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ttu wo- _ I _ HIS SONO THUfUiA Til® HAItIOH THg CAXOtfllA rofll IATI«0A¥, JUIti itt, ■ SPORTING COLORED COLLEGE TRACK ATHELETES MATCH WHITE ERSKINE HAWKINS With hi» “Tuxedo Junction’’ has set the nation singing about hU old hometown, Birmingham. Hawkins la now holding forth *t the Sfk/oy ballroom, but is planning to take his band on a sweep- iiV Southern tour around the middle of June.—TYPhoto. THE SPORTS BAZAAR B; WilliaD M - Unfavorable weather gets the blame for the act th^ the bi- atate AAU boxing tournament in tireenaboro last week-end was pot such a ‘‘bi^ affair” after #>11. TLe tourney was held in, the out door ring of the World War Ucmorial Sladium and was pro moted by C. M. l^mer as athle tic director of the Windsor Community Center. Rain limited the actioH to a few matches a day. Durham was not represent ed in,~the tournament because J. B. McLendon of the North Carolina College boxing team was (and still is) in his home state, KanAs, looking over the high school athletic materifdl out there and he did not have a chance to get his pugilista into form. ■• ■• — For those who are interesited (and don’t already know) Ce^h McLendon left Durham two weeics ago and will return around the f if teeth of June. His travel ing companion and “toodygru^d” it Albert Johnson, Mascot for the Eagles and senior member oi the Hillside High basketball tetun. STATE HAS MORE CHAMPS It’s rather late to even jnen- tion i^;k but it’s always appro priate to talk , about champions. Korth Carolina College made its debut in track and field events with the CIAA open and clrsed mitches held recently in Creensboro and Hampton res- WAIT UP BULLET r I CAhfruOOKf HE'LL BUST THE RECORD again - -AND I HAD EVERy- TWINO straight/ Johns lightning start HAS BROUGHT MANV ACCUSATIONS T>4AT HE NO RECORD IS SAFE WHEN aI BORICAN UNLEASHES HIS CRE JUMPS THE GUN-BUT HENEV^ HAS* FINISHmC* SPRINT. HERE HE COMES AN THERE HE COES # AM I ONE OR TWO LAPS ^ AHEAD ? ^AS AT ’ DART/WOUtSv WHERE HE BROKE TWO WORLDS RECORDS IN ONE RACE/ ' (^/VATfOtfAl t^BATURBS TED SAYS SHE’S TOPS pi'ctivcly. Pitts, . Anders, and Jutinson made up the team that Cuaches liurghainlt and Moi^n- (iun took to the A and T meet M4.I/ 11 ana to Hampton May 18. 11! Ureensboro these boys made 7.6 puinU for their school and at Hampton they gained eight. Pitts, who is also a stalwart linesman in luotiUaii, is the new CIAA champion of the discus throwers having hurleid the disc 120 feet, 9 3-4 inches. Then cnnie 'back to take third place in tlie shot put vvith 41 ft, ; 1-4 ill. Anders was fourth in this events with 40 ft. 10 1-4 in. Pearcy of Lincoln, the first place winner hi4J a distance of 43 ft, 6 1-2 in. The North Carolina State boys finished near the end in these metts this 'being their lirst comr petition in this (or any other) season, but the showings they made in the few events in which they participated indicates thji^i: they wouldn’t have done so bad ly if an entire team had been trained this year. Co4ch W. F. iiur^hardt expresses the desire tliat putting out a track team yiJt NC^C will be possible next year. H« has high ideas^ about their possibilities. Same here. LIGHTS „ THE CITY COUNCIL has con sented to give lights to the Hill side Purk for the summer. Not only does this mean the possi bility of having night softball but it also means that there will not ibe such a convenieni rendezvous for the high school “lovers" who inhabited the dark ened park during the beautiful and romantic evening of last summer. Most of the credit for this goes to E. W, Midgette, director of recreation among Negroes ol the city. These lights didn’t just “happen” to be given. Ask him they came about. White Track Aces Have Better Ficjds And Conditions BY FAY YOUNG (Veteran Track, Rinir, Football Official) CHSCAGO, (ANP) — There has been a deliberate U.tempt on the part of some so-called critics to ridicule the work of the track coaches in our Negro institutions and to compare marks ^(.id time made in various Negro track and field championships'to that nuide by top notch performers in the larger institutions of America. Track and field events should be covered like bj4jeball games. The first iVhing to be considered is the conditipn of the track. No one expecits any boy, white or blaicic, to lump under adverse condi tions and then compare the mark with Hhe boy who has jumped under ideaJ conditions and ,in one of the finest of Jumping pits. I recall plainly now that when • . DOLORES BSOWN Writing in hu brillic^it column, Ted Yates, New-York’s top rank ing columists, hails DOLORES BBCfWN, (above) vocalist with Erskine Hawlffhs Orchestra says, “th« best singing that I’ve come acfoss in a^ long time is identi- fiad with Enftlne Hawkins rhy- mic band. You'll have to show ■M—for, I don’t believe they eo«|a any better than Delores Brown."—TYPhoto. Doris Holloway daughter crf Mr. and Mn. John Holloway is koBM from 8t. Augru^ne Miaa Xttriel C«*«r of Fa. Mid Miss Ellea WU- gt Smwumah, »r« Iwr YWCA Notes The Annual meeting of the YWCA wUl be held Tuesday, IHh at the building at 7^ p. in. We are urging you to be pre sent and brin^ other interested friends. Men as well as women are invited to l^eim more about ot'r organimtion, which is trying to build a fellowship among all ir this community. ' Our summer program includes a (valmping period of one week, July 1-7 at Whispering Pines. A corps of counselors skilled in mvsic, handicraft, dancang |tnd dramatics, find land sponta. All high sc1k>o1 afe girls and those out of high school are eli gible, a separate unit will be re served for college girls. Since t)>e space is limited we are urg. ing you to reserve your space now. For full information and folden call «t the YWCA. young men that their coadi does- rot know wtuJt he is doing. In plain language these termites suek to destroy and at the same time are the first to look for their paycheck at the end of the month. These termites are “our fifth column” which h^e as generals some Ph.d’s and art instructors. No one can dispute w4iat the Ohio State univiersity coach said of Jesse Owens. An orthodox jumper but a champion when he ciSme to Ohio State and having been steered there by his play ground instructors, Owens was encouraged. No attempt was msde to change his natural style of Jumping or running. Owens had jumped over 26 feet sis a high school boy. No Negro school cculd bid for his services again- Shaw Presicient La^s Eugene Harrington 43 LETTERMEN RALEQGH — Forty three letters were awarded by Presi dent Robert P. Daniel to Shaw University athletes at exercises held Wednesday, May ll5, in Shaw University’s Greenleaf Memori^ Hall. Fred Williams of Wilmington, captain of the 1939-40 basketball team, received three letters for participation at end^in footiball, att center in tiasketball and as number two man on the Shaw University tennis team which v'on the North Carolina State Collegiate Singles Championship and reached the semi-fin^s in the tournament doubles play. Ozie Faison, Eldorado, Ark.; Donald Garner, Bridgeport, Conn Eugene Harrington, Durham; Jrhn Spriggs, Wfkhington', D. C.; and Fred Worthy, Asheville received letters for participation in two major sports. Ed Gourdin of Harvard was leap ing around 24 feet, he was pre dicted to brejik the ^stern in tercollegiate record when Har^ vard met in a dual meet with PrI.iceton. The reason given was that Princeton’s runaway alid pit was the best in the East. Another fine example might be given of Blockett of Xavier. At the Tuskegee relays on May 12, Blockett jumped 21 feet, 10 1-2 inches. The same boy Jumped 23 feet, 6 1-2 inches alt tli« Alabama State relays and 2S feet 1-2 inch in the Southern conference meet. For 25 years, I have contend ed that the Negro Athlete in Ne gro schools would do as good as white athlete or even the Negro athlete in a school with a simi- Inr enrollment. By that I mean it is not sensible, much less ftlr, st Ohio State or even Michigan to compare Xaxier witJi the! University of Michigan or Ohio | ^ith such tracks as noW State or to compare Tuskegee , Possessed by Southern university, with Notre Dame. | Alabama St^fce, Tuskegee, At lanta university and the new one We, as a race, have p group being built at Xavier, we can who graduate from some of our look for some great nvBurks from northern schools and then find our own boys in our schools, jobs as teachers in a Negro in- { Another attempt, a snide one, stMution. Right off the b^, these is to point an accusing finger at termites atort boring from with- the fudges and timers at our in. They seek to prove that any rne«ts. These men are qualified. Negro athlete in a northern They hjuve had experience in the school is superior *o Negroes in larger schools. When Mozel Eller- a soutdiem school and worse yet b» of Tuakegee ran the 100 yard do nothing to help encourage our dash at Tuskegee in 9.5 seconds, boys in our own schools. These the Atlanta white newspapermen termites are more likely to work had an idea that the timing was against a. coach by flunking a faulty. But when Ellerbe, strik- star- ^:hlete on the least excuse ing out after larger honors, won I know many such cases. j the Drake relay 100-yard dash OUR FIFTH COLUMN j American clu.impionship in 193® I also tnow men who have and the naiional collegiates in a never been heard of ^ an out- photo finish that year, the •landing athlete who call track- j Atlanta sports scribes chaaiged men aside on the campus of their tone. Ellerbe lived up to our univenities and tell these I Please turn to Page Seven ATA Sanctions ElevenTennis Tournaments I Sweaters for three years partf- cipation in sports were awarded ] to DonJild Garner and John Kibler of Kings Mountain for participation in football and to j Misses Maude Gaddy, Wadea- boro; Mary Alston, Rockingham, Ro.-^ Bryant,, Raleigh; Irene |G»eene, Wake Forest; Ura L. {High, ZeHt)ulon; and Mertye Rice,' Gnrysburg for basketball. GENE COMMENDED In awarding the letters Dr. Daniel commended especially the tennis te^ilm for it’s State Cham pionship and 'Eugeno Harrington who w*s runnner-up for the I A A singles championship whose 1940 tournament was held at Lincoln University. The girls team, runner-up for the JIMMY-TME-DANDY/ AFTE» TRE TVORLD’S GRiEAT- EST 19'39 BAND under the baton of Jimmy LulfCeford had covered three-fourlha of the United States ground, played the bast niteclubs, fa^iilrooms, theatre* an^ college ‘pronu’ it was bom* out that no other band, in the annals of the orchestral world, had done aa much. Leaving tha Apollo Th^lTre on January 7th of last year Jimmy-the>Dany brought this talened musiciana* back to New York on. May 2|6t}L. Ill all that time—there’s no ra> cord of one open date. ^ , IkUtS. BEATRICE ELMOKE LAID TO REST OHARiLOTTE — Mm Bea trice Elmore ^28, daughter of fi9^s>^Spsa Harris died Wedm«»> M|a^ &th. Mrs. Elmore was a faithful memiber and worker 'i Little Rook AAIE Zion church. She served unetintinly on tha Usher’s Board and with th* young ladies Missionary ao4gty. Elmore is survi'^d by her mo ther, one child and one brother-. Funeral services were fit thm church. Rev. J. D. Hamilton de livered the eulogy in the abaanctt of the pastor, Rev. H. E. Wilson* who was attending General Con ference in Washington, D. C. North Caroling State Women’* BitskeDbail Championship also came for it's share of glory. Other athletes receiving letters were as follows: ^ A Spencer Alexander, Ashevil|>s C.rjii Butler, 1999 football ea» captain, Asheville; XjeRoy den, Shelby; ,Thomas Gilmorft, Newark, N. J.; Carrenaa BowanI Duytona Beach, Thotuaa Edenton; Jonaa Kearney, War> rctiton; Thomas Kee, Newarit. N. J.; Abner Norfleet, TaiiKtro; John Owens, Asheville;^ Rudolph Pope, Rich l^uare; 'Henry Rucit- er. W|ilihington, D. C.; and JsMitt U. Banks, Washingtn, P. C., manager of the football team. .. SWING’S FIRST LAbY According Co information re ceived from J^'4.nes T. Taylor, Chaiman oif the sanction com mittee of the Anwrican Tennis Association, tae folbwing tennis tournaments have been approv ed by the association. Makiy tennis players throughout the nation have aTready begun mak ing plans to attend a.t least one of the meets. v TOURNAMENTS SANCTIONED BY ATA Prior to May 22, 1940 DATE CLUB PLACE KIND April 10-13—'Prairie View State ■College. 9-10—'Southern Inter- ■Collegiate, Tennis Association June 17J22—-Prairie View Coll ege Tennis Clufc June ^-28—N o r t h Carolina State Tennis Association July 4-7—Naw England Tennis Association Prairie View State College Tennis Courts Prairie View, Texas T'lskegee InslTiute Alabama ^ Prairie View, Texas Fayetteville, N. C. State Teachers College Springfield, Mass. Inter- Collegi- Sectional Open Open July 9-14—^North End Tennis Shaly Rest Country Club Open * Clutb - Scotch Plains, N. J. (August 4-10-Prairie Tennis Club Wabash Avenue at 09 St. Chicago, IllintSts Au^st ^10—^New York Tennis Association State Cosmopolitan Tennis Courts Open Au^si 30-Sept. 2—t24th U. S. In£an(try Tennis Club 24th In^try Tennis Open Courts, Fort Bennings, Ga. Aii4fu*t ,5-10—Florida Association Tennis ‘Nadean. iBahamas August 31-iSept. 2—Neiw England Boston, Mf«s, Tennis Assoc&tion . Open Closed. AMERICA’S PraST LADY OF SWING, who with her orchestra after a successful staftd at Har> lem’a Savoy Ballroom and tha Mjjk mwmum Four Door, on Broadway, ia on. tour. Jltterbucf in outlajinc tricU are in for a thrill. TTF^ & * ' . *
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