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CIAA Track Meet Looms Asßiggest Attraction In Area WUm ..:: .. > t |gp% . • H B£J|b| ■ fjpfc '*4.l 1 , 1 ** 1 ! ” j £j& , ~-'- ■oF!jßfi**> jfl mJ| OJk-r. $. ! ' \ fjl Ik ' J , *\ W«Kffip& Sk '* MBmm HfiSc'*'-' jras ." i :'. : ' ■' '■ *^ ■ •/' -51 ; mm ■ KNUCKLING DOWN New York: Heavyweight contenders Eddie Machen (WO f™* ' Floyd Pattereon, former champ, practice knock-out blows at Stockholm Restaurant April 29. The two signed to meet in Stockholm, Sweden, July Sth. Machen and Patterson, along with Cleveland Williams and Ernie Terrell, are entered in a suggested elimination tournament to decide who gets the next chance to challenge Cassius Clay tor his world title. Elimination tournament waspropoe ed by Gen. Melvin L. Krulewitch, chairman of the New York Boxing Commission. (UPI PHO TO). ; _ 1 TFNNIS “BREAK'' These coeds at A&T College, Greensboro, take a “break" during a ten nis outing at the College They are, from left to right: Misses Ruby Knight, Kmgsland, Ga.; Diane maintains four asphalt composition courts for t< r eat: on purposes. ...vfVffssmre ■ •***” l % * WEIGHT CHAMPION fF'TF " Howard Univer-nv Co 1 !- g- ot ' •' Pharmacy sophomore How,- Bovell holds the “best hirer gPr j awards he won in the 196-4 NC A A weightlifting champmmhip at Michigan State la-t Mat- h . , t * and the D. C AAV champion M: ' " ships two weeks ago. The - • year old resident of British (itt- ' " i$L ,'^gSr ana currently is training tor tie- jßfcrff,l?* Olympic Games next O\iohe: r )''’-!/*'■ •'% 't>’£* *' ‘■‘•’A Tokyo, where he hope, t -> r J-* present his country. r .-a| A*vT? ’ 't&L ».4aK'- mi 1 .. K * Wf%%’ JfipK - *s VSC Hosts Attraction Fri., Sat Os This Week HY praiT R. LBAZSt PETTERSBURG, Va—Th* Cen tral Intercollegiate Athletic As sociation 1963 Track and Field Meet, tilted tor Virginia State College, Petersburg. Virginia. May 8-9, looms as the biggest sports attrac tion in the Middle Atlantic State*. It tafcea ea this added aigai- IMaee, lima as* at the todtrid aals ached *l* to parthdpate aad Ike Olympic year, which la M» serves as a mattvater to spar thtaelads 4* greater »—<f»-«- In «<mw«»\ three team*—North Carolina College, Maryland State, Morgan State—have been establish ed aa favorites and this to unusual in the sprawling circuit C«pch Clifton Anderson’s Mary land State Hawks are the defend ing champions. Among the outstanding Individ uals to Norman Tata, recently voted the outstanding collegian to parti cipate in the 1963 Pennsylvania Re lays. Tate won the broad jump and hop-step and Jump championship* and anchored the 440 end 880-yard relay teams to victories. Ha to tha defending NCAA and NAIA cham pion in the hop-step and jump. Another luminary to hardier John Bethea. Morgan State Cel lag*. He wan tbs Pannaylvanla Belay ehaaapiea*lp in his spe LIVING SPORTS ■ —By Charles J. Livingston doh to mo»o Anyn snub thi negro must CHICAGO (ANP)—Om ot to# thing* I've obtorvod In my work as a aporta wrltar. i» tha strange relation# batwtfn tha Nagro ath lete and tha Nagro preaa. It all aim to a** that tor seme strange reason, perhaps a# a re mit of a distorted view, tha ton athlete falle to show the sane appreciation for the Ne gro preee as for the (white) daily preaa. I uae the word “Ne gro" and “white" categorically, and my commentary In general la In no way an attempt to censure all Negro athlete* —on- ly those to which the criticism applies. Prom what I have been able to observe first hand, the Negro ath letes attitude toward the Negro press, in many cases, borders on snubbery. This, despite the fact that the Negro press has always championed his cause. For, instance, even before the major sport* wer# integrated, the Negro pres* was In there pitching for equal treatment of the athlete of color. The tan athlete appears today to go out of his way to give credity to the daily press for all his suc cesses. but finds his memory strangely blurred when asked what the Negro press has done for him. This, despite the fact that the dally press' support for the Negro ath lete has come largely only since Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey made tttelr breakthrough in base ball. On this point, it Is well to note that while the Negro baseball play er was being barred from the ma jor league, the Negro pres* never wavered in its campaign to lift tha barrier and get him into the Na tional and American leagues. And I recall that Robinson and other K. C.Banquet Honors 'All iTime Greats' I KNOXVIIjLX, Tenn. —Knoxville Collage honored Its “all-time great," Including Florida A. A M. University coach. Dr. A S. "Jake” Gaither, and presented out standing athletes at a recent all sports banquet In the College Din ing Hall. The Rev. Ralph Ross. KC class of IMI, got a standing ova tion for his main banquet message I titled “Self Discovery through Self 1 Surrender " Bestow Dr. Gaither, ethers Matted into Knexsillr Cal lage's Athletic Hall of Fame 1 first for the U-member South ern Inter collegiate Athletic Conference) were Dr. Earl T. Odom. Chief Medical Sargeon, Taskegee (Ala.) Veterans Hos pital. Joseph Matthew*, princi pal. Alcoa (Tenn.) Hall High defeoel. B. T. Ridgeway, prin rlpal. Miller's Ferry (Ate.) High School, sad Bead (Crack) Henderson, physical education' director, gt Lento (Mo.) YMCA. Plaques were presented all Hon oreee, including las* year’s first AHF inductees, Wallace O Hawk ins, Dayton. Ohio; and James G. .Teck of Knoxville. Alexander Gai ber of Knoxville accepted tha ward for his brother of KAMU. resident of the Knoxville College HF Board. Dr. B. B. Evan* of Ctn nnati presented the award*. Posthumously honored were Phil elphia minister. Dr. John Bnce; ?troit phyrictan Dr. George Jen > tt; Knoxville phyrician. Dr J. H resnel), former Miller» Ferry Ala.), principal Curtis Simpson and Timothy Needham of Knox , villa. cialty aad to eemtdared the conference's beat hurdler. Win ston Salem's Leon Coleman to i another Umber topper that bears watehiag. Another outstanding individual ha watch will be NCC's brillant Edwin Roberts. Roberts is the definding conference champion in the sprints 1 He has posted the second best time—9.3—in the 100-ymrd dash in th* United States this season. Rob erts also won th* century race in tha Pennsylvania relays. He has posted the beat time* in tha 100, 900, 440 dashes this year in the league. A real workhorse, the Trinidad na tive also runs lags on th* NCC re lay tetmi. Morgan Stats College, coached by the distinguish Eddie P. Hurt, is on* of th* favorites in th* meet. Along with Booths, tha Bears have an outstanding mile-relay team. In fact, they have posted th* boat tines 3:133 seconds—on th* east coast this season. Coach Hurt al ways has a strong relay unit and this season strength Coach has been added in the field events. Coach Leroy T. Walker’s NCC Eagles will have to be reckon with in this meet for team honor* They have never won the team title but if they have over had a chance It will be this year. top baseball player* of that time were brought to Mr. Rickey's seri ous attention largely through tha efforts at tha NAACP and tha Pittsburgh Courier newspaper, raw people know, for Instance, that Courier aporta writer Wendell Smith had taken Robnison to tha Rod Sax for a tryout (with tha support of tha newspaper) before Jackie even met Rickey. Robinson. In torn, paved the way tor the WUlle Mays, toe Hank A arena, the Frank Rob insons, and others. Bet appar ently forgetting all toe tan ath lete. today appear* to loek down hla nose at to* eelored press, as many oolorod re gart ers wha has had to* exprtoae* as dealing with them, will toll yon. Aloofness la perhaps a bet tor word to describe too atti tude as toe Negro athlete to ward the Negro preea Sometimes it is downright sick ening to note -the extent to which the Negro athlete will go In cater ing to white reporter# of the dally preaa, while clamming up and act ing downright snappy and lncosld erata in hi* dealings with Negro reporter!, no matter how skilled they might be. One tan athlete even had tha gaul to suggest that I get my In formation from tha daily preaa. I calmly reminded him (In front of hi# newly-found, so-called “friends" from tha dally preaa) that, as a re porter, I expected the same fair and Impartial treatment from him as he expected to get on the play ing field, and that moreover, I did n’t car# for second-hand informa tion He apologized. Perhaps my meet frustrating experience, however, cease sev eral year* age when I tried to Interview Althea Gibson at to* swank River Fareat (HI.) Oelf Club. Mia* Olbaon waa then #0 her way to becoming toe Wim bledon and C. S. wonsau’a ton ale* champion and It appeared But her »acocas as too ftrat Negro to crash Mg ttao tosmto had goo# to bar hood. For no apparent rouooo. sha n**»r ra naod mo too Intorvtow. white National *Ctay Coort tour nament, Shirley Fry. gruoowm to falrneasto Althoo. how over. K mutt be etoted toot too wm ateo touchy wtto reporters of too other race. I could not eondono her olof nam. though, and ttemA I a lotto In tote reaped WondoU.Smith also took exception to her attitude, reminding her that after all too was “only a tennis player.” On the other hand. I have enjoy ed tha beat of relatione and the greatest of respect from many Ne gro athletes. Indicating that not *ll of them are stricken by the strange malady of snubbery of tha Negro preaa. However. I think that many, if not the majority, of them are indifferent in their attitude towmu the colored proa#. The 100-per-eent ten athletes T have mot include the Chicago White Sox's Ores tee Minoso. th-? Brave#’ Hank Aaron, the Giants' Orlando Cepeda. the Dodgers John ny Roeeboro. tha Cubs' Ernie Banks, in baseball, and the Critics Bill gussell the Bullet*. Si Green, in basketball Also, the Browns' Jim Brown and the Bears' Benny Mcßae and John Farrington, in football; Hayes Jones, Mia* Wilma Rudolph (Ward) and ex-Olympian Mai Whitfield, in truck and field, and heavyweight champ* Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott and tha current world junior welterweight champion Ed die Perkins, in boxing. I don’t know whether the Negro athlete who “makes It big" feels himself above tha Negro press. But I would like to remind him that 1 no matter what his achievement, he cen t poaaibiy be any bigger than j the sources which helped put him | in a position to win acclaim and j fortune Negro athlete* who turn toots ■S«v*.*<W - -.*t Wr 'fc **t <!* # .4* k»«*«;■• 'ji - V-gea A» iMB i In ' *b ** J •:i : * . ;* *w a—4 . v ♦ a %>- Jk «* 3i WISH HIM WELL Chicago, III.: Willie McCovey ( left) end Willie Mays (center) at tjjpr s|n Francisco Giants say goodbye to Orlando Cepeda as he prepares to leave Wrijley Field, ApHI 28 th, emoute to California for treatment of his injured knee. (UPI PHOTO). " } Felip Alou Eyes Career As | Minister After Baseball Over MILWAUKEE (ANP)—If there Is one thing fixed In tha mind of Felipe Alou, MUwaulee Braves out Indianapolis Clowns Entertain 1,600 Fans With High Jinks As Thirty-Fifth Season Underway MIAMI (ANP)—Mayor Robert King High tossed out the first ball, and first baseman-acrobat Nature boy Williams caught tt and started a chain reaction of high jinks that had 1.600 fans roaring, a* the tour ing Indianapolis Clowns opened their 35th consecutive season of fun-spiked baseball Tthe scene was Miami Stadium. And in the course of the evening, the Clowns mixed heads-up basa backu on the Nagro Press remind me of the 10 ungrateful person* In the Biblical parable who benefitted from the generosity as a certain rich ruler. All except one failed lo return to say thanks, so that the benefactor asked: “Where are the other nine?" Some Negro athlete# reflect, through their attitude, their appre ciation of the effort* of the Negro press in their behalf. Where are tha others. Patronize Our Advertisers TB CAIOUNIJUf HALKTOH. W. C.. SATTTRDAT, MAT t, 1964 fielder and ax-San Francisco Giant* slugger, it is that h* wants o become a preacher when hi# baseball career is over. ball with buffoonery to defeat their traveling roadmatas, tha Brooklyn Front Miami to* Clowns went on to play benefit game* at Montgomery, Abu. and Tha mes, Ga., and other games at Dillon, S. C.. and Kinston, N. C. Marietta and Oetambns. Os. They will play in Winston-Salem, N. C„ on May 10, and will continue playing on consecutive days in Dur ham, and Statesville, N. C., Rome, Ga. and Chattanooga, and Nash ville, Ttennessee. MUFFLER & TAIL PIPE “SPECALIZINO IN FRONT END ALIGNMENT •*— * Complete Brake Service EASY FINANCING Hoars: I - •—Mon. Thru Fri.—Sat. t - 12 Si enEIIIE BRAHE AND ALIGNMENT SERVICE r lit GLENWOOD AVE. RALEIGH, N. C. fflai. sooo fISI *3- 20 l VaUe> I so \fi wh proof lit (ffirnded' Jl bonds miu Ip -Win * fS distilliiw company UwjMtobWt 70% train neutral ipirrti That new facet of his waa discovered after he arrived hare with hit wife. Marts, and tfirir three children, FaUpa, Jr. 4. Marta. 3, and seaa, 7 month*, to join Mtsf rest of tha Braven Man, Alou Is D native of tha Domlndan Republic, Felipe said ha "found Jean* Christ" after a friend gave him a Bible, sal to Ms tones jetead to* Flf mouth Bretheren . ohureh, an ertoadux. Evangeli cal group. Bis religion la said to fallow no aat pattern. Alou has even don* soma *v*rrge» Using. After too 190 baseball bi son, ha toured Venezuela with l west coast evangrilM who later compared him to BUly Sunday, who also waa a major league b#sab*Ll player before turning to religion. Alou, aoeardlng to hla man tor, to* Rev. Dan Rood, baa basil assisting In to* oauveraton as Jasa Fagan. R#v. Band **M Fallp* la "twte# to* speaker In • flpsnlsh that k* to In English." Felipe, who begins and ends each day with a prayer, mid h# hoped to find time during to# currant sea son to apoak before ehurch group*. 19
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