TIME'S New Sports Columnist
The following is the first in-
stallmment in a series on ath
letics at North Carolina College
and in colleges and secondary
schools througKout the areas
covered by the Carolina Times.
, Introdnciiic Leroy T. Walker
Proepective Coliunniat
According to the files of the
North Carolina College News
Bureau, Leroy T. Walker, the
Eagles’ head track cOach since
1945 is a native of Atlanta, Ga.,
who attended high school in At
lanta and in New York City.
Later he received a bachelor's
degree from Benedict College in
Columbia, S. C. He received his
master’s degree at''Columbia U.,
and he is now in process of com
pleting a dissertation for the doc
tor’s degree from New York U.
Though known in thli State
primarily for his consistent mile
relay winners and high hurdlers
in national jneets, Walker was a
successful head coach in major
sports at Benedict College,
Bishop College, and Prairie
View State College before he
came to NCC in 1945.
Principally, however, Wal
ker’s present recognition is an
outgrowth of the performance
within the past several years of
Earl Foster, the NCAA medal
ist in the 1949 competition at
Milwaukee in 1949 and of Don
ald Leek, junior national AAU
indoor 60 ydj. high hurdle cham
pion, a record conceded in Feb.
1990, and his present group of
speedsters, Lee Calhoun, Jim
Courtney, Andrew Graham, Jim
Mullins and others.
Within the past two years,
NCC’s track teams, under Wal
kers direction, have won in-
I creasing recognition in national
meets held at Washington, Phila
delphia, and New York.
'Track meets in the Old North
State among Negro colleges vir
tually had their origins here 8
years ago when Walker and Mc
Lendon of NCC successfully in
terested other Tarheel colleges
to go in suiously for track and
field mee(f at intercollegiate
levels. In 1949 the NCC aggre
gation copped the annual Caro
lina Relays, an event sponsored
and popularized by the NCC
mentors. Until 1952, however,
the fortunes of the Eagles were
often overshadowed by other
colleges. Last year, however, the
NCC cindermen copped 38 and
one hall points to lead the field
of the eight CIAA schools en
tered.
The 1952 Carolina Relays
were held the week befdre the
annual CIAA Open Track and
Field Championships at Morgan
State College in Baltimore on
Friday and Saturday May 9 and
10.
Although Morgan State Col-
lefe’s powerful harriers took the
meet with 64.33 points, the gal
lant Eagles finished second. In
doing so the Walkermen counted
four first places, two seconds
and one third to register their
best showing in the whole time
of their' participation. The big
guns for NCC last year were
Andy Graham, the South Bend,
Express, who set the only record
at the 1952 show with a fast
time of 4:23.8. Graham finished
second in the two mile event'
and Lee Calhoun, the “Gary
(Ind.) Grenade” copped the 120
and 220 high hurdles in 1952.
The Eagles’ relay team last
year, Graham, Corley HartweU
Jim Courtney, and Rudy Gittens,
gave an excellent account of
itself in several, national meets.
The 1953 NCC . cindermen,
whose exploits at the Washing
ton Star games in Washington
last Saturday, are detailed else
where on this page, promise to
bring NCC to new heights in
track and field competition.
Teams and sports enthusiasts in
this section are indeed indebted
to Coach L. T. Walker for the
contributions he has made to
track and field, specifically, and
in a more general way to an in
formative approach to basket
ball and football as well. '
Although WaBCfer has at vari
ous times been associated with
both football and basketball at
NCC, he has during the past two
years received considerable ac
claim for his pointed and an
alytical appraisals by radio of
both football and basketball
games.
Beginning next week in the
Carolina Times, L. T. Walker
will bring to the readers of this
news paper some of the up-to
the minute happenings in the
world of sports.
Trojans Rout
Shaw Gagers
PETERSBURG, VA.
The Virginia State Trojans
took their first contest of the
new year by downing the Shaw
University Bears 70-57 Tuesday
night in Daniel Gymnasium. The
win was the fourth straight in
CIAA competition for the locals.
Coach Shelton Matthews’s char
ges, playing without the service
of three regulars, put together a
classy offensive and maintained
the lead throughout. Walter
Massie, a top point getter, Ronald
Crosby, and Leonard George, all
were missing from the lineup.
Gene Hudgins and Dean
Hatcher shared scoring honors
for the Trojans with 14 apiece.
For the Shaw quint, Sam Jones
was high with 22 and Alphonso
Wilson was runner-up with 14.
jEagle Harriers Prep For Inquirer
Games; Calhoun Excels At Wash.
SATUBDAT, JAN. 17. IMS
m CAMMJirA nm
Samuel “Sad Sam” Jonea, 6,4”
sophomore forward on North
Carolina College’s baaketball
team is the Eaglea’ leading of
fensive star this season. In ad
dition to averaging better than
19 points a game, Jones la great
on rebounds, and is an effective
agent in the fancy shenanigans
that characterize some of NCC
cage Coach Floyd Brown’s of
fensive play. Jones is a native of
Laurinbnrg, N. 0.
Pendleton Signs
With Dodgers
NEW YORK
Jim Pendleton, the sensational
Negro infielder-outfielder sign
ed a ‘53 contract with the Brook
lyn Dodgers this week. With
Montreal last year, Jim compiled
a .291 average and was the In
ternational League All-Star
shortstop. It is believed that
Manager Charley Dressen will
make an outfielder of Pendleton
when he reports for spring train
ing at Vero Beach in February.
Track Coach Leroy T. Walker
and his North Carolina, College
speedsters are readying this
week for the Jan. 23 Philadel
phia Inquirer meet in Conven
tion Hall. The Eagles already
have one successful meet be
hind themj^ having picked up
two first places and a runner-up
position in last week’s Evening
Star games in Washington.
Lee Calhaun, brilliant 19 -year
old high hurdler from Gary,
Ind., won the Evening Star’s In
vitational 70 Yard High hurdles.
Qualifying in the record time of
8.6, the wing-footed Eagle clock
ed in the finals at 8.5, only two
tenths of a second over Dick
Attlelsey’s world record of 8.3.
Andrew Graham, like Cal
houn a sophomore at NCC, won
going away in the 880 yard run
in the good time of 1:58.5. Gra
ham, a native of South Bend,
Ind., successfully defended his
last year’s championship as he
ran ahead of John Blood of the
Pennsylvania AtMetic Club, and
Bruce Dodd of the University of
Pennsylvania.
The NCC harriers placed
second behind Morgan State Col
lege in the CIAA mile relay.
Running in the Eagles’ maroon
and gray colors were James
Courtney, Washington, D. C., so
phomore; Calhoun; James Mull
ins, Brooklyn, N.Y. sophomore,
and Graham. The Morgan crew
broke'-NCC’s old mile record in
the time of 3:29.8. Howard Uni
versity’s foursome placed after
NCC.
Perhaps the greatest personal
triumph for Coach Walker, now
entering his eighth year as head
NCC track coach, was the per
formance of the speedy Calhoun
who defeated Olympic star Milt
Campbell of the Plainfield, N.J,
AC, and Art Bernard of the U. S.
Navy’4 Olympics team. Calhoun
not only posed out these world-
famed stars who trailed in their
spei;i^ty but he also ran out
front ahead of his cross-town
Durham neighbor, Joel Shankle
of Duke University.
Now in his eighth year as
head track coach at NCC, Wal
ker has been instrumental in
elevating the Eagles into a pro
minent rank among college har-
riersi His tracksters are sche-
duleq tentatively to participate
in tile South Atlantic Meet in
Baltijnore, Md., on Feb. 7, at
the National AAU in Madison
Square Garden, New York City,
N. Y., on February 14, and at
the New York Athletic Club
MeeVon February. 28.
Union Faces
NCC Monday
The Union University’s 1952
championship basketball team
comes to Durham Monday night,
Jan. 19, to play Floyd Brown’s
up-and-coming North Carolina
College quint.
The Panthers are a veteran
group of basketeers who are
playing together this season the
kind of fast and slick ball hand
ling that carried them to con
ference crown last year.
Spectators who have seen the
"Eagles play this season say the
“Brown system” of Eagle Coach
Floyd Brown is paying off al
ready,
Using a series of set plays that
feature smooth ball handling
and sure shots, the starting Eagle
five of Charles Harrison, Charles
McCullough, Fred McClaren,
Samuei Jones, and Charles Bar-
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