Eagle And Ram Harriers Star In Fla. Relay Carnival
> Meet E. E. Smith April 15:
Little Blues Take Off On
r S9 Baseball Winning Spree
BY ALTON LEE THORPE. JR. J
Th4 Ligon High Little Blues o- .
pengj tapir 1858 baseball season 1
two’ we*ks ago with a pah of vie- J
tornse* ouer Dillard High of Golds-j
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" HVT MOON BARFHAII. STARS
GOOFIN’ OFF
BY “SKINK”
Grumati Pefce Williams’ Little Blues baseball team of Ligon High
fafeqoi knocked off Goldsboro twice last week and are destined to
fcndck ©** many more teams in week* to come. The team is rich and
1 daep in material end talent and seasoned with years of experience
in j>iayjp.u; together.
Jf Reck Sanders and his Henderson Panthers don’t upset the
group,' chances are the Little Blues will defend their state champ
kmahip Honors again in May.
Joa Cotton, the A & T College basketball ace, is also a crack
fafcgie-bftii pitcher. Last year he pitched a no-hitter and beat some
of the toughest teams on the A & T schedule. But Cal Irvin’s baseball
(Mm is so heavy this year with talent until he is permitting Joe to
tey off the game awhile and rest up from the tough basketball cam
paign that carried toe Aggies to the NCAA playoffs in Indiana.
Many baseball fans are wondering what happened to Tom
Alston the Greensboro first baseman whom the St. Louis
Cardinal* paid SIBO,OOO dollars for. To begin with Tom’s batt
■ tr»g was played up far beyond his potential and the Cardinal
top fer&s® discovered it early in his major league career. After
a-couple of shifts ap and down the baseball ladder, he landed
ht Omaha, Nebraska where the curtain closed on his days as
• •* psn. ■
Tom returned to Greensboro where 8 series so unhappy events
befell him and the brilliant future that illuminated his path just a
few years before, faded in the sad oblivion of “has been*.”
The Pigskin Club of Washington, D. C. is the largest and most
successful of its kind ir. the IJ.S.A. The organization, headed by Presi
dent Lawrence A. Oxley, will throw its big 1959 spring smoker April 8
ip the .fashionable Willard Hotel. Its members come from the four
comers of the country and the roster numbers well over 400 enthusi
astic and well-bred gentlemen. The Pigskin Club, though primarily
concerned with stimulating “Democracy in Sports", has, over a period
of more than twenty-one years demonstrated a healthy awareness
and given tangible financial support to many worthy community
4 movements and to the organized efforts and constructive programs
of progressive, civic groups: such as the YMCA. the Boy Scouts of
Ataetlsa, the Columbia and the Heights Boys Club.
'*• In 1958 the club expressed a continuing interest in the dynamic
programs of the NAACP, the United Negro College Fund, the Big
Bjjsthffi’S of America and many other projects of local community
inters?*.. Undertaker Charles A. “Doll’’ Haywood is Raleigh's only
member-.
The Central American Baseball Association is going into its
second y«or of operation. This year the Hillsboro Ail-Stars have join
ed Durham, Asheboro. Fayetteville. High Point, Charlotte, Winston -
Salem-, and Franklin ton. Hillsboro will play Winston-Salem in Hills
boro Sunday, April 12ih, at 2:30 P.M., in a pre-season exhibition
gah'.e.
President Frank McDuffie of Lauritsburg Institute has
transformed the place into a story hook show place that en
camps ewery modern item for comfort and convenience. Frank
has always shot for the number one spot in any undertaking
under his supervision. When he was in charge of athletics at
the school his basketball team won the. National Champion
ship and his football Seam was rough on the toughest of eons-
Realtors.
The only two nationally-known Negro athletes from North Caro
tin* are McDuffie trained products—Sam Jones of the Boston Celtics
and Wes Covington of the Boston Braves.
, Both are Laurinburg boys and both are from Laurinburg Insti
tute Frank started them on their caoeers and they still possess the Mc-
Duffie spirit of “being number one.” No other school, no other town,
no lofcher coach in North Carolina has come up with t.wo boys who
became great “pros” in organized “ball’ and stayed there. Frank Mc-
Duffie is “Number One 1 ’
DATA *N’ CHATTER
BY DARCY DEMILLE
ANR SYNDICATED COLUMNIST !
FROM HOLLYWOOD TO HAB- i
LEM. .... Lady Day, BILLIE
HOLIDAY, unable for quite a spell
to secure that permit which would
allow her to work in New York
supper clubs, is packing her bags,
furtiiture, and bidding her friends
Bdisti. Along with her accompanist,
Mai Waldron, the two will play
to the cream of society in Britain,
SariixetDaMt-and France from now
os. Lady Day has a cute villa .se
lected across the pond in which
she plans to permanently reside. j
Another singer, PEARL BAILEY j
|te doing right well. She just paid <
SBB.-000 for a full length Russian
(table coat. Incident!;/, Pearlie Mae
, mid. her revue straight from Vegas
\v*y, opened at the Tivoli Theatre
on Chicago’s south side to a packed
house. That same night. LIONEL
HAWSPTO jumping away at
fcba famed Regal Theatre, another
southftfcte- mere* for swinging i
groups Mad swinging audiences. j
The Little Blues took the fifst
game, 12-3. The contest was played
at Chat is Park before a laige
crowd.
Maryland Jones hurled his
first win. Wendell Smith did
the chores behind the plate.
| Chuckle of the Week: *‘A min's
\ life is 20 years of having his. mot
i her ask him where he is going.
40 years of having his wife ask the
same question, and at the end, have
the mourners wondering too.”
The eagerly awaited BILLY
DANIELS baby has arrived. Its a
girl for Billy and his wife Perri.
Incldently, Billy’s daughter Diane,
now in Switzerland, will be a bride
come June-time.
Confided CLAUDIA McNEIL re
cently ‘ More than anything,
I’d like to adopt a child.” Hope you
get your wish Miss M. As a mother
in “Raisin in the Sun,” she puts lots
of love into the part
Confided BILLIE HOLIDAY
short! v after she- heard of LES
TER "PRESS” YOUNG’S death!
"S always felt fee was the &rsat
cst. He discovered me, gave me
the title ‘lady day’, When it
■same to ? name for Lester S’
always felt It had to be the
greatest. In fids country Irimys
or dukes or camntJi don't count,
Thomas Bennett, a rookie
standout last season, led the
hitting.
in the second game at Goldsboro,
Ligon took the measure of the Dil
lard nine. 8-3 William Christmas
went the distance on the mound.
Napoleon Johnson, one of the
team's leading stickers a year ago.
look up where he left off in the
1958 season by slashing out a long
long three-bagger.
The roster as released hy
Coach Pete Williams includes
infielders Christmas, Hansfielri,
Raymond Henderson, Bennett,
Charles Christinas. Wiley La
tham and James Giles.
The outfielders are Johnson.
Tate. William Crockett. Broadus
Cox. Theodore Powell and William
Matthews. The pitchers ate Jones.
William Christmas. Isaac Williams
and Charles Walters
The Little Blues play (heir next
home game April 15. when they
play host to E. E. Smith High of
Fayetteville at Chavis Park
BEATING
THE GUN
BY BILL BROWER 1
In 193(3. a young fellow was call
ed up by the New York Giants
from the team's Minneapolis farm
club in the American Association.
He was handed the first base job
and he promptly proceeded to ce
ment his claim to it by belting 23
home runs.
For Bill White it looked as
though he had it made. But then
White was serving a two-year hitch
the Army beckoned and while
a young Puerto Rican appeared
on the scene. Last season, with the
Giants in San Francisco, Orlando
Cepeda had such a successful ma
jor league debut that when White
came out of service, he could find
only a place on the bench.
Thus, it was a foregone conclu
sion that White eventually would
be traded. He was coveted by a
number of teams, particularly some
American League clubs. But the
Giants bided their time The team
needed pitching and could afford
to give up White.
JONES COULD BE THE ANSWER
And from the trade that sent
White to the S>. Loui Cardi
nals last week, it would appear
while. The Giants got in the
that the waiting was worth
exchange the most feared
eurveb2lier in the majors,
righthander. Sam Jones.
It maid he that the Giants
traded themselves into a pen
nant With Willie Mays. Cepe
da. Andre Rodgers and Leon
Wagner to supply the power,
the team needed pitching help
badly
Jones, whose pitching fortunes
have had their ups and downs since
he broke sn with Cleveland in the
American League in 1951. has been
perennial strikeout leader in tlu.
NL since he hurled for the Chicago
Cubs in 1955. That season, inciden
tally, he turned in a no-hit. no-run
performance against the Pittsburgh
Pirates
NL STRIKEOUT KING
Last year, with the Cardinals.
Jones had 3 14-13 record, but here
figures truly belie performance
Jones deserved a belter fate. He
was the h.rdluck hurler of the
year.
This is a tested by the fact that
San struck out 225 batters a record
for the senior loop, and compiled
an earned run average pf 2.88,
which was the best in the league
He still has a tendency toward
wildness, walking 10? batters to
lead the league in that respect.
With the Cards last year, Jones
lost, several heart-breakers by one
or two runs. But the Giants have
some of the most powerful batters
in baseball and that should help
the 33-year-old Jones.
the greatest man around then
was FrankiSn T>. Roosevelt and
he was president. So I started
calling him president, which
naturally got shortened to
“Pres”.
TEMPEST is creating quite a !
storm over singer HERB JEFF
RIES. . . Speaking of perfect
timing. BILLY WARD, leader of
the DOMINOES Quintet, in Hawaii
at the time of the “welcome to the
United States celebration.’’ just
waxed an album which hit the
stands during the HULAbaioo titled
“Pagan Love Song.”
Here’s a puzzler: “Have you ever :
figured out why apartment house i
walls are so thin when you sleep ;
and so thick when you listen??? J
Watch for the L. P. which will j
combine the talents of BILLY WIL- j
LIAMS and BARBARA MCNAIR, j
On a Coral label, the title isn’t !
quite ready. . . Jazz singer MARIE
KNIGHT* (Rosetta Tbs roe’s sound
alike) has s sound-alike. Her sister
Toni who recently joined the act.
SONNY TIL doesn’t owe his sincle
-sam that is-a thing. He finally
Reared up $25,000 worth of back:
taxes and expenses incurred when j
be led the ORIOLES.
Happy Birthday SARAH VAUG- j
HAN who Just celebrated number j
15 while chirping at the swank MS*- !
ter Kelly’s out Chicago-way.
I BASKETBALL AWARDS Maynard Kaudridsr. toll. and Coach i A. Mainer hmd raut'l'w- .ntn bv
(he Livingstone College Bears during the ,).<-! M-ason. s.indridge, elected captain of next year’s team,
displays the Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tiophx and Warner hoids the conference tour
ney runner-up award. Livingstone finished jis si in the EIAC during the regular season.
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TRADING LEATHER Former middleweight champ Carl “Bobo”
Olson (left) mixes it up with Rory Calhoun in the Bth round of their
San Francisco, Calif. 10-round scrap March 30th. Olson, withstanding
a body attack by Calhoun, won a unanimous decision. Olson also
floored Calhoun for a five-count in the 7th round. iVl’l TELE
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Spring Sports At St ; Paul’s:
Outlook For Grid, Cage
Teams Said 'Promising'
LAWKENCEVILLE. Va.--Al.hlet- ;
ic officials believe that in several j
track and field specialties the Saint j
Haul’s Tigers will make good I
or winning showings during a se- j
ries of spring meets, but they con
code that the outlook for tennis is ]
not as good. The college is not
competing this spring m varsity
baseball.
The Tigers (htn- t'liids will
run. jump, and throw is* three
meets, and possibly in tins
Spring Sports Carnival annual
ly sponsored primarily for sec
ondary school athletes by the
Journal and Guide of Norfolk,
Va, iss one of the special re- ;
Says or other special events.
This year the meet, scheduled for
May 1 and 2, will lie held on the
pfhletie field of Crestv/ood High
School in Norfolk County. At least
three internationally known Negro .
trade and field stars, all holders
of either world's records or Olym
pic championships* have been in
vited to the Guide meet.
TRACK SCHEDULE
In track, the Saint Paul's sche
dule follows:
April 11—quadrangular ffetrr- i
team) meet at Virginia State Col- j
lege, Petersburg.
April 26—quadrangular meet at '
Lawrenceville, w.4h Virginia Union. !
i Shsw. and Saint Augustine's com
i piling against the host Tigers.
May 8 and 9—CJAA champion
ship track and field meet at Vir
ginia State College, Petersburg.
TENNIS ACTIVITIES
Athletic Director Joseph IS.
Thompson said that the tennis
schedule is not finally made up so
far. but will include at least two
matches against Virginia Union of
Richmond, one against Fayetteville
<N. C.) State College, two against
Saint Augustine’s of Raleigh, N. C.,
ana participation in the CIA A
championship tournament at. Vir
ginia Union on May 7 and 8.
Coach and captain, respectively
of tennis are Robert Alien Bryant
and Lenox Coles of Halifax, Va„ a
senior. For track they are Charles
M. .Tones, also football coach and
Shirley Stuart. Roanoke, Va., a
junior.
BRIGS® OUTLOOK
Athletic Director Thompson, to
viewing the spring end next term
outlook as promising and likely to
bring an upturn in Saint Paul’s
athletic fortunes, referred to sever
al factors. Several veterans will be
pluming
Six boys now seniors l« »
hip-flight northern high school,
he as».W, have indicated plan*
t« tauroU as,
••’Among' the footballers air
several 100-plu* pounders of
excellent experience and past
performance. Each of the six
passed a recent national college
entrance series of examinations
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Tar Heels Win 2nd And 3rd
Places In Tallahassee, Fla.
BY JOHN A HOLLEY
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. North i
Carolina College’s track team gar- j
tiered opnly one first place win !
but placed fifth in the ninth Florida !
Relay Carnival with 18 points :
Southern University won the meet j
with JR points, and Winston-Salem ,
finished in second place with 45. i
NCC’s jet-propelled Sprinter, i
Vance Robinson, scratched from i
the 100 yard dash, ran a 20.8 220 j
yard dash nosing out Tennessee 1
Slate's Johnny Clipper and Mel
Adams The fast time by Robinson
in the 220 yard event was a new
meet record at the Florida Relay
Carnival and the fastest time by
Robinson at an early stage of the j
track season. j
Coach l.eroy T. Vt'.ilker’s
with scores qualifying them for j
academic scholarships."
In assaying the basketball out- I
look, hr said he was especially j
pleased by the interest of a top- ;
flight Connecticut high schooler to 1
enrol! here
Tthompson released the j
following schedules:
FOOTBALL—I*S9
(’lndicates home games)
October 3, J. ('. Smith"; Ifi.
Fayetteville State ; 17. St. Aug
ustine's; 24. Elizabeth City
State 5 ; 31. Delaware State 8 ;
| homecoming, November 7. Lin
coln (Pa.!: 14. Livingstone; and
•12, Winston-Salem Teachers.
BA SKETBA LL—l9s9-'6O
indicates home games)
I December 1, Howard: 5, Eliza
| beth City*; 9. Fayetteville; 10. St.
! Augustine's; 14. Howard; 15, Va.
i State; January 7. M organ State 5 ;
| 13. Shaw: 14 Smith: 15, Va. State*;
j 18. Smith’: 20. Va. Union 0 : (exams,
I Jan. 2 l-Feb. 3): February 4. St.
j Augustine’s*: 6, Shaw*; 8. Fayette
! villc*; 10. Elizabeth City, and 11,
| Hampton.
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newel* prates#, Walter Jobii-
R»fi, Hew Kavea, Cassis., soph.,
in SiS* wsbs season as s run
ner, sped *» feR nmt.ving 48.*
Hocking Is th® 446 yard disb t«
finish a ©lose ■mßi 4® Dacia
Robertson of Southerts Univer
sity who was pushed to a 48.$
clocking by Johnson. Both
time* were new meet records
! In the middle distance event, the
! 880 yard run, William Ward, NCC
junior half-miler, dropped to 411-
place. running a 1:58.0 half mile
The winning time was- 1:56.1, cre
dited to Southern's half-miler. 800
Wilkerson. Ward made his bid 1o
go ahead in the race on two occa
i sions. but fell behind.
In the mile relay. NCC finished
second to Southern’s quartet of
quarter-milers. running a 3:16.0
| five-tenths of a second slower than
! Southern's winning time of S: 1S s
| Walker's charges led in the even:
i until the third leg when Bobby
■ Dobbs, running a 52.0 lost the lead
!to Southern'S? third leg. Ward
clocked in 51.5 on the lead-off leg
I and Robinson, timed in 48.5 on th*
| second leg of a “packed” relay,
gave NCC the early lead.
However, when Johnson took
stick on the anchor leg, the ,
lead hv Southern was too great
to make up, despite the blaring
47.5 anchor leg he put down
This burning pace was not e
nough to close the gap on
Southern's Robertson.
In the other relay event entered
i by NCC the 880 yard relay, the
Eagles' foui-some again finished
second, this time to Winston-Sa
lem's quartet of Joe Manning. Herb
Conaway. Elizas Gilbert, and Fran
Washington. The Rams’ team ws
clocked in 1:27.0, while NCC's four
some of Dobbs, Johnson. Louis Sea
ton, and Robinson were caught in
1:28,0.
The next outdoor competition f<v
the Eagles' Harrier* will com® in
the heavily laden field at the
Quantieo Relays on April 10-11
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