Cassius Clay’s Dad Claims Boxer-Son Is “Confused”
Says Son Doesn’t Know
Whether He’s Going On
Coning On Race Ques.
MIAMI fANP) Cassius Clay’s
• lather last week said the boxer is a
member of the Black Muslim sect
and branded him “confused” and
"brainwashed”. He added that Cas
sius doesn't know whether he is
coing or coming on the race ques
tion.
Cassius M. Clay. Sr. 91. told the
Miami Herald newspaper here that
his son has been a member of the
Blade Muslim sect headed by Elijah
Muhammad since he won the O
lymplc light-heavyweight title at
the age of 18. Clay is now 22.
In confirming that his son Is
• Black Muslim, the senior Clay
west further than the mouthy
boxer an the subject. So far,
Clay bad refused to say wheth-
UPS AND DOWNS Going over the bar (top) or landing
In • foam rubber pad after the leap (lower), John Thomas 61 Bos
ton displays championship form as he competed in the Millrose
Games high jump event at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
Thomas won the event with a meet record leap of T 2*4” last
weak. ( UPI PHOTO).
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er be is a member of the Mus
lim sect, described as a black
supremacy organisation. He
said once, however, that he
would explain H if given two
hours of prime TV time. He got
no offers.
The senior Clay accused the Mus
lims of brainwashing his son, say
ing:
“They’ve been hammering at him
and brainwashing him . . . He's so
confused he doesn’t know where he
is at” Clay’s father is a painter in
Louisville, “The Lip’s” hometown.
Meanwhile, Clay, who fights
champion Sonny Liston for the
worlds heavyweight title in Miami
Beach, on Feb. 25, was busy con
demning integration as “wrong.”
COLD WAR WEAPONS Heavyweight contender Cassius Clay listens to trainers Angelo
Dundee (left) and Drew Brown as ha continueshis “psychological warfare” against champ Sonny
Liston at Miami Beach, Fla. Clay announced that he and his camp followers and 30 hich school
students would ‘‘picket' the Liston camp at the suburban Surfside Center. Things will go from
the psychological to tha physical when Caseius meets Sonny for the title February 25. {UPI PHO
TO).
Fnrmpr Trarlr Phamn Mol WhitfioM
Now Proving Himself Top Organizer
LONG BEACH, Calif. (ANP)
Former track itar Mai Whltefield
U proving to be just aa successful
as an organizer and promoter of
athletics as he was during his hey
day when he dominated the cinder
path as one of America’s greatest
middle champions.
Whitfield recently returned
from a successful mission as
goodwill sports ambassador In
the Middle East and Africa,
where he helped In the train
ing of athletes under the au
spices of the U. 8. States De
partment, and almost immedi
ately tackled another major
project.
He has been appointed co-ordina
tor of the upcoming Long Beach
Games, Feb. 18, and has succeeded
in lining up one of the finest arrays
of track and field stars ever to
compete in the annual meet. Whit
field and Bill Gill, meet director,
are working together as a team.
Among the start scheduled to
compete in the Long Beach meet
are:
Bob Hayes of Florida AAM
university, the world's fastest
human; Ralph Bootee of Ten
nessee State AAI university,
national broad Jump champion;
Detroit’s Hayes Jones, "Mr.
Hurdler" himself and who Is
unbeaten in M straight races;
John Thomas, the high Jump
champion; Bets Snell, the polo
TWO-PISTED ATTACK Second-ranked,heavyweight
contender Doug Jones (R), of N. Y., launches a two-fitted at
tack on Tom McNeefey in the Sth round of their echeduled 10-
rounder at the N. Y. Colieteum Feb. 3rd. Jonee ecored a TKO
vault titllst, and shot putter Pat
O’Brien.
Also, milen Jim Beatty, Tom
O'Hara and Dyrol Burleson; Jay
Silvester and Dallas Long.
In addition there are such popu
lar and outstanding tan stars as
College President-Coach Is
Feature Os Nat’l Magazine
BY COLLIE J. NICHOLSON
GEAMBLING, La. (ANP)—Presi
dent-Coach R. W. Jones of Gram
bling College is one of 78 success
ful baseball and track mentors of
fering ideas, tips and techniques
in the current issue of the Coach
ing Clinic, published by Prentice-
Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliff, N. J.
He diocusoed "Ideas on Pitch
ing for Championship Coach
ing” in the special spring sports
issue of the monthly magazine.
Coaches offered thoughts and
trends on techniques and stategy
on a position-by-position basis.
Each consultant led his team to
the NCAA or NAIA national tour
nament, or won state high school
championships In 1968.
Grambling won the NAIA area
seven title and was runners-up In
the national tournament
The national championship elud-
Ulis Williams, Henry Carr, Adolph
Plummer and Jim Dupree.
The meet will be run over the
nation’s newest and “fastest" in
door track, constructed at a cost
of SIB,OOO.
ed “coach” Jones, but championship
quality has not.
Since world war H the Tig
ers have compiled a 356-86 won
lorn record and Grambling stars
hare received more than $366,-
000 In bonuses from major lea
gue teams.
Grambling has won three straight
southwestern conference champion
ships.
The astute Grambling coach is
also the subject of a special fea
ture in tiie current issue of Colle
giate Baseball, official publication
of the American Association of Col
lege Baseball Coaches.
Having eliminated polio as a pu
blic health problem through the
Salk and Sabin vaccines, The Na
tional Foundation-March of Dimes
now fights birth defects and arthri
tis.
over the former challenger from Arlington, Mass., at the end of
the Sth because of a broken nose. The bout was stopped by the
ring doctor, Dr. Alexander Schiff. (UPI PHOTQ).
Shaw Bears To End Regular
Season Play Vs. NCC Quints
The Shaw University basketball
team will conclude its regular sea
son on Saturday night February 22,
with the Noith Carolina College
Eagles. The Bears will play the
ART College Aggies on Friday,
February 14.
Ike Bears are tournament
bound and would like to knack
off the high-rated Aggies to
clinch u delayed round tour
nament slate. As of this weak,
the Bears are in fourth ptaee
In the CIAA standings with a
M-S record. Wins over AST.
North Carolina College at Dur-
LIVING WITH SPORTS
BT CHARLES J. LIVINGSTON
U. S. FAILURES AT INNSBRUCK
PLACES BURDEN ON OLYMPIC
TRACK STARS
CHICAGO (ANP) TLe Inept
showing of U. S. athletes in the
Winter Games in Innsbruck, Au
stria, places a massive burden on
our track and field stars who must
now relied upon to roll up tre
mendous victories to offset our
present losses and thus rescue Un
cle Sam’s prestige in the upcoming
Olympics in Tokyo this October.
Every loss by the U. S. ski, bob
sled and hockey teams at Inns
burck increases the burden for our
tracksters. Lucikly, the U. S. is cur
rently blessed with an abundance
of topnotch track and field athletes,
particularly a fine array of tan
stars who will do doubt carry the
load at Tokyo.
But the question might be
asked: Are we continually ex
pecting too much from our
track starsT Isn’t It about time
we started balancing the ath
letic sheet by embarking on an
unrestricted recruiting program
in uhleh Negroes as well aa
whiten will be sought out and
trained In the search for the
talent tint is lacking in our
Track has long been integrated
and has continuously supplied the
nation with a abulous supply of
talent. The exploits of Jesse Owens,
Ralph Metcalfe, Mel Walker, Mai
Whitfield, Harrison Dillard, Wilma
Rudolph, Rafer Johnson, and oth
ers In the past, are matched and
sometimes surpassed by such cur
rent stars as world sprint champion
Robert Hayes, champion hurdler
Hayes Jones, pole vault tltllst John
Pennell, broad Jump ace Ralph Bos
ton, high jump specialist John Tho
mas, and runners Jim Beatty, Pe
ter Snell, Jim Dupree. Ulls Wil
liams and Tom O'Hara.
The latter group will, I believe,
carry the United States to victory
over Russia and the other nations
at the Tokyo Games. The question
still remains, however, of whether
our overall track victory will be
large enough to offset the losses at
Innsbruck. I hope so.
Judging from the dismal head
lines (or the U.S.) coming out of
Innsbruck, the U. S. niust have
sent a sorry team to the Winter
Games. I am not knocking the ath
letes personally. They are doing
their best I am sure. But I am
questioning the type of program
ming and training which produced
the current crop of winter athletes.
At best something must be wrong
with our method of recruiting and
training when a great aports power
such as the United States falls so
miserably in winter athletic compe
tition. I, in particular, cannot help
wondering if race might have some
thing to do with it. I can't help
wondering what might have been
the results if tan skiers or bob
iledrn were competing in Inss
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ham, and Fayettevlße State
College. Feb. XL would boast
the Bears to top eententien for
the CIAA championship title.
The Bears lost the first throe
games in the conference attar the
Christmas break, but are now back
on the winning trail In their last
three games the Bears have been
victorious in their meetings with
Allen University, non-conference;
St Augustines’ College, and Fay
etteville State. Coach Spann has
all week to prepare the Bears for
the important game with ART. In
their first meeting at Greensboro,
brock? This brings ua to the ques
tion of selection.
One reads occasionally of a few
Negroes skiing for kicks, but as
far as is known, none have been
recruited for, or competed in any
of the major AAU ski contests.
Needless to say, none tried out tor
the current, pathetic U. S. Olympic
team. “No Soul Brothers are in
the lineup,” one tan observer com
mented comically on our winter
Olympic team. And this brings up
another question: why haven't Ne
groes, integrated such winter sports
as skiing and bobsleding? ?
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tha Bears were offset bar the fast
moving Aggie five, but it is expect
ed that the Been wQI play a slow
er game in an attampt to alow down
tha fast-running Aggie offense.
Stated to appeer far Shaw is Jim '
Snow, who has been averaging 20
points in the last five games, at
canter; Kermlt West, key re-bound- "
er, at forward; Lee Monroe at the •
other forward spot; Irma Mitchell
at guard; end Bennie Jo Byers at
the other guard spot.
It is expected that an of the
Bear bench will aee action in an
attempt to defeat the ART Aggies.
welcomed ar that their talents
weold net be appreciated. These
have been among the reaasns,
alee, far the late integration of
such ether sports aa baseball
tennis and. In a sense, golf.
Just think of the run-around a
young Negro skier might getiif he
showed up at one of the eliate win
ter ski lodges where athletes pre
pear for national and intemattonql
tournaments and asked to be' en
rolled! What sort of reception would
he get? What sort of support would
i he get from officials of the AAU
and other athletic bodies.
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