Three Tar Heel Teams In Tourney
High School
Tournament Is
Set For NCC
Three division* of the North
Carolifia Negro High Schooli
Athletic AsBOciatioii wUl
in a tournament scheduled for
North Carolina College’s Gym-
nasluin Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday, March 8, 9, and 10.
The 18 participating teams
include class “A”, “AA", and
“AAA”.
The teams will represent
championships from the eastern
and western division.
Eight games are scheduled for
Thursday March 8 beginning at
9, 10, and 11 in the morning, 2,
3, and 4 in the aftemoop and
7:30 and 8:30 at night. Four
games go on tap Friday starting
with an afternoon session at
3:00 o’clock and a night session
beginning at 7:30. Three con
tests will be played Saturday
night beginning with the class
“A” championship at 6:30.
Season tickets are available
for students at $1.75 for the se
ries. Adult season tickets are
$S.35.
L. T. Walker, F. ,H. Brown,
and Dr. S. B. Fulbright of North
Carolina College are members
of the host committee on ar—
^hMgc.ments.
Grambllng Man
On Membership
Body Of NAIA
GRAMBLING, La.
Dr. Charles D. Henry of the
department of health and phy
sical education at Grambling
college, has been appointed to
membership on two National
Association of Intercollegiate
Athletics committees.
E. D. “Qus” Fish, publicity di
rector for the NAIA, said Henry
Rawwat^^d Its one of two re
presentatives’ from the Mid-
West conference for District'^9.
This is a liaison committee be
tween executive officials and
various activity chairmen of the
district.
The other appointment was to
the national membership com
mittee of the association. Eight
men from various geographical
areas of the country comprise
the committee.
SECTION—A
DURHAM. N. C., FEBBtJABY 25, 195«
PBICE 10 CENTS
WSTC Cager (Ruled Off Tean
As Result Of Players’ Scuffle
A. AND n SMnU NAMED
Lioyd And Defares Top
AII'CIAA TeamlPicks
MWAACagers
To Square Off
At Hashville
NASHVILLE, Tenn.
Tennessee A&I State -Ui^ver-
sity will host the Mid-West Ath
letic Association Basketl>all
Tournament which is scheduled
to get underway February 23.
Originally scheduled to be held
at Grambling College February
16, 17 and 18, the tournament
was transferred to the Nashville
institution at the request of
Grambling College officials be
cause of housing difficulties
brought about by Grambling’s
record enrollment this yea^.
Grambling College, the defend
ing champions with a' veteran
team and the nation’s top bas
ketball scorer in Robert Hop
kins, will be out to cop the con
ference crown again. However,
reports from the other member
colleges indicate that the cage-
sters from the Pelican State
may be in for rough sledding.
Tennessee State University has
shown remarkable improve
ment during the last half of the
Season, their triumph commg at
the expense of the Jaclcson Col
lege Tigers when they snapped
the Tigers’ winning streak. With
“Big Ben” Jackson, a veteran
of several seasons, showing the
way for a group of outstanding
freshman prospects, the team
has compiled a very good sea
son’s record.
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^sgtat.
EDWIN AMO«
WASHINGTON, D. C.
Six players representing five
Central Intercollegiate Athletic
Association scltools have been
named to the 1956 AU-CIAA
Basketball Team selected by
coaches of the 18-member con
ference. ,,
The first team, as announced
by 'iTiomas A~. Hart,' director of
public relations for the confer
ence’s Basketball Coaches As
sociation, is made up of Sunny
Lloyd of Maryland State Col-
THEOPHILUS LLOVD
Syphax and Tom Harris, of
Howard University; Edwin
Amos, of Hampton Institute;
and Billy Smith, of North Caro
lina A&T College. The players
will receive awards during the
CIAA Championship Basketball
Tournament which begins Feb.
23rd at Durham.
Lloyd and Detares led in the
balloting, being named on the
ballots of 12 of the 14 coaches
who participated in the election.
Syphax was named by six
coachesr^hile Aiftos, Harris,
and Smith received four votes
each.
',Steve Gwinn, of Virginia
Union University, headed the
lege; Jack Defaris, of Winston- list of nine players named to the
Salem Teachers College; John | All-Conference second team. He
received three votes. The other
players, each with two votes,
were Ronald Evans, of FayettC'
ville State > Teachers Col)«ge;.
James Galloway, Bluefield
State College; Robert Hall
Shaw University; Ronald Kil
patrick, Fayetteville; James
Sligh, North Carolina College
and Carl Smith, Virginia Union
Coaches ^participating in the
selection of ttie- teams included
representatives of Bluefield,
Delaware State, Fayetteville,
Hampton, Hewwd, Marylaiid
State, Morgan State, North
Carolina AfcT, North Carolina
College, Shaw, Johnson C
Smith University (N.C.), St
Paul Poly (Va.), Virginia State,
and Winston Silem.
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Unorthodox Style Wins For
Morgan State High Jumper
BALTIMORE, MD.
At Morgan State College,
classmates call the odd high
Jump style of Norristown, Pa.
junior Robert (Bob) Barlcsdale
the “barky roll”.
It’s a peculiar kind of re
laxed jump in the course of
which the 21-year-old seems to
walk in the air and just rest
there.
For a Norristown, Pa. Times
Herald photographer who snap
ped it, the “barky roll” made a
prize winning photo.
And for Bob Barksdale, the
“barky roll” to date this season
has won him three indoor cham
pionships and two new meet
records, one of them an im
pressive 6’9” leap, that broke a
22-year-old mark.
Hottest in Bear Camp
Right now the hottest thmg in
the Bear'track camp-with the
usually outstanding mile relay
team not yet running up to Mor
gan’s old form-Barksdale hit
the 6’9” heights in the New
York Athletic Club meet of
February 11 in Madison Square
Garden.
It was a jiew record for the
New York A. C., whose 6’8 and
three^qiuarter inch standard
was set in 1924, and a new high
for the former scholastic triple
sports star who holds the CIAA
record In the high jump, 65»cu-
tlng a nifty 6’8 and one quarter
inch leap last year.
FirMt Seaton
Bob, out for his first reason
-of indoor track, has been adding
inches to his Jump all ieafon.
He started the season in the
Philadelphia Inquirer meet and
finished third.
Then he climbed to 6’6” to
win the high jump in the Wash
ington Evening Star Games. He
added a couple more inches or
so to his jump and climbed to
6’8 and three-quarters inch to
tie for first place in the Mill-
rose Games of February 4 with
the national high jump cham
pion, Ernie Shelton, and a new
meet record.
'Riree North Carolina teams,
Winston Salem Teachers Col
lege, North Carolina College at
Durham, and A and T College,
Greensboro are among the
eight basketball teams compe
ting in the Central Intercollegi
ate Athletic Aiisoclatlon’s 11th
annual tourney in Durham,
Thursday, Friday, and Satur
day, February 33-25.
Tournament play starts at
2:30 Thursday afternoon in the
NCC Eagles’ million dollar
sports arena ^hat seats some
5,000 fans. A and T meets Blue
field ill the opener. North Caro
lina College's Eagles play How
ard University at 4 o’clock.
fThursday night's games start
at 8 o’clock when Delaware and
Winston Salem square off. The
9:30 game matches Maryland
State against Union of Rich
mond.
Friday’s two games start at
8 p.m. with the winner of the
NCC-Howard affair engaging
the top team in the Delaware-
Winston Salem contest. Friday
night's 9:30 game will feature
the victor in the A and T Blue
field scrap against the winning
club in the Maryland-Union af=
fair.
Selection of tiie CIAA's - top
eight teams was announced in
Durham «arly this week after
one of the most hotly contfsted
races in tournament history.
Eleven clubs finished in the
first (Dickinson) division, with
Maryland State College’s Hawks
copping their first visitation
crown with a string of 12
straight victories.
CIAA President T. L. Hender
son of Union ordered Winston
Salem’s 79-75 win over Fayette
ville at Ayinstoii on Feb. 14 dis
regarded in computing tourney
standings. Dr. Henderson’s ac
tions followed protest of alleged
“riotous conditions” during
which a Winston-Salem player,
Harry Rogers, left the Winston
Salem bench to strike a Fay
etteville player. A free-for-all
resulted. Rogers was declared
ineligible for tourney partici
pation. The matter will be ex
amined by the CIAA ai its
March 22-24 meeting in Wash
ington. Winston, which ordi
narily would have a 15-4 re
cord, for tourney purposes,
a 14-4 count.
Other first disrislon clubs In
clude NCC, third (10-7); A&T,
fourth, (14-6): l^uefield, fifth,
(9-3); Delaware, sixth, (11-4);
Union, seventh, (11-5); Howard
eighth (12-7); Shaw, ninth,
(12-10); Fayetteville, tenth
(10-6); and Morgan, eleventh,
(9-0).
Fayetteville protested the
Winston Salem victory and tisk-
ed for a forfeiture. Such action
would have put Fayetteville in
the tournament.
Winston Salem officials say
Fayetteville’s account of the dis
pute and scuffling among play
ers on the court during the
game were “exaggerated and
misleading”.
Pictured here is this ye.ar’t
CIAA champions, Maryland
State College. Coac?ied by ex-
Tennessee gridiron and cagp
star Nat Taylor, the Hawks pos
ted a perfect 15-0 record for the
season, becoming the only ma
jor southern Negro cage team
to finish the season undefeated.
Members of the squad are Jacob
Jordan, James Hough, Theophi-
lus Lloyd, Learman Wilson,
Maynard Preston, Vernon
Vaugh, Clarence Facey, Frank
lin Carr, John Sample, anti Taft
Lee.
i
The Winston-Salem Teachers
College basketball team, shoivn
here, finished the season in
second place in CIAA stand
ings. Members of the Rams’
team are Rufis McClendon, • John Whitley, William Vance,
Wilfred John, Donald Bennett, Lawrence Harrison, Millard *
Dennis Hampton. Bobby Brown, Harris and Sidney Lawson. The
James Sessoms, Harry Rogers, I Rams are coached by Clarence
Harry Defense, Jack DeFares,' Gaines.
Fayetteville Uses Subs To Bury
Pirates, 91-% In Cage Finale
FAYETTEVILLE
By way of adding the finish
ing touches to a hectic, pressure
packed cage season. Head
Coach William “Gus” Gaines’
Bronco performers cleaned the
bench In administering a sound
91-58 drubbing to their ancient
rivals, the Elizabeth City “Pi
rates”. The visiting Bluejackets
got away to a quick start when
their fast-moving sophomore
guard, Richard Morgan, whip
ped in a one-hand push shot for
the first two markers.
They pushed on to grab the
lead twice during the first ten
minutes of play, but that was
about it for them, for the Fay
etteville teachers, rallying
around Captain Ronald “Red”
Kilpatrick, straightway put
down the uprising and moved
out In front for keeps. At half
time, the Bronco quint enjoyed
a 14-point advantage over their
opponents.
A big factor in the^ Bronco
victory was the brilliant per
formance of “Big” John Mor
gan, sophomore center of Dur
ham, ^ who came up with 19
points to run the show in the
matter of scoring. He has been
adept all season at making
those quick shots under the
basket look easy. This feat must
be linked with the fine hall-
handling of two Fayetteville re
serves, Dave Bluford who turn
ed in his best all-round perfor
mance of the guard spot and
wiry Claude Moses, fleet-footed
forward who brought the crowd
to Its feet as he cashed In on a
series of difficult, unorthodox
shots during the waning mo
ments of the game.
Likewise, Elizabeth City’s
“travelling man”, Samuel Hub
bard, of Lynchburg, Virginia,
hit for 18 points and qualified as
runner-up In the scoring de
partment. He and his running
mate, Randolph Tootle, were
always marked men throughout
the contest.
As the curtain falls on the
Bronco hardwood season, Ron
ald Evans, and John Morgan
stand out as oonslstettt “Big
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Campy Loses In
Court; Must Pay
Five Grand
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
Roy Campanella of Brookiy i
fame is about to l>e minus of
$5,000 as the Supreme Court
jury ordered him to pay Dr,
Samuel Shenkman that sum for
an operation performed on his
left hand 18 mouths ago.
The jury of 11 men and one
woman returned the verdict in
favor of the Neuro-surgeon af
ter two and une-half hours of
deliberation. Tlie doctor had
sued for $9,500.
Dodger Catcher had claimed,
that 1) Dr. Shenkman's fee was
excessive and 2) that Dr.
Shenkman had never named a
price in discussion prior to the
operation on October 20th, 1954.
Dr. Shenkman Insisted however
that Roy had been told but had
refused to pay after the opera
tion.
Host team for the Eleventh
CIAA basketball tournament
are the North Carolina College
Eagles, shown here. The Eagles
finished third in regular season
play. Members of the NCC team
are James Sligh, Cluybon
Fields. John Keels, Charles
Badger, Gilbert Riley, Fred
Gibson, Cal Alexander. Charles
Baron, Joseph Alston, Henry
Davis, William Brotow, Dorian
Parreott, Mmicolm Little, Willi*
West, Don Burke, Albert Little
and Herman Boone.
The Aggies of A and T Co(-
lege finished fourth in regular
season play in tHe CIAA. Mem
bers of the A and T quintet
pictured arc Edu’ard Battle,
Charles Tupponce, R o b • r »
White, Joe Howell, Donald
Young, Charles Harrison, Harry
Martin, Cli«ri«s HoUlMeeeetii.
Billy Smith. Siumr* Welts,
Howard Smith, ViMM
Milicn Cat Irvin cCflMs tfte A
•nd T entry.
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