SATUEDAY. FEB. 4, IW. TBE CAKOLPiA 1IM« TMMMW
Calhoun Seeking Millrose Victory
Do Or Die Contests
Face NCC Quintet
North Carolina College’s fast-
improving but yet unpredictable
cage team faces a trio of “do or
die” games on their home court
here early next week, the out
comes of which may well deter
mine if Coach Floyd Brown’s
CIAA entry will become the
first NCC team In history to fail
to make the conference tourna
ment.
Early this week, the Eagles
held a shaky tie of fourth
place In the eonference, bat
they most hurdle some the
hottest CIAA teams before
ending the Mason.
Surprise winners over Wip-
ston-Salem, 60-50, last Satur
day, the Eagles were scheduled
to get a breather from the wUd
scramble for tournament berths
this week-end in two non-con
ference tilts.
On Friday night, they faee
B. D. Moore’s South Carolina
Siate Tigers. On the follow
ing evening, they will play an
alumni aggregatlMi of f«Hwer
McLendon stars. S«me of the
Ex-NCC fast break luminaries
to see action for the alumni
squad are Ernest “Hands”
Warlick, Troy Weaver, George
“Hunky” Oreen, Benny Diz
and Harold “Wild Man” Hun
ter.
But on Monday, the Eagles
will get back to the grim busi
ness of nailing down a berth in
the tournament in a contest with
Morgan State. After finishing
with coach T. L. (Marse) Hill’s
Baltimore boys, they will face
Union University’s ever dan
gerous t^am on Thursday, and
on Saturday, the A. and T.
Aggies in what should be a
"natural.”
The Eagle* were surprised
by the A. and T. five in the
Aggies own lair recently, and
they are itching to get re
venge over the Greensboro
team for the loss. ’This, plus
the drive for the tournament.
BOtL CIIY TOUCNAMENI SET
FOR DUKHAM FEBRUARY 16
Durham will be the scene
again this year of the seventh
playing of the Bull City
Tournament, it was an-,
nounced here early this week
by W. T. Grandy, business
manager for the tourney.
Some eight high school
teams from Durham and sur
rounding counties will offer
three days of exciting play
In the single elimination
event, scheduled for HiUside
high school auditorium.
The tournament will get un
derway Thursday, February
10, with the first round games
being reeled off beginning at
1:30 in the afternoon.
Raleigh’s J. W. Ligon high
will make its fbM appearance in
the tournament this year, and
its presence is expected to add
much in the way of local inter
est.
Also returning to the tourna
ment this year after an absence
of two to three years wUl be
Chapel Hill, Burlington, and
Hillsboro.
Others teams rouriding out
the tournament are Roxboro,
Littl River, Merrick-Moore and
Hillside.
Pairings for the tournament
were also announced this week.
Hillside and J. W. Ligon high
square off in the final game of
the first round which should
prove a “natiltal.” Other first
round games will see Little Rlv
er meeting Hillsboro, Roxboro
facing Chapel Hill and Merrick-
Moorc taking on Burlington.
Bemi-finals will start Friday,
Feb. 17, at 4:45 and the finals
and consolation will get under
way Saturday at 8:15.
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A near-capacity crowd wit
nessed the fourth place Eagles
battle with the Rams. For some
seven and one lialf minutes,
Floyd Brown’s charges held the
vistors scoreless. At halftime,
the Eagles were out front 43-24.
Playing superb defensive ball,
the Eagles held the Rams to
their lowest overall scoring of
the season.
Four of Brown’s boys con
nected in the double column.
They were Carlton “Ding
Dong” Bell, high point man
with 17; James “Chip” Sllgh,
16; Charley Badger, 12; and
Oil Riley, II.
Larry Harrison and Wilfred
John scored 10 and 11 points
respectively for the visitors.
Winning over Winston-Sa
lem put the Eagle* back Into
their see-saw bid tor a berth-
In the eight-team cage tour
ney in Durham on Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday, Feb.
23-25.
NortiK Carolina. (]Mleg«’«
prospects of taking part in
the 11th annual CIAA Bas
ketball Tournament on the
Eagles’ home court in Dur
ham during February are
brightening with the increas
ingly impressive perform-
mees oi the dub’s sparitplugj:
James ‘Chlp” SUgh, Win
ston-Salem junior guard.
Shootog an average of a
dozen baskets a game, Sligh
is also a strong asset to the
team’s defensive play. Out
of action during 1955, Sligh
and the Eagles hope to keep
the NCC squad’s record of
playing in every tournamenf.
The CIAA’s top eight t—tns
will meet in tournament com
petition at NCC Feb. 23-25.
NCC plays S. C. State in Dur
ham on Feb. 3 and the NCC
Alumni, Feb. 4.
Edwin Amos, the CIAA’s
leading scorer, may not be in
action during 11th tourna
ment activities, Feb. 23-25,
but he seems headed for im
portant consideration as one
of the loop’s leading point
makers in recent years.
Amos on Jan. 21 was aver
aging SMne 26.7 tallies per
-contest. He had netted on that
date some 322 points, 119
field goals and 83 free throws.
A junior from Baltimore,
Amos is Coach Ben Whaley’s
ace netter for 1956.
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Grambling High
Scoring Ace
Holds Eleven
NCAA Records
By COLLIE J. NICHOLSON
GRAMBtiNG, LA.
In a suddent outburst of can
dor Friday, Coach Eddie Robin
son tilted back in his office chair
and called Robert Hopkins “the
greatest all-around college baS'
ketball player in the game.”
For Robinson, a fatalist to
the core, this imprmiptu
phrase was long over^-due.
If, perchance, you have never
heard of Hopkins, he’s the All-
American pivot at Grambling
College and the game’s most
prolific scorer.
An improbable looking six-
nine giant — completely un
touched by rave press notices
—he has scored 3,426 points in
115 games.
“Li’l Abner’s” total is 467
points higher than any other
player in history.
Mel Levitt, sports director of
WDSC-TV in New Orleans
calls him “the country’s finest
looking professional prospect.”
Marion Jackson, sports editor
of the Atlanta Daily World, has
Ram Win Over
Broncos Sparks
Tar Heel Play
A victory by Winston-Salem
over Fayetteville hi^lighted ac
tion on the CIAA Tar Heel bas
ketball for last week as the con
ference race entered the closing
stages.
In other games during the
week, A. and T. pulled a trick
that hadn’t been accomplished
since 1951 when they defeated
North Carolina College, 68-61,
and Shaw came from behind to
topple Johnson C. Smith, 68-50.
The Lilly gymnasium in Fay
etteville was the scene of the
Tuesday, Jan. 24, battle be
tween two of the conference’s
new giants, the fast breaking
Fayfetteville five and Winston-
Salem’s highly regarded team.
The twin city Rams came out
on the long end of a close 79-73
count.
Paced by the steady shooting
of Ronald Kilpatrick and Ron
ald Evans and the all-round per
formance of team captain Roose
velt Wright, the Broncos held a
three advantage at intermission
in the Giants versus Gaines tiff.
But, coach “Big House”
Goines’ well balanced Winston-
Salem team pulled away from
the tiring Fayetteville quint in
the last period and outlasted a
last minute surge by Fayetteville
to notch the win. Winifred John
shared scoring honors with Fay
etteville’s Kilpatrick. Elach bag
ged 23 points.
On the following night, Wed
nesday, January 24, coach Cal
Irvin”s A. and T. College Aggies
did something no A. and T. cage
team has done in the past four
yeai;s, take a contest from the
NCC Ingles. The 68-61 victory
set off a demonstration by
Gr^nsboro fans in the Moore
gymnasium which lasted a full
thirty minutes.
The battle was pretty well
even for most of the game as
the 2 teams matched each othe^
point for point. The losers pull
ed out to a 10-point lead about
five^utes of the g«me scor- «uoi»mK
, togj^e-straii^ points wWle> the report, the body f«t that
hoMing the Aggies scoreless
The Aggies pulled the identical
stunt just before the end of the
half and reduced the deficit to
one single point leaving the
Eagles with a 32-31 lead at in
termission.
At the three-minute mark, the
point lead to a margin of three
at the score of 50-56, but the lo
cals pulled themselves together,
regaining the nine-points with a
lead at 65-56 with just a minute
to go, more than enough to win
the ball game.
Over at the capital city on
Saturday night, the Shaw Uni
versity cagers came from l>ehind
to toppel Johnson C. Smith, 68-
50. !
The Bears spotted the Golden^
Bulls a ten point, 28-18 halftime
lead, and came on in the second
half to win going awa^. For
ward Bill Murphy paced the
Bears with 17 points.
labeled him "a small-college
center with big-time talent.”
He insists that Hopkins pn-
forms each task with artistic
refinement.
Remarkably coordinated for
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TwoOAer
Indoor Eveiris
On Tap For Star
Lee Calhoun, North CaroUm
Colleges brilliant Ugb hardiw
ace, win participate to flw «■»-
nual MilhroK Games in Madtaow
Square Garden, Saturday
February 4, this newspaper
learned.
LEE CALHOUN
High School Body Fails To Adopt
Proposed Changes At Meeting
RALEIGH
With more than one hundred
and twenty schools in attend
ance, the North Carolina Negro
High School Athletic Associa
tion held one of the most iiar-
monius sessions of its long ca
reer at the Ligon Senior High
School in Raleigh, Saturday,
January 21st, with President H.
S. Blue of ^e Reid School of
Belmont presiding. After iiear-
ing the reports of the various
committees sent out at a pre
vious meeting and commending
the committee members for
their work the body went into
these reports detail. ^
The body failed to adopt a
change in the present classifica
tion system of schools as had
'been outlined by a committee
headed by J. W. Twitty of Cher-
ryville. Although not adopting
more study should t>e given the
problem and the committee was
continued for further work. A
report recommending the for
mation of a Certification Board
of Officials for the liigh schools
of the state in all sports and ac-
„ , . J J, , . , _ cepted and a committee was to
Eagles had reduced an Aggie 9^ w p. ...i i.Mt
.TTu apponrted by the^ President
to work out the details for the
formation of such board. The
Association also voted to con
tinue to pay basketball officials*
the standard fee as outlined by
the Commissioner. _ ' •
The Commissioner’s report
showed no violations by mem
ber schools and only on school
had been reprimanded for er
roneously placing a student’s
name on its eligibility sheets
when that student was not
punished but warned that this
type of thing could lead to
serious trouble. The Commis
sioner also reported on his find
ings in the case of Gumberry
High School. He had found that
Gumberry was not in violation
Qf the organization’s constitu
tion nor of the State Code and
that his recommendation was
that Gumberry should be given
a clean slate. The vote on this
recommendation was unanimous
with two abstentions.
On recommendation of the
Commissioner, one liasketball
official was barred from ever
officiating games in North Caro
lina where the Association’s
teams were involved. Circum
stances surrounding ttiis dis
barment were explained to the
conference members.
It was announced that bas
ketball playoffs would be held
at Rocky Mount, Goldslx>ro,
Hamlet, Edenton, and Southern
Pines again this year in the
Eastern Division, and that tiie
centers in the Waat.iyffuld be at
Winston-Salem, Sklilbury, Gas
tonia, and Morganton. The finals
in all divisions will be held at
the N. C. College in Durham
March 8, Oj and 10. The Center
playoffs and Finals will be un
der the direct supervision of the
State Athletic Association.
Tennis and Track meets will
be held again in Durham during
the months of April and May. In
the final action of the day foot
ball schedules for the confer
ence as prepared by the Com
missioner’s office were accepted
and distributed.
Six new schools were admitted
to membership and a^ officers
were re-elected for a period of
one year. The conference voted
to supported fully Frank Bur
nette’s request from the North
Carolina Shriners to stage an
All-Star football game in 1956
for the benefit of the Under
privileged Boys’ Camp being
established by tiUs group in
North Carolina.
Wiaaer et tbrcc
eveats, tecladiag fawt Batar-
day’s BaatMi AA 4S yai4
Ugh hardies. Calhaa sa4
Us coaek, L. T. Walker, arc
scheduled t* eater ttc NTAC
meet oa Febmary 11, aad tke
NatioaaJ Seaior AAV rmmmi
in New Tork aa Febraary IS.
Calhoun won hi* third major
indoor event of the teaaoa at
Boston AAU meet, as he took
the 45 yard high hurdle in 5.6,
two point over the world and
meet records of 9.4. Harrison
“Bones” Dillard, who had won
the event for the past 10 years,
strained a muscle in the ^uali^-
ing heat and was unable to com
pete in the finals.
He prerioasly waa tke la-
qairer 5t yard timber tnyptag
event at PUladelphla last frt-
day aight la the world-reeaad
tying time t.$. Latar, an
Saturday night at tke Star
meet in Washington, NCC
harrier copped the 7t yard
hardle event in aaother w^d-
record tyiag time ^ t.S.
For his feat in wrestling Dil
lard’s laurels, Calhoun received
the coveted Hillman Trophy.
Dillard made a Aort state
ment to the ciwwd and saM
he regretted the torn InA
tiiat pat him ant of eampsil-
tion, bat he told the erawd te
waa snre they’d see a gaaJ
race.
Others finisliing the hurdle
event with Calhoun, in order,
were: Charley Pratt, the NCAA
champion, second; Louis Knight,
Manhattan College, third; and
Rod Perry, Penn State, fourth.
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Abt)ot Award Begun As Group
Honors Rickey, Robinson, Reese
ATLANTA, GA.
Branch Rickey termed “base
ball’s statesman,” admitted in an
address here last Friday eve
ning that he spent $25,000 as
head of the Brooklyn Dodgers
only to leam tliat “the greatest
Negro players were in our own
country.”
Rickey ,now board chairman
and advisor to the Pittsburgh
Pirates, told a sports audi
ence that before he hired
Jackie Robinson he spent
$25,000 in scouting the Car-
ribean countries, Puerto Eico,
Cuba and Mexico, ’The elder
statesman of baseball was hon-
oree on the occasion of The
100 Per Cent Wrong dab’s
21st Annual Sports Jamboree.
With Rickey, the recipient of
"The Pioneer Award,” were al
so honored Jackie Robinson and
Pee Wee Reese, stars otthe Dod
gers, who received companion
awards designated as “The Two
Friends Award.” Jackie took
the citation for Pee Wee who
was unable to be in Atlanta for
the event.
An “Athlete of the Tear*’ a-
ward was launched in memory
of the late Cleve Abbott, Tas-
kegee Institute, with the 19SS
recipient being Bay Bobiason
of boxing fame. John Sample,
Maryland State College All-
American halfback, was cited
as “Player of the Tear,” while
Grambling College was de
clared the 1955 iatereollegiate
Florida Cagers
Defeat Tigers
By 86^ Score
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.
Leroy (Spike) Gitwion, freah-
man shooting ace from Talla-
hasse, dropped in 21 points
Tuesday night as the Florida- A
and M University Rattlers de
feated the 'Tuskegee (Ala.) In
stitute Tigers 86-60 in the lo
cals’ gymnasium.
(The Rattlers who were beat
en 65-60 by Morris Brown
Monday night, led 40-32 at the
half. Leo Morgan, of Columbus,
Otiio, tallied IS points to earn
second place scaring honors fOr
A and M.
Thomas Lamplcins, of East
man, Ga., and Solomon Frazier,
of Savannah, Ga., each hit for
12 points to tie for scoring
honors for Tuskegee.
football champions.
Coach Eddie Robinson of
Grambling received the “Coach
of the Year” notice and carried
back to Louisiana The William
A. Scott, II Memorial Trophy,
awarded to his team, ^ well as
the coach’s honor. Dr. Waiter S.
Davis, president of Tennessee
A. and I. State University, re
ceived the “Citizen of the Year”
mention.
In Atlanta as special gaests
of WORLD Sports Editor Blar-
ion E. Jackson were three
yoang players who may be
considered a part of “the
Rickey Dream come trae.”
They were Elston Howard,
New York Yankees, Braoks
Lawrence and Tom Alston, as
well as othw persons from all
sectioas the natloa were al
so present.
Early in tlie program, Dr.
Rufus E. Clement, president of
Atlanta University, who pre
sided, read a large number of
telegrams having l>een direct^
to Rickey by his colleagues in
the baseball field. Such messages
of commendation were received
from Baseball Cqmmissioner
Ford Frick, heads of the two
major league as well as minor
and international circuits.
Welcoasea to the aeeaslaa
were made by C. A. Scott,
WORLD editor-pabUsher, City
Coancilmaa Hoarard Wood for
Mayor WUliaaa B. HartafMd
of AtUata, C. C. Dejaie, pnal-
Morgan Starts
Dixie Tour
BALTIMORE, MD.
The Morgan State CoUege
baskett>all squad begins this
week e. 4-game Southern tour
which may l>e decisive in Mor
gan’s final standing for the sea
son in CIAA competition.
:With a six-four record to
date, the quintet tackles Vir
ginia Union University in Rich
mond, Va., Friday, January 27,
returning here for a breather
tliat will be broken again on
February 4 when the Bears
take on Fayetteville Collega in
Vayetteville, N. C.
The other two games on the
tour will be North Carolina
College at Durham on Fabruarr
6 and A and T CoUega at
Greensboro, N. C.. on February
7.
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