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Brooklyn Dodgers’ Shift Marks Entry Of
A few last words about basketball. The rules commit- Dressen may be able to stick to his move. If there are short- domination of the sprints has continu^ Althoueh Jesst
A few last words about basketball. The rules commit
tee decided to let the present b&ketball rules stand for the
coming season and no major changes were made. Certainly
will be a relief to Mr. and Mrs. Fan to begin the season next
year with some knowledge about what is happening.
We still have with us the one-plus-one foul rule which
was discussed and cursed during the past season (a second
free throw if the first is missed). According to a research
project conducted iy Professor James F. Welter of Le Moyne
College, games have been lengthened by less than three min
utes as a result of the one-plus-one peiudty. Now this mini
mum increase of playing time may be due to a reduction of
the number of fouls committed. At any rate, this statistical
study revepled that games were lengthened by 55 seconds to
tw6 minutes, 57 seconds. This certainly was not an ap
preciable increase. But didn’t the game still seem longer to
you?
Spring SporU Take Over
Spring is here! With it has come an all out effort in
track, baseball and tennis. The big leaguers have started
playing their way back home, and to date the Gilliam-Cox-
Robinson incident has not been investigated by McCarthy
and very definitely does not seem to be the result of a NAA-
CP suit for FEPC adherence.
Nobody seems to understand Dressen’s move to bench
Cox, the league’s best fielding third baseman. I don’t either.
But as a coach, I defend his right to do so. Assuming, of
course, that maybe Jackie Robinson should be in a spot which
requires less movement in all directions plus reducing the ex
posure to the hazzards of the double play. Jackie admits that
the younger Gilham can get balls which he can no longer
get. If Jackie and Gilliam can eliminate all the “Ifs”—(1)
If Gilliam can perfect the double play pivot, (2) if Gilliam
can hit at least .275, (3) if Gilliam can utilize his great speed
and switch-hitting as a lead-off advantage, (4) if Jackie can
approximate Cox as a glove man at the hot comer—then
m
mnv DODOm ‘DP* CXMIBO—The senntioD of the tprinc leaion
•t the Brooklyn Dodxen tralaior oMip in MiMni li Junior OUliam,
who ousted star Xaekie Robinaon from hit leoond bate spot Junipr ia
DOW hooked up with fete Wee Reeae (lefO in the now double play
oombination, with speed and powerftal iiands hla main assets. (News-
|MM Photo.)
Dressen may be able to stick to his move. If there are short
comings, I suppose he will go back to the reliable combina
tion of Cox-Reese-Robinson-Hodges, or Brooklyn will invite
Hogan over.
Monte Iryin, who rebounded after that streptococcus
infection from a scratch in high school basketball which near
ly floored him, will show that old form after the broken
ankle accident.
CIAA baseball got off to a flying start at NCC. The
Whaley-coached “Eagles” defeated Shaw in a practice game
11 to 5. College baseball should be encouraged. The young- onds.
domination of the sprints has continued! Although Jesse
Owens equaled the record in 1936 in. Berlin and Harrison
Dillard did likewise at the 1948 games in London, Tolan’s
record has not been excelled. From the time at Jesse Owens’
uni^alled performance in 1935 t Ann Arbor where he set
two world’s record (20.3 in the 220 and 26 ft. 8Vfc in. in the
broad jump) and equalled a third (9.4 in the 100 yard dash),
the tan stars have reigned in the sprints. A long succession
was temporarily broken in 1948 by Mel Patton of California,
present holder of 9.2 seconds and the 200 record of 20.2 sec-
sters need to leam the right way of doing the niany different
skills in baseball.
The Track Outlook
For two decades the tan thin-clads have dominated na
tional and international competition in track events up to
and including the half-mile (880), the broad jump and until
recently, the high jump. For the past decade one man has
dominated the hurdles.
Since Eddie Tolan set his 100 meter dash world’s record
(10.3s.) at the Olympic games of 1932 at Los Angeles, the
Harrison “Bones” Dillard has practically owned the
hurdles races, as has Mai Whitfield of the 880 and George
Rhoden the 440.
Whether or not the present crop of collegians can still
hold their own in big leagfie running remains to be seen. Lee
Calhoun of North Carolina College, runner-up to Dillard in
the Senior Natiomil A. A. U. hurdles, Charles Pratt and Man
hattan and Van Bruner of Michigan must assume the lead
among the timber-toppers. Don Wheeler of Iowa who has
turned in a 1 min. 51 sec. half mile, looks like the best bet to
hold on at that distance. Art Bragg of Morgan, Bill Wil-
Voorhees Tops Friendship, &S9,
To Win SAAC Cage Ctiampionship
DENI^RK, S. C.
The Voorhees Tigers defeated
Friendship College, Rock Hill,
65-59 in the SAAC basketball
tournament final, to cop the
conference tournament title. The
Tigers had already won the
regular season championship.
The thriUer saw the lead
change hands repeatedly and the
score tied several times during
the second half. Voorhees pulled -final game, - was awarded the
ahead In the last three minutes.
Friendship led by one point at
the end of the first hall, and it
was all tied up as the third
quarter closed.
The Voorhees girls’ team du
plicated the Tigers' accomplish,
ment, winning the women’s cup
over Friendship in a 31-29 final.
The Tigerettes helped to make
it a clean sweep lor Voorhees,
having previously Won the sea
son title also.
Thomas Robinmn, lorward, of
Nashville, Tenn., who accounted
lor 22 ol Voorhees' points in the
National Meet
OnT^ecreation
At Hampton
HAMPTON
The fourth annual conference
of the National Intramural and
Recreational Association will be
held on the campus of Hampton
Institute, April 3 and 4.
This is the first year that the
inference has invited represen
tatives of secondary schools to
meet with them, announced
H. N. Neilson, chairman of tiie
Hampton Physical Education
Department, who is planning the
program.
Two key-note addresses will
be centered in the theme ol the
session; “Better Administrative
Relationships.” Paul Cieurzo
ol the University ol Rhode Is
land will speak Friday morning
and Charles H. Williams, retired
Physical Education Director of
Hampton Institute, In the after
noon.
The thirty delegates will meet
in six sections: Relationships
with Mr. William Wasson, presi.
dent ol the group, as chairman
and Mr. Rod Grambeau ol the
University ol Mlmhigan as con
sultant;
Financing with Alvin Brown
as chairman, and C. H. Williams
as consultant; Facilities and
Equipment with W. A. Parris as
chairman and Edwin B. Hender
son, Director of Washington, D.
C., iPublic Schools, as consul,
tant;
Awards and Point . Systems
with Mrs. Mary K. Bennett of
Hampton Institute and Miss C.
Perry of Howard University as
co-chairman, and Mr. Paul
Cieurzo as consultant;
Activities and Conduct with J.
Morrow as chairman and Dr. H.
K. Jach, Supervisor, Virginia
Department of Education, and
Mr. Marshall Brown, Assistant,
Virginia Department of Educa
tion, as consultants;
Student
Gideon E.
Institute as chairman and 1%.
Raymond Hopson of North
Carolina College, as consultant.
most valuable tournament play,
er trophy among the men, and
M. Leyde, guard on the Friend
ship team, won the correspon
ding award among the girls.
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“ON THE CORNER”
CHAPEL HILL AND ‘FOSlDil STREETS
STILLi FRIENDS—In this exclnsive picture, Jackie Robinson,
probable third baseman of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and Billy Cox,
probable ex-third baseman of the team, are shown shaking hands
in their Florida Spring training club house. The move quelled
rumors of dissension in the Dodger ranks, because Robinson is due
to replace the best third baseman in major league ball to make
way for Junior Gilliam at second. (NEWSPRESS PHOTO).
Dodger Brass
Stiding With
Gilliam Yet
VERO BEACH, FLA.
The Brooklyn brass is stick
ing with Junior Gilliam for 2nd
base this Tear despite the dis
turbance the sensational young
ster liad inadvertently caused
to the older Dodger stars. Both
and Manager Chuck Dressen be-
Vice-President Buzzy Bavasl
lieve Gilliam will “stick” with
the club not only because of his
habit of getting hits in the
clutch.
"He may not hit a lot but he'll
get the hit that will win the
close game,” explained Bavasi,
Added Dressen in absolute
Leadership with I agreement; "That's what the
Smith of Hampton I Montreal manager tells me he
does. He won’t do a thing in a
game you’re' wirming 8-0, but
he'll get the big hit in a one-
run game. That’s what he did
against the Phils and the Yanks,
remember?”
So for these sound reasons,
2nd base is for Gilliam until he
proves otherwise.
Aggies To Play
Howard In First
CIAA Tussle
GREENSBORO
The A. and T. Aggies l^seball
team, defending champions, take
on Tom Johnson’s Howard Uni
versity nine here at Greensboro
Stadium next Monday, April 6
in their llrst conlerence engage
ment ii) the current campaign.
Felix Harris, Aggie mentor,
announced late this week that
eitheer, Eugene Tappacott with a
3-0 win record lor last season or
Earl Richards, 1-0, would get
the pitching assignment lor this
important engagement. The star
ting time has been set lor 2:00
P. M.
Richard A Des Vemey, sales
man for the Miller Brewing
company, was in Durham lost
week during a part of his two-
weeks tour of North Carolina
for the Brewing company. Af
ter leaving the Tar Heel state,
Vemey is scheduled to spend
one week at Atlanta and another
two weeks at Jacksonville and
Miami, Fla-. A Veteran salesman
of five years in the brewing
business, Vemey said that the
Miller Brewing company is fol
lowing the line of other major
breweries in integrating Negroes
into jobs at all Iwels in the In
dustry.
Shaw Nine
Will Meet
Eleven Foes
RALEIGH
Shaw University's diamond
Bears will meet eleven foes this
season, hine of them CIAA op
ponents.
The Bears will play six teams
during April and wind up the
campaign with five more hi
May.
Two meetings with the Eliza
beth City Pirates, one here and
the other at Elizabeth City, are
the only non-conference tilts
the Shaw nine will play this
season. They meet the Pirates in
the first encounter on May 2 at
Elizabeth City and play them a
reteurn match here on May 13.
Conference schedule is as fol
lows; 
April; 2, Howara University,
Raleigh; &, St. Augustine's Col
lege, Raleigh; 11, North Caro
lina College, Raleigh; 18, Win
ston-Salem Teachers College,
Raleigh; 24, Winston Salem
Teachers College', Winston-Sa
lem; 25, A. and T. College,
Greensboro.
May; 2, Elizabeth City'Teach
ers College, Elizabeth City; 5,
Howard University, Washington,
D.C.; 13, Elizabeth City Teach
ers College, Raleigh; 16, A. and
T. College, Raleigh; and 18,
North Carolina College, Dur
ham.
Giant Rookie
Is Impressive
PHOENIX, Ariz
The Giants’ newly acquired
Cuban pitcher, Ruben Gomez,
certainly impressed the St. Louis
Browns’ manager, Mary Marion.
Marion thought the rookie had
the stuff to win in the majors.
Knights Of
Meet Here
The J. C. Price Lodge Number
100 will be host to the regional
meeting of the Knights of Py-
thian here Monday, April 6, at
the First Calvary Baptist Church
on the comer of Morehead Ave.,
and Kent Street.
More than 28 surbordinate
Lodges are expected to send at
least two delegates. These Lod-
section of North and which is
ges are located in the western
known as region two. Also in
attendance will be Deputies and
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Spring Sports
liams oHlIinois, Ira Murchison of Iowa should take to where
Andy Stanfield, Jim Golliday and company left off in the
sprints. The race is widen open in the 440. Rhcxlen’a 45.8
in the 400 seem safely out of reach of the present coU^pans.
Eddie Hurt of Morgan is sure to come up with some
threats, but right now he can only point to Bra^.
Watch the results of the Seton.Hall Relay April 17-18
and the Penn Relays and Drake Relays April 24-25. These
will usually give an indication of the threats for the nation
als. (NCAA, and AAU). „
* Sidelightt
Milt Campbell, Plainfield, New Jersey scholastic sensa
tion, is Indiana bound. Campbell, an Olympic dacathlon star,
was also a national all-scholastic footballer and quite a bfu-
ketball performer. I join the ranks of the 60 add coaches
whose overtures failed.
Box Score Of Distances To 880
100 Yards—Mel Patton—1948—9.3s—CIAA record; 9.5;
100 meters—’Eddie Tolan—1932, •Harrison Dillard—1948
—10.3s, *Jessie Owens—1936; 220 Yards—Mel Patton—1949
—20.2s—-CIAA record. 21.3; 200 Meters—‘Jesse Owens—
1936—20.7s; 400 Yards—‘Herbert McKenley—1948—46 flat
—CIAA Record; 47 flat; 400 Meters—‘George Rhoden—1950
—45.8s; 880 Yards—*Mal Whitfield—1950—1:49.2s—CIAA
Record; 1.53.9; Sidney Wooderson i Britain)—1938; 800
Meters—Rudolph Harbig (Germany)—1938—1:46.6s; 800
Meters (Olympic)—‘Mai Whitfield—1948—l;49.2s; 120
High Hurdles—Dick Attlesby—1950—13,5s—CIAA Record;
14.5; 110 Meter Hurdles—Dick Attlesby—1950—13.6s, ‘Har
rison Dillard—1948; 220 Yard Low Hurdles—‘Harrison Dil
lard—1947—22.3s—CIAA Record; 24.3.
Camp Happy:
No Knife
VERO BEACH, FLA.
Roy Campanella, who hates
the sight of a hospital, was real-
Iv gladdened by the news that
1^ may not have to undergo
surgery for treatment of a back
side fissure. Doctors hope they
can treat him with just medicine
and not have to put him through
an o^ration.
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JOB*S MOB. BACK ON THE JOB—Jersey Joie b«w \m
the final itafet of tralnliiK for hU he»vywei|pht title ficht with Bocicy
MareiABO on April 10th Mi Chiears • welcome visit from his mMi-
ager In thwr Pleasantville« K. J. camp recently. Felix Bocchiccki^
shown bandaginr Joe’s mitts, was stricken with a heart attack sereral
weeks a»o, and had Jast retnraej to “work'' and take charce.
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Old "Satch" Blanks^iants
Despite Leo's Watchful Eye
PHOENIX, Ariz.
As ole Satchel Paige blanked
thee Giants for two final innings
and thus wraped up a 6-5 win for
the St. Louis Browns, Leo Du-
rocher, manager of the Giants
kept a careful eye on Satch’s
pitches.
“The first pitch he threw to
Irvin was a spitter and I scream
ed,” recounted Leo. “I told him
he wouldn’t get away with an
other. He kept trying, monkey
ing around with those hands and
later on I spotted that he had
one loaded for Gilbert. I yelled
at Warneke (umpire) to throw
the ball out without looking at
it—it was loaded’’.
"Satch' I said to him, ‘take
it easy. It’s only spring.training.’
“He came back; ‘Durocher,
don’t you ever take your eyes
off a man?”
And as Satch closed the door
on a possible Giant uprising, Leo
added: “He's great, simply
great.”
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