Ford Frick Remains Controversial
Subject To Many Players, Writers
NEW YORK
It is true, as one baseball
player put It, that “what’s good
for the club owners is good for
Frick!”? Or has the hard-to-dls-
courage, -factual, undramatic
commissioner of baseball been
an asset to the game, deserving
of another seven-year contract
at $69,000 per year?
These are among the ques
tions asked as Sport magazine
takes a thorough-going look at
Ford Frick, former baseball
writer, former National League
prexy, now top man in the na
tional pastime.
Digesting the returns of
queries put out. Sport gets the
impression that the club owners
love him (Frick), the ballplay-i
ers suspect hbn and the writers
belt him. Yet, on the whole, the
feeling appears to be that Frick
has done a satisfactory, if not a
smash job, "under the clrciun-
stances."
It’s the “circumstances” that
columnist Joe Williams, who
penned the story for Sport, del
ves into at great length, coming
up with a well-rounded story
on Frick the man as he faces
the varying elements of a base
ball world in somewhat of a
turmoil. —
WATCH THAT BOY
By HENRY W. GILLIS
District Scout Executive
On To Fort Bragg
On Saturday morning 63 Cub
Scouts and 24 Adult Leaders
and parents from Durham tour
ed Pope Air Force Base at Ft.
Bragg.
Arrival time was 10:00. We
went directly to the Air Force
Hangers to begin sightseeing.
Here we met with the officers
in charge and the non-commis
sioned officers, who were to
lead different groups of Cubs
and parents from the flightiine.
We toured and saw the fire
house (different from our fire
stations back home)' and the
men demonstrated how they put
out burning planes. All this was
true action. Then the Flying
Box Cars, where all the Cubs
and adults got a chance to, go in
the cockpit and see how the
pilot operates an airplane.
They saw and were told
about parachute rigging, crash
demonstration, weather and ra
dio station and Fort Bragg fea
tures. These were most interes
ting to the Cubs and more so to
Mothers of the boys that went
with us.
Next on the list was dinner.
Air Force busses carried us to
the Mess Hall (Kitchen to you).
The Cubs ate and ate, then left
the mess hall and bought mora
cold drinks and cookies.
Cub Packs an4l Leaders at
tending were as following: Pack
100, Mt. Calvary Baptist Chur
ch, Bahama, Mrs. Alease Wat
son, Den-Mother, John M. Par
ker, Cubmaster, W. S. Evans,
James L. Moffitt, Chairman of
Cub Pack Committee and 8
Cubs.
Pack 149, Mt. Zion Baptist
Church, Mrs. M. F. Kearney,
Den-Mother and E. L. Kearney,
Cubmaster, with 12 Cubs.
Pack 166, St. John Baptist
Church, Mrs. Ollie White and
Mrs. Ella Thomas Den-Mothers,
Junious Blakes, Cubmaster and
16 Cub Scouts. Other adult lea
ders and parents were Charlie
Gray, Mrs. Blakes, Mrs. Harris,
Mrs. Smith, J. P. White and
James W. Perry.
Pack 148, McDougald Terrace
Project, James Womble, Cub
master, C. C. Cobb, Jr., Institu
tional Representative and 19
Cub Scouts. Other adults were
Daniel McArthur, Mrs. Rachel
Jones, Mrs. Clay, Mr. and Mrs.
Julian Perry.
Pack 55, White Rock Baptist
Church, N. B. White, leader and
2 Cub Scouts. Our next big
week will be for the Explorer
Scouts in August when they
take the Navy Cruses in the
Atlantic Ocean. Will you be
one? Until next week*, Henry.
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Georgia Clark, a Florida A
and M University co-ed from
Fort Lauderdale, receives some
expert advice in the art of
marble shooting from Walter
Brooks, New Jersey state cham
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Hard Work, Planning By Coach
Behind Hurdler’s Big Triumphs
notional meet which was held
in Tallahassee recently. Looking
on is James Newhon, left, of
Bloomington, Indiana, the In
diana champ, and James Thom
of Tallahassee, the Florida
champion.
Grambling Nabs Two Most
Highly Touted Schoolboy Cagers
GRAMBLING, La.
Howard Willis and Charles
“Zeke” Love, two of the area’s
most sought-after high school
cagers, have signed grant-in-aid
basketball scholarships to at
tend Grambling College.
Both are all-staters with more
than enough all-around versa
tility to attract the general ap
proval of Tiger cage fans.
Love scored 854 points in 35
games in leading Ringgold to
the North Louisiana LIALA
championship.
The six-six forward is a high
ly styled individual who plays a
tenacious and tireless game un
der both boards.
Willis, a spindly six-seven
center, has been Arkansas’ most
outstanding performer the past
two seasons.
He scored 789 points as
senior, moves well, has court
savvy, and handles the ball
skillfully around the pivot.
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Lee Calhoun’s success $s
high hurdler represents long,
hard and ingenious planning on
the part of his coach, Leroy T.
Walker of North Carolina Col
lege. On two puvious occasions.
Walker’s prot^ees ran to the
outskirts of Olympic fame, but
until Calhoun’s dazzling tri
umph in a dead heat with Jack
Davis at the Olympic trials.
Walker and NCC were on the
outside looking in. Success in
gaining entry to compete for
Uncle Sam is explained by Wal
ker on two counts: (1) Cal
houn's ability and drive and
(2) Cooperation of Duke Uni
versity Track Coach Robert
Chambers. Without either. Wal
ker today would not be the na
tion’s only coach from a pre
dominantly Negro college to
have a favcTred entry in the 16th
Olympiad at Melbourne, A«is-
trailia, next November.
“Calhoun, to begin with, is a
splendid human machine,
^brainy, responsive to coaching,
possessed with the desire to ex
cel. He has speed and virtually
flawless performance once he’s
in flight”. Walker said of the
Gary, Ind., junior, who ran 11
times under 14 flat in 110 me
ter high hurdles competition
during the past outdoor season.
"No other high hurdler held
so many championships simul
taneously,” claims the NCC
News Bureau. Calhoun is cham
pion in Penn Relays, CIAA,
Senior National AAU indoors,
and outdoors, NCAA and NAIA,
and co-holder with Jack Davis
of record in 1956 Olympic trials.
Among his other records for the
year are positions as co-holder
of world records with Harrison
Dillards indoors with 50, 60,
and 70 yards. He won his events
at Winston Salem, Carolina Re
lays in Durham, Carolinas AAU
in Raleigh, and CIAA in Balti
more.
Walker said in Durham this
week that his harriers had been
“working out with Duke track
teams since 1947.” This is no
secret in the Tar Heel state, for
it has been a source of passing
comment by sportswriters and
track followers who seem to
have taken the high ground that
it’s perfectly natural for two
superb athletes like Duke’s Joel
Shankle and Calhoun to work
out together.
'It’s no exaggeration to say
that without the cooperation of
Coach Chambers and the in
tense competition in practice
sessions between Shankle and
Calhoun would hardly have ap
proached the flawless form that
he displayed on the West Coast,
resulting in his and Shankle’s
triumphs at Los Angeles, Wal
ker says.
"As all parties recognize, the
joint practice sessions have
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worked to the advantage of both
clubs.”
What Walker didn’t point out,
however, that much of the time
he and his boys worked out at
Duke, there weren't adeauate
practice facilities on their o.»n
campus.
“I expect Lee back in Dur
ham on Sept. 1 and wc’ll stnrt
practicing in earnest lo jjct him
in shape for the trip to Mel
bourne,” Walker staled.
Lee is presently taking things
easy in Gary. Walker has vetoed
all invitations for summer meets
in the East and on" the West
Coast.
Meanwhile, at NCC, plans are
underway to put a lifesize photo
of the college’s first Olympic
trials winner in the Gymnasium.
Walker says Calhoun has of
fered his Olympic trials win
ning suit to NCC and there's no
doubt that it will be accepted
The Olympic suit from Austra
lia is also destined for NCC’s
permanent gymnasium display
cases.
Charley McCullough, the high
jumper and teammate, who
finished out of the Olympic
qualifying money in eighth
place, said he was “delighted
to have the chance ^to compete
and to witness Charley Dumas’
world-record breaking leap of
seven feet and five-eighth in
ches.
In addition to Calhoun and
McCulk>ugh as track lumina
ries, Walker developed two
other NCC hurdlers of note:
Don Leek, Junior national AAU
high hurdles champion and Earl
Foster, NCAA medalist in 1049
competition.
Prior to coming to NCC in
1945, Walker coached at Bishop
College, Marshall, Texas, and
Prairie View College in Prairie
View, Texas.
Walker is a native of Atlanta
where he attended high school.
He holds degrees from Benedict
College and Columbia Univer
sity. He has studied at the Uni
versity of Illinois and at New
York University where he is
currently a candidate for the
doctor’s degree in physical edu
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The photo-finish of Lee Cal
houn of North Carolina College
and Jack Davis of the U.S. Navy
can be seen in these sequence
photographs as the two hurdlers
dueled in the finals of the Olym
pic 110 meters hurdles trials at
Los Angeles, Cat. They were de
clared in a tie bj meet officials
after studying picture* of the
finish. Coming _in behin^ the
pair are in order of finish, Joel
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Central State Returns To A.& T.
Football Schedule This Season
Deacon Dan
Dons Vestments
PASADENA, CALIF.
Deacon” Dan Towler, noted
professional football player of
the Los Angeles Rams team, has
entered the Methodist ministry
here, and has been assigned to
the Lincoln Avenue Church, an
interracial congregation, here.
•'Deacon Dan” will get one-
third the $10,000 a year salary
he received while starring in
professional football. He won
his master of theology degree in
June at the University of South
ern California School of Reli
gion, where he attended despite
an athletic schedule that took
him all over the country for six
years.
GREENSBORO
The A4T Aggies face
a tough, nine-game footbaii
schedule in the coming cam-
paig.n.^^The slate includes seven-
top foe3. members of its own
ccaft'rence. the CIAA, and two
c'.hers which always figure pro
minently in the national ratings
n Negro football.
Bill Bell, director of athletics
at the college, iias finally elimi
nated all “breathers” from the
schedule in a ten-year effort to
pit his Aggies against the bet-
tr aggregations.
Final arrangements were
worked out this week for tiie
opener, an intersectional Krap,
against Central State College of
Wilberforce, Ohio to be played
here under the lights in Septem
ber IS. The series against the
Ohioans, which t>egan back in
1947, has been an ‘Hd and out"
affair since its beginning. The
games failed to materiaUie in
1949, 1953 and 1955. The Aggiea
won five out of the six engage
ments.
Other home games include:
West Virginia State College, al
so a night affair on the next
weekend, September 22^ Mor
gan State College (homecom
ing), October 27 and Virginia
State College (High School
Senior Day)'Novemt>er 10.
The road gaii(ies include: Vir
ginia Union University’at Rich
mond, September 29; Maryland
State College, at Princes^ Ann*.
Octobor 13; Winston-Salem
Teachers College, October 20;
Florida A&M University at Tal
lahassee, Novembeif 3 and North
Carolina College at Durham
(Thanksgiving Clanic), Nov.
22.
Wy'sWith
Willie Mays?
NEW YORK
Willie Mays—the boy wonder
of the Giants in bygone years—
is having such a disappointing
year so far that few newspaper
folks hang around^ him.
Has marriage caused Willie to
lose his baseball touch? Or is it
just the general sluggishness of
the Giants as a whole that is
contagious enough to catch on
to WUlie?
Even Giant manager Bill Rig-
ney is completely perplexed by
wonderless Willie. ^‘Frankly he
puzzles me. It looked for a while
last week that he was coming stead of soaring toward the
on. But now he has slipped back i fences as it once did. All In all.
again. Willie is swinging as hard the Giants are mired in thfi'
as ever, except that the ball is cellar with out too much
going straight up in the air ia-1 _