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A&TAggies Continue Leadership In CIAA Cage Race GETS CUP—Boston's Bill Russell is shown shortly aft.tr hr was presented the President's Cup from the National Basketball Association „i Detroit recently. The presentation followed she (earn, s All-'tur ranie. The Western All-Stars won, 124-108. i|'P! TELEPHOTO'. Grambling Moves Toward Southwestern Cage Title GRAMBLING. La <AN P) -The Southwestern conference basket ball race leveled of perceptibly after a three-week upsurge that may have brought about the end of Texas- Southern's long domi nance oi the loop. Unbeaten Grambling has been steadily ascending and should the upswing continue, Pred Hobby’s mechanical rabbits are expected to | experience little difficulty wresting the championship scepter from i heir cross-state rivals. Traveling at a record-breaking clip, the Tigers are making a run away with offensive statistics in * conference where defense is dif ficult to recognise as worthy of the name. BREAKS JINX Grambling has shaken off the j hypnotic influence of Texas South- j ern to lead the league in team of fense, field goal percentages, and 1 logically, have used these box car i figures to spread a hovering sha- j riow over the loop with a 15-0 sea- i son mark and a -0 circit record The inflationary pattern is reflected In the individual race also as James Hooper, & 5-16 forward as proficient as he is prolific, tops Southwestern scorers with a 24.0 point per Kame average. The Grumbling sniper holds a narrow margin over Luther Groce of Texas college. Chares Hardnett has inflated his i ebounding average as the back- j board race threatens to become a ; private affair. The Grambling j freshman has grabbed. 240 an overwhelming majority from one- ■ my board to out-distance rivals Other individual conference fig ures reflect a definite Grambling hue. Perhaps the first league team FOURTEENTH ANNUAL PI Aft BASKETBALL p|A» WMn TOURNAMENT blHrt S TOP TEAMS OF THE CONFERFNf! 3 Teams in Action 12 Thrilling Games! A lit rilling Sport s Svectacle TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE THURSDAY—HIGH SCHOOL DAY—THURSDAY THURSDAY AFTERNOON THURSDAY NIGHT 2:30 and 4:00 P.M. 8:00 and 9:30 P.M. Students A .50 Students s' .50 General Admission . SI.OO General Admission 51.25 FRIDAY AFTERNOON FRIDAY NIGHT 2:30 and 4:00 F.M. 8:00 and 9:30 P.M. Courtsldc Seats 8 .75 Cnurtsidr Seats 52.00 End Arena Seats SI.OO End Arena Seats . .$1.50 Side Arena Seats 51.50 Side Arena Seats 32.00 SATURDAY AFTERNOON SATURDAY' NIGHT 2:30 and 4:00 P.M. 7:30 and 9:00 P.M. Court side Seats 5 .75 Court side Seats 52.00 End Arena Seats SI.OO End Arena Seats $2.25 Side Arena Seats . 51.50 Side Arena Seats 52.50 FEB. 26, 27, 28,1959 North Carolina College Gym “Nation's Finest Sports Arena ” For Information Concerning Housing Accommodations. Write: Miss Sarah Dotson. 704 Fayetteville. Street. Durham. N C. TICKET SALES DIRECTOR: Mr, Haskel k. Hudson. P ft Box 603, North Carolina College Durham. North Carolina V ll ———“ ——— in history to lead in point-nnikitc. and accuracy Hobby's be-ribboneci club has four players who have converted more than 50 percent of their shots in Jimmy Duplantier, j Jerry Barr, Hooper and Hardnett. j Boasting an un-matehed 95.6 ave- ! rage, the local sharp-shooters have made 560 of 1.123 field goals at tempted for 50 percent accuracy. I while showing a surprising prefer ence for resistance on defense, holding opponents to 72.3 percent. Even as a laggard. Grambling is making news, hitting on only 306 of 568 free throws, w oust in the league.. Prairie View heads the team de fensive alignment with its tight* 1 fisted 56.4 percent allowance. Other conference leaders in | clue Cleveland Buckner, Jack j son State, field goal percentage, and Harold Grimes, Prairie View, free throws. Buckner, a comparatively conservative tosser, has looped 103 of 171 attempts for 66 per cent, and Grimes has poured lit 69 of 83 charity tosses for 83 percent. The fearsome Texas Southern five holds the leant leadership ir foul line accuracy, having con verted 247 of 336 gift shots foi 74 percent. People who really want work are rare. What they want is tin pay they can't get without working. It Pays To ' ADVERTISE ~ . 36 Members Os Rattler i Grid Team Get Letters TALLAHASSEE Thirty - six i members of the 'SB Rattler football J team received letters during the j annual banquet held lasi week in ! the university commons at Florida j A&M University During a three-hour program - which included five speakers and the awarding of trophies for out standing individual performances in addition 1o the letters. Coach James Small recalled the past years when he was a member of the row famous Rattiei squad The alhhiie director and head coach of the New Stanton High School Blue Devils in Jacksonville told the '■"> Rattlers to apply the cie | sirabie attitudes developed on the I gridiron to the game of lit*' “You tried." he reminded i them in rrminieing with them their feats of the 5.8 j campaign. Imparting with some advice he deemed worthwhile Coach Small said. “You must he ready when the timekeeper i starts the clock, and the refe- 1 ree blows his whistle for the start of life’ - Concluding, he added, “In the game of life, strike. Rattlers, strike:" All-Anuncan and All-Southern guard Willie Wyche of Tallahassee and vice-president J H E. I ee. Jr. preceded Coach Small's timely message with words of advice to the 'SB Rattlers. Rattler Wyche told the guests in speaking on "What Football Means to Me" that "Foot ball is fun: its an art to me." Hr went on to reveal that for sixty minutes we <Rattlers' give you the best we have, i have learned to I live wi'h people, hole o>i the camp us and on the gridiron, he declared Concluding, he admitted having developed-a degree of loyalty that j I cannot oe broken Mr. Lee. Jr. founder of the Orange Blossom Classic and uni versity vice-president called the 'SB Rattlers one of the greatest teams in th>* history of the irrtitu- ; lion. “You didn't win the national j championship, but vou spotted a i ! great Prairie View team 18 points I and played it on equal bans the ' Furs Fly In Puerto Rican Winter League; Many Fined SAN JUAN. Peurto Rico (ANPI- Fint-s were leveled all the way j . from San Ju, n to New York City I 1 iasl week in the wake of a series • i ol violent and swift-moving events 1 I in the Puerto Rican winter league j j playoffs. j Involved were top major players i Orlando Cepetia. Willie Kirkland. | and Leon V/agn of the San Fran- j j cisco Giants, and hot-tempered Ru- j i ben Gomez of the Philadelphia - ! Phillies. For Cepeds. it was a case of i ; double indemnity He was charged-j ! with assault and released on SSOO i | bond, and then fined S2OO by Puer- i J to Rican League President Carlos I j Garcia JMocedas for his part in a j j riotous demonstration which occur- j i red m a game between Santurce ! and Mayo,true/. During the game fa.-is staged a j | wild demonstration of missile- \ j throwing after Gomez, playing for ■ Santurce along with Copeda. f struck Joe Christopher of Maya j guez with a wild pitch and Cc-pcda ! had protested a cal? at first base. The partisan 51 a vague* fans, already hot over the beaning. -manded that Copeda he e ted. They booed and threw -nuts, beer cans, and bottles onto the field. Some nf the re in se tossed at Cepeda in the eighth inning caused him to miss a fly foul, and whereupon he picked «P the ball and the fans. President Nocedas heaved it In the direction of fined him “for conduct detri ment.)! to the best interest of baseball.’’ Gomez was not: fined but his ear j HERE'S TO IT World heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, right, and Swedish challenger In :emar Job latsdn. clink glasses in a toast after they signed to meet tor the heavyweight crown at New York Jan. ,2!). The fight will take place before Sept. 30 in a city t« be designated within the next two weeks. (DPI PHOTO). t ! rest of the game, pointed out the i vice-president. He called the 58 classic one of site greatest even in defeat. 'The j potential has not been touched hr ' reminded his audience According to Mr. Lee. Jr., the university of ficials are looking forward to de veloping this potential following Coach Small in the procession of speakers Papa Rat tler Jake Gaither, paid one of the highest tributes a coach can be paid to the guest spenkei "For the past 21 years, to my knowledge, Coach Small has made a greater 1 contribution to the Rattlers than j any other coach," said Gaither. Continuing, hr made it known I thru the New Stanton High coach ! gave the Rattler coaching staff end | coach Costa Kittles and tackle | coach Hcnsel Tookes. “A! Frazier, our All - American halfback, and scores of other athletes passed I through the guidance and in- I fluence of Coach Small." slated i Coach Gaither Speaking with the deliver anee of an orator, the famed Rattler head mentor made no apologies for his desire to win. He told the audience, ”\Ve try to develop a spirit of excel lence In our boys: we fry to win; we know of no other way to coach,” he declared. He went on io say: “There is no place in on; society for mediocrity. We got to excel. My basic philos ophy of our .cqpching- staff is to i win. We have no apologies to make for wonting vo win.” Addressing his remarks to his players, he added, “The spirit of excellence does not end on the I football field; you. must excel in j ! the classroom, on the campus, and i when you go into the community j When you wear the varisty “K' and the orange and green you have a responsibility to your ■ i school and former Rattler* con- I chided Gaither. Looking to the au- I dience he said. "I want to tell yon I the Rattlers will strike and eontin ■ ue to strike ” Who won? The game was for j feited to Santurce who was ieari ■ i ing through the eighth, 4-0. after inns refused to stop demonstrating, \ 1 In New York, baseball Comm is- j ! sioncr Ford Frick charged Kirk- : i land and Wagner $250 each and su spended them from winter ball for one year for “jumping their con- | | tracts without consent." Wagner playing with Ponce was leading the league with 48 ■ runs-batted-in. Kirkland who play : <»d for Santurce. was also one of | the league leaders. Both reportedly j dropped out of action Jan. 5. Kirkland, it was learned, had ! complained about being tired arid j ! wanted to leave the club by Jan. 15. ; | A born trader keeps up with his | relatives when buying and prompt- j ly forgets them whan selling, j If you want to gain the good opinion of an individual, give him an order for what he has to sell, We have no quarrel with the man who doesn't advertise in The CAROLTNATN. He's biting himself Everybody is for economy in government until they need an ap- ; oropriation for a pet project of : their own. Markets go to those best fitted j to serve them Don’t Have To Play In South, | Declares Boston Celtics Boss ! MELT A “LITTLE BLUES’* STAR—James Woods, center lot the j “Little Blues” has been a steady performer for Couch Gem s- 1 ox well all season. Woods, a senior, averages around 10 points a game and plays a big part In the rebound department. He will be carrying quite a bit of weight for the Raleigh Five when they invade Greens boro tor a return match with Dudley Higii. defending state cham pions. The “Little Blues” defeated Dudley on the local court once this season and expect an action-packed battle in the “Gate t'ity". Elizabeth City Five Bows To A And T Quint, 83-73 i GREENSBORO—The A&T Col- j ii ge Aggies outscored Elizabeth - City State Teachers College 83-73. m a CIAA basketball game played uere Saturday night at the Charles M o ore Gymnasium. The \ ietory gave the locals a !0- 0 record in regular conference play at the halfway point in their 20 game season slate The Aggies took charge *t the opening tip and after file minutes of play the tally post cd on the score board iookt-d more like that of a football j game, as they led at 14-0. Be hind the blazing speed and a. < urate shooting of star captain Joe Howell, A&T widened the gap to 21 points at 9:15 in the liist period. They went ahead 30-15 before the Teachers iound themselves. The Teachers came Storming into ] the ball game and reduced th» dis ! sere nee as the half ended to Un original 14 points. Elizabeth City pulled within 9 points of the high flying Aggies at ; the 11:05 mark in tne second start- , za, the nearest they ever came to tieing. up the contest. The Aggies j again shot oulfront to reclaim the . H point edge which they hold tra ; til the final few minutes of the bail | game. Howell and Vince Miller, who had their parents from Philadelphia looking- at the I battle, put on a line demon stration for the guests. Besides she clean anil speedy floor work, Howell busk e ted 2'. points to lead the scoring. Mil ler dumped 13 points. A1 .-Vuies ■scored 16 points for the Aggies. Charlie Harrison, currently lead ing the conference in rebounding with an average of 21.6 for the sea son, improved that record as he puiled in 24 for the night Marvin Trottmiui led the scoi-in;-. for Elizabeth City with 21 point and. Waiter Baltrop wax second with 18. The lose left the Teachers with a 7-6 record for the season. West Indies Beats India At Cricket MADRAS. India (ANP. y 1 powerful touring West indies cric ket team clinched a five-match cricket test senes with India heir last week, defeating the host, team by 295 runs in the fourth match at the oval. PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS NEW YORK »AN t Reports j from Boston, say that Waiter , Brown, own* of the Celtics bas ketball team, has refused to be’ drawn Into any discussion concern ing Elgin Baylor’s (Minneapolis | Enters) refusal to piay in Charles ton. W. Va. recently. The only comment Brown would j make was: •’That's the affair of the Minneapolis club and all i can say j regarding my own team is what ! 1 said before when our Negro play- i ers were forced to seek a .separate i hotel at Charlotte, N, C. “1 said before and I say now. I I’ll never do arcythins’ to em barrass my ball player*. We don’t have to play hi the South or anywhere. When the league schedule la made up « ripal club has to obtain permission from other teams U' it wants to schedule a game »«> place out side of Us own arena . . mo i don’t think you’ll see the Cel tics playing in the South . . . For that mutter, if we can't draw in Boston, who *o any where?’* Bill F us.sol) of the Celtics spoke out emphatically against Charlotte’s segregation at the time. He said, ’T don’t believe in seg regation. It’s against my principles. I came down here (Charlotte.) with my team and had to eat and sleep apart from then. I was shocked and hurt. T don’t think we’ll ever come back.’’ While Russell could not speak for the entire club, on the other hand. Rod Auerbach, the coach, pointed out that Walter Brown certainly could and did back up his Negro players with his pro nouncement. ' - vm mwmmaxi WEEK ENDING SATTOtOAY, VteM'&WAWfc |sj> ~ Cal Irvin’s Squad Topples Eilz. City For 10th Win DURHAM it.TAA News Ser vice) -Cal Irvins Aggieu of North Carolina A&T College continue on tou in the race for CIAA visitation honors with anunmarred record of 10 wins and no defeats. The Ag gies have a Dickinson Rating of 26.00, according to the loop's Jan uary 24 standings released by the Conference’s News Service here. The Aggies toppled the Elizabeth City Pirates 83-73 last Saturday in Greensboro to become the second circuit team to annex 10 triumphs. Frank Enty’s Hampton Pirates were the first quintet in + he con ference to win 10 games. The Pir ates are perched in third place with a 10-2 log, moving up from fourth place last week. Hampton's Dickinson rating is 21.67 Clarence "Big House” Gaines’ j Winston-Salem Rams notched two j victories over Elizabeth City anti ' Fayetteville, while dropping a tiff ; to A&T, to move into second spot j with a 7-4 record and a 21.81 Dick- j inson ratine. Floyd Brown's North Caro lina College Eagles dropped from second to a 4th place tie with Virginia Union as a result of a 66-63 double overtime set back inflicted by Howard ‘ Tennessee’s Tigerettes Win Women’s AAU Track Title j WASHINGTON .ANP: Set- I ting a bit,:• ring pic -. the Tenues- j ! see Slide girls track team ail but ! ' swept the women's national AAU J I indoor track and fu-ld champion- j j ship, scoring 61 1-2 points to win j ! the national title recently The speeding damsels from the i | Nashville school won six of the 12 j events, capturing the 50. 100. 220- i j yard dashes, io-yard Hurdles, and i 440-yard medley relay, as well as ! i the standing broad jump, I In most of the events they placed j 1 either first, second, arid third, or I | first and second | In the 50-yard dash. Wilma G. ! ■ Rudolph streaked to victory foi- | ! owed by Martha Hudson, Margaret j Matthews, and Shirley Crowder. ! all of Tennessee State. Martha Hudson paced team mates Isabelle Daniels and Miss Mathews in the 100-yard dash The three “TigeretteV Champion ijourbon L&henleq i >l4O *9BO WT Kiflk Pint 8 Years Old Straight Bourbon Whiskey s mis did smiEHt »9 moos. scmutfr wsnuii* to, * rt. . Jane* P*ntfae#« as Durham last woeh. VCO %vUti a loop mark of 8-3, and Unßnt, with a 7-4 CI VA record, are tied with itien iioa! IMctiusn ratings of 21.- 36. Delaware State, idled last week by mid semester exams, dropped to 6Ui spot with, a 5-1 card and » 20.83 Dickinson rating. Bluefisld State with a 2-1 slate held its 7th ranked spot in the standings. (On ly teams playing 12 games will be eligible for conference champion ship). J C Smith. 7-3. as a result of a 78-82 triumph over St. Augus tine’s College last Saturday moved up one notch in the standings te Bth place with a 19.00 rating. Idle : Virginia State moved out of the I first division's 9th place last week | as a result of Elizabeth City's Jos* |to A&T Bobby Vaughn’s eager? i dropped to the bottom of the first j division Shelton Matthews’ Tro ians have a 6-6 slate and an 18.7.’* { rating while Elizabeth City has a 7-6 record and a ratingof 13.46 j Trie loop's top ft teams clash in j r. six session three-day tournament \ at N. C College in Durham. Feb * ruarv 26. 27, and 78 finished first, second. and third, with Rose Lovelace of Cleveland Recreation flimbint fourth. Lucinda Williams won her specialty—the 220-yard dash— lor Tennessee State She wa* followed try teammates Dan iels. and Alf ranees Lyman. Joan Terry of Ttffltwsse* captured the 70-yard hurdles, with Miss Crowder finishing second. ■V speedy quartet, including Miss es Wilma Rudolph, Shirley. Hud son and Margaret Williams, won the medley for State. In the sixth winning event. Jean Terry won the standing broad jump with a leap of 8 feet, 11 inch es. Tennessee State girls also pared highly in other events. Loblolly pines can ms.ke an e! feetive windbreak 15
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