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-THE CAROLINA THUS SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1885
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SWEET NANCY SINGS—Shown
htri in on* of her well-known
poMi the talented Miss Wilson
in the proceeding 18 months or
two years has soared to fame.
Although her rapid rise to
popularity was a foregone con
BASIE SWINGS FOR DOWN BEAT FESTIVAL
THE SWINGING aggregation of
Count B«it will perform on
Saturday evening, August 14 at
Soldier Field in Chicago at part
of the Down Beat Jazz Festival.
Softball League Standings
HARRIS FAST PITCH
TVins 21 4 840
Elites 20 0 833
First Calvary 19 6 .760
Beatles 10 11 .476
Vikings 8 13 .381
Bragtown .... 5 9 .357
Ragley Nine . 4 14 .222
Cats 4 15 .211
Borden 3 12 .200
White Rock 0 6 .000
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JONES SLOW PITCH
Jet Turks ... 19 2 .905
Hornets 18 3 .857
Durham Tennis Star Unable to
Stay for Penna. Tennis Meet
By DICK HOBSON
NATIONAL JUNIOR
CHAMPIONSHIPS
Bonnie Logan withdrew from
Woman's singles in the Pennsyl
vania Open ATA Championships
because she would have been
seeded no. 1 and had to leave
Saturday night for the USLTA
National 10 Championships in
Lake Bluff, Illinois.
L«nward Simpson playing in
Men's singles defeated Bruce
Carrington, Elisabeth, New Jer
sey 0-3, 0-1, Richie Myers, New
York City £0 0-0 and Charlie
Williams, New York City 0-3,
0-0 to reach the semi-finals
where he defaulted to play in
the Western USLTA Junior and
Boys Championships in Spring
field, Ohio. Luis Glass defeated
Louis Ashby, New Yurk City
8-0, 64 and Caesar winns, of
Philadelphia 6-1, 6-1, but lost
to Ronald Richmond,
Virginia in three sets.
Henry Kennedy defeated
Richard Cohen, Plainfield, New
Jersey 6-1, 6-0 but lost to Ron
ald Charity 6-1,6-1. In the Jun
ior on the road, Bonnie Logan,
playing in the USLTA Nation
al 16 Championships defeated
Gay Gordon, Baltimore, Mary
land 0-1 % 64, Ann Roberts, Co
ral Gables, Florida 6-3, 7-5. Lo
gan lost to Genger Pheiffer,
clusion of those who had heard .
her when she first arrived in
New York from her native Ohio
a few years ago, her quick 1
emergence as an outstanding
night club personality and as
The Festival will have five per
formances, Friday, Saturday
and Sunday evenings and Satur
day and Sunday matinees.
Agents 10 8 .556
Kombcrs . . 9 8 .529
Socialites . . 8 10 .446
Tigers 7 13 .350
YMSC 3 17 .150
Kings 2 16 .111
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BULL CITY WOMEN
Nicks . 188 I .947
Cordon Gs .. 12 5 .706
Ainev 12 6 .667
Weavers .... 8 10 .446
Colts 45s 5 13 .278
Ingold 1 19 .050
Forest View . 0 2 .000
Springfield, Ohio. Pheiffer is
the former ATA Woman's Na
tional Champion for 1963. Bon
nie also lost in the consolations
to Mimi Rainey 4-0, 6-4, 6-1.
Bonnie had defeated Mimi twice
earlier this year.
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WESTERN JUNIOR AND BOYS
CHAMPIONSHIPS
USLTA Westerns Glass and
Simpson lost in the first round.
Simpson lost to Brian Marcus,
Lansing, Michigan 0-3, 0-4 and
Glass lost to Mike Hamilton,
Coral Gables, Florida 0-4, 0-1
It was Hamilton who defeated
Glass lost year in the Junior
Nationals 0-4 in the third set.
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CLASS AND SIMPSON
SUSPINDED
In an unprecedented move,
"Whirlwind", after getting his
telephone report (a daily thing)
from O. G. Walker, traveling
coach, ordered both Luis Glass
and Lenward Simpson suspend
ed without prejudice indefinite
ly. Both players were with
drawn from the National
Championships at Kalamazoo,
Michigan and returned to
Lynchburg, It was learned that
both players had broken train
ing and had refused to obey or
ders. Upon the reccomendation
of 0. G. Walker, Simpson was
(he largest selling female re-1
cording artist in the world was ;
astounding.
Basically a jazz-oriented sing
er, Nancy nonetheless moves
with characteristic grace and
Sports Video
By EARL MASON
Times Sports Editor
QUIPS AND QUOTES
This pillar is happy to see
Coach 'Herman H. Riddick up
:ind doing fine. Riddick, the
Uean of CIAA football coach
es was stricken With a heart
attack a few months ago and
since that time has been con
fined to the bed. However, the
soft-spoken, easy going mentor,
was seen last week walking in
the streets under his own pow
er and reported he is feeling
much better. Riddick, who was
at the head of the North Car
olina College gridiron powers
for 20 seasons, was forced to
retire this year after the heart
attack. He really deserves a
pat on the back for the records
and other distinctions that
came to the college as a result
of his hard work. Best wishes
for your continued improve
ment. coach.
The North Carolina Kecrea
lion Society's annual state fast
pitch softball tournament will
be held in Fayetteville this
year on Saturday, August 21.
The one day affair will bring
together eight teams to com
pete for the softball crown.
Kaleigh is the defending cham
pion having won the honor last
summer on her home soil. Dur
ham was the host team for the
tourney two years ago. The
representative for the Durham
area will be either the West
End Elites or the Walltown
Twins. The two teams finished
the regular season in a tie for
the top spot. They met in a
one game playoff last Monday.
The winner will gain the right
to carry the banner for the
Bull City nine.
In addition to teams from
Raleigh, Durham, and the host
city. Fayetteville, teams from
Gcldsboro, Greensboro, Wi 1-
mington, Charlotte, and Bur
lington are expected to be on
hand for the tournament.
Jimmy Brown will get his
first chance to show the public
he is willing to play football
now after the trial Fri. night,
August 6 when the Cleveland
reinstated on Frobation. The
suspension is a blow to the Jun
ior Players in that the Junior
Doubles team, the ATA Men's
Doubles champions will not be
sent to Boston, Massachusetts to
compete in the USLTA Doubles
championships.
TINA WATANABK
WITHDRAWN
Little Una Watanabe, latest
addition to the Junior Dev.
Team also runs into discipline
problems and was withdrawn
from the USLTA National
Champions in the 16 category
where she was supposed to
have played doubles with Bon
nie. Tina and Bonnie are play
ing great game of doubles to
gether and will go after the
Women's Naitonal ATA Dou
bles at Central State.
I unfailing good tast* through
Broadway show songs and spe
cial material—adding tha per
sonal nuances and compelling
jam beat where her own unique
talents dictate.
K'
Bror«tis meet the College All
Stars in the annual College All-
Star game. The game will be
televised nationally beginning
at 9 p.m.
Brown, after winning his case
in court in Cleveland two weeks
ago, told the public he is ready
to forget about the incident
and play footabll, whether or
not Brown will be in top con
dition remains to be seen. But
the All-Pro fullback and top
ground gainer in the NFL, said
it would take him about 10
days to get back into shape
after the off season. Brown
won his case in court against
the 18-year-old Miss Brenda
Avers who charged Brown with
assault and battery on a fe
male. The court, after brief de
iibertion acquitted the star
back on the grounds that Brown
was only trying to help the
high school dropout instead of
making a romance of the af
fair.
The 10th annua 1 city-wide
sports day held last Thursday
at the Walltown Park was a
high success. The occasion
sponsored by the Recreation
Department of the City of Dur
ham had participants from the
six playgrounds. Keeping in
mind that there is always room
for improvement, the Recrea
tion staff, under the guidance
of I. R. Holmes and Edward
Boyd is looking forward to
even a better day next summer.
Tournament time is just
around the corner for our local
softball and baseball leagues.
Tourament play will be in full
bloom this week. A playoff is
scheduled for the Charles Har
ris Fast Pitch League to deter
mine the winner while the oth
er positions are sat Athletic
director, Edward Boyd, has an
nounced that the top four teams
in each league will battle for
post season honors. The Bull
City Women's League will be
played at Hillside Park, the
fast pitch curcuit will be reeled
off at Lyon Park, and Bill Jones
Slow Pitch League will play at
Hillside also. The midget league
teams will square off at the
Walltown Parte while the Pony
League will {day at Lyon Park.
Mickle Wins
Annual City /
Sports Day
E. D. Mickle win eight firtt
places to finish first among six
playgrounds in the 10th annual
city wide Sports Day sponsored
by the Durham Recreation De
partment held here at the Wall
town Park Thursday afternoon.
Walitown collected six first
places to finish second and
Whitted Park garnered a total
of five first places to finish
•Aith third place honors. T. A
Grady, Lyon Park, and Crest
Street each had two first places
to highlight an afternoon' that
saw some 300 participants com
pete for honors.
The winners and the play
grounds the represented are
listed as follows:
Yvonne Strudwick and Ros
lvn Johnson; Mickle; paper bag
contest. Cynthia Wilson ; Mickle
and Hershel Branch; Walitown;
balloon contest. James Johnson;
Mickle: bubble gum contest,
Gwen Perry; Walitown: soft-
I ball throw, Brenda Gamble;
Mickle. Denise Daily; Grady and
Jackie Chennelle; Walitown in
the dashes. John Poole; Lyon
Park, Westlev Johnson; Crest
Street, and Larry Dixon, Mickle
horseshoes: Cynthia Wilson,
Mickle, cup contest, Stephen
Dixon; Mickle, Tyron Alston;
Whitted, and John Jackson,
checkers. Deborah Holiday
Mickle; girls horseshoes, Harold
Smith; Grady, croquet, Deb
orah Holloway, paddle tennis
for girls and Mike Watkins,
1 Whitted, Smith, and Frank
Jacobs, Lyon Park paddle ten
nis for boys. Derrick Hughes;
Whitted, Lawrence Turner;
Walitown, Raymond Hughes;
Whitted and Glenn Long; Crest
Street; the boys dashes.
First place for playground
honors was awarded on first
places alone. However, second
and third place finishers in
each event as well as first place
winners were awarded certifi
cates for participation.
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SINGER DELLA REESE
BUSY WITH DATES, MOVIE
NEW YORK—Delia Reese,
who is squeezing two Nevada
club dates between her role in
a motion picture based on the
life of Ethel Waters, is current
ly touring Europe along with
three musician* and her per
sonal manager, Lee Magid. She
opened her European tour with
an appearance at Ramstein Air
Base, Germany and is sched
uled to appear at Toul Rosieres
Air Base. France and Wiesba
den Air Base, Germany before
journeying to Amsterdam, Hol
land for three days of television
filming before returning to the
United States.
ACTOR'S UNION BEEFS UP
POLICY AGAINST BIAS
NEW YORK—Actors Equity
has beefed up its racial relat
ing to areas where segregation
and discrimination are practic
ed. In a move consistent with
the non-discrimination clause
ftt>w contained in all Equity
contracts, the union ihas di
rected its members that they
shall not perform in any coun
try where a policy of segrega
tion and discrimination exists.
This constitutes a reaffirma
tion and amplification of a '6l
Equity statement relating to
appearances of its members in
theaters in the Union of South
Africa.
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PLAN BENEFIT FOR
AILING BUD POWILL
BROOKLYN, N. Y. While
Bud Powell, a pioneering mod
ern jazi pianist, lay clinging
to life in the Cumberland Coun
ty hospital last week, several
of his friends and jazz contem
poraries were rallying to his
sid by staging benefits in va
rious cities to help pay his hos
pital bills. A hard luck musi
cian, Powell, because of almost
constant ailments of various
types, has never really enjoyed
the financial reward of his
genius. He is suffering from
jaundice, complicated by ab
dominal dropsy and pulmonary
pneumonia.
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LOS ANGILIS NIGRO
LIVING IN ITALY,
SINGS "OTHILLO"
SPOLETO, Italy Nathan
Boyd, a Negro from Los Ange
les living in Italy, gsve a com
mendable performance in sing
ing the role in Verdi's "Othel
lo" at the Festival of Two
World Adding to Boyd's cred
it was the fact that it was the
first time be had sung the role
under an American conductor
CITY-COUNTY
TENNIS TILT
SET FOR AUG. 18
The Durham Recreation De
partment has made available
entry blanks for boys, girls,
women, and men wishing to
enter the annual City-County
Tennis Tournament scheduled
at the Forest Hills courts Aug
ust 18-22. Blanks may be ob
tained at Er*in Auditorium and
Hope Valley Country Club. The
deadline date for entries in all
divisions is August 13.
This year's tourney will be
played at Forest Hills instead
of Duke University as it has
been in the past. However, the
divisions will be the same. The
divisions this summer included
groups for men 40 and over,
men's and women's singles and
doubles, and mixed doubles,
junior boy's and girl's singles
and doubles, and boy's and
girl's singles and doubles. The
junior division is open to en
tries 18 and under while the
boys' and girls' category will
have an age limit of 14 and
under.
Some 144 entries participated
in the event last year and noth
ing short of this number is ex
pected to compete this year.
Whitt Cobb and Bonnie Lojran
are the defending champions
in their respective divisions.
Alex Gilleskie will serve as
chairman of the tourney and
John Clemons will be the
tournament director.
(Thomas Schippers) and oppo
site an American Desdemona—
—Jane Marsh.
ELLA SCORES BIG HIT IN
DEBUT WITH MET ORK
NEW YORK—Singing mostly
songs from the "Golden Age"
of jazz, topped off by a riffing
version of Duke Ellington's
'Take The A Train," Ella Fitz
gerald, queen of the jazz sing
ers, scored a big hit in her de
but with the Metropolitan Or
chestra at Lewisohn Stadium
recently. With Ella at the mi
crophone, 'Singing up a storm,'
the audience, more accustom
ed to more restrained operatic
offerings, quickly adapted it
self to her jazz idiom, and in
some instances sang right along
with her.
EASTERLINO
A&T College
Coaching Clinic
Set for Aug. 10
GREENSBORO—The A. and
T. College Coaching Clinic will
get underway here Tuesday
evening, August 10 at the Holi
day Inn, South with the main
address being delivered by Ara
Parseghian at 7:30 p.m. at the
kickoff dinner.
Parseghian heads a list of
nine clinicians who will con
duct the five dsy lectures on
basketball and football. Parse
ghian, hesd football coach at
Notre Dame and voted the
"Coach of the Year" last year
by the Football Writers of
America, will also conduct a day
long lecture series Wednesday.
Other lectures on football will
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Miss Boxing 1965
Seventeen-year-old Dorothy Prunier, a freshman
at Newark State Teachers College, is all smiles
as she poses with fighter Frankie Narvaez after
she was chosen "Miss Boxing" at the Philippine
Pavilion at the World's Fair in New York.
IR' made by Donald E. Fuoss,
assistant football coach at Pur
due University; Jim Hickey,
head gridiron mentor at the
University of North Carolina;
and Thomas Lofton, football
boss at Darden High in Wilson.
Darden won the NCHSAC state
+-A football title last fall.
Leading the list for talks on
basketball is the master-minded
Frank McGuire, athletic direc
tor and head basketball coach
at the University of South Caro
lina. McGuire, who coached the
undefeated NCAA champion,
University of North Carolina
cagers, also has coached in the
play for pay league. McGuire
t was the head cage boss for the
Philadelphia Warriors in the
NBA for a couple of seasons.
The basketball staff will in
clude in addition to McGuire,
Ben Carneval, basketball coach
\last
y few
days!
SALE ENDS
SATURDAY
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-MEN'S SHOES
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Children's Shoes $4
Tea name 1t... Durham hat It
within a block of your ear I
soScoe Griiiin
114 W. MAIN STREET
at the Navy Academy, Press
Maravich, basketball tutor at
North Carolina State University,
and Carl Easterling. head cage
mentor at Hillside High. Hill
side claimed the 4-A State cham
pionship in basketball last win
ter.
Hornsby Howell, assistant
coach at A. and T. College in
football and basketball, will
conduct a special clinic on in
jury care and prevention Fri
day. Dr. William Bell, athletic
director at A and T. College,
is serving as director for the
clinic.
Anger is righteous if it has
in it grief on account of what
is happening to others, and not
a grudge on account of what is
happening to oneself.
—E. Stanley Jones