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14 HIS CAROLINIAN \Vi I.R I MOM SMIROAY, FEBHIART 1, 1959 Lakers’ Prexy, NBA Back Baylor In “J. C.” Controversy RHT.ni S SPORTS AU\Rl>S—Smiling happily former Dodger ralchcr. Roy r»mp»nrlla. left, and Jor < renin a nominee for president of tin American League. have achat at the Hotel Roosevelt. New V «rk Tit. They hold silver trays presented to them at the. B<h Annual Award Dinner <>! the sport- Lodge <>f B’nai IVr‘tb. They and ten other athletic world personalities received awards at she dinner for "high principle and achievement in sports to 1958." (UP! PHOTO!. Campanella Says love Os Family And Courage Helping Him Overcome Illness GKI.A' COVER, N V fANT* The first anniversary of the tra git auto accident which has para lysed him from the waist down Jbund Roy Campanella in !u - ■ spirits as he recalled the fa< tors which played the most part in his tremendaur recover v the former Dodger ratchet. Mill confined to , wheel chair hut as active »* the average wage, earner, said love for his family, and courage and faith that hr could overcome the handicap juried him more than any medical therapy, !lc also thank'd tiir countless fans and admirers "ho "wished me so much good. ' "! never knew so many people cared,” he said emotions Ha . Regarding his family, he said: FA MU Basebollers Release 26-GameSchedule For ’59 T ALLAH A SSFTS The Florida A- f &M University nine plays. a 26- game baseball slate this spring whicii. include; one e•. htbi' ion atscl 25 SIAC league conit r Tub Rattlers had a ITS record for the *os season and finished third in circuit standing behind Alabama State College and Tus kegee Institute. Os the 2b games scheduled for this spring, 15 of them will be played at home and 1! on the road. Home games wilt begin at 2:30 and will h>- or the new university diamond on Kail toad Avenue, Coach O. A. Moure slid that he lias 13 lettrnnen returning this Season and hr should he in strong contention for the loop crown. The Rattlers open prar- RING WASN'T I?I GENOIJGH—Referee Carmen Bart jumps in toi*f Golden Gloves * ! "htv at Cleveland. Ohio .lan. 21). Seiko won the pull James Gordon and Bob Seiko back inlo tile ring after Ihe pair decision. (IJI’I Tl.c./’HOTOi, went into » clinch and through (he ropes during their semi-final bout j "My trinity and the opportunity jto her ea job have given me a new ; I life." adding, "If doesn't take too I much fu;h* if you have courage ’ I Campy then talked of his arpira i tions for the future. 'I only hope ! then T can help some voungste* - or some elderly person in the same condition who might have given | up just a lit iC\" he said, referring } to his Jujbi to recover. Thu accident, which occurred j near his home a year ago Jan. 23. has ended his baseball career as ; a player but not his future in the ; game, nor as a useful citizen | Given a job as a special coach with the Dodgers, he will continue to i follow the fortunes of his beloved | "Burns." He is expected to report i to the Lo« Angeles Dodgers spring I training camp soon, tiir with the pitchers and catchers reporting, February fi. The re-t of the squad will re port for training, February 14. "hr- schedule: March 7, Tampa All-Stars, here; 13-14, Tuskegee In stitute, here; 20-21-, Alabama State College, here, 27-25. Howard Cni v< rsity. here; April 31 Mnrehoiii"? College, Atlanta, Ga.; 10-11, South Carolina State College, here; 14-15, Benedict College, here; 17-13, More house College, here; 20-21, Tuske gee Institute, Tuskegec, Ala.; 33*24, Alabama State College, Montgom ery. Ala.: 27, South Carolina State College, Orangeburg, S. C.; 29-30, Benedict College, Columbia. S. C.; May 1-3 Allen TTrrrversLty. Colum bia, S, C . and May 4-5, Alien Uni versity, here. In civil life. Cam panelist i as busy *k a heaver. He's gut « radio show, write* ?, weekly column Dot Jet Magazine), «ml is also writing a book poeM btv about hi* life, ftp tk*- »pe«ds coasidcrabif time at bt» lipnot riore, anti visit* the hospital for treatment twice » week ; Confined at. New York TJniver ■ ty's Bellevue Hospital for several months, Campy now lives at home . with bis wife, Ruth, and children j Last Monday, in recognition of | his courage the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association honored him as the "Most Courageous Ath lete of 195H.' The award was pre sented to him at Ins home here because Campanella decided a gainst risking a drive to Philadel phia for the occasion. lira Murchison ! Hospitalized KALAMAZOO, Mich ( ANP • j Olympic spring star Ira Murchison has been hospitalised <n Chicago with amoebic dysenl ~ and doc tors have ordered him rot to par licipate in any indoor meet? this season, That’S the word i the campus of Western Michig- college camp us here. Tlie announcement was mode by George Dales, Mm bison's track coach. Murchison is the 30-yard sprint : champion. The search for truth so diffl cult that even preachers are un ! able to agree upon its exposition. Adopt Policy To Protect league’s 20 Tan Players DETROIT (AN* The National Basketball Association last week went on record as officially sup porting Elgin Baylor, Minneapolis Lakers star, in h's mtdown protest, of racial segregation m a game at Charleston, W. Va , recently. At the meeting of the ae*c elation's hoard of governor* here, a policy was adopted de signed U» protect the league's 20 Negro player* against cm barrassment stemming from segregated housing and dining taeilitie* in some areas, It was agreed that hence forth each of the eight etnh* io the assoclHtlon would insist, he for mahlug a commitment for a game in a neutral city, “on a elaiisc which will protect the rtnb sod players * gainst any type of ombamitw ment. The action w« s taken because Ravin- was jltnrrowed In Charles ton prior to s game between the Laker and the Cincinnati Royals. ArrnMino to Lakers president. Bob Short his club was assured there would be no racial segrega tion in the city, but when the team checked mto s local hotel, Baylor and other Negro members were barred. The club checked out and registered at * Negro hotel A* r> result, Baylor refused ho play. He sat In street clothes and watched the -tamo from the bench, lib refusal fro play .angered I! I'lioioas CorHe, promoter tor the American Business Club. which sponsored the GOOFIN’ OFF BY "SKINK" The Durham Rams baseball team will play the Hillsboro All-Stars ; in Hillsboro on £<ud«r Sunday, Willie Mays' salary of eighty-thousand dollars from the Sun I Francisco Giants next season is the highest wage* to be received by a | Negro in the United States. It speaks well for the Negro baseball | lee,cues in which Willie received his competitive training Willie start ed in tin' Industrial League in Birmingham while a high school boy and fought Ms way to a regular outfielder’s berth with the renowned I Birmingham Black Barons. Athletics has created a new economic group In Negro circles and their salarier- exceed that of any others. A sprinklin' few are college ' men in baseball and boxing world where the “green-stuff piles the j highest Too bad that, these two sports are the last on the list on col t ored college athletic programs. JOHN BABER Eddie Kufel, head of the l ew Angeles lUm’t highly successful wanting system, nays that "Big John" Baker was discovered while screening a film on a Florida AA9f-North Carolina College game Hotel said, “We were scooting a Florida bark but everytime. there was a kickoff or punt all we contd see was sonic enormous North Carolina, tactile charging down the field,” He'd do ris part ir. holding up the defense then take off and .still ; be the first man down to make the tackle. We caught the jersey num | her and finally unearthed '‘Big John.” Hotel said the Baker story really 'began before the movie role. He said, that he was visiting the Duke Campus in Durham and a po- Ucnetuan guarding the Blue Devil practice kept, telling him about * fellow at “little North Carolina College across town” who was big ger than h« ww» and he stood about 8-4 and weighed around 360 lbs. | The prospect, got, lost in the shuffle until the film discovery. Koh l | didn’t, know it but the New York Giants and Baltimore Colts had i already discovered Baker JSaob privately thought they had him i ‘sewed up' in the National Football League draft last year. But My j Giants and Col to waited a little too lung with their bids. The Rams i dropped Baker's name on the fifth round—and the respective jaws of i the Giants and Colts did a drop, too. KIT'? REEL COLLEGE'S GREAT '35-'26 BASEBALL TEAM Principal Plummer A. William* of the Apex High School S coached one o* Kittreli College’s great ha sc had team* hack in ’35- I ‘3B. Principal Williams, who was * great athlete at KiUrcit him self, in the day* when Kittrell produced some of the toughest j foot hail and baseball teams in the state, smiles w herever this championship bunch is mentioned in his presence "Cheese” Vincent, catcher: 'Moon Eye”: "Steel Arm" Byrd; Arnold Cotomsn Jack Duke, and McKinley Taylor pitchers: Ike Suitt, first base. James Fagan, second base: •‘Red” Plummer short slop: D-w Richardson, contort sold. Joseph Arnold, rightfield: Jack Duke, ieftf'eld when not pitching; and lsaa<c Gray, outfield Jack Duke and McKinley Taylor were mainstay battery mates before Coach Williams produced hie great 35-'26 team lOelaware State Considered “Team To Watch” in Race game in Cbarlwctot' He. said Baylor’s action embarrassed" the Business ritlh and damag ed its ehitocee of promo tins future N. H A. games in Charleston. He said nothing of the perso.net embarrassment toy Baylor as s resett <»' flic segregation Corrie protested to the league a gainst Baylor's refusal to play, asking that the star rookie be disciplined. However, the N B A. refused to go along and in fact, staunchly supported Baylor by announcing the anti-segregation police Also supporimg Baylor was Short who said he was behind Him M lfoo percent”. What's more Short added, his club will not play any future iimerew dries anywhere. Ho said: “From nw unless we are guarantee common facilities for rooming and feeding all our play ers, we shall not. appear in that city (Charleston! . . And we will schedule neutral games only on 3 firm-swagTPj***basts. Maurice Podoloff, N n A prr«idenL W3-* solidly in Hat. tor’s corner Hr said that be fore tvp (association teams* make my commitment to pt.ry in s non league city "we will wist on s clause to protect player* 3nd ctniyii from rmhir raasmetit." .Short, told i-hst oedirianlv the refusal of a player to play in » game would mean disciplinary ac tion. tnif that “Mr. Baylor's rase was diffpri-.pt ’’ DOVER, ru-i, Once again tfte Delaw*r» Stat# Hornets, with * conferene* record of 5-1, and an overall record of 7 victories and 3 defeats, 1b considered the team to watch In the Cl A A Coach Bennip J George's team has one of. the best records in the conference end is standing out in recent statistics released by the CIAA statistician The Hornets’ Clarence Jones front Brooklyn, N V., was leading the conference in field goals with a .500 percentage. With an average of 20,4 points per same, Jones was fourth in the department. The Hornets were leading ihe fnnfcrence in field goal porrentage with a .134 mark, and they also led the confer cnee In free throw percentage with a mark of .711. In team offense the Hornets are third with an average of 74.3 point* per game. Kenneth Pearson from New York City and a former Hover Air Force Ruse «>t»r has an average of 16.1 re bounds per game to give T»SC -.Kth place to that department. The squad suffered a heavy blow recently when Clarence Jones completed his requirements for graduation at the end of the first semester. Moving to the varsity and vying for berths will be three freshmen Hewitt Joyner from Boston. Mass.; Thomas Arrington from Brooklyn, N. 5" and George Bratcher from West Chester. Penn Bratcher, standing 6*l”, is the tail ed! of the three The Hornets resumed action fitter the examination period bv returning to the reiional tvir! of lheir schedule Korean ■ *ute whom DSC defeated 117-32 earlier in the season was met on Wednesday, January 28 *3- ’- : P ■Tito 4 M ' WC jfc, • DECATHLON CHAMI* IIONOItI ll— above Pan t mi-, Irfi, Itgfrr .lohnwn, decathlon rb* w oiort and president of ihe student body at I f!, \ ii wfiis a silvm Im» award at tt»r Hotel Roosevelt New York, lasi Sunday. Johnson wav among: II ithbiiv icted fey the tfnai B’ritfi. iIJPI PHOTO*. Pro Teams Draft Tan Stars; ’Skins Remaining Lily white PHILADELPHIA (ANP) - Tilt' •veland Browns, Chicago Bear 'd Chicago Cardinals came tip ith prized choices in the second ,ise of the annual draft by Na* "I'.’d Football League clubs Thr Browns’ fifth irlwt-ion "as Johnny Wooten, a, 240 pound guard trom Colorado rhpn Pan! Brown Cleveland * ; coach, came up with a aleepct in Flbcrt Dtibrnlan, from !»*t!« Btiffton (Ohio) roliegc. George Halas, of the Bears ra, | up with one of the most covet : barks sought by thr pros. Join Adams, a 2.10-pound halfback Iron j Los Angeles state college. ] One of the outstanding pick* by ! tl-,- Cardinals was Ted Bates, the j | all-American tackle from Oregon i j ;tt I)KC'» gywnasiiim. The Her up' journeyed to AVilkc* B.i* re. Penn , to tnrt King * i ol lege on January ,'!0. The game | with ‘.tog's was thr first nurt i ingot (lip two teams this sea son. Delaware .Slate returns to cor, i ■ ference p: v in February when it i ; takes a r- uthern trip, taking on j St August oie's College on Fobni | •try j and .! C Smith on PVhruary I The meeting with St. Augus tine's will 1); the first of the rea j -on for the two. and the Hornet: defeated J. C. Smith in Dee.embei 80-57 f j ' PUfT " 4/* ©T. .*«•.*. <W K<»««?n- Bourlon KENTUCKY I f -JB&, I; BOURBON | M,l ( f lOUItVIIIt (UNTUCK* • CINCINNATI. OHIO •Ml WHISKEY 1, LilT* ; . Ji A BLEND Ww 9tF Bffl SflO 5 * • TUT ROIiRBON |f 5 uxr COMPANY LOU«SVIIU KENTUCKY. DISTRIBUTED BY HAHONAI DISfiLLfRS PRODUCT? COMPANY-86 I’ROOf - CONTAINS <3% CRAIN NEUTRAL JITIRHS Stale, overlooked in Hie earlier lections. NEW BROWNS' OFFENSIVE STAR In Wooten, Coach Brown hop, ■ be hag the man for the offensive ! gita'd dtiii, -. in the Cleveland line So badly did Brow a •» ant birr that he dispatched n Cleveland emisca ry to Boulder, Colo,, to ■ 'i Woo- ; leu before he was actually .selected. ! Woo ton ts known as a rugged j •rupetitor, ;< fast, nmlnlc. and a ' <mg down field blocker. In BisbeliJoß. who averaged oiorr than 1.008 yarn* a year in a four vr.tr i-.ireer ~( Biilfl lon, Hip Brown 1 hirer young man who is ron-eb red .< po tenilaliy great offrn*ive bark Many experts rated him better than Hon < I.irk, (lie Ohio .'•late Mar draUe/j ruiiii t>. Ill#, Ad&ms has annih -, year of eligi bility, since he !>• •!,rfe-r, c| !o Artgsles Si de frorti I :c! A T- , arlv every club ii, !!;, Nl't. 1t.,;! Uin> OJ! Ihlrir le i T' e ).# - Angel) Rams, for ox.irnplo. had tabbed Aiia'us as the best pirspeet in tti entire draft Bairs ‘.'. as !■, i.'iii: i.ur ! ■ ik; 1,t,• ■ • man of the college •••• a- <#n on ih. Pacific Coast ,nd stood out in the animal East-West Slinrr game a! Ban Fra r, cisco The 233 - noundo; proved exfrerr. lv liiffie'.dt to trap STARS FROM v xtr, SMJOOI* Tile Browns also picked Homn | Floyd, who starred at Kansas, arm ; farm? 1 Caleb from Grambling (1,a.» ! college. Floyd, who ha* signed I play Canadian football, was {!.< ! id l r r' receiver and score' ■ in the Pig Eight conference. H -Iv. broke the individual ruabirw ■ cord for the Jayhawks. Other choices of the Bears ir; eluded tar'{e Willie Smith, Mich; | c.an William Neal, Jackson fMisv 1 Slate, anti Clifton Jackson, feb-i, | Carolina college, Che Ranis selected, among otr-c : | VVilJism Conners, Jackson Stiff*, 1 Torn Campbell, Indiana: Bcnnu Motrr, Alabama Stair, and Rah | Johnson UCLA. The Rams an I inking a long shot on Johnson, the i worldV decathlon champion, v. h< j ha, never played college football Bui Johnson, who played four • ■■■■•• tv in' high school, is considered • ■ •.••'•markable gridiron prospect. t imt.es of fbe New York Liams included Ellison Kelly. 'Mohican •''tale’s star guard; George Srod, hark. Miami (O •tot university: and Polphus itliams. Morgan State, Hot 'lots iv a tackle, and the Gi oils' coaching staff must have ■tor inhered i(s success with ' mvevrh Brown, another Mur wn C'id. who was a 27th draft choice hut turned out to hr one of the best offensive irkles m the pro ranks.
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