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I ■ * MMlf ~ lATUKDAY, MAY 4, i, 11*0 ware Holds Leads In CIAA Race SPORTSCOOP It Pays to Steal" Tells Maury Wills' Story By JOHN B. HENDERSON Who i-, th? biggpst cronk in biieb*!!? Who has amassprt a small fortune in stpalinc:? You pueRged it. nonp other than tlip preat Ixjs An?ples Dodgers short stop Maury Wills. TT)p flppf little Rloveman for the L. A. Dndper.! rw^ntlv laid his plnve aside in order to pn- author a honk with S^ovp Cinrri n-“r ironipallv cnlleri. "IT PAYS TO STF4L”. and in Wills' case, it moM dpfin't.-'Iv It was Will.s’ 104 hasp thpfts fh*tt mil Tv rnhh!’ fX5 stolon hn'.’ rp^ord in *Vi" h.i"s of qn^iniiitv. And jiist think of it. M'inrv bps coTne s Innr n-av In Tiili’>li»nb f'^m the msiors fo the hie Ion- piips. TTiP 160-noiind. 5-10 .■short .'♦nn .snont vpnrs in the minors drifting from one team to another T h p man respon.'ible for Maiirv’s siipp'’!s is Bohhv Pr^'^- an who was his manager durin'! a U»®8 four ‘vith Snnkin" It WAS Rra"pn who tan"ht Wilts to h.it from pithpr sidp of thp nlafp. As Ma'ir\’ recalls. “If .somoonp had told me years a"o that 1 woiilH hppomp a switch hittpr. 1 wi"'td have questioned his men tality.” But no one had to teach Maiir” to ni" l?ra®pn, now manager of the M'lwai'koo BraVPs. mor'-ols St Wills rise to stardom. “WH''' pane alon? at a time when thr emnhssis in baseball was nower and defied one and all with hi: snped. which is one of the mo.st rom^rkable accomplishments of modern baseball. Wills’ accomplishments--, have h»en more thnn recosnired hv th? snorts ‘.vorld. As a result of his record-breaking 1962 season, he was voted the N»»'onal Lea sne's Most Valuable Plaver and was awarded the flO.Oflfl diam- pnd-studded Hickock Belt as “Prcfpss’onal Athlete of the Year.” Other awards include be ing chosen “Athlete of thp Vtar” by J'he Sporting News." Born in Wa.shineton. D. C. and the son of a Baptist minister, Maurv attributes his success to his faith and practice of positive IHInWnX Saia Wills, “! know that more than ever God was with me during the 1963 sea son, I could not have accomplish ed what 1 did alone; I’m not that good.” His book, “IT PAYS TO STEAL”, will be published on May 20 by Prentice-Hall, Inc, » * * Twice Olympic Gold Medal winner, Lee Calhoun, revisited his former alma mater. North Ca rolina CoIIpsp recently and 'jvas the kpvnote sponker for the col- Iptp Annual Men’s Recognition nanqupt, ‘T'o me. cnaoh Walkpr is the host coach in thp world, and one of thp toii"ho.st coaches too.” I ^t"p as NCr hpad track mpntor, nr IxTov T. Walker, got up to nraisp his nroduct he jokingly b'-impd. “I thought I was a very politp coach toward Lee." And snoakin" of th" North Ca- rnlina track team, coach Walker has one of the greatest sprinters in thp CIAA in another Walknr- disrovorv—-EH'vin Anthony Rob- ors of Thinclads. Rohp’-ts is a 1^-9, 151 1b. fre.sh- m.in who h'ts been clocked as low as PR in tho 100 yard dash pvmt. And. Walker is so im prpFspd with the youns.ster’s that he has niacod Rob rrs in th" anchor-lep position of Iho 440 and the R80 events. As a result, the NCC track team is ii"dpf''at'>d in these pvpnts One (hin® for sure, coach Wal- kor sii’"'' knows how tn nick ’em when it comes to harrier pick ing. * * • Crach Clarence “Big House” Gaines hag remained somewhat mum on the stiff penalty he re ceived from the CIAA for getting “confi'spd" on post-seasonal bas ketball tournament plav. Mist of you remember the WSTC Rams dribbled in the wronT tournament last month and thoueh they had gotten a'»ay clean until their return home where the CIAA greeted them with a one year suspension from post-seawnal basketball tourna ment participation. Grambling Nine Unbeaten in SC GRAMBLING La. — The Gram bl'np. Timers have made it abund antly clear that they still have the comnetitive spark that won Southwestern Conference titles in WaHJW The talented Tigers moved back into first place in the SWAC race Saturday and will likely remain in the familiar spot, diespite an guished bleats from Southern University and Jackson State. Jack.son led the league briefly last week before suffering a vere case of tanglefoot in a series with Grambling. The Blues wore embarrassed and completely de flated by the defending champ Maryland State Hawks Giving Close Chase By ALEX fXUM HAMPTON. Va.—Delaware Slate -ollege last season's CIAA ba.se ball kingpins undefeated in cur rent league play, leads the seven team field with a clean 2-0 slate. The Hornets exploded in the late, innings against Hampton In their sea.sun opener to post a lop- idod 20-l.S win. Maryland Stale was the next to feel the sling of the Hornets, dropping a 6-3 squaker. Breathing down the Hornets necks, the Maryland State Hawkx ire a clo.se .second, with a 4-1 slate and a .800 pci. Shaw Univer ity in third place with a 3-1 take on the Hornets on home ground 'ate this '.veek. Howard University playing .500 'oall with a 2-2 slate is In fourth. North Carolina A, and T. hav- ■ng Its troubles have managed to win only one game so far and Ik just above the cellar dwellers Hampton and Fayetteville tSate who are tied with identical 1-3 slates. Fayetteville State is in the cel lar through no fault of Wilj|e Woodard and Charles Grey who are deadlocked for lop dot in .the parade of top hitters. Woodard has collected 8 hits in U times up for a .571 averag« while, Willie Grey has'jone 4 for 7 and the same average. Closed on the heels of the Fayetteville duo ia Shaw Uni versity’s Alvin West, who {rots between the outfield and the mound. West has gone 12 for 24 at the late for a hefty .500 average and blasted his fast ball pass enemy batters in 15 innings giving up 15 hits, 7 base on balls and allowing only 1.8 l^uns. Hampton’s Lionel Stephens- and Howard’s Staley Jacksoh are the leading home run clout ers with three apiece. Stephens has put his homers with 3 dou-' bles. a triple and 10 signles for a .42 average. Hampton’s other big bat, Euna Eklawrds with 6 triples and 6 singles in 35 treks up has pushed over 15 tung to lead Stephens who has 13 and the filed in the runs batted in catergory. A whiplash behind the Hampton duo is a quartet T5T~irowanl—niclcmfin Clyde Stockton with 12, Joe Phillips, Welvin Goodwin and Staley Jackson with 10 apiece. Jbd Jlnfoy It Coes Green Bay Rookie Among Howard Students Inducted by Honor Group There’s a fight way to b*wl, but these two boys haven't found It. Among 80 youngsters from St. ’ Mary of the Angels Home, a Roman Catholic institution for orphaned and abandoned children, the h>ya had a ball at a bowlins party given by Ken Kushner and Howard Eisenstein of Syosset Lanen OH I-ong Island, and the American Maciiine & Foundry Company. Unconcerned about proper delivery and the right way to Iwwl, they just worried whether the ball would knock down any pins, and if they could get seconds on the hot dogs, hamburgers, soda and ice cream provided by AMF and . Syoaact Lanes. U. S. Olympics Maury Wills Authors Book on His Is Proposed Career, to be Issued by May 20 WASHINGTON, D. C. — Green Bay Packers halfback Howie Williams was among nine Howard University students in ducted last week into Tau Beta Pi, the nation’s foremost hon or society in engineering. A n electrical engineering student tiofljoring in eloctronlcs, Williams will be graduated in June. Other inductees lnclud«‘d fivp senior and three Juniors. In ad dition the Tsu Beta Pi Dadge of {lonor was presented to a cocd, who, becau.se of her sex, is ineligible for membership in the society. Williams is a 36 year old na tive of Spartanburg, S. C. who m.ide the chatnpionship Green Boy teann as'a rookie last year after completing his college j^fhk^ie eligibility at Howard in t.961. A vetpi^n qf your years in the U. S. Air Force h»fore en-1 rolling at Howard, Willloms has, hnd some doien Job offer.t frnfh | mnjor indnstrinl and ' research pornoratlnns throughout the' country. He is expected to turn them down for the present, how ever, and report to the Packers for pre-season drills In July. Williams lives with his wife, the former Toyoko Oda of Yan aguchi, Japan, and 16-month old son at 132A Rittenhouie St., northwest. Other seniors indiirted into the Howard chapter of Tau Beta PI Include Adish K. Jain, me- rhanicnl engineering, *on of Janeshwar D. Jain of New Delhi, India; Albion Ak Potter, me- ch.Tnical enulneerlng, son of Leonard S Potter, San NJchol- ns Aruba, Nethlands Antilleg; Inder J. Sethi, mechanical en- einoerlng. son of Mr, Parmp TJ. Sethi of Meerut Cantt, India; Hollis J. Sobers, eleotrlral gineering, son of Mrs. Ena Shv bers nf 9 Bellsmvthe St./’niir- pof- Trinidad. W. I,; Ray> T. R. Titus, civil engineering, son of Cedrick O. Titus of Wakefield, Jamaica, W, I, ions. President-Coach R. W. E. Jones will be the last to admit it, but his team played smart, gutty base ball in the Jackson series and used an admirable blend of tena city and skill to trip the visitors 13-0, 3-0 7-8. NEW YORK—Connecticut Sen- aor ABFahtim RibicQ|^ proposed recentty an annual'^t(onal Olym pics as the solution to America's slumping athletic prestige follow ing Russian victories in ihe 1956 and 1080 Olympic Games, The former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and head of President Kennedy’s Council on Youth Fitness urges an em phasis on the %iinor” sports, such M fencing and gymnastics, whicK ere neglected in this coun- >ur at ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N. J.— Chavez Ravine, home of the Los Angeles Dodgers, rocked to' this chant in 1962, whenever a bile sized shortstop stepped to the plate to face opposition pitchers. The subject of this hysteria was cne of professional baseball’s smallest men—o’lO”, 160-pound Maury Wills, who during the '62 baseball season used his dazzling speed to set an amazing record of 104 stolen bases. His total sur passed that of 96 thefts, compiled ,!Wills has made up for what ht Writiiig Iti' tSe current issi' ^ORT magazine. Sen, Ribicdfi blames our second-i^ace finish to Russia in the unofficial team point standings on a concentration of Victories in only a few of the 20 sports on the Olympic program: “It adds as many points, to ^he team score to place first—or sec- tat ttyfrntd; tblrtf; fonrth, fifth or sixth— in a bicycle or canOe racb as in the 100-meter dash. A victory on the parallel bars or with the saber is as imporant as a diving champ ionship.'’ Besides providing outstanding athletes for all Olympic categories Sen. Ribicpff maintains that a na tional Olympics would help pro mote phy^cal tfitness among the nation’s yoi4ng’ people. It also would build the prestige of the liltle-rccosnized sports. try bur at which..rpany other na ^ „ tiona. exc^L. • - ^ sii;e, with a l^teree-defer .-e offr Bourbon ‘'l^ctienleii YEARS ampion $J05 FIFTH $055 PINT > YEAH 0U> SOUR MASH STKAICHT BOURBON, S6 PROOF. 1^1942 SCHENlEY DISTILLERS CO., N.Y.C. \ Fayetteville State Takes 4th Loss - V, FAYETTEVILLE — T Tih e bronco nine of Fayetteville State Teachers College suWered their fourth defeat in five^arts »i they bowed to the Afflpes of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College 14-3, Perkins of A. and T. got credit for the win even though he did npt com plete the game. Whitted of Fay etteville was the loser. Three home runs were hit fn the game. Matthews hit a home run with the bases empty for the visitors in the third and Willard Gotten of Fayetteville followed suit in the fourth witli none on. Thdh at the bottom of the seventh Walker of Fayette ville unloaded a homer with dne on base. East Durham Nls Whack Hew Hope Nine mination to su"ceed In major lea gue baseball. In his book, “It Pays To Steal" to be published by Preii- time-Hall on May 20th. ha writes, “You don’t have to be blessed with size or strength to compnte on an eo(ual basis with larger boys, it's what you have inside that counts.” Born the son of a Washin,Qton, D. C. Baptist minister, Maury nlav- ed sandlot hall in the Nation’s Capital, and he recalls that “'^e didn’t have any equipment—not even gloves like those my own boys have today. Later, when I competed in the pl^ground lea "ue, they had to furnish us with bats and balls.” Before he first donned a Dod ger uniform in 1959, Maury spent eight-.vears playing with one min or league club after another. In “It Pays To Steal,” he describes this apprenticeship, and the thous ands of miles- spent aboard buses f^'avpling 'the United States and NEW HOPE-The East Durham j Bulls won their first game of the newly formed tobacco league la.stl Maury credits Bobbv Bragen, hi? manager during a 1958 tour with , Spokane, as being the man mo.st Saturday by downing the Nowl responsible for his succc.ss. It was Hope Tigers 15-7. f Bargen who taught Wills to bat ~ „ 11 , , u T ^ either side of the plate. As The Bulls were led by Levance, ^ , , Maury recalls. If .someone had Wiggins, of Merrick-Moore school, jgld me 10-years ago that I would who had two singles, a double and two triples in six trips to the plate. William Satterfield, who started on the mound for the Bulls, Aa.s forced to retire in the fiith inn ing when he lost his control. John Lee, who came on in relief, struck out the side with the bases loaded to ease the Bulls out of the inn ing. Lee finished on the hill for the Bulls. Delaware Ekes By Fayettevile, 5-4 FAYETTEVILLE — The Broncos of Fayetteville State Teachers College took a 5-4 de- cition from the visitors from Delaware State behind the pitdT) Ing of their ace, Willard Cotten. Gotten held th# opponents score- leai for the ffrit few innings with suceeaiive atrike-outi. Fayettevill«!s Arst score came when Roy Holt hjt a three-run doubled in the 7th Inning. Then an error put another man on and Fred Bibby drovs two men I in with ■ game-winning double. Bronco Netmen Capture First Home Match FAYETTEVILLE — The Broncos of Fayetteville Staf5 Teachers College won its first home tennis match against Livingstone College 4-3. Stand outs for the home team were Stokes. Wilbur, Howard, Dove and Williams. FSTC Tracksters Capture Meet FAYETTEVILLE — T K 8 Broncos of Fayetteville State Teachers College complied a total of 72 points to grab top place in the. FSTC Annual In vitational Track and Field Meet. Second place trophy went to Elizabeth City with 50 and a half points, and third place trophy to St. Augustine’s with 4>1 points. Shaw totaled 25 poihta and Livingstone had 14, and a half. Fayetteville took 10 first places In winning tha five-way track meet. become a switch hitter, I would have questioned his mentality.” Ex-Grambling Caoer Sparks U. S. Pan-Am 5 SATT PATTT.O Rra’H_One c.f ♦hn mninstays of the U. S. ba.sket- ’'•'U tnam nprlicipatin? in the T’-'n- Af’ierjf'nn ?ame.s is bic Willis Reed a 61-0 235-pound giant Inbel- "d ‘the mn«t unrterr*(ted player on the American .snuad.” Reed i.i a junior from Gramh- Iin» College, a perennial small- college basketball power. Pan-AmerWn game ob.server.s Maim that he ha.s tbe noise and ''"nfidence of a professional star his peak. He and fi-9 I.iicious J.iekson of Pin Ameripun Colleoe, Edinhurp. Trx»s s'e the biggest members of the n. S. team. L?!t se.ison Reed scored f!99 noints and Grabbed .*W3 rebounds to parner clot's on the A.ssociated Press. United Pre.s* International and NAIA All-American teams, and starred in the Pan-American triala R-’ed is malting his second visit to Sau Paulo. Last .summer, he was on one of 14 U. S. .eager* who made a six week good will tour of Latin America for the Department oi State. Seven players from Grambling and an equal number from West minister College, (Pa.) visited nine Central and South American coun tries on the tour. Yarborouoh 3rd Best Shot in NAIA JACKSON. Miss. — Flttal statistics just .released by the National A.i»ORiiation of Inter collegiate Athletics show that .Tnrrv V'lrhroUBh of Jirksoo State College ranked third in individiinl field goal shooting nnd eighth in individual free throw shooting. In 215 attemnts, V»rbrough found his mark 136 ♦im-es for a .633 percentage. Yarbrough 1 e d the charlt.y s/*nrers for several weeks, but tailed off toward the end of the season as he ended the season 'vith 79 free throw's out of 9^ attemnts and an .857 percentaige performance. Don Smith led the Tigers in scoring, averaging 31.2 point* over the 26 game route. The lanky Tiger accounted for -W2 noints. Smith ranked 57th among R4 leaders in this caleeory. In field goals, the straight shoot- *ng Tigers were second behind field goals out of 1,677 attempts for a percentage of .519. Lenoir Rh.vne found the' mark the snme number of times in l.fi^O tries. Their percentage was .B^. Collectively, the Jackson State team averaged 83 points per "'’me. Offensively, Coach H. B, Wilson’s .squad ranked 24. Thelj* winning margin average was 10.5, thirty-first highest in th^ country. acfi Kentucky Gentleman KENTUCKY tTRAIGHT •OURBON WHISKEY *400 4/i AT. >25? n M PROOF BARTON DISTILLING CO. ■•rdatewn, Ntlion County Kantucky
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