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14 THE CAROLINIAN WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 81, 1958 Md. State Wins Third Straight Cl A A Baseball Title (*•< ™ ~~ . ~ ” . **“ ' - - ■ i m ifi j Joe Louis* Children L ose Trust Funds On Appeals Court Ruling CHICAGO - ' ANPI—-Ex-heavy - , n-efght champion Joe Louis differ- j ed what may ha the worst knock- ! rut hh Site taut Thursday when | tha b S, court of appeals ruled I the trust fund® he set up for his 1 children must be turned over to the government *n h«lp ® if.-'y th estimated $2-1 million tax bill which Lome w»- Yh# r»fttnir merely affirmed USTON LfiEDS LnrT~.scrar? listen. (rig&rt. 'St Lours irc*T*ywek?k, lands* aWtfe 9rf, gkoulder of CiiWf Julio fi/Momw in the «<s<ww3 round «f their r&ren& bord crt Qsicjzgo Sfenfcsa* Liston scared a two-round T£Q wiiasr a nag .physician baited tb* &jbt Hlfite-ja Malar league Roundup MA 'OR LEAGUE BASEBALL .VOTES CHICAGO <ANP> Willie ; Mavi' tremendous hitting spree kept the >-vn Francisco Cunts at the top of the N moral Fugue Toe outfielder, regarded e? ba-eh.-U's most o:> Citing if r-'! best, perform er was on his wjy to ) !1? b< • l sea son i.h? mi ■■;• . K® • • •• ’nnd in. batting in the nl >• LUL: leading in I hits 1 A', run; O" mo 1 r :- . \ Isecond in horn - runs 'll- and RBI? I (S 3 I Mi' r •• as on® of four C-n players among the RBI loader Hi? team mstf oid talented rook fv.-t base man. Orlando Cepeds had 27 Ertr ie Bank? Chbcigo C'ih--’ •:rjr ■ :: shortstop, and C.-orrm Crowe na; d hitting Cincinnati first baseman had 25 eacn Crew* and Fob?Co Clemente were among the first 10 NL hitlers. The lefthanded swinging Cro ■ « was batting 353. good enough for j third m the NT and ir-ulirs or> Stan. Musial of the St l-nuir Cardi nals, and May? Clemente -as in a : two-way tie for eighth place -with la 314 average I Cepeda m® tied for third In th* Ihome run dc-rbi -th rune tis th® Am er trio be? cue. ?fiaoso v »? among the leader* te.Jjeme runs and f<B* Hr hit hir-sixth hom®? and tlreve in hi? tsih run when he walloped 9 drive that cleared the 355-foot !h*rk !?i Cleveland Ladhim to fire the Indians .T-t«-3, V’ inruns victory over the Boston Red Sox Elston Howard of th» Nev Vork Yankees hit hir first, home run of the season against the tAilc-osm White Sox. a ? 1 -n hi > d that tied the game, wh-b the Yankees von eventually ' to 2 la th* 5 same same. A! Smith. White Sox outfielder hit a futile horner hit- •> u d of i - reason The week before. Smith had* been on Is strong battine apree. far- na his ■versge from nr anemic ,17ft to •’’it I Although bts overire was down 1 Score Was 6-4; piggies Whip FSTC In Season's Final I GREENSBORO .... Thr AA:T fcollegp Aggies closed cm the brt.-p fcall season las?. FrUlnv with a 6-<i pin over Fayetteville State Teach- Btrs College. I The game plaved hero at Mrm prlal Stadium, was a elope con. *si until the sixth frame when, • J. C, Smith Honors 42 Athletes At Ceremony CHARLOTTE -- Johnson C Smith University, which is fast etting into the habit of doing hings in a very big way, awarded westers, letters and certificates to 2 athletes here last week. Twenty-four of the awards were fceiveri by football' players. 14 ■ent to basketball stars and two ach were earned by track and Bmrns performers, i The students receiving letters m iotbail were Lee Pag .* Amos, Wil- Be Boyd, Fab Camp, Charles Cul fcr t, Cornell Cur ning h a m ■fr:er Cureton. Wilbert Dan.. Bheartls Daw son, Philip Dun *en Bunss Dyson, Earl Flint Howard Boode. ‘William Johnson. Ray * IPSI derision by the |J, 8. j Tax poiirt. The opinion written by Judge F. Ryan Duffy, held that Louis ua» insolvent at th* time he hired his wife, who is now Mrs. Marva Trotter ’Oar- j row Spaulding, as manager. She, tn turn, established the j trust funds, totalling $84,0116 for their two children, Jacqueline | sround the 275 level Frank Rob- l : inson, Cincinnati's outfield star, had J ! a 10-game hitting streak going last ; i v cek. Frank Barnes, St Loui# Cardi nals' rookie t ighthander. picked up j iiia fir?* 1558 victory when he turn- j jed in a sparkling relief stint in « 6-to-5 victory over the Brooklyn 1 Rodgers Teammate Sad Sam .lone#, after nicking up three straight victories, lost a heart-breaker to Robin Roberts and the Phila delphia Phillies at Connie j Mark stadium. He pitched hit less b.l| for 1 and 13 innings, j • ben lost th® (game in the Bth when Roberts, Ms pitrhine op- 1 none fit doubled off the ief* i field wail with a mate on first ] base. During spring training, Bob : Beating The Gun F>» HILL BROWER FOR AMP h has been said, there’s no senti | ment in sports. This isn't exactly | true, but it's close enough It. seem > erf that, way last week when the i Cleveland Browns traded Lennie : Ford, the great defensive end. to ; th r - Green Bay* Packers. It’s simply a matter of believing : that Paul Wiggle can get the job | done bettor for u* than Ford,” said < Paul Brown, coach of the National ! Football league eastern division champions If seems lo (in an incredible estimate, but perhaps Brown Imh’ii more about his business P in we do He should. He has hern I- inning division or world fi ! !es for el.chi seasons isace one! Ihc NFL and for four r.iHnns bi (he old All America conference Even so. it's hard to reconcile ‘•■.id 1 - departure from the Browns ! M p became a fixture- with the per- the Aggies blasted in three-runs to take the lead for good. The winning pitcher was Aussie | Broadnax, the loser was Robertj Gordon. Both rent the distance. The win cave the Aggies a 9-4 ' mud for the season. mond McDougaJ, Dalton Maynard. Wilton Mitchell, Robert Moore, James Mapper, Herbert powe, Mo ses Sharpe, William Smith, John Steele. Eniesi Wade and John i Watson. Clarence Baines. John Craw ford. Joseph Crenshaw, Norton Frazier, Robert Parks, Kenneth Garrison. Harry Womack, Ken neth Diamond, George Johnson, Alvin Jackson, William Vincent, Edward Dowdy, Herman .Pugg-,! ‘and William A Smith won let re' - :in basketball, an’ William John- i ' san and Seldon Chiles received let-! ter, for track and Edward Dowdy j and James Mapper won letters fori i tennis. ’ I j and .toe Jr, Though the ex-champ w« hav- I mg tax troubles, he was still msJf j ing big money in th« ring. A separate concurring opinion by ; Judga Philip ,T. Finnegan held that Mrs, Louis “acted a* a conduit'' is j transferring to the children, ard-ely j to keep it out of the government’# I hand#. i Boyd, Baltimore Onoter* ftara* baaa j man and leading hitter 4o 19«, vat* : gripped by a tenacious Mump. Si ! carried over into Die regular m son. and Boyd, a fancy ontfiohter, lout his starting job to a Jim Marshnll In Boston, Boyd swapped out of | bis doldrums with a dOn-foct home 1 run and a single in two time# at ! bat. He continued hitting in T3«- ; troit with » pair of single# off the i left handed throwing Billy Hoeft,, 1 Larry Do by made hi® first -rp ; poarance at bat for the Cleveland j Indians in a month when ho was | railed on a® a pinch-hitter against j the Boston Rrd Sox Poby, count j *’d on to supply much needed pow •■-r for the Indian®, ha? been side ! lined with a mystifying sore showk d»r w'hieh hamper® his throwing anraat ohamp-ione in IQSA. the ftr*» season for Cleveland as fee 141%. He has been e mainstay as ® defray nve end ever since. He ha* bean all-pro choice several times. Most Cleveland sane will remem ber his greatest, performinica. Tha* was in the championship game to 1950 Ford had herni out o# action since late October beoau.se of e broken jaw. When *h» championship game with the Los Angeles Rams came up on Christmas Eve that year. Ford was under weight, and b«!ow par physically because of an en forced liquid diet. He had dressed, for the game, but he didn't esrpeet to see any action. But early tn the geme the Browns lost on* of then- defensive ends through an injury and Ford went into the contest The rest of the af+emoon he made M® miser able for the Rams* backs The Browns won incidentally on i last-second field goal by Lou Groza The score was 20-2 R, That, broken law occurred frn » game with the Chicago Card inals. Lennie, a 2SR- pounder, always teas a demon rusher aed * onrvsfcMit threat, to the opposition's passer. Late In the same, he barreled Into the Cardinals' hack field and wa* caught under the few with the elbow of fullback Pat Harder, Some thought it was deliber ate. At my rate Lennie suffered S J crippling In.iury that rßqtiiimd a I thorough job of facial surgery. ! Ford did not hold th«t aga-tost | Harder. iat*r traded to the Do» j troll Lion a But the incident itSd not deter Lonnie from going on to becoming the most feared defen sive end in pro football He was th© smashing type of perform©*, who could upset tnterefere *nd reen stop runners behind the hue of Fcnmmage H» was, as mentioned before, merciless in his pressure on passers. But we have been speaking nif Ford as though his career is over. Apparently, the Green Bay Pack ers don’t think so. They stave up an undisclosed draft choir* to the Browns for the big fellow. To recent years, the Packers h***« lacked defensive strength on the wings. Ford might give them a big lift. As a matter of fact, mold of the 1937 season. Ford was h*«- iiig a great time «f ft frw th* Browns, He sparked the dofrav •ive unit as the team made » i"'j* comeback, after a sub-par j i??.« wesson Ford played all of ♦he lOIA campaign with a torn I Uitle finger I His performance tapered o#f MRS, MAYS IN-IERF!) Mrs. Willie Mays, wife of the stay ,\.»n Francisco Giants centerflelder, wa> **j»k«n un but not srrinosiv in.lnred at San Francisco recently I na two-car collision. Checking her -n* jnred arm at Doctor’s Hospital is Dr. Mortimer Weiss. She was riding in a car driven b.v her brother, Oil arte# Wendell, 25. (UNITED PRESS TELEPHOTO) - Ha s Ricke v Done It Agoi n ? \ | DOS ANGELES -- (ANP After | watching the Pittsburgh Pirates • beat Si® Dodger# as >f they owned | them, one can not help but think ■ Rickey ha* dope it. again. The pr*s« : en* woo of Pirates under the dir- ! ection of Manager Danny Mur- ; tauah are mostly Rickey discover- ! | ms. I Wbssn Branch Rickey left S' Loui* some years ago. they gave j ! him a watch with the ifiwnption on j the back, “so you can always now when it is time come hark to ! us in St. Louis" But exet pt for a ' visit Branch never returned. ftt Brooklyn b® luirt Ibr groundwork for creating » pen nant writer for a number of years. After tea vine Brooklyn j for Pttisbureb, th*> m®n !® put Bit# hi® baseball know linw to worts again with the Tlratcs. He is chairman of the hoard of romcw-Jiat the laßer part of km ] fall when be wa# bothered by a I sore shoulder. Ford, now 3?. played college foot- i ball, at Michigan He was an All- : American end. His fir«t two see- j son# in pi*o football were with the : ‘ l,o# Angeles Don® FT® hid boon so ! bothersome to the Brown* in the | | old All-American conference that i be was the find player Coach Brown seized when personnel of the disbanded teams went un for grabs after the merger of the AAC and the NF L. Brown has never regretted ft, either. But a® we were saying, j i thorn Is little, or no sentiment in sportg. Old athletics have to make way for younger blood. Grain sorghum' tmiloi has the ability to prodnr? a wop durinc i dry weather that often reduces corn yield#, Pont ship boss In, an ever-load truck. TOCSXX- ■ Moom <m oversized Mbft&p npm his canwxl m *fcm Fm&dsc© teco&tty* Mbe*# was m the Gokteft Goie City peer© for his nsa-litb 10-reuedsr ’with Charli© Norkus '3l the Cine- Auditorium. is&vfssxim Photo). i #-■ the Puates. starts them Yot sa Most of the present c p were ! taken right out of college and add- | cd to the Pirate roster. Take the , three pitchers that ar® making Mur* j laugh all smile® these days—Bob ! Friend, V*rn Law and Ron. Kline, j | They five all Rickey acquisitions. Frank Thomas. Roberto Clement, j Dick Great, Boh Skinner and little ; i Bill Mazereski. alt got the Rickey i ! stamp of approval when they were ; ! lust a bunch of green youngsters. | Now 70 year?, old. the grand old ; man of baseball, can smile with, satisfaction. The Pirates are deliv ering. FIVE YEAR PLAN When Rickey came to Pitts- All-Sports \ Bang cl At S. C State i pf m . ■ ■ ■ 1 ORANGF RG S C. The! | South Carol , State College cul-i ; minat-ed its a JefcJe year with the ' all-sports banquet last Wednesday night- with t 1 athletes and their guests enjoying the festivities. Vis iting coaches from Claflin, Voor | bees, S. C. A. T s„ North Carolina College, and T essee State wet - i at hand to honor the “Bulldogs.’’ j Johnny B. McLendon. Head has | ketbail coach at Tennessee State gave interesting accounts of hi? j teams’ participatv -n *n the N. A ! T. A. backetbal’ .ournameiit in ’ Kansas City. Other remark' were made bv President B. C. l or. F. M. Sta . ley, and H. W. C ford Leo Ker forri. Instructor of Law. was toast - : master b«ri;h he s»id B would tike «i 1< x#t five years to build the then bepelpsa Pirstes. Tb° fan had confidence in the man, bul the writers only ridiculed and laughed it the man who has ! repeatedly made history in the hiseba 1 > world. tn 165! <hc long, sccminglv nope. ! !es< program began, but .in unfor* ■ itinaie tiling took piece in ’ 55. : when Branch had a mild set hack i : Now it 1 10k* a# *f the boy? #r„ go- ; : -ng to pay off, -and no one thought \ so but .R-ckey Ther*: h'-'i't been s pennant Flag ! waving over Forbes field since j 1027. This could very well be the year, and if so, if will have to be ••-•id “Branch Rickey has don* It again " ffl m ** ..- Lr^i« m OLD SUNNY BROOK COMPANY, LOUiSYILLE. KENTUCKY- Unable To Represent CIAA, NAIA In Texas WASHINGTON. I). C --“'Mary -’j land College's Hawks won ! their thud consecutive CIAA 1 ball title since entering the CtAA | in 1951. Maryland won in 1954 but ; was nosed out by A A T. In 1055 1 The Hawks compiled, during the ■ current season, a 1.3-1 record for winning percentage of 929. A 93 defeat by arch rival A A T College prevented the Maryland Gain from completing an undefeat ed season. Maryland State was ?<-]*, ted to represent the CIAA and the com- , bine NATA Districts “D-d m the ; Second Annual NAIA Basebal’ ■ Champ onahlp® June 17 a* Alpine. ■ Three Major Teams Scout Clown Rookies ; HOLLYWOOD. Fl» < ANP' -The , 1 major leagues are looking more | ! rind more to independent clubs, i ! tike Syd Pollock s Indian-opoUs i Clowns, for tomorrow's Stan Mu* i sials, Jackie Robinsons and Ted ; Williamses. As evidnnee of this, Sylvester Snead. ex-Negro American league i star, pilot of several Canadian lea- j gue championship team® and man- ! ager of the 29th edition of bare- ! ball's top funmaker? '(ported that thro# Clowns xookles are being , scouted by major league clubs and j ‘may get their “big chance** before .mother campaign roil® around. The trio “under the rye" »r* 1 Hilly McDaniels, a Milwaukee 1 Braves propped; Walter Robinson, j a potential bn !'■'• D t i!!imo r e On ole.-,; and Dong Williams, ngbthsnd : mainstay, slated to join the Chics- ' j go While Box next spring. Earlier in the #easen, Hte gf i Pikhpr KHY^iourl Browns Trade Len nie To rd To Packers For Grid Rookie ! CLEVELAND cW'Fi Lennie ; j Ford, a 10-year veteran in proses- : sional football, last week was trad- j ed by the Cleveland Brown? in the | Gr ■■on Bay Packer® for an uod . j i dosed draft choice He her! been 1 ! a member of the Browns for eight i year® j The move was paid of ibe Browns j j announced move to rebuild for ! | youth. The general feeling la that Ford ‘ despite his 32 years, will help the Packers, one of the most bruising j unit® in football. A f5-foot-5-inch ; T^vas &f>r- mse distance .and f 3 r-sI animations tb* Maryland Stitt* • ram will bo unable to mak* the trip. I’inal vm CIAA tsuoditigs TV L Maryland State College 13 1 NC. A S- T College S 4 Shaw University 8 S Howard University 5 ? Winston Salem Teachers 5 3 Dr law are 5 5 Elizabeth City s 7 Fayetteville Teacher* College 3 5 Hampton Institute 3 10 Lincoln University 1 -3 Blues h si;,ti» 0 3 the Cincinnati Rcdlega ter a. ' 'terable mini." After three weeks in the Tunp* (Flat ramp, he was signed to a Sa vaniah (South Atlantic tea -61101 contract, and iater upped to the A Ibuqnertiue, TV. Me*-. 1 West League, Class A) team The Clowns have two games 1 scheduled in the south before be ginning their northern jaunt. They upon June 8. in Pusswood Park. Memphis; and then play the new | 22.000-seat Fairgrounds stadium. | Louisville. June 3. The northern swing start# with i Connie Mack stadium. Philadel phia, June 13; and goes to Gris : fith stadium, Washington, 0 C.. ; June 13: Westport stadium. Bhflti- I more, June 20, and Yankee stad ium, Now York, Tune 77, The' Philadelphia game ••'•ill be s potisorted by the oharlttes of the ; Philadelphia Tribune in cooper?. - ! Him with tb« North Philadelphia 1 Federation of Older Bovs' club? 280 pounder, th rdefensiv* end, is j fast despite his size For years he • figured In the Browns victory ! drives. Ford in 1334 was * National 1 Football League all-star selection ; Last year he helped the Browns win 'he Eastern Division champ ionship. I 'L_ Minor elements ar* essenUal te? ' fop production of some crops June is a month of abundant dairy production.