Morgan Bears Retain Cl A A Track Crown For 10th Yr.
Jackie Says Branch Rickey
Gave Him the Best Advice
In the highly competitive field of
sports, timely advice from an ex
pert or someone on top often goes
s long way, Jackie Robinson, form
er Brooklyn Dodgers star, once re
ceived such instruction from the
nan whose daring helped write
baseball history. Jackie calls it
' The Be-: Advice I Ever Had."
The subject referred to here, deals
v ith an article by the title in the
May issue of Reader’s Digest, in
v hich Robinson, now a high-salar
ird executive with a prominent
restaurant chain, discussed an ad
\ ice he received from Branch Ric
key sovtvai years ago but which
li; >• stuck with him since.
The incident occurred in (be
full of lIH wiu-n f Rickey
president of the then faltering
Brooklyn Dodgers, the story
explains. Rickey, whom Jack
ie referred lo .is ‘one of tlir
finest men in baseball (Rickey
Is now chairman of the board
BYE BYE BABY Ralph Du pas heads for the eanves after br
ing belted by a hard left from Champion Joe Brown in Mie Sth round
of their bout in Houston. Texas last week. Brown scored a technic; !
knockout over Dupas in the Sth to retain his lightweight title. (UNIT
ED PRESS TELEPHOTO).
Brown Keeps Pre-Fight
Promise; Stops Dupas In
Sth With 2-Fisted Drive
HOUSTON', Tex. (ANP)
.lolling Joe Brown, otherwise
known as the lightweight champion
of the world, kept a pre-fight pro
mise last Wednesday night when he
slopped challenger Ralph Dubas
with a slashing two-fisted attack in
the eighth round of their schedul
ed Hi-round fight here.
As 11,000 fans, the largest, fight
crowd in Texas boxing history,
lockeo on. Brown slowed up Du
pas systematically, then cut
him down with a barrage of punch
es in 2:21 of the eighth round. He
floored his opponent three times
before Referee Jimmy Webb inter
toned to save Dupus from further
punishment. Before the fight,
Brown predicted that he would
knock out.his man within seven or
eight rounds.
TWO OUTCASTS
Actually, the lightweight bout
r ime to Houston byway of New
Orleans; Both boxers are natives of
the Crescent City, but a much cri
ticfssed anti-mixing law kept them
Horn fighting before a hometown
rndience. Brown, the champion, is
Pinetops May Festival
Attracts 5 Big Bands
By J. B. HARKEN
PINETOPS The annual May
Hay festical of the G. W. Carver
High School was presented indoors
Kay 7th due to the recent heavy
rains. The weather did permit the
parade to executed in order with
six floats and six bands participat
ing along with marching groups
Jed by Boy Scouts,
Theme of the festival was;
“Flowers of Other lands in An
American Flower Garden.”
The Queen of May was Maggie
Br -m s, who ascended her throne
"’Rants, Bcttve Ann i
' 'mnt. Jessie Whit- <
** ,!r )c Jordan, Barbara I i
of the Pittsburgh Pirates)", had
summoned Robinson to his of
fice to sign the agreement to
piay with the Dodgers.
'Hie meeting was a momen
tous ot;e and, since he was r.-
bout to become the first mem
ber of his race to enter orga
nurd baseball, Robinson was
understandably perturbed. He
was especially concerned about
the fans reaction.
Always frank and lo the point.
; Rubmson put the question square
i iy to Rickey, the story states. "How
j will the crowd take it. Mr. Rickey 4 *’
j he a.-ked. “Will the white fans get
worked up’ If they do, what will
1 the Negroes do? If things really gel.
out. of hand, here could be a riot."
i Rickey’s answer was just as
frank. "Jackie,” he said, ". . . you
will save yourself a Jot of grief if
you don't look for trouble." and he
tola a story to ilustrate his point.
a Negro. Dupas officially is consid
ered white, aitho he had to undcr
: so severe court tests to prove it.
There still is some disagreement
"bout his present .status.
Wednesday night. Texans who
: bwjefitted from Louisiana bias, tos
: red a total of $08,710 into the hop
; per for the privilege of watching
(he fight from ringside. Millions
others throughout the nation view
ed the action from living room
teats.
BROWN KUPRJ m:
Brown was in command through
out. Except for bis customary slow
start, he was not extended by Du
pas, who contented to stab and
run. A body attack finally slowed
him down. A right to the jaw late
m the seventh started him on. the
way lo ruin.
CHALLENGES LANE
Immediately after the fight,
| Brown issued a challenge to Kcn
jny Lane, the No. ) contender. "I
{ hope brother Lane was watching
j because f plan to do the same thing
| to him in B 0 days. “Brown annottn-
I ced.
Pender and Peggy Hussey were
flower girl and ring beater, re- I
spc-ctivcly. Various dancing groups 1
performed before the queen and
her court, alternating with selec
tions from the bands who were fes
tival guests.
Guests of the Carver band were; i
Conetoe high school band; Suggs
high band, Farmville; Pattillo High !
band, Tarboro; Phillip high band, j
Battleboro; and Booker Washington 1
band. Rocky Mount,
Carver principal Samuel A. Gil- j
liam, his teachers and students, at
tempted to impress the part “flow- j
ers from other lands” have played !
in making Americans happy j
* * ‘ j*******.
«>W 1-R TWOSOME Chicago slugger Lee Walls, left, and Ernie Banks, compare batting grips
j prior to the game with Milwaukee at Chicago recently. Vtails. the team's rightfielder was leading the
majors with nine homers, while shortstop Banks ha< six citcuit clouts to his credit, Milwaukee won the
game, 4-3. (UNITED PRESS TELEPHOTO).
I Giants May Have Real “Find”
;In Puerto Rican Ist Sacker
j SAN FRANCISCO When the
i transplanted Now York Giants op
ened regular National League com
j petition for the fir.-t time under
j the Sun Franeiso auspices, the
. teai,: s f.iv,l f-'". .n.in wn- a ‘v-vi n
j old Puerto Rican who had made
j big time w ith just three years of
, minor league experience behind
him.
Crlandn CLp.io,. picked by some
expei ts a Pm- 1 ,'s p ,me candi
date for i ookie-of-the-year. also ful
filled the expectation? of Horace
j Stoneiiani. ov rc-r of flu- club
Russia’s Musclemen Arrive Far
Athletic Contests In The USA
' j NF.W YORK y AN P, A
1 squad of seven Russian weightlift
! j ers six ot them world champions
; arrived m New York Cit.v las;
: | Thursday foi i series of thr* - coin
! petitions against a selected A. A
; U. squad.
Match*: have beep, scheduled for
Ihe InR-rnat tonal Amphitheatre in
j Chicago mi May (he Masonic
j '-mph: in Detroit on M:.y if, ip and
_ : Madison Square Garden. N. Y. C.
j for May 17th.
Following their arrival in New
\ork, the Russians were temporal
ly bon led at the Hotel Manhattan
l.eht L“ H Vu~ ( To " y Anthony, right, rocks Artie Miller with a savage right uppercut during their
light-ht avywcight bout at the St. Nicholas Arena, New York City recently. Anthony unleasetl a shat-I
.•A? B *, ° f I “ stra,Kht Punches to knock out Miller in the sih round. Earlier, he had battered Miller
* un consecutive punches without drawing a eturn. (UNITED PRESS PHOTO).
Over 18 Million Listeners Heard
Basiiio - Robinson Bout On Radio
1 NEW YORK i ANP) -An es
j Unrated audience of more than 13, I
i 000,000, in and out of homes com- I
| bined, listened to CBS Radio dur- !
j tog >ts exclusive coverage of the !
j " Grid middleweight championship
i fight between Carmen Basiiio and
j • ugar Ray Robinson on March 25 i
I According to NT-Ison, more than '
j 7,760,000 families were reached -- I
1 over one quarter more homes than '
Before the team was officially
■ witched from New York to the
Golden Gate, Stuneham declared:
“Orlando Cepada will open first
base for us in San Francisco "
After watching him in spring
1 raining—fielding more thap ade
quately and hititng quite robustly •
there was no doubt that Cepada de
served the chance.
Os course, he had ai rived at the
Giants' training base in Phoenix
'"ith a substantial reputation. Tn
his three-year minor league career
be had led two leagues in hitting
until their departure for Chicago.
While here they worked out at the
Berkeley Health Club and Gun
iiuMtun at 19 We! -44th Si.
World ,'hampions on the ftus
ian team Include Vladimir St > ■
?ov. bantam weight Eugene Mi
u'v, featherweight, Victor Rus'i
gey, lightweight, Trefim Lom
skin, light-heavyvveiglit, Arka
dij Verebjev, middle-heavy
weight and Alex Mod veiiey,
heavyweight, Olympic champ
ion middleweight, Fedor, Bogda
novlsky, lost the world champ
ionship to America’s Tommy
by the previous Basilio-Robinson
light on another network,
TheJb figures were considered all
the more remarkable because of the
lateness of the hour. The fight was
broadcast from 11:00 PM-12 25 AM,
Eastern Time, but nearly two
ibirds of all radio families were
tuned to the 198-station CBS Ra
dio Network hookup.
batting .393 with Kokomo >lnd,) to
lead the Class D Mississippi—Ohio
Valley League in 1955, and .355 for
bit Cloud (Minn.) to lead the Class
C Northern League in J 958.
Then, in 1957. he made the big
jump to Minneapolis of the Ameri
can Association, only one notch be
low the* majors. With the Millers
he produced a .309 batting mark.. 35
home tuns and 108 runs batted m.
That halted the. Giants’ to think
o f his future possibilities and
p oinpL’d Stoneham to predict that
he would be ready this season.
Kane when the pair Red in t*
tal lifts but (he American’*
lighter body weight gave him
the crown.
All members of tha Russian
quad with the exception of Bush
ti"v are ''Honored Masters of
Sport of the USER" Bushuev Is a I
"Master of Sports of the U. S. S. R,* J
Keno’s presence on the U. S
quad means every world champ- j
■on tv ill be seen in the matches He ;
Lew from his homo in Honolulu
to join Charles Vinci of New York,
F,:., bon^ft weight; Isaac Berger of
Brooklyn, featherweight; Joe Pit-
| The figure of 18,000,000 individ
j ual listeners, as estimated by CBS
Radio, exceeded the network’s pre
j fight estimate by 20 per cent.
The- broadcast also made history
! '•' hen sports writer Wendell Smith j
j became the first Negro to broad- I
j c'ast a title fight. He worked with I
Jack Drees, noted fight common- I
i tutor. I
Winston-Salem Places 2nd; Sets
New Mark In 220-Yard Low Hurdles!
13 ALT) MORE, Md. Morgan
State College out-ran the formid
able Winston-Salem Rams here
Tenn. State’s Tigerbelles
Capture Tuskegee Relays
TUSK EGFE INSTITUTE. Ala.
*ANP» Tennessee State's Olym
pic and AAV Tigerbeile* amassed
i«3 points lo dominate the 30!h An
nual faskegee Women's Day. Tus
kegee Institute finished .second
mih 90 points in the spirited uvo
leam contest.
David T. Howard High Atlanta,
coped the junior women s team
championship with 68 points turn
ing back a strong team from Lin
coln High, Port Arthur. Texas, with
40 points. Booker T. Washington,
Atlanta, was tlsird with 32 point
Coach Edward S Temple s Tiger
belles came home first in the 80
meter hut dies, 50. 100. 200 and 400
meter events.
BEATING THE GUN
By BILL BROWER
In Detroit last week 3 threat of a
boycott loomed again#! the Tigers
because of the American League
club’s refusal or at least failure -
to acquire a tan player
The Rev. George Hill, Jr . dean
! tius United Theological seminary
I is heading itie committee which is
, planning the boycott.
"We feel that the dub has hud
ample opportunity and time to hite
colored bail players, said the Kev.
•Mr. Hill.
CLUB PRfcXY BALKS
Harvey Hansen, president of the
Detroit team, declared.
“They (the boycott commit
tee) insisted that we make such
s commitment whether we had
a qualified major league play
er or not. We refused."
Hansen went on to say that
Detroit would have a tan play
er on its roster at the earliest
date that such a player was
ready."
Thai's art old saw. Tan players j
; have been playing major league i
I baseball for 11 seasons. Currently,
I I very team in toe two majors, ex
| cept the Tigers and the Boston Red
i Box, have Negro players.
WHO'S KIDDING WHO
it the Sail Francisco Giants can
field a team with five tan players
factually six are on the roster! ca
pable of playing major league
baseball, surely the Tiger* and the
Red Sox can find at least one.
Wo know that the Tiger* undei
the oid Briggs regime had no in
tention of using tan players. Wh
the team w«« purchased by its n
; owners a couple of years a
j hopes wer« high that the lily whi.
! policy would undergo a change.
TSADE GOSSIP FIZZLES
There was talk during the 01
! season ttiat the Tigers would t.
to get Larry Doby in a trade with
the Chicago White Sox, Noth u, ;;
came of it, and Doby went to Bal
timore, thence to Cleeviand, where
he broke Into the major leagues in
j 1947.
There was also trade gossip
| to the effect that the Tiger*
sought Junior Gilliam from the
Los Angeles Dodgers. The re
port was that five National Lea -
gue clubs refused to waive him
out of th« league.
But the record still apeak*
far Itself. The Tigers have not
yet put a Negro on If* roster,
although there are 17 tan play
ers In the team's farm system.
John MVHale, the Tigers* bu
siness. manager, echoes Hansen:
VSC Gives Account
OF Track Prowess
! PETERSBURG, Va. Th« Vie
| Rirtia Stater* again gave a grand
I account of their track prowess at
j the Peaunylvanla Relays held r
oeutiy »r* Philadelphia, Penosylva
ni*. Competing with some of th<
top runner* in the nation, State
still managed to capture its share
of the glory.
In the class mile relay 'he Staters
led the pack for three laps but a
strong finishing' drive put on b.v
Roanoke College forced the Tro
jans to take a second place ahead
of Connecticut Teachers in 3rd an; 1
U. S. Merchant Marine Academy in
4th place.
Members of State's relay team
were Eugene Carmichael, Har
ry Smith, Milton Johnson and
Randall Davis. The winning
time was 3 ntln. and 25 sec. V S.
C had a second place time of i
min. and 25.1 sec.
Virginia State also took a third
in the first heat of the 440 yard re
lay and of the 28 college and uni
versifies participating. State bad
the Sth fastest time in this event
"•The Trojans also took a 4th place
in the one half mile reply, with a
time of 1 min. and 31.5 seconds
man, Vero Beach, Fla., lightweight
Jim George, Akron. Ohio, light
heavy weight: Dove Shepard, mid
die heavy weight and Jim Brad- !
ford of Washington, D. C. heavy- j
weight.
Kono Is * two time Olympic
champion and Berger and Vinci
won Olympic titles at Melbourne
ir. .1 Dn6. Vereboys as well as Bog- |
danovsky arc Russian Olympic
gold medal winner®, |
ajs ' THE
WEEK ENDING
Saturday to annex her tend*
Haight CIAA Track and Field
championship.
Tuskegee won the discus, shot put
and javelin in, field competition.
Shirley Crowder won the 80 me
te hurdles m 12 3,5. Isabelle Dan
iils came home first in the 50 me
tcr run m 6.2 Barbara Junes blax
home first in the 100 meter in
LI and Lucinda Williams was first
in the 200 meter run in 24.5.
Barbara Jacket, fuskegee. won
the discus with a heave of 110 feet,
while Annie (’rooms nabbed the
' Lot put w ith a toss of 33 feet, 11-
3-4 inches Annette Jenkins, Tuske
■■ee won the javelin with a throw
of 119 feet, 11 inches
Margaret Mathews and Jean
Terry. Tennessee Stale, won the
i) oat! jump and the high jump re
spectively.
lie U be a bail player He won't
be here as a gesture."
As we have said that's an old
.-aw winch we’re not buying.
it's of course about time that De
t<-oit Negro fans voiced their un
happiness about the situation. They
provide a good, share of the Briggs
Stadium palrnncge, And we think
they're entitled to some considera
tion.
PROTEST JUSTIFIED
Wm n Uoby first entered the
b'-ig w. Negro fans surged to Briggs
Stadium every time the Cleveland
Indians appeared, They continue to
make the turnstiles click merrily.
How long they will continue this
loyalty to tire iilywhUe Tigers is
questionable.
This is not the fii-t time Negroes
have been up in arms over the re-
Listu ui a .-.pons organization to
give them a tumble Similar action
lias been threatened against the
Washington Redskins, a pro foot
ball team. It is the only Notional
football League team that persists
in the v, hite supremacy practice.
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SATURDAY, MAY IT. 198* T"'
|ln one ot moat «lo«ely con 9
1 tested title meet* in almost a «la;-9
i ade, Coscfe Eddie Kurt'* GfUfter.®
j Bear* scored f* JbS* point* to a 4! J|
j point total St* Karas. Nor! Ig
Carolina College ot Durham ui»
, third with 28 point#, Msrj'iani'®
State fourth with 15 pointy
Howard fifth with 13 point*. ,i£
A* 'it won Wilbur Sosa’ *en- 9
National Ram# accounted for the 9
ouiy new collegiate record of 9
She meet held May 9-19 at Mot- 9
fan's Hughes Stadium. Frauds W
Washington out-stepped bis 9
terrific teammate Elia# Gilbert ||
to win the 220 yard low hurdles 9
In the new time of 23.5. This 'm
time beat the oid record of SJ. ||
4 set oy Lee Calhoun of North 9
Carolina College in 1956. l\
Morgan’s mile relay team ran'«
2.113 race to equal the old meet!
record set. by a Bear team in 1954 M
Paul Winder. Hosea Smith. Bofct|
Me Mu rray. and Nick Ellis did tis« 9
hick. m
In retaining her CIAA track diaß
d-in, Morgan won six of the sev-El
intern collegiate titles at Stake 9
|m king up firsts in the sprint mod-B
Icy, th.* mile run. the
cash, trie 100 yard dash, the 33<j9
yard d.ch. an dthe mile relay. jrj
Bob Kerry successfully re- B
tained hi* mile nin title, but |||
came in second behind Godfrey 9
Moore of Winston-Salem in 111# |§
bid to win the two-mllr eb*m- B
pionshlp two year* in t row-. B
Bobby Gordon. Bear from Co- B
iuinbia, S. C.. successfully dr- B
fended his 100-yard title and Bj
won the 270 yard dash a* well. B
Cai'dcseo High of Washington. o|ij
C unseated McKinley Tech, also ol
D. C. as scholastic champ by a ha’Sg
'■oint. scoring a lotal of 30 pointsß
Norcum of Virginia was thud wittß
24 1-2 points, Spingarn of D. C.Ri
fourth with 19 1-2 point* snrß
Huntington, of Virginia, fifth wittfl
12 points Cardozo set a record i |S|
the high itimp. and Huntington seß
.1 ; ecord in the 220 yard !,nw hur-M
dies. JiS
A THOUGHT 2
‘ Our civilization cannot survhfl
materially unless it be rcdccm r iH
spiritually" sort Wwirirmv Wilsor9l
Profitable corn production ijM
highly dependent upon proper fcr-H
; lih nation. 91
North Carolina farmers »-9|
more certified hybrid corn
than those of any other
state. |||
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