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WHITE BOYS
a wiiite of 25. Therefore wheAjthey reach out and smother a
you match a 20 year old Negrojblow almoat before tt even gete
novice against » wWt® boy ofitinderway? They can do this be-
the -siwn« ag« who is staj*ing outjcause they are govern«d by io-
ia Jjoxing you are arranging a atinct instead ^ being forced to
BEAUTY IN MOTION ON S.. U. COURT
match between a man and' a boy.
»nd in a majority of ea«e« ihere
can be but one result. 1* m much
eefiier to tead» Negro boys to
box. tliey ai* natural inimicH
and most of them c*a imitate'
any move they gee a good boxer
mak^. .You «an spend monHie
l?«ieliing a white boy one certain
punch aod the oharicea are he
trust ter their eyesigWt to w«m
them as a wihite boy must forji
%e first three or four yeai%
WILBUR WOOD, Sporte editdr
of the Kej? 'S^rk . Evening Sun
carried' this r«emt interview
,wrth Jack fiuriey (white) of Jh«'^emongtrate the same punch
nw«x countnr in hi« cplimn. Wej^^^ ^
feel that it'4#ul4 be.of interest he’ll
to Negro spofts lovers tlie nation it
ovw, so we publish • it. , salientteft«her ^
points. ' p
...Hurley, developer of Billy |hAVE JUNGLS OUNNJNG
BttroIle» great bos«r of more.
t^n i| agioi ^»d alwdjye ' g^ll Negro'bosws are endow'
^^seeker after fistic »ys jcd, with, a sort of junble cunning
‘™«gro boy a are too Artwlllr wr|’—w Wl^1;iey »ens€ dianger lutiJ
tfce white b6j«. “I mean that ajmore quickly than a whitc^ bo^ eia had to
d«te. Xs proof'ot'iSlis! note hciwhe wanted to work, and eat
t3iat he’s in boxit^.” Hurl«y
continues in stressing fact that
Negro boxers hav« nolt always
wnd still are not' ^ven, the fair
©hancc they ■ deaerve by saying.
“It is my opinion that NegTo
boxers will completely RULE
if yoa^he amateur sport within a few
years. In tho recejit Golden
Glo\'^ Boxir^ toumanjent in
New York, seven of the eight
as well as iitles were captured by Negro
boys. In the Chicago ©ompetitdc^
•11 eight championAips were
taken by Negroes”
With resped; to the Negro in
the “pro field'’Jie might pot d^.
so well there. It, isp,’t aajy secret
that in the old , days a N?^gpo bo«
be “reasonable” if
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of the Sinner!
BY tiAJUGStON HtJOttES
(For A*»odJU*d Negro Press)
re-
I went down t)h« road,
Dregsed' tp killr—
Straight down the road
That leads to hell.-^
Mother warned me,
Warned me t^ue. 
B^faer warned me, ^
And Sister^, ^ "/
But I was bold^
Head'Strong wild.
I jdid nojfe-Acii. like
to^ rigHt: J^vay Camella Pearjy,
junior and Inez Roctjue* vivacious sopn)-stey «n the.ri#it fa«ek.
more at Southern univ^sity ^snapped on But i wa« drinking liek^
one of! the university^: tennis courts'4n 4^.tifcrbugging back,^**"
playful mood. • r»' * • ^own that ,
^ 1-——— : ; Ail dressed to kill —
The,road that le«d»^ ; .*
iafht straight to hell.
BRINGING.UP FATHER by McMaw
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Featuring Beautiful Styles in Beige, Blue and
All White Combinations
gularly. It once was not goodjtepm, and he ia.- ahro a tta«k
Queensbury etiquet for a Negro participant. He surprised the en-
boy to teat a white boy. tire group of competitors wid
[ “Joe Louis, the Brown BomibeT sportswriters at the C I A A
by his matchles sportmansh.ip and Tournattuent by holding Ken
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5 .irt
modest acceptance of victory,
has don away with the old pre-
judices, and fear ot mas® racial
dfe(turbfl|nc€8, ” he concluded.
BOB PASTOR’S jinx over the
ooffe colored lads in indeed a
thing of mystery. JtBM; when
Oo^ fans had tagged Turkey
Thompson m J'Oe Louis’s mo^
ormidable opponent, along comeB
the boy who was ^aughtered, |l>y
Louis and Comb, to upset Tnrkfey,
butehter wagon, tsk, tsk—ftdioa
Right straight
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Bi«wn, four times' CIAA heavy. RBGORiy FOR 1941
weight ehatop, to win by a slight li^i
time advantage. JemkinP shoul
step into this spot as Brown has
ended this wrestling career. Nor
folk, Virginia, is his hometown.
Jones and Fountain,
Named Hampton
HAMPTON
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14 40—N. C. CoUege
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lebkixis Leads iWrest-
lersj Elections Hdd
Last Week
BY SHAKEY STEWAEt
GMttMMi’S Shoe StOf«
FOR tfijf ENTIRE FAMILY
106 W. MAIN STREET
HAMPTON, V-.. ~ Carl Pouu-
tain and Norrece Jones, CIAA
Champions in the 145 jwund and
165 pound classes, respectively,
were elevted co oaiitains of ■. e
1942 squad of boxers at Himp-
ton and Paul Jenkins, heavy
weight, avas chosen to lead tih®
Pirates’ wresitling team in lajst
week’s elections \at the Pirate®’
atronghold in Tidewater Va
Fountain, wdio suece&sfiilly die-
fended his title at the recent
CIAA Tournament, held a* John’
son C. Smith tJniversity, is a
sophomore in the IHvision of
Agriculture, majoring , in animal
husband^. He comes from At
kins High Sdhool in Winston-
Salem. Jones , hails from Woof-
bine. New Jersey, is 4, freeman
in the Divsion of BuKineas, and
is aictive in student aetivitiea.
Without any previous knoiwle^e
df boxing, but wiflh a fightii^
heart, Jones reported to CoaA
thltton ’s initial tall and Went on
to win vthe titl-e iu his first yeer
of boxing.
Jenkins, stockily built heavy
weight westler, is a fir«t y^r
etudeat in /Wie Bricklaying I>e-
partment. .H® wm a stellar guard
on-the 1940 FreAman football
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when Sanitooc de*med. Samtoning
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