fast est growing farm enterprises. | + + + + + + + Hh *4* I Baylor Balks At Pro Cage Offer I I ’ t BEATING THE I GUN By BILL BROWER FOR ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS Truman Gibson’s ascension to ! head of International Boxing Clubs of New "York and Chicago is cer tainly, from our standpoint, a sig nificant milestone in sports. It's another illustration of the j truism that the color of a man’s j rkwi ItaS of s factor ill spur hi !than in other streams of American life. . It lias been no secret in the j sport* world that Gibson, in re i cent years, has been one of ttie ! big wheels in the IBC set up. When the ailing Jim Norris stepped down as president, Truman was the logical choice. The important angle, of course, is that it proves that the Negro's place in sports is no longer con fined to the sphere of actual com petition. SPORTS IS NEGRO'S FORTE That isn't exactly new. Even 20 years or more ago, Joseph H. Rain ey. was boss of the Pennsylvania Athletic Commission. If memory serves, it was Rainey who reversed a decision in the A1 Ettore-John Henry Lewis fight in Philadelphia. The officials colled it a draw—Et tore then was something of a sanc tified hero to Philadelphia, Rainey threw the ring verdict out and gave •he victory to Lewis, who was en titled to it in the first place. When Thomas E. Dewey was el ected governor of New York one of his early moves was to name Dr. j C. B. Powell, a Harlem newspaper publisher, to the New York State Athletic Commission. Powell re* tained that post for several years. Frank Forbes, well known in tan sport circles, was named a boxing judge—another unprecedented de velopment. Then, in- 1952 when Ew.ard Char les met Jersey Joe Walcott for the heavyweight championship the last time, the third man in the ring also was a Negro. The bout was in Phi ladelphia and the referee was Zach Clayton, who still serves in that capacity in the Quaker City. HELP FOUND IBC Thus, Gibson's elevation Is not unique, in a sense: in an ther, it is. There was no ponti fical significance connected with It. Gibson had been a confidante nf Norris and lawyer IBC. Tie was intimately ac quainted with its inner work ings. He was fully familiar with the current status of boxing. But perhaps a more telling fac tor was Gibson's role in establish 'd# the IBC as the dominant box ing enterprise in the last decade. Truman played a persuasive role in the manipulations concomitant with Joe Louis’ retirement—the iirst time—that gave the IBC a stranglehold on prize fighting op erations. Pe devised the contract •hat earns Louis $20,000 a year now. SHOBLDBRS IRC PROBLEMS Tlie 46-year -old Gibson then was owed a debt of gratitude by Nor rhs and his partners. He probably could have been paid off in a dif fe-rt way if Norris didn’t consider him a smart operative. For several verms Gibson has been a member ni the IBC hoard of directors as well an handling its legal respon sibilities. The latter has been some thing of tremendous job in recent rears, with the IBC’s litigation with the Government over its mo nooolistic hold on the fight game. Some skeptics may dispute Gib son’s right to be head man in the principal venture of boxing. They oven point out that Norri? might be directing operations from the wings. His retirement, they sav. could conceivably be for strategic ! reasons—until the final court nc | tion in IBC lawsuits is handed j ' down i BLOCKS RIGHT HAND BLOW—Jesse Buwdrv of St Louis. Mo., left, blocks a right hand blow thrown by Clarence Hinnant, Washington, I). C.. during the third round of their scheduled 10-round light heavyweight bout in Chicago Stadium iast Wednesday nigt. Bawdry won a unanimous victory for his fifth straight victory and 22nd in 24 professional fights. (UNITED PRESS PHOTO) Aggiss Whip Maryland Stale, 9-3 Behind Ace Pitcher Jee Gotten J GREENSBORO The -A&T Col j lege Aggies tightened up the CIAA j baseball race last Thursday with a ; 9-3 win over Maryland State Col j lege, defending champs and pre v musiy undefeated. Big Joe Cotton the basketball star, who pitched a brilliant no-hit l ter last week, was the hero in the contest. He came on in the top of th<- third with the bases loaded | Humor Boy Gampanella To Be Transferred To lew Hospital NEW YORK (ANP) Accor- f ding to rumors circulating here early iast week, Roy Campaneila, ' injured Los Angeles Dodgers cat- I cher, will be transferred to the In- i rtitute of Physical Medicine and : Rehabilitation of tire New York University-Bellevue Medical Cen ter shortly. There was no official confirma- : tion of the rumors, however, al though Dr. Howard A Rusk, direc tor of tlie institute here, said he had heard the reports that Campy would become a patient at the cen ter. He added, however. “I don’t know anything definite.” Grambling Beats Xavier, 9»5 To Boost Record For Season i NEW ORLEANS (ANP> ~ The Grambling Tigers, perennial power in collegiate spent.?, dealt the Xavier University Gold Rush team 8-5 defeat here recvuUy to buu.-J their season's record to 8 wins and 2 losses. However, Grambling, favored to easily beat Xavier, had to fight off repeated rallies by the locai AIWON<S THE BEST One of the nation’s fastest college mile relay squads is the above quartet from Winston-Salem Teachers Col l*w. Left to fiftht, Herb Conaway. Charle s Lewis, Fran Washington and Robert Smith. They are holding their championship Perm Re ■ | 1 lays plaque. J vnd one out to squelch a Maryland .prising. They scored two runs in that frame, one off of starter, Theo dore and another on a long fly on Cotton. This closed the gap to 3-2 in favor of the Aggies.'! After that Cotton was never in real difficulty. The losers gni one scratch single off of Cut ton and that in the sixth which developed into the one run At Glen Cove, N. Y. Community < Hospital, where Campy has been confined since suffering a broken neck in an auto accident on Jan. 23, Harry C. ¥. Gifford, administrator, said he knows of ‘no present plans' ! to remove the star. Campy has been partially para- ) lyzed since he suffered the acci- j dent. Some life has returned to his ! upper limbs, but he reamins para- ! lyzed from the waist down. Meanwhile; there were specula- ‘ tion.-; that the switch is part of a , plan to have Campy undergo inten sive examination and research at the institute. «s>g i nine to seal the victory. The local ; I i team tied tlie score in the third and ! •! seventh innings but were outsiug- ' i j ged after that. - j Pilcher Paul Gic.-ruf, who re l lievcd starter Clyde Parquet. w;v ■ touched for three runs in the sev- I entli but hurip on to gain credit! : tor the win. He also betted in (he i tie-breaking run in rhe eighth. the cmouamn tTFKK ENDING SATTJBDAT, MAY I#, I»*>K charged to him. Kami Miles, Aggie catcher, who hails from Princes? Anne, home of the Maryland Club, helped his team ifh n homer, with none on the :. ecorui and a double in the eighth .ailing rally. Willie Wyatt eharg d with the- loss, was relieved by Joe Brown in the eighth. Tb • # gnv-:* the Aggies « fi-1 record for the season. * « Straight Kentucky Bourbon fTOI A years \rf m/WHJy <&s&**> I l : b STRAIGHT HUiTPCCT MBMIOg I ■ ry at y/ivuO'pH' by ... I {‘hMfiifff diAM&d mee’u&njf J Utfif.pncUv<nMiifax*- ' OOTLLEO & BOTfl EO Jl* ‘■% 8 AWCItiNT Atlß HISTH.LINO CO. | FSANKFORT. KtXTUCKF H •v j §® - '-sr B STRAIGHT KENTUCKY BOURBON WHISKEY, 86 PROOF I ANCIENT AGE DISTILLING CO. FRANKFORT. KY. i Elgin Not Available For Pro Bail DETROIT -- (ANP) lt W a foregone conclusion that Elgin Baylor, the Seattle University 1 * .All- American, would be the top choice in the annual draft here last \?eek of the National Basketball Associa tion. But there was no such certainty that the 6-6 star from Washington. D C., would be available for pro fessional competition next year, j In the actual selections, Baylor ; was the pick of the Minneapolis Lakers, which finished the 1957-68 j season with the poorest record, in i either the eastern or western divi ! sion. he verdict from Baylor, in Seat tle, was that he would forego pro basketball next season. “t don't care who drafted me," said Baylor He added that he had made up his mind to get his col-! ! lege degree before giving the piay | for-pay game his attention. j i Earlier, Baylor had declared that , if Seattle was harried from tourn-j ament play next year in National! ; Collegiate Athletic Association ! competition, he might not return tej college, „. . Immediately before the draft took place, Seattle was prohibited torn participating in any more Xq AA tournaments until Sept. 1, 1960.1 The Ch ioftans were accused Os of fering too liberal recruiting in--] ducements to prospective athletes. Baylor was not involved in th«H i charges. - ... | This apparently gave the Lakers! •'fucials some hope that Baylor] ill id reconsider hi* intention not] play pro basketball next, season] Short, the Lakers’ president] id in Minneapolis that he ura] mfident that Baylor would sign] At any rate, Baylor was one oil two tan college players tabbed or* the first round in the NBA play-I 1 maker. . - I 15
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