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THE SPORTS STAGE "ERiVfE” BARISES SPOTLIGHT: Dearl J, Webster, Jr., the pride of the North Carolina College football team, is expected to have his most successful year during the coming season. Webster, a massive tackle, stands 6-1 and weighs 256 pounds. Hailing from Raleigh, Webster attended St. Emma Military Academy iti Rock Castle, Va. When asked how he became interested in sports, Webster stated: “From childhood days when I used to play around on the playground, my main objective was to become an athlete. With that in mind, I began to p^ticipate in all athletic sports. To date, my biggest thrill was in 1954, my freshman year at North Carolina College. We were playing A. & T. College. They were leading 6-0 going into the last two minutes of the game. We scored with fifteen seconds remaining in the game and I kicked the P. A. T. (point after touchdown) to win the game and the ClAA championship.” After entering NCC, Webster was assigned the P. A. T. man since he was quite successful in kicking. The other members of the team tagged him with the title, “The toe groza.” ROOSEyELT ROAL ORISTA NELSON BROWN, (wow) from Hamilton, Bermuda, has planned to take a stab at the half-back position on the North Carolina College foot ball team. Roosevelt was a star for the Devonshire Lions Rugby team in his hometown of Bermuda. I must admit that this little fellow has the build of an Adonis. He stands 5’4” and weighs 174 pounds. His giant shoulders, deep chest and trim waist give him a powerful, yet streamlined physical appeal. Roosevelt started weight training at the age of nine and quit at the age of twenty. If a magnificent physique means anything, this lad has ahead of him a bright future on the gridiron. DIAMOND DUST: The story of the A’s third baseman. Hector Lopez, could be entitled “Confidence Lost and Won.” Self-confidence, that is. This young Panamanian reached the point where he did himself no justice either in^e field or at bat. There was the suspicion that he might be over-baseball- ed, since he plays in the Winter league in Panama. What ever it was, the situation demanded some action and for a spell Lopez sat on the bench and Lou Skizas took his place at third. Then the time came for Hec to be reinserted and since then he has shown a complete transformation both in his de fensive and offensive efforts. Once again he has been per forming at third with some eclat. At bat he began a hitting streak against the Yankees in New York June 15 which he maintained until July 16, when he was stopped in four trips by the Red Sox. But he had hit safely at least once in twenty- two consecutive games. When the streak began, Hec had been at bat 124 times making 32 hits for an average of .258. A month later, he had been at bat 206 times, with 68 hits for an average of .330, or a boost of 72 points. The streak had netted him 36 points in 82 trips for an imposing average of .439. 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The ex-Giant great will man age a team made up of the best players, from ten semi-pro fessional teams. Opposition will be afforded by the Cardinals, a team madei up for the most part of service men who once played major league ball. An interracial team, the Cardinals have an im posing won-loss record of 4& and 2 over the past two seasons. They stiffered both losses this year—one at the hands of the Durham Rams and the other at the hands of the Detroit Stars, champions of the Negro Na tional League. Lamar Sports Promotions will name the all-stars this week, pending the outcome of several games now scTieduIed. However, representatives will come from the following semi- professional organizations: The Greensboro Red Birds, Winston- Salem Pond Giants, Asheville Blues, Burlington Bees, Dur ham Rams, Hillsboro All-Stars, Roxboro Colts, Durham Bees, and the Danville All-Stars. Irvin, who is now retired fsom baseball, is regarded as al likely prospect for a coaching or managing position in the ma jors. He is a shrewd judge of talent and as a player was noted for his spark-plug activities hn the diamond. Miss Sandra Gamer, student nurse at Kate Bitting Reynolds Memorial Hospital, recently spent two weeks in New York City with friends. She is the| sister of Mrs. Vivian James of 1029 East 15tb Street. Mrs. James was also honored last weekend with a visit from her grandfather, Emanuel Livinston of New York City. BERT PIGGOn APPOINTMENT BRINGS NEW HOPE TO AGGIES GREENSBORO The recent appointment of Bert Piggott as head coach at A 4 T College gives the hopea of improved Aggie teams a brand new lustre. The choice of Piggott haa met ready acceptance by the players, students, and faculty at the college, but equally impor tant, by the thousands of alum ni who have not been exactly jubilant over the Aggies’ near misses in recent conference championship play. This latter group has gone all out for Pig gott during the brief spell since his appointment and are still beating the bushes helping in that all important task of en couraging good and promisingl high school athletes to enter A & T this faU. Bert brings to the job a lot of natural ability, good trainingi under some of the best coaches in the country, a wealth of ex perience in the game, a pleas ing personality which equips him to get along with players and others and a burning desire to win. He started off as a brilliant young athlete and made a fine record in spite of untimely in juries which almost ruined his career as an exceptionally out standing performer. He was a star in football, baseball, boxing and tennis at the Hinsdale (111.) High School from which he graduated in 1939. He breezed through his freshman year at the Univarsi- ty of Illinois at Urbana as team captain and was later voted the “most valuable player” for the year. He played under the super vision of the famed Bob Zuppke during his sophomore and jun ior years in 1940 and 1941 then interrupted by a three-year mil itary stint. While in the service he play ed for two seasons with the Tuskegee Army Air Force Base in Alabama under Bill Bell, whom he succeeds at A & T. Bert returned to Illinois in 1940, for his final year of eli gibility, to join the tan stars, "Buddy" Young,’ Paul Patter son and Ike Owens and a now coach, Ray Elliott. He contri buted a fine share to the toam, which that year copped the Big Ten title and later emerged as Rose Bowl champs. An outstanding passer and punter, Piggott was quickly signed by the Los Angeles Pon.s and turned in creditable per formance for two years,! 1947 and 1948. In 1^49 he received his Master of Science degree in Physical Education at Illinois and joined the staff at A & T where he has remained since. Quiet and mild mannered, Bert remains cool under fire. Ha carries an air of confidence in his new and tougher respon sibilities, and believes that a winning team should and could be produced at the college this year. Those who know Bert and the job which lies before him realize that both are well- matched. They know that he has a big assignment and that he has ability and stamina enough to face up to it. He will get down to serious business with his boys on the morning of September 1, in preparation for probably the toughest -schedule any Aggio coach has had to facc in the half century of football compe tition at the College, He inher its -some top quality backfield material and a line which has gaping holes to fill. If his plans “jell” and these include procuring a half dozen or more good freshman backs and adequate replacements to fill those voids in his line, Ag gie hopes for a real winner might brighten even in his first year. Currently holding down third place in the Hull City Midget League is the above P. and G. Drugs team, sponsored by the Parker-Garrelt Drug Store. The P. and G. nine dom* inatcd play in the eight team league for nearly a month, holding down fir^t place. They were dislodged from first place two weeks ago and since have slipped backed into third place with (as of Monday, July 29) an 11-5 record. Shown kneeling are Frank Russell, James Davis, John Gray, Cornell Wil liams, Julius Jones and Troy Hooks. Standing are Connie Williams, Ronald Thomas, John Glover, Theodore Hargraves, Dwight Midgette, Edward Hopkins and I. R. Holmes, Jr., coach. Next week, another team in the League will be featured on this page. S. C. State To Meet A. & T. laEootballGame ORANGEBURG, S. C. South Carolina State College Bulldogs and North Carolina A & T College Aggies will renew the age-old rivalry which end ed in 1928. During those golden years A & T had s^h legendary fig ures’ as^“Horae’|_Lan^ “Bus’ Coleman, and Charlie DeBerry while South Carolina State had such Immortals as “Broad Riv er” Dawkins and Paul Webber. That game ended with South Carolina State on the long end by a 32-28 score. Again the North Carolina A & T Aggies will invade the lair of the Bulldogs on October 12, 1957 in Orangeburg, South Car olina. Maybe the great names will not be present, but the spirit and interstate rivalry will be at their zenith. The schedule follows: Sept. 28, Bethune-Cookman— Daytona Beach, Florida; Oct. S, Allen University — Home (“S” Day); Oct. 12, North Carolina- A 4 T — Home; Oct. 19, Clark; CoUege — Atlanta, Georgia; Oct. 26, Fort Valley State — Home (High School Senior Day); Nov. 2, Claflin College—> Home (Intra-City Classic); Nov. 9, Alabama A 4 M — Normal, Alabama; Nov. 16, Morris Brown — Homecoming; Nov. 26, Benedict — Columblai (Thanksgiving). Walker Gets Carolinas AAU Merit Award Dr. Leroy t. Walker, track coach of North Carolina Qol- ■/ Isga’s Olympic hurdlai Um Cal> houn, received the Carolinas AAU Honor Rojl certificate “for outstanding contribution to the furtherance of amateur athletics in the two Carolinas. The award was believed to be a “first” for a Negro coach in this area. Ironically, Dr. Walker is the man most responsible for Negro athletes’ cracking the cinder curtain in competing in the an nual AAU track meet held at State College in Raleigh each year. Joe P. Glynn, President ofl the AAU sectional, made the announcement and added, "the Carolinas AAU was honored to have one of the national track and field ciiampions for this 9 I.. I.'f, -i' ' 'i sectional, and that was Leu Calhoun who was so ably coached by Coach Walker. Leo of course, won an Olympic gold medal and he w^is also the only member of the Carolinas AAU to obtain a national award at the Dayton, Ohio, track and field events. We extend our heartiest congratulations to Coach Walker on his part ia this achievement.” This is a monthly selection made by the Carolinas AAU to honor those whjj have played outstanding roles in the pro gress of amateur athletics in the two state.s. Dr. Walker and his noted protege, Calhoun, are expected to meet on August 10, when Leo will be married to Miss Gwen dolyn Bannister, the track star’s college sweetheart, Calhoun will enter recreation work In Cleveland, Ohio, Pictured here are members of Zafa Temple Shriners "long un derwear” baseball team. The Durham Shriners will oppose a team from Kindah Temple of Fayetteville in the annual “long underwear" battle at Dnrliam Athletic Park Snttinlay viijln Sun. - Mon. - Tues. - August 4-7 BUKTIMCASIER- KATHARINE HEPBURH I Shriners Don Long 'Drawers' For Yearly Game Everything is in readiness for tTio nnniint Shrlnors "long underwear” game to be staged in Durham Saturday night be tween m'mbcrs of the Durham and Kayetteville Shriners. Zafa Temple No, 175, of Dur ham, and Kindiili Temple No. 62. of Fayetteville will square off under the lights at the ath letic park at eight o'clock, and as things proceed as usual, there will be more fun than baseball In store for spectators. The "long underwear" gamo is an annual contest staged be tween Shrine members. Stan dard equipment, besides base- bail bats, gloves, masks and other bona fide sports equip ment includes long underwear of varied colors and straw hats Proceeds from the game will i)e donated to the T,B, and Can cer Foundation Funds of tho Imperial Councils of Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, whose headquarters are In Washing ton, D, C. J. Fred Pratt, promoter for this year’s game, said that gate prizes will be awarded to the first 100 ladies and additional prizes of luggage sets wi.i glvan sway during tuc COMING South’t Original Eighteenth All-Star Came Ernie Shore Field SUNDAY, AUG. 4th 2:15 P.M. 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