THE CAROLINIAN
RALEIGH, N. C„ SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 19*4
Banks Takes Advice From Man He Tops In Homers
Down-To-Earth Slugger
Gets Aid From Authority
CHICAGO (NPI) Ernie Banks
Still one of the top sluggers in the
Hational League, is from being a
swell-headed, egotistic player.
The Chicago Cubs homerun clout
er will take or solicit advice trom
any recognizable authority on hit
ting, even if the man's record does
rot match his own.
Ernie demonstrated this open
mindedness last week when he
sought the advice of former Cubs
slugger Hank Sauer, now a trouble
shooter for the San Francisco Gi
ants.
Sauer who travels around the
country advising minor league hit
ters who will come up to the Giants
club some day, visited Wrigley
Field last week and was lounging
on the bench when Ernie spotted
him. The two once played together
as Cubs.
Banks immediately gave up his
turn at the batting cage and went
over to talk with Sauer. Ernie, with
353 homers, has already surpassed
Sauer's lifetime mark of .288, but
that didn't stop him freely seeking
Hank's advice. Their conversation
went like this.
Ernie: “Hi Hank."
Sauer: “Hi Ernie."
Banks: “Is hitting an art?"
Sauer: “You bet. It’s something
you work at all the time.”
Ernie: "What makes a guy fan
(strike out)?"
From Chavis Park:
RECREATION NEWS
Team standings in Local League Flay are as follows:
C. E. Lightner Little League:
Team W L Pet.
HALL’S BEAUTY SALON 9 l .900
KABALA TEMPLE 9 3 .818
COMMUNITY DRILL 7 5 .5*3
EAST RALEIGH TIGERS 1 9 .100
CHAVIS HEIGHTS CARDS 1 10 .091
J. K. Massenburg Little League:
Team VF L Pet.
FREEZER - FRESH 8 1 .889
BILTMORE METS 6 3 .760
BUTLER BOMBERS 6 3 .167
ROCHESTER GIANTS 4 4 .500
CHANNEL 5 3 *
OBERUN TIGERS 1 « 143
BERRY O’KELLY COLTS 0 7 000
James Baker Pony League
Team w 1» ‘ P® 4
BARBARA’S SODA SHOP 3 1 .750
WALNUT TERRACE METS 3 4 .750
BUTLER BOMBERS 3 1 .867
BILTMORE - ROCHESTER 2 3 .500
HALL’S BEAUTY SALON 1 3 .333
OBERLIN TIGERS 1 3 250
KABALA TEMPLE 0 3 000
The Walter Browning Adult Soft
ball League ended the season play
with the Club 54 team emerging
as season winner with a .852 per
centage. The competition among the
leag >e participants was very in
tense throughout the season with
ell teams in contention up until the
last week of play. Percentages of
the teams and the order of place
ment are: Club 54 .652; Peebles'
Grill .609; Lightner’s Funeral Home
549. Scotts' Grill .500: Washington
Terrace .500.
The city championship In the
League began July 27th with
Washington Terrace being de
feated by Scotts’ Grill. 25-8. In
the following games Peebles’
Grill plays Lightner’s Funeral
Home and Club 54 plays Scotts’
Grill. The winner of the City
Tournament will be declared
city champion and will repre
sent Raleigh In the North Caro
lina Recreation Society State
Softball Tournament to be play
ed in Raleigh Saturday. August
1 beginning at 10 o'clock.
Representatives from the folio-w
--ing cities are entered in the State
Tournament: Charlotte. Fayette
ville Burlington. Durham. Golds
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Hank: "Timing. He’s out in front
of the ball. When a guy Jumps at
the ball, he’s off balance. I’ve seen
that happen to Willie McCovey. but
he’s waiting on the good pitch
now.”
The conversation then turned te
such points as straight-away hitting
and the use of the heavy bat Ernie
asked Sauer, who wielded one of
the heaviest bats as a player, who
induced him to the weightier war
club.
“Jewel Ens," Sauer replied. “He
said I was swinging too quick. The
heavier bat slowed down my swing
It made me a dead pull hitter. I
hit home runs but it took 30 points
off my batting average."
Ernie offered the opinion that for
a good, high average, "a guy’s got
to be a straight-away hitter.” Sauer
agreed.
“Mays and Cepeda, they’re good
straight-away hitters because they
don’t get the bat out too quick,”
Sauer said. ‘They can pull, but
they keep the outfielders honest. . .
they can’t bunch on them."
Banks and Sauer thn exchanged a
few parting words, before Ernie
swaggered beck to the batting cage.
There was no doubt but that
Sauer knew he had not told Banks,
who has broken every major Cub
record, anything he didn’t already
know. But Ernie took the advice
anyway.
Quite a guy, that Ernie Banks.
boro, Greensboro, and Wtlmlnftbn.
. The L. E. McCauley Tennis Lea
gue began its tournament play on
July 27th with the following re
sults:
Under 1*
First round: Wayne Hinton, bye:
Victor Lane defeated Quid* Exum
8-6. 8-6; Cheryl Royster defeated
Calvin Smith 6-0. 60: Michael Rog
ers, bye; Glenn Sills defeated James
Hinton 8-0. 6-0; Connie Johnson
defeated Alfred Mack 6-3, 6-4;
Broderick Rogers defeated Michael
Akins 6-3. 6-4: Preston Anders, bye;
Melvin Jackson, bye; George Fox
well defeated Larry Kay 6-0, 6-0;
Leonard Lewis, bye; John Lucas,
bye; Billy Akins defeated Kim
Hewitt 6-3. 6-4; Frank Tolliver it
feated John Abron 6-0. 6-0; Deborah
Holloway defeated Sam Hewitt 8-0,
j 6-0; Michael Hunt, bye.
Second Round; Preston Anders
defeated Broderick Rogers 6-1 6-3,
; John Lucas defeated Loondard Lew
is 6-0, 6-1.
Age 12-14
First Rcund: Ray Merritt, bye;
. Ed Worth defeated David Lane 7-5,
. 6-2; Sarah Sansom defeated B*r-
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WOMEN'S TRACK, FIELD TEAM MEMBERS FETED
Hanford, Calif : Fourteen members of the U. S. wonem's track
and field team were honored at a civic luncheon in Hanford July
21 before departing for the V. S. Russia meet in Los Angeles Ju
ly 25-26. Seated (/. to r.) are Sandra Knott. Cleveland; Fran
Davenport, San Francisco; Cherrie Sherrard, Oakland; Leah
Ferrii, Honolulu; Willye White, Chicago; Martha Watson, Long
Beach; Lurline Hamilton, Baton Rouge; Wyomia Tyus, Ten
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Luis Glass Victor In
Forest Hills Tourney
BY DICK HOBSON
FOREST HILLS, N. Y. Leui* I
Glass of Jackson Heights. New |
York, a participant of Dr. B. Walter |
Johnsoiit Junior Development
Team, won the Eastern Boys Under
16 championships at the West Side
Tdnnis Courts in Forest Hills. New
York recently.
Glass pulled a feat that no other
ATA player has ever accomplished
including Arthur Ashe. Jr. by de
feating Steve Segals of Tenneck.
New Jersey, the Eastern USLTA
Champion and no. 1 seeded in the
tourney 6-0; 6-3: 8-10.
Lenoard Simpson copped two
mdtelU* at Fordst Hills before
going down before Mike McLaugh
lin of St Louia 6-0; 8-8 In the
Chiirt4f , nitflf
Robert BiAns playing also at
Forest mu* In the Under 14 division
was defeated by Michael Attabaun.
seeded number l 7-5; 6-3.
Mis* Sylvia Hooks romped
through the woman's singles di
vision to take the championship
defeating Beasit Stockard, Atlanta.
Oa. 18-13: 8-8; 8-3.
Says Chamberlain’s Temperament
“Sweet And Gentle As A Baby’s”
BdUdvo it or Adt, but tha famous
Wilt (T 1", MO pound) Chambsr
laia hap • tganperamem ai i*«#t
and gentle as a baby Ha has tha
tiaa and power, and maybe even
the ability to play toot bill in tha
play-for-pay bracket but his tem
perament just isn't ob die wild
ride
4s Charles Hawser head
eaach at the Philadelphia Beek
o*i ease said. “When Wilt was
- pat tsprlhir they had to held
tnad Mrdssll M. *-•; Immett Mc-
Neil defeated George Solomon g-0.
g-2.
Matches id the meat ware wall
attended yj spectators and interest
ed ptredts of the participants
Matches ace ebntinuing throughout
the woeh id preparation lot the
National Tournament at Greens
bero next month
SINGING DIDN'T HELP IN THE RING Gabe Ter
rones, left, who is a soloist in his church choir at Fresno, Califor
nia, shows off his talents for Jose Stable of Orients, Cuba. Stable
overwhelmingly defeated Gabe in a 10-round fight, held at New
York’s Madison Square Garden Friday night, July 24. The two
pugilists are shown on Monday, July 20, during a phycical check
up for the welterweight bout. (UPI PHOTO).
To reach the finals. Sylvia defeat
ed Gloria Bryabat. Baltimore 60;
6-0; Brenda Johnson, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania 6-1; 6-2; and Elaine
Bursxh 6-4; 6-4
Lenwmrd Blmpeon stopped
over In D. C. enroute to the
Western USLTA Champion
ship* In Springfield, Ohio to
defeat Morgan Jones. D. C.
4-8; 7-5; 8-2. Also Paul Alexan
der, D. C. 8-2; 6-2. then default
ed to Arthur Carrington, Elisa
beth. New Jersey who Is now
playing on the Junior Develop
ment Team.
Carrington also playing in the
men's singles event defeated Harold
i Eaton, D. C. 6-0; 6-3; Joe Swell.
! New York City 6-0; 8-2; Ossie Ole
; ary. D. C. 7-5; 6-3.
Mrs. Bonnie Logan la playing
| the USLTA Under 16 National
! Championships in Chicago. Illinois.
Robert Binns is playing In the
USLTA Under 14 Boys and Juniors
National Championship* at Chatta
nooga, Tennessee. Luis Glass and
Simpaon are playing In the Western
USLTA Championships in Spring
•otuo ‘P1»1I
ball fleor if Chamberlain bad s
short temper. He would kill
someone.
“But if he's serious about play
ing football. I will give him an op- 1
portur.ity to work out with my
club If he can withstand the pun
ishment my kids dish out, he'll
make it in the NFL. or AFL."
Browser said he would use
Wilt as a defensive end. He
said a pnarterbsek would need
■tilts to soe oyer his outstretch
ed hands. - Brew-ser realises that
ha esaaot meet the money off
ers WIN would receive from
major league clubs, but be also
knows the value of peblle re
lations sad would lump over
the moon to get Chamberlain
to work eet with the dockets.
If Chamberlain decided on too*-
ball and comet into the game with
tha confidence that he can make
the grade, ha may toe another Big
Dadds."
nessee St.; and Dr. Maria Sexton, team manager. Standing
Coach Percy Franklin; Juner Bellow, Chairman of National
women's track and field committee; Rosie Bonds, Pasadena; Vi
vian Brown, Tennessee St.; Eleanor Montgomery, Cleveland;
Sally Griffith, Santa Clara; Edith McGuire, Tennessee St.;
Lynn Graham, Pasadena; Dr. Nell Jackson, chaperon, and Alex
Ferencsv, Cleveland, the head coach. (UPI PHOTO),
Last Days
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Cassius Clay
Terms Self A
Race Adviser
The talkative Cassius (All) Clay
appeared on a TV program recently
in Ohio and displayed himself as
somewhat of a race adviser.
He stated that he was against
"forced integration" He failed to
comment on forced segregation.
Th<* hfßVywclftrt ms th* I
world stated the reason for his
dislike of “forced integration."
“When it brings about the death
of people, especially my people, and
people being beat with elube and
pushed and ducked in water at
beaches, and people come up disap
pearing and blowed (sic) up in
churchee, then I don’t like that."
Bears* Stars:
Galimore,
Farrington
Die In Crash
RENSSELAER lad. Chicago
Bear football stars Willie Galimore
and John Farrington were killed
Sunday night when their car
crashed on a Jasper County road,
about 2 1-2 miles west of here.
Coach George Halas announced
at the Jssper County Hospital the
two players had been killed. No
other details of the accident wars
disclosed Immediately.
Galimore. a graduate at Flori
da A A M University, Joined
the Bears In 1957 and had boon
a starling offensive halfback
Says Negro Tennis Rise
Was Almost Accidental
(UHTOYS NOTE: The fal
lowing verts article la being
reprinted from The Evening
Star of Washington, D. C. It
was dated Monday, July M.
19*4:1
BY STEVE GUBACK
The way it has turned out, H
was almost accidental that Al
thea Otbeon won both the Wim
bledon and United States tennis
championships In XSSI and 1965,
but then nobody could aupect
that Dr. R W. Johnson was set
ting the goal too low.
Dr. Johnson la in town and tell
ing the story He la a 88-year-old
Lynchburg <Va.) physician, one
time star halfback at Lincoln
(Pa.) University and a longtime
tennis buff.
If there la one Individual who
has helped the Nogro rise to emi
nence In tennis. Dr. Johnson
would rank there or thereabouts
on any list. One of his proteges
was Althea Olbaon. Another is Ar
i thur Ashe—sixth-ranked nation
> ally—who plays Chuck McKinley
ip an exhibition today at the Six
teenth and Kenndey streets
: courts. This, naturally, is the rea
■ sen Dr. Johnson la in town today.
’ It was back in 1947 at a Negro
tournament in Wllberforoe, Ohio, <
that the first link of the Dr. John
son big-time tennis chain of a- '
vents was forced, he recalled.
“Althea was about 19 then.” Dr.
Johnson said, “and she came down
with asms people from New York
who expected her to win the tour
nament.
"I remember ahe won the first
act. but then the girl ahe was play
• tag began throwing up one lob
after another Althea got riled up
and was beaten. The people from
r through meet es his aevau years
. with the defending National
Football League champions.
1 Howevar. an off-aaaaon eperation
to repair knee injuries kept him
t an the bench much of last season.
0 Galimore's best season with the
Bears was in 1981 whan he!
* gained 707 yards in rushing
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That was how it started. HI
from that meeting one of the
most amazing partnerships to
nis developed. Dr. Johnson ***** * "*7
friend. Dr. Hubert Eaton o t WS
mlngton. N. C.. decided to «BB£Z
Althea their help. She was a drflfcr-;
out from school, the daughter
South Carolina share-orowjur-j-jg^
Dr. Eaton was to maintain
in the winter, send her to sotHgT"
and to keep her occupied as ajjSgr.-..:
by sitter and with homsqflt&:
chores. In the summer*. Dr. MUOSZ
son would sponsor her tennis
velopment. When ahe aoeeptearJHC
was “like putting a rabbit IQF;
briar patch.” Dr. Johnson Iw—jgg.
The only objective bade MBPS?:
from toe purely tennis «*«■&-
point. Dr. Johnson oonfesssd. V**:.
to have Althea win the AmsneJß
Tennis Association tournamgjgfc.
the Negro championship. But -dtr; .
the*, of ooum, didn’t stop thmaL.-
Her amsslng talent kd hTHT:
cross both the ooean and the color
line. . _
It wasn’t a crusade then. Dr
Johnson said. There was no xp»6- .
lal "cause". What happened, Jus9
happened. --
“We'd just write toumsmunte—
and ask for entry blanks.” Dr.
Johnson said. “We wrote on ATA
stationery, so they knew who we
were. Some received the sppllca,-
tions with Joy Others dldnV-aU
still don’t.” ,
Althea generally is credited with
being the first Negro to play to
a national tennis tournament, but
Dr. Johnson said this Isn’t exactly
so. Fact Is, Dr. Johnson played to
a national father-son tournament
much earlier In Erls, Pa., thus
probably holding the honor him
self. . . ,
“You don’t Just go out and heal
McKinley and Ralston," Dr. John
son continued. "That take* time,
I two or three years, hut he’ll do
1 it ’’