Ligon Swamps Hillside, 28-6 RAMS’ STALWARTS These footballers, Bobby Rowe. all-CIAA quarterback, ami Jodie Wilson, pssing and touchdown combination star, have seen much action with the Winston Salem Teachers pHege Rams ibis season Junior Police Football league Gains Following WASHINGTON, D C.—The spie led competition of the eight tarns of the Junior Police and biizens Corps Football League t>rccast future for the league ihich came into existence this ear. Each team has it-s own name nd uniforms. Tire member teams fifch their current league standing s of Sunday. Oct. 19th are: Jexander Romans . 4 o Vinidad Rockets - 3 i 0 unior Saints 2 11 tonteilo Bisons . 2 1 W. Colts 1 2 last Capital A.C. * 0 2 2 trojans 0 4 >. c. Cannons . 0 3 All of the league games are played on local and nearby Virginia playgrounds accord ing to a regular schedule on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons. Last Saturday night the two leading teams, the Alexander Romans and Trinidad Rockets battled It for Ist place standing. Both Off To Good Start: Wilt Chamberlain Averaged 30 Points A Game Ist Month CHICAGO —Wilt (The Stilt) i Shamberlain. hailed by many ex <‘t up the first score during the first quarter. Johnson also passed to Fletcher Snipes for the 17 yards. In t.h< second quarter Johnson punched over from two yards out for a 12-0 j lead, but Hillside came bre k vuh I its lone touchdown on a 40-yard | pass play from Harrison i.vons to | Otis Wright. Ligon pul the game out of Hillside’s reach in the fourth quarter with two additional tourhdow ns. Biily Robertson ran 30 vards i after William Hartsfieid's pass interception set up the push. William fDoodlunJ Tale ran .seven yards for the final score to cap a 45-yard advance. Raymond Henderson sparkled in logon's cie i tensive play. | This victory gave Ligon eight j wins against one defeat. The Little Bluer, will end this : grjdlton season at Winston-Salem j Thursday when they are hosted by ! Adkins High School of that city. BEATING TIE GUN BY HILL BROWER j There was a basketba double ! header in Cincinnati last week. It ’ was between pro teams —The St. ! Louis Hawks and the Boston Cel tics and the Detroit Pistons and ' the Cincinnati Royals. Nobody I cared about the outcome oi the | exhibition tilts involving the Na -1 t.ional Basektball Association teams. ! But wiiat the 5.511 spectators . who paid their way into Cincin | nati Garden did care about -and ; the 20 players who participated jin rhe event--was that Maurice Stokes would someday be able to appreciate fully this heart-warm ing gesture. He received a check for $lO.- 121.40 to help nay his hospital and | medical expen. as he tries to fight hi- way back to health Stokes has been critically ill since last March 15, when lie was stricken after a game be tween the Pistons and Royals in Detroit. The illness was first diagnosed as encophali tis (sleeping sickness), bat re cently doctors have listed it as oncephalopathy ia brain ailment j. The muin.wav of the Royals whs dazed during play oi a Cincinnati game at Minneapolis March 12. It is believed that the injury was a forerunner to his injury. All four teams paid their ex penses for the benefit double header. All of the proceeds, after taxes, went to Stokes, who had been hospitalized more than 200 days, still unable to speak and is almost completely paralyzed. In a. way, the story of Stokes is more tragic than that of Roy Campanula. He was stricken at the peak of his career. He had been recognized as one of the best all-round performers in pro bas ektbaJl in three seasons. This marvelously condition ed, beautifully proportioned athlete was struck down with the, baffling Illness as he rode a bus from Detroit to the Wil - low Run airport after a play off game at the close of last season. Stokes played Jus college baa ektball at little St. Francis Col lege of Lorette, Pa. He attracted i national attention in the 1955 National Invitation Tournament, when he almost single-handedly carried the Frankies to an as tounding upset. His performance was so brilliant that he was nam ed the tourney's most valuable player. It was taken for granted that someday he would star in the pro ranks. He wn.s the first draft choice of the Royals, then in Ro chester, in 1955. He was a classy performer in the NBA from the beginning. He was rookie of the year in 1955-56. Stokes might me surpassed by Bob Pettit or George Yard ley as a scorer: by Bill Russell as a rebounder by Bob Cousy or Bill Sharman as a ball han dler or playniaker, and by someone else (nobody comes to mind) as a defensive per former—but none of these front-ranked players can ex eel him when It comes to com bining all of these talents. He is the game’s best all-around player. Nobody will dispute that. Doctors think he has a chance to again live a normal life, but they doubt that he wil! ever play basketball again. Big Mo. as he is affectionately known around the NBA, hasn’t, given nn hone of re turning to the basektball floor. He tells bus family «hat, he will play again. safdsa MAD SCRAMBLE Jimmy Brown (32) Cleveland Browns' star fullback, ploughs through an opening In the Chicago Cardinals’ line ior three yards and a touchdown ixi the 4th quarter >i Chicago last Troians’ Jeter Is CfAA Tots! Offense It. -sr; Siiaw Tops Sn Defense; A&T Aggies Lesdir, •• Offense DURHAM—Virginia State Col lege's DeWayne Jeter, unranked previously in CIAA statistics, leap ed to the. top of total offense lead ers this week with 43 yard* in 5 games. In 68 plays, the Trojans’ quarterback rushed !3l yards and passed 868. Joseph buggs of Elizabeth City moved into tire ntflner-up spot this week after placing fifth the week before. He amassed a total of 479 yards—47l of them on the ground. Maryland State’s Billy “The Shadow" Gray repeated this Tan Players Outstanding In Big Ten CHICAGO (AMR' With North western University in the role of a Cinderella team, the Big Ten has been in for some surprises in the fust, hall of the 1958 football campaign. The performances of tan play ers on the conference teams has been outstanding. Negro players are playing key roles on all squads with the exception of Minnesota Northwestern’s Wildcats have two of the best halfbacks in the conference in co-captain Wllmer Fowler and Ron Burton Both are Ohioans -Fowler from Mansfield and Burton from Springfield. A hard runner, Burton was tied for the Big Ten scoring lead at this writing. He picked up three touchdowns in the Wildcats ast onishing 55-to-24 triumph over Michigan, raising fits season’s pro duction to 42 points on seven TD’s FOWLER. IMPRESSIVE Fowler was injured in the early part of the campaign, but moved into high gear against Michigan, gaining 70 ya ds. He was North western’s loading rusher last year and there is not a faster back in the conference. Fowler was the Big Ten sprint champion last spring, Hon Clark, the 190-pound halfback of Ohio State’s champion Buckeyes, is making » solid bid for All-American honors this season. The senior from Akron is also shooting to break Howard (Hopalongi Cassady’s four-year offensive total of 2,530 yards in three seasons. Despite injuries, Don gained more than 1,500 yards in his first two seasons and seeds to average around a 100 yards in his remaining con test's to do it. In the first three games, Clark rushed for 305 yarls and caught, passes for 73 more, a 126-yard av erage. However, in the Indiana game he was held to a mere 13 yards on the ground before he was injured in the third quarter. JETER SHOWS CLASS lowa, which surprised Wiscon sin, beating the Badgers 20 to 9, has a jet-propelled back in Bob Jeter. Tire junior from Welrton. W Va„ showed his speed in the Wisconsin game when he caught a short pass and cutsped the Bad ger secondary for 68 yards. Team mates Wiilie Firming and John Brown a), so arc fast backs. I’uiuue has several fine tan players this season. Dick Brooks, a junior end, is re garded as one of the Bollmak era’ line stalwarts. Tom Bar nett is finally coming into his own as a halfback, Clyde Washington, another halfback, is considered the teams’ most reliable punter. Emory Turn er is a fine guard. A pair of good sophomore backs are Jim Tiller and Willie Jones. Michigan State’s best runner this season has been Art Johnson, a senior from Flint. Outstanding defensively in the line, despite in juries, has been Ellison Kelly, the senior guard from Sandusky, O. One of the best interior linemen in the conference is 27-year-old Donald Deskins. Michigan sopho more guard. Tom Campbell 28, is regarded as the best, runner on Indiana eleven, which »s hoping to win its first Big Ten game in two sea sons week for the third consecutive time as the CIAA’s rushing leader. He ground out a total of 325 yards for an 81.2 average per game. Miiggs’ average of 78.5 arid 471 yards in ti gamt'-' places him in the runner-up spot. Jack Dennis. Morgan State: quarterback, retained, his leader ship in the passing detwrtnv-rt, Dennis replaces Shaw’s Frank Ba ker, who dropped to Sib place. Dennis has a total of 19 complc- *, ***** 0%0 3ss ; 5 m ® , 1l s#*4s jg: Jjr | OLD fmefi KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON THE CABOtINTAH WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1958 Sin,,!., v. Hi »;.-n senmt to > other lotr hdewns on long runs as the Brown-, rcimti - n. n with a 18-24 victory over the Cardinals. ii’r» rHOTOI. , lions in 35 attempts for a poteen- i j luge of ,54C raid 316 yards Follow- ; j ing him is Maryland State’s Jerry ; j Curtis with 6 of 12 passes com- j i pitted fur a .500 percentage. Atnon.g the passe::-, North Caco j | hna -- Gatling, ranked ■; j fourth aT,!i;;a conference passers, i i mssvd six touchdown aerials in i i 1 game:; j Bobby Carr, Elizabeth City’s end, ! | moved up to the load m the pass | i ».,T,;t-iviiifcr ui-piti hiM-iiV With 1, i I catciic-s for a total of 351 yards and | hhbsi ■ uric TD. Glen Knight of Shaw Uni versity moved into the second spot after finishing fourth last week. Knight snagged 13 passes for 2’S 1 - ards and 2 tallies. North Carolina College* Reggie Pryor repeated this week for tin- second straight time as the league's leading punier with an average of 41.0 per kick. In t game s Pryor kicked the hall 57i yards in U punts. Shaw University lops the loop ;« total defense for the third straight week. The Bears allowed i only 115.4 yards to five opponent?. I Their Capital Classic’s opponent. i North Carolina College, finished in | second place with a 174.6 defensive i record per game. 15