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- SWW CHAMPS Pictured above an members ot the Ligon High School Beaaball team
Whqlset week copped the state down with a 20-1 win over Caswell County Training School. Pint
tow, hit to right : Hubert Poole, Jamas Dickerm, Cleo Jackson, James Harmon, Melvin Glenn,
UMe Holden, Arthur Graham, Robert Allen, James Walker, William Howard and Pete WU-
Sgma. Second row: Lionel Curtis, James Howard, Dwain Keith, Oris Carrington, Atlanta Jones,
Carlton Barber, James Hinas, Roy Hicks, Ray Debnam, Bernard Wilder. Third row: Paul Dewey
Ua, Haywood Moya, Andrew Horton, Robert Height, end Robert White, scorer.
ChVs Comisky Park Ms Site
Os Pa itarson -M is ton Boat
CHICAGO (AMP) - After NT.
era! months of frustrating negoti
ations and postponements, the deep-
Shrouded mystery u to the exact
site and date of the Floyd Patter
son-Sanny Liston heavyweight title
Showdown was unraveled here last
week.
At a press conference at the Illi
nois State Athletic Commission of
fice last week, Comiskey Park was
approved as the site fttr the 15-
rlund- heavyweight championship
fight The date was set for Sept. 29,
with alternate rain dates of Sept
55. 2Mmd 28th.
Presiding over the conference
was joe Trlner, eommlasion ehair
mna, who wee flanked by other
commission members, Including Jo
seph T. Robichsux. who recently
tisssme the third Negro to serve
on the athletic body, and William
Feipenbuts. Triner read this simple
rogues* from Championship Sports,
toe, nationsl promoter of the big
bout: -
•Would request data of Tuesday,
September 29, 952. to conduct the
v hrovywwight championship contest
between Floyd Patter eon and Son-
Chicagoans
Win,Lose
Ring Bouts
CHICAGO (AMP) Two fast
rising Chicago fighters, mlddle
weights Alton Thomas and Cliff
Muripsy. scored impressive wins at
Marigold Arana here last week.
HowcVro, another Chicagoan, Jeaae
Smith, was at die same time drop
ping a 10-round decision at Phila
delphia.
Thomas, 51, won his 19th bout in
IT pro starts by hammering Willis
Themes into defeat in five rounds
of the scheduled co-feature eight
round bout He had Williams bleed
ing badly from the nose and a cut
over his left eye at (he end.
Murkey, trailing through the first
four rounds, caught up with John
ny Morris and flattened him with
a tingle punch in the 9th- The rate*
ref Thad counted four over Morris
when the bell rang. However, as
Morris was unable to come out for
the sixth round.
In Philadelphia. George Fenton
pleased a hometown audience of i,-
500 by outpunching Smith In 10
rounds at Convention Hall.
Gordons
Gin
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ny Liston at Comiskey Park.”
Triner then announced commis
sion approval of the request to the
press corps. He also announced
these other fight terms:
' 1. As champion, Patterson will re
ceive 46 percent of the “live” net
gate and 99 per cent of television
ancilliary rights and movie in
come.
Liston, will received if percent
of the gate and of fee ancilliary
Offer Match To
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Johannson-
Richardson Victor
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (ANP)
Matchmaker Joe Louis will attend
the* European heavyweight title
bout between champion Dick Rich
ardson of England and challenger
Ingemar Johansson here June IT
for a dual purpose.
The former heavyweight champi
on will referee a preliminary bout
on tee card between Alonzo John
son of Pitsburgh and Rodolfo Di
as of Argentina. But his major ob
jective will be to offer the winner
of the Richardson-Johansson battle
a match in the United States a
gainst a leading contender.
The inside dope on Louis’ plans
were revealed fay Swedish promot
er Edwin Ahlquist here last week.
Louis is an official and match
maker for United World Enterpri
ses of Los Angeels.
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OLD FRIENDS CONFER Don Newcombs, kit, farmer
pitching star tor the Brooklyn Dodgers, confers with an old
friend, White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, recently a
bout whether ha should play professional baseball in Japan this
summer. He later told reporters that Salinger believed he could
do “a lot of goodwill-wise ” by singing a contract offered by the
Dragons team in Japan. (VPI TELEPHOTO ).
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and movie rights.
Championship Sports, las., will
collect 45 par cent of the net gate
and 55 par cent es die ancilliary
and movie rights.
In addition, Patterson was gua
ranteed g straight 5500,000.
2.. Ticket prieOs will be «106. IN,
S3O, S2O and $lO. The normal slat
lag capacity of 46*500 of Comiikoy
Park, meanwhile, will be hooded
to StJOO by the installation of ID.-
800 ringsidt setts. All slats will be
on a reserved basis. A flat $40,000
rental, plus expenses, will bo charg
ed for the park.
S. Championship Sports. Ine.. of
Illinois, a recently formed subsid
iary of the natiepna! promotional
firm, hat been granted the right to
promote the fifght under standing
Illinois rules calling ter thr*e-ye#r
residency. Irving SehoenwaM of
Chicago was named as individual
matchmaker and pemotar.
Neither Patterson nor Litton was
present at the meeting, but Iktaer
announced they will come to Chi
cago within two to three weeks to
sign contracts with the commission.
Representing Championship
Sports, Ittc., was A1 Bolin, vice
©resident.
Meanwhile, a gate in oxoms of
a million dollars was predicts* tar
the fight which has been more than
two years In the making. Patterson
and Liston signed with GmspoiOn
ship Sports for tee fight last March
24. but the date and site have bold
up in air until now.
It will bo the first hoavywlight
championship fight hold in Comis,
Shaw U. Batsman Tops In CIAA
♦ ♦ ♦ 4- ♦ + + ♦ ♦ '*
Del. State Declared CIAA Champs
Hartsfield
Second To
Bowdon
HAMPTON. Va. (CIAA Mows
Service) Five es the CIAA’I top
hitters closed out the ISS2 baseball
season with batting avlragaa past
the .480 mark Is AAT Collage's
Sim BOWdOn annexed the league's
batting crown. Delaware State Col
l«ce’s Alphaeiaa Lawson pltchf*
himself into the CIAA** earned run
average title.
According to the final baseball
figures released by the CIAA’s
News Service here today, Bowden,
who has eorrild a sirffinf hot all
spring, clouted the bell ter a 929
mark, with 18 hasekhoeks in 94 ao
naaraneas. Ranked behind htate
the runnerup spot Is Bhaw Univer
sity's shortston. William Hartsfield.
who hit 4ST ter the year.
Cornell Gordon. frMhman out
fielder ter the Aggies and Bhaw
University's Charles Dirts, o ettdk
or. and Theodore Fewoll an Ml-
CIAA fijehnur. wore the othwr
throe usnssranes portermera ever
the .480 merit. Bote GrOdod and
Davis hit .428. while Powell elect-
Llwsan a righteanderteom
Washington, D, C, hurlad a totol et
48 innings ter Am D**!!"™* ****
Hornets, giving up Juri 51 hits 8
earned runs, and 58 walks- His bn
iMStotes BRA of 1.08 togs <***e«n
fcrence’s pitchers, whQa hio M
strikeouts atoe iwfia as tea league's
Imn4*
Jamas Aggtoe’ awler
righthander whoTtos not Uet aring
le game tn his four-year collegUte
career, was hampwed by a aar#
arm whkh kept Wm «rom Meease
telly daMtojtWilß
However, tee.utbo *“•*
late to the aotfon to p*W> 15 Inn
in» most to relief, piling up 21
shortstop, lad the league tohmnars.
with 4 each. Howwd University!
Stsley Jackson and Frank Hicks
Aar* the RBI lead with IT rues
betted to a place.
Wright Given
Fight With
Fernandez
Wright • riablemate _of former
champion Sugar Ray Robtoon, to
gaining a unanimous decision over
PhU Moyer at Fsrtlaad. (toe, to
as^u—«. Square Garden recently
mayhave won hhn a bout with a
topo#leh - •«.
Garden matchmaker Terry Bren
ner said last week he had offered
Wright a bout with Jorge Fernan
dez ot Argentine cu July 14.
Phily Moyer is «w hrotesr of
Denny Moyer arbo deririteied Rob-
Insonto s 15-round bout to tee Qer
den recently. Robinson had beaten
Moyer to a previous bout
Denny wee also to fight Wright
inMslMt totoviison bout May 28,
but PhU was later suketttuted.
key Put stone teserd Charles de
ristoned Jersey Joe Walcott June
52. 1948 to win tea tttto vacated by
Jos LOuie. Louis hod wen the title
there, alee, hr knocking out Jteuny
Braddock to right rounds en June
HINT.
Alteough much mudtor to rise,
Comiskey Ptok was picked over
Soldi* Field hdeeues of Its easy
a ceils end bettor seating arrange
ment it wee orpletoed
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navia* Itaar aal fcatfc fcaaa raanan w*e» eaafM ass fcaaa aa a Cba
aaa to Naal to »ijw taiai- Daap*«a Oto triple play an* M*af
naarf-kak lnn raa Mtttac. tka Mpn na Ml naa. (Wl
TUnOTO).
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A RIGHT BY WRIGHT Welterweight oo ntender Teddy
Wright ot Detroit, Mich., connects with a right to the /aw of sub
stitute middleweight PhU Moyer (Ms) during their NfaWsfon bout
at Medhan Square Oardtn, recently. Wrghfs stronger finish geve
him a unanimous 10-round deciawrt ever Moyer. MOyet ot Port*
land, Ore., was substituting lor fdo younger brother, Denny, who
had sneer hdeetion. (UP! PHOTO).
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BOBKET HATES
“I Wait To Run Tke 100
Is lino Flat”--Hayes
BT D. « COLLINOTOfT
TALLAHABSBS, Vie. - ”My am
bition is to run the 100-yerd dash
to nine seconds flat”, e 19-yeer old
Florida A&M University sprint
star beamed after tying the worl
record of 9J to an AAU meet re
wMy jn Miami.
Hobart Hayes of Jacksonville
may do just what he torn p red le
ad Ms eoaah,* Pete Griffin. Griffin
went oven further to protect that
hie track star-will break toe world
record with a 9.1 to his next meet
The record-typing tat wm oo
eompliohed during tee Florida Ath
letic Club moat on the University
ot Miami track. “This meet was as
mi , amamem> w—weororo ■ i i Iwroi , . ——
official aa say to the world and
Kayes had a tour and on*-half mile
wind blowing against Mm.” reveal
ed Vima LaUey. chairman of track
for tea Florida GoM Coast AUU.
“I am certain tee time wUI be ap
proved by the international body;
wa used accredited timers and the
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Ruling On Foreit Game
Puts A&T Out Os Running z
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HAMPTON. Va. (CIAA Nena ,
Service) A ruling by ha CIAA 1
Commissioner gave Dataware Mato i
College undisputed posstoilßß of :
the CIAA baseball championship,
the first to tee history et tee
school. Commissioner Hairy R. Jef
ferson tossed out an earlier deri
sion credited to A&T Conoco by
virtue of a forfeit win over Bhaw
University.
The Hornets ftolrited the 1M
campaign with a T 4 CIAA tog and
a percentage et ,TTS to edge out
A AT* Aggies, who does* tee sea
son with e 6-2 conference stole and
a .790 percentage, one-haM game
off the pace ot tee Hornets.
Xarlier to tee season. Mel
Groomes* Aggies gained a forfeit
victory over Shaw University's
Bean whan tee umpire-tn-chl»t
Paul K. Sandlfer. declared tee gents
forfeited to A&T alter a ruckus in
volving tea Shaw University coach.
Star-Studded FAMU Coaching
Clinic fiats Underway June 11
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Flo
rida A&M University Coaching
Clinic gets underway here on June
11 with throe and a halt days et
football and one day es backetoaU.
Coach Jake Gaither, director of
the clinic, has announced the fol
lowing lecturoe end setlvlUes tor
the 18th annual clinic; Monday,
tone 11-4:50-11:06 a. m, lecture
ontNod Treperotion. Organlastien.
trad: wee measured carefully by
engineers”
Three timers caught Hayes at IJ
and two got him at 1.1. “I wee prob
ed by my toanunate, Robert Para
more", remarked the FAMU sprint
er. Pa remora nn a 9.4. Hayer tim
ing of 90. T wen the 959-yard dash.
The Jacksonville youth baa nev
er been defeated to collegiate com
petition. He ten e 9.4 hundred in
hie first college meet her to the
FAMU relay* hut March. Ho Had
what was than the wertd record
for tee century with a 9.2 ■camper
in the Neticnal Association of to
tercoUagtate Athletic track and
field chsonpionshlp meet to South
Dakota last Msy. Frank Budd of
VHlanova eaeltprod the old mark
set by Mel Patton and held by sev
eral other sprinters a monte totsr.
The M. A. I. A meet was tee last
of the past season for Hayes.
HI starred tor Matthew -Gilbert
High where he earned letters in
track, football, baseball, and bas
ketball. He holds the N. A. I. A
record tor the hundred end 220-
yard dashes and was acclaimed tee
Track and Feld News "freshman
of-toe-year for 1981 " His N A. t
A. performance broke 1»>e,27-year
old frorii mark set by Jesse Owens.
"1 have a lot of plans tor ths fu
ture. I would very much like to
play professional football after I
am finished in track.” he revealed.
He was a halfback on the ‘6l grid
team.
”1 would like to go to the 1(84
Olympics and represent the United
State* in International competl-
Hon,” hi nund.
He admires ths accomplishment*
of Owens and plans to eoarii when
his playing days are ever. He I* a
lever of all sports.
and inning to which tea gHteSS
aiKonunufa, -Aii-
All afterto to rtechsduls thaW~
tori teUad heoauaa of ggg
sd. Therefore. CnmmliitoiwiilSti
ad it too contact”
Aa a result the Aolaa wbi—t
ot throe consecutive bagmlur
ball crowns, toes their firot router-
The ratoflhvttto Hornets, crorir
ad by Don Blakely, the find CIAA
baseball title. Frier to tea Ctahmii
*l oner's ruling, tea two teams war*
deadlocked with Identical T sftd I
conference roaords*
I •
and Moral", Ton to Ooteasan. fIMM
«te Treh: 11:18 a. m. -It M p. a.,
lecture mtitlad Tooth* 11 at Fteri
da”. Kay Oravaa. TTatvaralty of
Florida: 14:10 p. au Mature «n
--titled “Defanatve Üb* Flay at Wo#
Point”. Ooorf* Tarry. Wait Mat;
1:004 p. m„ lecture entitled "Foot
ball at LSTJ", Cbaitea IBtClandau.
Louisiana State XTWmet* T 404
d. m.. laetura entitled "Padtnrive
Football at IteMU". Me Ortffln.
F AMU, and ffirite
Tuesday, June IS-4-lfcM a. j»„
lecture entmed Tsatbtli at Duke”,
Km Murrey, Duka OnNerst^^W
alee Una Flay at Waal MW, Tar
sussutAßuss
iiSJgWSSi'SSS
ty of Alabama; MM p an. teatare
entitled "DotaMlw pwlkA tor
Steondatr Ftag", CMS Tsta.
a
m , lecture mttted Tay ad the
Quarterback”, Pepper Bcdjwo. XT
ni varsity at FlarMM MH a. as. -
U noon, lecture entitled TsetSeC
at Air Fferoe," Ban Martin. Unit
ad Stetaa Air Fame 14(8 > IP,
lecture entitled "FoaWaß ad Doles".
Murray: 4:444 p. n. tetlim entitl
ed “Football ad SteMterr. Jack
Curtice; Stanford XTHlsawHr. fan#
and ante
Thursday, June 14-44 a. nu. Ma
ture entitled "Feetball ad Air
Force,” Martin; 4-10 a. m, leadwe
entitled "Football at Stenttrd.”
Curtice; 10-11 a. m.. laetura antttted
“Interpretation land Mesfconta* Os
Officiating." Jamss Walker, Florida
Intersekotastic Athletic Association
official; and 11-11 noon. Mature an
titled "Tratalnr. Donald Milk
Florida State Ualrarshy.
d«r h wl!f l bTdrv<S*d l te SMksWai
featuring Bob Vena tie, Xfuiserelty
of Mteeourt. Ito aaarion win bd|in
at 1 p. m. and and a 14 p. m.
The Invaatmant In agriculture
waa more ♦*»— MO HHim flails rt
In 1441—about three-fourth* tba
value of currant aaaate Mr eD Ode
poratlons lp the XT. 8. •
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