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New York.— Tiger Jaek Fox,
a few nigh£s before stepping into
the ring with southpaw Melio Bet-
tiua, was cocksure he’d return to
Harlem world’s 175 pound boxing:
ehatnpion. Be refused to believe
that the two inch knife wound ro-
rdivM at the hands of a girl who
claimed he attempted to attack her
was anything more than a scratch.
Bettina, on the other himd, a smart
Italian bruiser i hailing from Bea
con, N. Y., felt he could like a
rootnfull of “Tiger Ja#ks” with a
few hyenas thrown in for good
meilsiire. ■ ’
This same Bettina two weeks ago
wag given a split verdict over
roi^hhouso Harry Bobo of Pitts
burgh, who can fight in any man’s
language. Recently one Lee £>avold,
an over-stuffed ex-barkeep who
trained off 05 pound to re-enter
the prize ring, won what was call
ed *‘the 1941 edition of the White
Hop(Q Tournament. ’ ’ Some fans are
of the opinioB -|hat Savold is the
Jhoi#li)re‘' ’to ’ wklch * in the h^vj'*
wei||^ picture. But we argue dif
ferently. Two refieiit graduates
from (he 176 pound dfvision Les-
nivieh and Bettina, are likely to
prove to the beef trusters that a
goo^ man scaling all of 177 pounds
is A match for most 240 porniders.
Laughran Rosenbloom, Tiger
Flowers, Norfolk, Jamaica Kid,
Gr#h, Tunney, Tom Gibbons^ Me-
Tea^e, Siki, et al« are but a few
of the jflovemen who swept into
the fight healdines from 1920 on,
who were capable of perforniinf?
such chores. We don’t include such
names as Philly Jack O’Brieni th>
incomparable—SAM LANOPORD,
or . . . Jack IMllon, "the giant-
killer,” for these fighters were
supermen, wfiose like may not flash
across the^fistic horizon for a cen
tury or more.
THE PASSING SHOW
Pdotball’s swan song, for New
'*York City at least, showed^ a tew
Jjroneed supermen in action Negro
and white fans will not soon for
get; blotting out that 1939 shel
lacking by the Chicago Bears, .Joe
Lillard came back to the Polo
gronands two weeks ago, to coach
a''group of youngsters and oldsters
int6 winning form in less than two
weeks time—Cli,aps like Ozzie Sim
mons, Bernie Jefferson, Ox Ander
son, Maso Byan, Lou Montgomery,
(played with a slight br^in con
cussion), Walke^ of Iowa, SidaV
Sin^ (of a former great Syracuse
teati^) — That they could hold a
claSsy white s^iuad to a four point
victory, proves conclusively to me
that younger men, coached as ef-
Mght Prospects
Smu For Hampton’s
Wrestlii^ - Ming
Hampton Institute, Va. — With
a strong nucleus of varsity men
on each team, boxing and wrestling
prospects for the 1942 season at
Hampton Institute appear bright,
Coach B. L. Dutton stated today.
Of the 20 men who seek berths
on the boxing team, four are var
sity men. Two of these, Co-cap-
taing Car! Fountain, 145 pounds,
of Winston-Salem, North Carolina,
and Norrece Jones, 165 pounds, of
Woodbine, New Jersey, are 1^1
C. I. A. A. boxing champions. John
t^. Parham, 127-pound class, Pet
ers burg, Vii^inia, and Louis H
Haman, Jr., 175 pounds, Wilming
ton, Deleware, are the other var
sity men.
According to Coach Dutt^ and
Robert Mero, boxingr manager,
plans are already under way to
build a strong team around last
year’s freshman boxers. Outstand
ing of these are three Hampton
numeral men; Talmadge Moore,
Aiken, Saufch Carolina; Qlmi'les
Kirkland, Gary, Indiana, and Rich
ard’H. Davis, Atlantic City, New
Jersey.
This year's crop of first year
boxing candidates iaTso includes
some particularly flashy punchors.
Among them are John Dailey, Cla
rence Barber, Jr., Baltimore: and
Thurman Miller, Kinston, Ndrth
Carblina. ?
Four 1941 lettermen are also oti
Ineligible Player Causes |JOE LOUIS IS NAMED
N. C. College Eagles ToiWINNFR OF NEIL
LoseCIAA ChampionshipllMEMORIAL AWARD
At its annual meeting held ai
Vii^inia State College last week
CIAA officials rul6d that North
Carolina College Eagles had played
an ineligible player in five games
and therefore, were not entitled to
the football championship for 1941
The conference in turn named
Morgan College that had lost one
game as the tittleholder for thr
year. The Eagles had lost no con
ference games during the entir^'
season.
The player in question wag Hen
ry Thomas of Farrell, Pennsylvan
ia whose name was listed among
those which the Eagle coaches sent
to every team prior to the opening
of the season. No complaint about
Thomas being ineligible wi* lodged
against the N. C. College team un.
til they became championship
threats, and had played five
games.
f
Davis averring, that he would not
be eligible until the 1943 football
season.
Dean Taylor^ in presenting N. C.
State’s side of the case, made a
sympathetic plea, stressing the
fact that N. C. State had no knowl
edge of the player's transfer as the
school’s registration record show
ed clearly that he was a freshman
and the youth’s own word Was that
he ad been working and in a CCC
camp during the elapsed year from
high school graduation.
Taylor declared the verdict
would be a shock to the fifteen
senior members of the N. C. State
team who had worked four years
to win a championship only to hav«
the conference penalize them for
soniethiiiGr in whish they had no re
sponsibility.
Peculin*' a§ it may seem the two
coaches who .broneht the charges
against Thomas had botji tried un
successfully to'get Thomas to be
come a member of their sriund?.
Although it appears that the nsso-
ciation could take no other course
than the one it did, it does seem
that the Hucles of Union and
Jackson of J C. Smith University the Eagle eleven played i
the roster of this year’s wrestlers: jwho brought the charge were rile 11n^h-conference team in September
Captain Paul R. Jenkins, 18.? ’'"mnsc Conch Bnrghardt of theremained idle a week before-
Engles outdid them in getting facing a conference fde, which w.as
Thomas to enter N. C. CoHeire. ample time for any person to noti-
Tlie decision, rendered by the fy the eligibility chairman or the
Accuse Coaches
With-Coach William P. Bur^-
hardt, Taylor further charged
CIAA coaches with negligence and
failure “ to live up to their duty
as men and educators” for their
hesitation In notifying N. C. State
that the player was a transfer 'Stu
dent.
Taylor pointed out that eligibil
ity lists were submitted in Septem-
pounds, Norfolk, 19^1 CIAA run
ner-up in the unlilmited class;
Luke Baucrh, 14.’)-pounfler, Rich
mond; Bailey .Tackson. l5o pounds,
(’olunibus. Ohio, nnd .Tohn T.
Brown, 16.3 pounds, Winnabow,
North Carolina.
Especiallv promising amonnr
freshmen of wrestling calibre is
Norman A. Berhannon, Athens,
Pennfiylvania, who has^liis num
eral.
^Coach Dutton and Assistant
Coach Alfred Price hope to i^et at
least four or five duel meets for
Hampton wrestlers before the
CIAA championships.
GLOBE TROTTERS
ME OPENER
FROM DETROIT
^''ficiently as Friedman and Lillard
^ oollabfirated to do, would hove won
convincingly; — when the snow
keep#you at home soon and you’re
reminiscing in front of your fire
place, give a thought to those gal
lant ITejrro football titans of 1941
who eamo out of the mothballs to
De Kalb, 111. —(ANP)— The
original Harlem Globetrotters, 1940
world’s professional basket cham
pions, gave • every indication of
having finally hit their best stride
when they toyed with “Dutch”
Dehnert’a Detroit Eagles, present
world titleholders who eliminated
the Trotters in the 1941 tourna
ment, in a game played at De Kalb
Teachers college here Wednesday.
The final score was 36 to 22 nnd
might have been more one-sided
make Commissioner Battle and .had not the Trotters eased up and
Fraid|r Forbes, immeasurably happy
eves Ae brand of game they play
ed IftBbre 23,000 fans.—Bob Monf-
gomety, gasy a leading sports writ
er Powers, of N. Y- Daily
News), is boxing’s “forgotten
man.” — “Many believe he could
take iEay Robinson.”—^Keep your
eyes peeled on Bill Fisher, who
gradtwtes from DeWitt Clinton
proceeded to delight the crowd
with their extensive repertoire of
stunts and antics. The gaftie was
close for the first quarter, but
from then on, with Robsey Hudson,
the sharpshooting forward, find
ing the range, the Trotters begun
pulling away easily.
Hudson had himself a field night
with seven ^a‘«kets and four free
high this fall, for he’s a whale of ithrows. Bernie Price, the great
a b**eball player—we’re writing
the New York Black Yankee Man-
agemeat to sign this boy up before
Bom^' sfcart scout for one of the
west or south outfits lieats them
to thd gnn.
Army orders 62 tank-destroyer
battalions.
center, likewise was prominent,
getting himself four of the Trot
ters’ 16 field, goals. Babe Pressley,
Ted Stjong, Bill Ford and Inman
Jkolcson were brilliant on the de
fense as the Eagles were held to a
scant eight baskets.
Arnold says illegal labor prac
tices cost billion yearly.
'’ominittop headed bv rinronce W.
Davis of Howard, with George G.
Si^vrletarv of Va. State and Ar
thur P. Chippey of St. Augustine,
as members, was reached after !i
wee? of investigation dating baiik
to No\'einb?r 10 whipn the case was;
brought to the attention of the
conference by Coach Edward Jae \-
ison of Johnson C. Smith, N. C
State’s opponent of that week.
Thomas, graduated froin Farrell
high school in 193f), spent a part
of the next fall at Lincoln Univei*-
sity, Jefferson City, Mo., then re
turned to Farrell where he was em.
ployed until his entrance at N.
State College in September.
Thomas Falsified
In' registering at th? Durham
school, however, Thomas neglected
to inform N. C. State officials that
he had attended Lincoln. Instead,
he entered as a freshman using his
high school record to meet the
scholastic (inalifications. N. C,
State, acting in good faith, accept
ed the athlete’s word and knew
nothing of the breach until it wa?
called to the school’s attention by
a. rival conference coach.
5 Games Forfeited
T'he decision forced N. C. State
to forfeit games to Bluefield, St.
Paul, Lincoln, Shaw nnd Johnso»i
C. Smith, nil of which the Eagles
eleven previously won.
Under the revised order of the
standings. Morgan, wtih six wins
and one defeat, retains, the confor-
ence^ crown won in 1940, with
Johnson C. Smith, Va. State, Blue-
f'eld, Hampton and Shaw next iti
order in the first division. N. C.
State, left with only one confor-
le victory, a tie and the five
forfeited defeats, is down in eighth
place behind seventh-place Virgin
ia Union.
Eligible Next Dec. 12
Ip a subsequent ruling by Presi
dent H. C. Perrin, it was declared
that Thomas Would be eliKible for
narfioipation in CIAA athletics on
December 12, 1942. The ruling was
made by the president after the
body’s eligibility committee was
school about Thomas’s status. He
hinted broadly that the school had
been “hoodwinked” into using an
ineligible man. •
“Everybody Knew II” '
His accusation seemed to h?
borne out later in the* discutslon
when Hucles revealed that it. was
rumored ar: early as * September
that Thomas was the former Lin-‘
coin University player and thaf
“everybody knew i^” but were
“not men enough to let them know
about.” Union was not on N. C
State’s schedule, biit^ susr^ested
thatT’aylor Inquire into the plajev's
rtatfe when it developed that he
was playing in every game, though
he was used only as an alternate.
Tipped by Ooach
Coach Jackson of Smith declared
he learned from “another .cOach”
that Thomas was ineligible and
based his letter and ‘ subsequent
protest to Davis on this knowledge.
He denied previous KnOwl’edge of
the player’s status.
The eligibility committee took
the position that N. C. Stri%e acted
in good faith yet was. guilty under
the conference law, and cited pre
cedent for its decision which was
backed by the conference to the
letter.
NATIONAL DEFENSE JOBS
split, 2-1, on Thomas’s status, with pleted.
A valuable opportunity for girls
to qualify for an excellent paying
job, vital to National Daense, is
the radio training course which
State College is plannijig to inau
gurate before January .^th. /'The
eflurse will bo open to men and
women, boys and girls, and will be
hely in key cities of the state.
( Iflsses will convene at night, with
the entire cost of the whole train
ing course being paid by the Unit
ed States Government. Pile your
application now with AVBIG, which
will mail ■ it,, along with other ap
plications, to the State College En
gineering Department. Answers to
your inquiries and applications
w'ill come to you directly from
State after applications are com-
Langston University
Versos Morris Brown
Set For Krmingiiaffl
By EUOBY O. JACKSON
Birmingham, Ale. — Lfcngston
Oklahoma, one of the top teams of
the Southwest Conference, will
meet Morris Brown, 1941 SI AC
champions and present holders of
the mythical nation crown, in the
inaugural Vulcan Bowl Classic at
Rickwood Field, Bifmihgliam,
Year’s Diay.
Led by All-American John (Big
Train) Moody, Morris Brown has
plowed through a nine game sched
ule without a tie or loss. Moody
has been scoring sensation of the
nation, having personally compiled
84 of his team’s 192 points^ Only
three teams have scored on the
Wolverines who in turn have held
their nine oponents to a total score
of 24 points.
Coached by Wip Gayles, former
Morehouse All-American, the
Langston Lions have eome through
a nine-game schedule with only
one setback, that at the hands of
Texas College who upset them 7 to
18. They have garnered 196 points
to 45 in the nine games.
Morris Browri, coached by Billy
*j Nicks, in addition to holding the
national title, is the only college
team in the nation who holds three
footbaill titles simultaneously. The
Won the city championship in At
lanta, beating Morehouse and
Clark, annexed the SIAC title, and
tlien grabbed the national crown.
By winning from these same two
teams this year have dupircited
their feat of last year. They heat
Clark 32 to 0 to round out fHefr
1941 regular schedule andefeated.
Morris Brown, defeated Wilber-
force for the national grid crown
in the boAvl classic in Birinmgham
last year. The Wolverines will be
setting something of a precedent
''V coming back to the Magic City
this year. ^
Ijangsrton, though rlightly behind
Prairie View in the percentngo
standings of the southwest Confer
ence, ranks ahead of Sam Taylor.
Coharts in the latest national rat
ings. They played Prairie View to
a bloodless, 0-0 tie this season.
The Vulcan Bowl Committee has
completed plans for seating ar
rangements at Eickwood Field
which rs being set up to handle a
crowd of approximately 20,000.
Most of the seats are covered
which will be an advantage to fans
in case of rain or inclement wea
ther. Reserve seats are expected to
be placed on sale w’ithin a few
days.
For years the Lions have conic
up with one good team after am
other. Langston> noted ,for their
smart footbalF and '^^anite-like
lines, was considered the best pos
sible foe to meet the rugged Wol
verine machine.
Many varied and related activi
ties are being planned in connec
tion with the Vulcan Bowl Game.
Coming as it is. on New Year’i
Day and national Emancipation Df y
thes^ events will blend into syntjie-
tic ,j8el|^bratioh of Vulcan Pay, in
honor of the “god of the fdrg«,”
the Iron Man, symbolic of the
Birmingham District, located in
beautiful Vulcan Park top Red
Mountain.
WEST VIRGINIA STATE
MAKES I4th SCHOOL
TO JOIN CIAA
Jefferson City, Mo. — The chief
feature of the eleventh annual
meeting of the Mid-Western Ath
letic Association convening here
was the withdrawal from the con
ference of one of its founders—
West Virginia State College. Mem
bers of the association were not
surprised "a tthis action, sa West
Virginia had expressed its desirs
previously to join the C. I. A. A.
This meeting‘resulted in the con
firmation of that fact.
The opening meeting of the As
sociation Was featured by a dyna
mic address by the President of
the Association—R. B. Atwood of
Kentucky State. He charged the
njember colleges with a lack of full
cooperation in sports activities of
the conference, and urged that un
less the member schools change
their attitudes and programs the
conference' is doomed to fail. He
issaed a stirring challenge to the
member colleges. Said President
Atwood: “I should like for us to
continue, but I am frank to say
that our continuance will require
that we do some things which, un
til now, we have not done. ”
New York,—(ANP)—Joe Louis
was named as winnet of the Ed
ward J. Neil Memorial award laat
ediiesday for his record breakiji^
reign as king of boxing and th«
job he did in turning back serea
challengers this year. The annual
award is made by the Boxii^'
Writers’ Association of New York .
in niemo^' of the Associated Press _
sportswriter and war correspon
dent who was kiUed in Spaia in
1938. The trophy was voted by ae- '■
1. We, each of us, must resolve jclamation to Louid as the man who
to• be a good association member,did the most for the sport in 1941.
and make the M. W. A. A. live.
2. We, each of us, must rerolve
to participate in all the spo,rts
which our association promotes.
This was the first time that an .
acclamation vote had been given '
in the four years it hag been a-
warded. Among the previous win-
3. We, each of us, must resolve ;ners of the trophy i* Henry Anm-
to attend'dutifully and meticulous-j strong, former tripletitle holder,
ly to each item of Association busi- j ' The award will efficially be pn~
ness, such as fi^ eligibility lists, ‘sented to Louis at the boxing writ-
ansWeting correspondence manage
ment of Association events' at our
Institutions, issuance of the Asso
ciation Bulletin and other pnMlci-
ty-
4. We, each of us, must resolve,
to see to it that our Institution is
represented at Association meet
ings.
5. We, each of us, must resolve . •*
to it to see that our Institution
inows and follow the letter and
spirit of Association regulations as
affect officials, eligibility of play
ers, fulfilling of contracts, etc..
efs’ annual dinner Jan. 14.
In conjunction with namin|f tlie
winner of the trt^y, the writers
also voted their rankings of cham
pions and contenders in ,sev«n of
the eight weight divisions, exehid-
ing only the flyweights, in fire of
which prominent colored fighters
are named. These were:
Heavyweight—Joe Louis, eham-
Light heavyweight—No. 1 con-
♦»*nder, Booker Beckwith, Gary,
Ind.
Welterweight—No. 1 contender,
never being brought before the rRay Robinson, New York.
Association for penalties and pun-i Lightweight — No. 1 contender.
Bob Motgomery, Philadelphia.
ishment.
Dark Laughter
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