14 THE CABOUNIAN RALEIGH. N. C.. SATURDAY. APRIL I, IMS NCC Grid Squad To Show Sat. 0 DURHAM North Carolina Col- jsgles will give a pre-season showing of itg '62 football team Saturday afternoon on O'Kelly Field. The Maroons will be pitted against the Grays in the piggkin preview showing. NCC coach Herman Riddick has already blueprinted his starting fcackfield for next season, but It is doubtful that the speedster* will be in one package when the teams take the field However, it is no secret that Richard Hicks. Raymond Npble*. Robert Evans and Connie Boykins will be in their running against Eagle opponents next gridiron sea son. A supporting cart and possible spoilers to the front running four some are halfbacks. Earl Millar, Charles Dsye, fullback Albert Hu ey and quarterback Aaron Martin. Huey la being shifted from halfback to fullback. Bruaing Una play Is expected to highlight the full scale acrlmmaga session. The Eagles have one of the best crop of interior linemen re turning for duty next season. The tackle corps has Riddick smiling. Durham’s Robert McAd ams, 6-1 240 pounder, heads the re turnees. He’s ably supported by vet erans which include foe Grandy James Price. Staley Keith and Jim my Nunn. Bobby Gardner. Raleigh native, heads the veterans at guard. Robert Moorman, Milton Leathers and El mer McMillan are other returnees. Twenty rookiet -sported to the opening drills tnd Riddick expects only five or six from this bunch to graduate to varsity status. All will be given a chance under fire. The fact is that this is one of the best looking spring squads to graet OXelly Field in a decade. Durhamite To Captain NCC Tennis Squad " R PERRY R. LEASER DURHAM Emment Martin. 6-1 aeri!br W Durham, will captained the ltd] edition of North Carolina College's tennla aquad. Martin’* se lection was announced by Floyd H. Brown..acting tennla coach. Brown take* over the ranching reigns for Jamas Y. Youngs, NCC'a Athletic Director and Tennis Coach, who ts away on a leave of absence at Temple Univarsity, doing ad vanced graduate work. Martin is beginning hi* fourth aeason on the Eagle squad. Last year he was the number three man and on ths top double’s combina tion. He la a drama major and th* son of Mrs. Susia Martin, 600 Price Street The fact ts that Durhamite* will play a very important part on tha ‘62 Eagle squad. Aside from Martin, th* Bull City crew include* EU Singleton and Joe Williams. Will lams, fresh, come* to ths NCC rampu* with an Illustrious high school tennis record. He is the num ber one player In North Carolina, according to, ratings released by the American Tennis Association. He is ranked seventh in the United States. With Williams assured of the number one spot, a strong battle looms for the other positions. The Friendly City natives could very well take the top q?ot*. Eleven matches ere scheduled for NCC thia season, nine CIAA and two non-conference tilts. Hainpton Inatitute visit* Durham on April 12. Morgan State. April 13 and Livingstone College. April 14 these three contest* are expect ed to give the Eagle supporters soma idea of the type of teem they will have the rest of the w-av. Hampton loom* as the conference s favorite for 1962. All-Star Boxing Card Slated By Joe Louis LOS ANGELES < ANPI An all- Mar boxing card matching fast na me Cassius Clay ot Louisville a gainst Idaho's George Logan, a ’ < ng others, w as booked hv match n akrr Joe Louis of the newly or ganized United World Enterprise* for April 23. 1 lie former “Brown Bomber's'' f «t matchmaking endeavor will also include these bout*: ■ ■ —. ■ i ' UOA AT MEMPHIS Abort ut hn Ii»«w rftt# tW»< C*tftn tsaoelatlon which held its annul convention at MinpWi Tun., ma* weekend. Max - well Stanford. Philadelphia. Pa.. 2nd from right la loft photo, wne «*ee4ad prsstimt of the golf gronp. meeeedlng Howard Andereon. Trteda. eou second Iran* right. Others from left are Moas H Kendrls. whooa P« linn represent. The Caea-Cuta Company. Atlanta. Ga.. a long time sopporter of CGA. (Andiron). Mr*- Mary u*»- hell CGA general aeereUry. Robert Wright. Memphis. uneentton chairman. I Stan ford i. and Nathaniel Jordan. St. Luis. Mo.. I GA executive vie* president. *■ center shot. Mr. Stanford, seated outer, and Mr. Jordan, rfandtag «*•_»" •*««• triet rice president S. L. Hall. Southeastern. Naahrltto. Twa, (Stanford). Um 1- Harris. New England. Romford, R. 1.. (Jordan, who la Central rae*>. »- L Wynn. Charlie Siffcvd Quits Azalea Golf Tourney J Reason Not For Leaving WILMINGTON Charlie Sif ford, lone Negro to enter the Aza lea Open Golf Tournament here, withdrew from competition after the second day of play after piling up a total score of 149 for the two day*. Reason for th* withdraw] was not disclosed. Sifford. six time winner of th* National Negro golf Tourney and the only Negro to play In major tournament* In North Carolina, scored a 75. four over par. In the first day of play, and a 74 for the second day. He was only eight stroke* from th* lead golfer. Sifford broke southern golfing tradition last year whan he wa* al lowed to play In a major tourna ment In Greensboro In which he ended In the money. This marks the second time the ctgar-chewing golf er had played in North Carolina tournaments. A native of Charlotte. Sifford now live* In California and has been touring the west coast golf circuit with reasonable success. He still holds th* national Negro golf title. Ageless Archie Feels Fine Ready For Floyd, Sonny LOS ANGELES Archla Moor* feel* that he can win the heavy weight title and he is ready to take on either Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson or top contender Sonny Liston. The “afelew’’ Moor# who is 45, more or less, scored a tenth round knockout over Argentina's Alejan dro Lavourant* on Friday night and now he sums It up this way: "From here we go to Patterson or Liston. Td like to fight either of them . . . and I think I could knock either of them out" A third poesibllity la Gen# Full mer. recognized by th# National Boxing Association as middleweight champion and in California and part* of Europe aa light heavy weight champion since Moor# might want a bout in hia horn* town. San Diego. Alao In th# card# la Heavyweight Ingemar Johannaen ot Sweden and Moore has already promised to con sider an offer from a Honolulu pro moter after Friday night's bout to fight Bobo Olaon for $60,000 plua 00 per cent of tha gat* receipt*. Perkins Scores Win Over‘Young’ Ring Veteran PHILADELPHIA Eddis Perkin*. 137-pound lightweight challenger from Chicago, acored an eight-round technical knockout ov er Mel Middleton. 130, Philadelphia. In their scheduled 10 round bou. here last week. Middleton, who haa fought and trained rince he wia eight year* old. was described as a “ring vet eran' 1 at 22. Anyway, he was no match for the sharp-shooting Perkins, who was in command all th# way and floored him for an eight count in the third round. He also opened a cut over Middleton# eye in the sixth. Eddie Machen of Portland. Orel. against Ber Whitehurst. New York: Ralph Dupas. New Orleans, vs. Fverardo Armens Hermoaillo. Me xico. and E&dle Gorcia of t-o* An geles. against Tony Perez of Mexi co Machen and Whitehurrt are hea vyweight#: Dupas and Armenia, junior welterweight*; Garcia and Perez, lightweight# Louis. who once served as a di rector of the now defunct Interna tional Boxing Club, received a matchmakers license here recently His wife. Martha, and the UWT were also approved by the Califor nia Boxing Commission Mrs. Louia is one of the officers of the new club. idiJmP • A w-' 1 'I • f 7 4| f SAFE AT SECOND Curt Flood of the St. Louie Card* use s hie arm to protect hie face from the toot of toppling second baaeman Tony Taylor of the Philadelphia Phils in the tiret inn ing of their exhibition game recently. Julian Javier grounded to third baseman Don Demeter wh r threw wild to second pulling Taylor oft the beg for an error, everyone safe. Second Raleigh Grid Star At NCC Goes Professional DURHAM North Carolina Col- i lege s pro football stock took a rise last week a* two former Eagle* ink ed American Football League pacts. Frank Gardner, 268 pound tack’e. signed with the San Diego Charg ers and Clifton Jackson. 195 pound halfback, hooked on with the Buf falo Bills. Their signing brought Hie NCC number to four that have inked pro gridiron contract* thia year. Earlier Charles Hinton, tackle, singed with the Cleveland Browns and Vernon Hatch, end. put hla name on the dotted line of a Pitts burgh Steeler contract. Although Jackson has signed his first American League contract, he la not exactly a rookie. The former NCC star has played two season* with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Western Inter-Provincial pro league. Jackson wa* signed by Bills' Di rector of Player Personnel Harvey Johnson after receiving a glowing recommendation from Eagle Day, former Washington quarterback, who was Jackson's Edmonton team mate th* past two seasons. “He can really fly." was Day's appraisal of Jackson. Gardner, a Raleigh native, was rik ..fr, nfcl ■ n .Ly, nsM V m. • j.'mP i wfCwKW f i if < * 3 _JR| ‘ i|"o| I inLflgßra £ W ;Hi iff! WJAA CHAMPS—Left to right (front) Manager Ernie Mc- Neil. Jimmy Hinton, Robert Sanders, Milton Bridges, Manager David Sanders, (back) Coach H. D. Heartley, Harvie Barbour, Ronald Rogers, Albert Haggins, Willie Watson, James Sinclair, and Carlton Lassiter. WJAA Champs Enjoy Winning Season CLAYTON— The Cooper Eagles ended their basketball season with a 21-5 record Along with this rec ord they also entered and won the Wake-Johnston Tournament They won thia tournament from the State School of Raleigh, which had de feated them twice during the regu lar aeaaon The State School is the only team which has defeated the Eagle* on their home court in two year*. The Eagles ad\ a need to tne stjl dlstrtct playoffs in Clinton, seeded number one. At Clinton they de feated Faison and Garner Consoli dated to play for the championsh.p In the championship game Cooper j played Sampson High School of 1 Clinton. In this game the Eagles Jr.. Mrmphts boat committee, and Attorney Leßmn Simmon*. Detroit. Mldwudum. Stanford beads the Eastern district, while Simmon* to parHmrwtartan of the PGA. Inserted are James Morrow. New York City, financial secretory, toft. and William Jones. Dayton. Ohio, treasurer At right seated, from left, are Lonnie Janes, yooth director. C'nclnnsti. Trank Lett. Sr.. National Tournament Committee chairman. Detroit. Mr Stanford. Mrs. Part* Brown, tournament director. Washington. D. C and assistant. Mrs Agnes Williams Chicago. Standing from left, are George Cart - srr'rht. pro committee. Coinmhos Ohi >. J.reue* lerrosow. pro e\ ecu tire secretary. Indtanapol s. Ind.. and Mr. Jordan The Kendrix Organisation handle* public re lation* for I'GI with Mr. Kendrix serring a* CC. V* PR committee msirm.n CG.Vs IMI national tournament will be held in Memphis during the last full week in August. l not in school last year. He waa the 14th draft choice of the Cleveland Browns and the 17th choice of the Chargers. The Chargers aaw him in spring training 1961 and were very much impress with him. NCC coach Herman Riddick was particularly pleased with Jackson's signing but took a dim view cf Gardner's inking. The fact is. Gard ner has another year of eligibility and the veteran NCC grid chief was counting on his return next season. “It's good to see an American Football League club give Jackson a break. He was one of the beet backs I have had the pleasure of working with. He should do well with his experience in the Canadi an League." Riddick said. AKINS FINISHED AS FIGHTER: TO FACE SURGERY BT. LOUIS (ANP)—The right ing days of former welterweight champion Virgil Aklna of St. Lou is are over. That unofficial decision waa dramatically rendered laat wee* after It waa learned that Akins, who held the title briefly before he was destroned by Don Jordan, were defeated by two points. 50-48 This year the Eagles have receiv ed two trophies which they are very proud to have, one for the WJAA Championship and the Tur ner ups for the State District play offs at Clinton The Eagles have iwo members playing on the Wake- Johnston all-star team who are Ronald Rogers and James Sinclair, the only seniors on the team Roh- I ert Sanders was chosen the most 1 valuable plaver in the WJAA Rob Ii rt Sanri- ■ mid Willie Watson were rhe .on for the Eastern District all * -tar team in Cljnton The Eagles I re also proud to have their coach iH. D Heartley, named the Coacn i of, the Year for the Wake Johnston Athletic Association + + + + l + 4“ * .naMVtr Moore Kayoes Lavorante| Leaves Foe Unconscious In 10th Round LOS ANGELEB Veteran Ar chie Moor* scored a tenth round knockout over Alejandre Lavorant* of Argentina in their heavyweight title bout in Los Angeles Friday night, but as in the case at the Benny Paret-Emil* Griffith March 24 contest the victim had to be car ried from th* ring on a stretcher. Th* ageless Moore gave Lavo rant* a boxing lesson in th* first nine rounds before flooring him, the kayo* punch coming at 38 sec onds of die tenth and final round. The spectator* were hushed for a few momenta aa Lavorante lay in the ring, apparently unconscious, after Moore was ruled winner by a knockout, and the exhausted loser was later carried from the ring on a stretcher. Concerned about the condition of Lavorante. Moore went to hi* op ponent’s dressing room after th# match and was assured that Lavo rante. who ranked third when he went into the ring, was all right IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE Mi mr t. ■ ALL-STAR GAME AT SHAW Dr. William R. Straee net preaente trophies to each ot the All-Star players and also to Coaches Heartley and Nelson at the lsf annual All-Star Basket ball Game in Spaulding Gymnasium, March 34. The All-Stare won 80-65 over the junior varsity ot Shaw University. All-Stmt players left to right are: Willis Barnes, State School tor Blind and Deaf; James Richardson, 5.5.8. D.; Bobby Height, Ugonf Patterson Prediets Victory; But Liston Says He’ll Win CAIRO. Egypt f ANP)—Current ly on an exhibition tour of the United Arab Republic, heavy weight boxing champion Floyd Patterson took time out to com ment on his forthcoming title bout with challenger Sonny Liston sometime this summer. “L’aten is a hard puncher," Patterson said, “but I'm as confident as he Is of winning." He made the comment while speaking at a U. 8. reception given in his honor here. Liston, of St. Louis but now fighting out of Philadelphia, haa repeatedly expressed confident In his ability to dethrone Patterson who has held the title since 1956. »hen he stopped Archie Moore in the fifth round of their scheduled 15-rounder. Douglass High Os Warsaw „ Wins Double Cage Crown WARSAW Both Boys and girls nf Douglas High School won th# championship* in the Duplin Coun ty tournament held in the Kenan Memorial Auditorium on March 22 md ?3 The Douglas# Eagle*, rated a* the "number one" team in the county, had to scramble like demons to turn bock die Chairty Yellow Jac kets. 62-57. in a nerve-wringing tournament flnudi. The win was th# ™ p if | jejiaftsw I ARCHIE MOORS Ot tha 100,000 aoldian in th* A merican Revolution, some 5,000 were Negroes, although for some time the army forbad* the enlist ment of Negroes. (ANP) There Is no love lost between Patterson and Liston, who has been trying to get Floyd into a ring with him for more t on two years. They signed recently for the bout, but the date and site are still unsettled. Patterson, as champion, was given the right to name the date and site of the fight. At the signing in Hew York recently, there was an air of fros ty politeness between the two fighters, and Listen wasted no time in telling reporters that he was dissatisfied with the terms of the contract He will receive only 134 per cent of all gate receipts. Patterson will receive some 45 per cent of gate receipts and televis ion revenue. 17th far tbs Paging this mason. Douglass started out at t torid pace, and It looked as If tha game would be a “walk away". By tha end of tha first quarter. Charity had settled down, and the scoring be came "nip and tuck" until the last four minutes of the game when the Fagles began to pull out and assert themselves. W. Jeter and S. Frederick led the winner with 23 and 14 points re spectively. followed by the clutch shooting of E. Wilson. W. Brysnt and C Hodges. Jeter also did some fancy shooting on the free throw line. The Douglass Eaglettee, unbeaten and unUed for the season's regular 1! games, walloped the B. E. Smith girls 34-17 to win the championship for the girls. Those scrapping little guards. G. Benjamin. C, Smith and M Waters of Douglass made scor ing rather difficult for K. B. Smith High School. I Ghana Second In Boxing Tourney CAIRO. Egypt