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WKEK typiVG SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1945 THi: CAROLINIAN P A «E nvB Behind The Play In Sports BV DON DE LEIGHBUK IT’S C LBANS VS. BL.4CK YAVK« »OR BASEBALL SlPREMACV IN NEW YORK S TWO BIO LEAGI'E PARKS NEW YORK - New York's col ored biisebiill fans sei-m in line the bifiKfiit city in the world uiid did it without ploying bround. BIG SPA.MSII A.MLRIC'AN POPl I.ATION New York has a huke Spanish- ,, I‘■peakinn i.opulaii n, and most of have their own honesrown ba!>ebal] ' .ire dye-in-fhe-w. 11 sports fans. cavalry. with the Black Yankees Tht-y follow baseball, boxing and &nd the N. Y Cubans as the pi iiv ‘ ‘^Iher .sports as avidly as do Amer clpals It Is already kni>wn that "^o have their own team there is little love lo.st between pride and joy of the average Alex Pompez's men and the charge Y>rk Latin and they adore of James iSoldier Boyi Semler. cm- ^vmpez for what he has done with aret-smokmg b 's of the Black Cubans. Yanks. Now comes the recent 6 to 4 When the Cubans are home, pasting slipped to the Cubans in Pontpez can alw-ays count on at their Polo Grounds home yard at I l6os>t 30 percent of his crowd be- the hundi- of the lowly Black Yan- Latin. It could be i^gmented. kces. this attendance by Spanish-speak- The Cubans, If you don’t know, i fans, if the Cubans played more are entertaining notions about at home games Now they are able to. least second place in the current i ”nd in playing them, they have o Negro National Logiiv pennant ’‘•‘'•PJrttl made-to-order rivalry in scramble, although they now occupy ; the offing with the Black Yankees, fourth place At one time during' Ptuis are still talking about that the season, they were on lop, ac- 6 to ■} licking the Black Yankees tiially ahead of the Homestead slappccL on the Cubans. It was one Grays. Now. to get it on the chin those cold, dreary da.vs. too, from the traditional la-st place hold- and Cubans play best when it is ers is too much for the Latin tern- . sood and hut. Nevertheless, the pei.ninent to stomach. Black Yankees, with new pow One game oridlnaiily doesn't start -heir bat*, blasted out three home a rivalry Series of the New York'*uns that scored five runs and an Giants-Brouklyn Dodger, or Chica- ndditional run to boot, to make t‘y' go Cube-White Sox variety are the Cubans feel mighty bad that Sun- result of years of contests. Interest day afternoon, what with a goodly In them mount a-s the years roll crowd of Vp-lOo on hand, many ol on. While the Cubans have played them Spanish-Americaa To begin the Black Yankees many times in with, no one figured the Black the past, the situation then does Yankees would cJme up with such not compare with the picture to- a powerful club The team day. because now, both teams have been something of a doormat for New York playuig grounds, near ‘ other NNL foes year m and year out. enough for all the fans to get there v/ith the resulting disappointment and in bigtime environs, ; to those who want to sec New York POMPEZ SAW THE ' w'ith n winning team. POSSIBILITIES .WILLIE WELLS IS KEY It was Alex Pombez, astute. TO fil’CCESS '•reamy-cyed Cuban mogul of base- One man. or perhaps, two, are the * s'l, who saw the possibilities of ke ytn the sucecs of the Black Yan he Polo Grounds as a permanent, kees these days. They arc the pe^r- • « ’ round for hls Cuban Stars less Willie Wells at shortstop and Nepro N itional Leagm- pro- big George Scales on first base (»• crimes exi' .MVely in Van- Then there is the ste.ady Marvin '• *i- m. on e In a while, dr. p- Barker, playing managt-r, who came • ’ *0 the Horace St.,r.cham m from the outfield tc play third r'r- n fames. But last base, since the Black Yankees f’-fr n p-'z started w.trking and office has yet to locale . top third -hen Cubans like Altx beg.m to s.icker who can als. hit. Thnd work, they really operate. Christopher, converted from « Pompez had alwavs dreamed of catcher to an outfielder, to make his own park in th“ metropolitan xvay for the great receiving of Geo 'v... York area and fell homeless William Perkins, former hstterv «iich a park. At one mate of Satchel Paige, belongs on •he old playing field any team, mainly because of the t hi teams playing in 'er-ific power he wields with the k 'tv.hman Oval, up in willow e Bronx Through ^ome chlcan- Wells' presence In the infield ■TV. Pomp"2 lust out and the park gave the Black Yankees the first VIS turnip into a praking lot with real infield the team has had In h: ’■beoue «tand.- and w hatnot clut- several sea.suns. Now with the ‘•ring up :he grounds • classy Dick Seay, former Newark All this acted to keep the Cuban Eagles keystone man. and later, a a road team, althoug.’i they are as stalwart at second for the Yankees, much New York as the Block Yan- out of the army and back in uni- kees. constantly on the mad. P.im- form, the ki-ystbne combination of per, finally ducking bark to New the Black Yankees actually RATES. York Cubans Hi- had the chance Scales, a veteran tnfielder. whose Boundy of th® Giants' fr.ml office ability to hit is kno«vn far and (hot gavi the Cuban imiTesarh the wide, btlngs up the right side cf Polo Grounds ns the home park of ih*' infield to competive excellence the Cub .n St.o -^and also made turn Al^ the Black Ynnkeev need now. is , - f - - -v. • '■•S^ * These two former Morgan Col- leeg stars exhibit "pigskin" com- : rudeship as they prepare tu lead | the Winston-Salem Teachers Col lege "Rams" of 1945. Howard K. ‘Brutus" Wilson Ueftt, star ' wing back wh i ran Morgan teams fn.m I9ao to 1934. has been head coach at Winston-Salem for the past four years, during which and Felix Stanley, lefthander hu.l- T, got a single t« score a run. Wells -lit a double and altogether, the .vay the Yanks made the Cuban utflcld run for its supDcr wa« re vealing. The Cubans are ixi '-louches with ne bat, cuhe.. Showboat Thomas j alway.s potent with the bat. So s Louis Louden, Diaz, Blue Perez, tabbil Martinez and others. To alence such a battery requires' great .skill and in Stanley, the Black Yanks have a pitcher who can come ; hrough, despite hls age. However, -he fans are hollering because uf 1 tendency on the part of Jim Sem- er to close his eyes t-i all hi.-- other dtchers and let Stanley pitch all 'ames in New York's Yankee Stad- um or Polo Ground*. The players don't like it either, if what one hears is true. They would like to see the lads who pitch most of th Black Yankee .is- -Ignmoiits out uf town get a break at home. They think that although Stanley is having a good home w {tilling break, such fellows as Poole and others,.stiould get a bteak, Staiile.t, one player confided, sel dom goes on long jaunts with the lub. The others do. Pompez. however, despite defeat, s elated at the prospei-lr of a go .d time he has dune an out.standing Couching job. Clarence E. "Big House” Gaines iright), “All-Amer ican" and "An-CIAA " tackle, wa.s a star on Morgan teams from 1941 to 1945 and is now assistant co&oh at Winston-Salem Teachers (T.illcgi- Fouiball practices for the “Rams" got under way on Wednesday, September rith. ATKINS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL TRAM HAS TOI GH SCHEDULE WINSTO.V-SALEM — The Atkins Hi'jh School “Camels.' reluming to the tifld aftoi a nine-month layoff. Cicrs a touRh schedule for this sea son Last year the 'Camels" won tsix i.f ihcji seven -xhcduled games Their . pptjoenU wilt furnish stiffer : ■■Ppr.-iiiLii ihii year, team officials , beiiei v. Aiii'iiig the tough teams to be I played this year arc Dudley High. I of Griensboru. and Hillside High of Durham The local eleven will be made up of nine re-iirning letter- men: Captain Clarettcc Parham, who has played first siring end for tlie past two years. Monrue Samp- urll, Albert Huirstm, J^mes Ballen- tine, Evans Jones, Waller Lyttle. Richard Murray. Mansfield Spencer and Robert Shirley. The schedule of the games has not been announced. yet. but the first game is expi-ctt-ii to be played the last week in Sept-‘n.'>er. Tortured man gets holpl Lincoln U. (Mo.) Football Schedule Is Released JEFFERSON CITY, Mo — Col legiate footboH, as a major activity- will return to Lincoln* University^ this fall. Mr. David Rains in the ab- i sence of Coach Raymond H. Kemp, on leave, has issued a cull fur all interested gridsters lO report on i September lith. The first game is scheduled f .r October 13 with Langston Univer- , sity in Jefferson City, Other home games include philander Smith Col-; lege. October 27. unj Tennessee! State College. November 17 | The Tigers will clash with Wil- beforce University there on Novem ber 3 and Arkansas State College In ! Pine Bluff on November 24 Octo ber 20 and November 10 are open dates. There is some possibility an ‘OLD MAN’ OF .33 WINS DISCUS THROW i LE HARVE, France — Although , he hasn't had a discus in his hand for four years, Claude Walton of Denver, now an American Red Cross club director here, recently wan the discus throw in a huge In-' ter-AIlied track meet in London. I In addition, by placing third in shot-put he brought in the points which decided the meet in favor of the Americans. A y-aduate of the University of Cnlurado. Claude Walton was a teacher of physical education in the Chicago Park district before com ing overseas for the American Red Cross almost three years ag.-. "I didnt’ expect to find myself in the meet," he expLiined. “I went ver as couch for the Channel Base team of GIs. In EngUmd, a Special Service officer suggested it might t>e a good idea if I took pari. I fig ured I couldnt’ be atiy rustier llian a let of other people.” Claude Walton think* his throw of 147 feet three inches was "lou sy" out it was 17 feet better than the secon deontender. a GL could do. The last event of the meet wa- the shot-put and by virtue of Claude Waltons taking third, the final score stood 107 to 106 in favor of the Americans. Claude Waltin doesn't know when belli .see his Denver home a' 3015 California Street again. If hi can be assigned to the Red Cross athletic program for the Army oi Occupation, he may stay over an other year. But he doe-Jii't think he will gu in much for competitive sports in the future "I’m gettiiig to be an old man," he explains, at 33. Army lean, may yet be engaged for 4 'sejM'iiiog' g.nne OctuLei 6 The three gaine tpu.s>llily four) home schedule will piuvide spec tators with the traditional high type grid performance and thrills. Coach Rains promis.-s The five game balam'^d schedule is in keep ing wilh the limited pro-pects for iiualifit-U malei'ial >xpt“. ted to le- port this first pe.ice-tiine scusoa. he added Wiih the lifting of ga.s rationing and t:av(i resirictiors large c.ipa- eity attemhince is cxpc.ted at all home games which have been well .■••piiced on this scheoule. Homecoming, November 17. will Le leinstated us an annual event this season. With Tennessee State as guest, an interesting, colorful game is exported to result, contri buting to the venter of the day s activity will be released later. j VENEREAL m^EASE—I eour«e. from male to fem.tle nad vice I V’rsa ! The first sign of the disease i* a sore on the sex parts, which usual ly appears from three to five dnys after exposure and infection. 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Pom pez. finally ducking back to New York Cubans He had the chance Boundy of the Giants' front office that gave the Cuban Impresark the Palo Grounds a* the home park of the Cuban Stars and also made him the exclusive bookir.n agent for; other ba-eball attractions in the lot under Coogan's Buff, on® time stomping grounds the late John J. McGraw pompez this year, promptly changed the name of his team from Cuban Slam to the New York Cubans He had the hcance to properly identify his club with .Kcversl seasons. Now with the clany Dick Seay, former Newark Eagles keystone man, and later, a stalwart at second for the Yankee*, out of the army and back in uni form. the keystbne combination of the Black Yankees actually RATES Scales, a veteran Iiifielder, whose ability to hit is known far and wide, biings up the right side cf the infield to competive excellence. 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