r ‘ ■ ‘i iri E C H R O L i K A TIMES
*B—SATUHeAY. JULY 6, 1*43 DURHAM, N. C.
Bonnie Logan Continues Tennis Victory String
Negroes Have Played
Major Role in Sports
BY MARION E. JACKSON
ers (with hi'adquartors in I^oui.'--
villp, Ky ), the Kansas ('ity Mon
a chs. the JacksonvillV Red Cap^
':n Clovfland. Ohio), the ABC's
the Chicago American Giants.
Homestoad Grays. N. Y. Cubin
Stars. Newark Eagles, N. Y. Black
Yankees, the Philadelphia Stars
(AtUnt* Daily World)
It has b-'en establishxi that N:'-
gro baseball had its roots in slav
ery and was rhoving toward so.^K'
stature as an organized sport im
mediately following the Eman.-i
|M)ion Proclamation. The game; t,,e Toledo Club
gave a massive push to the N'’gro
freedom cause in the United
States.
In 1885, appeared th? first pro
fessional team, which was orsan-
«ed at the Argyle Hnipl in Baby
Ion, New York.
From 1887 to 1919 sevsral .at
tempts were made to organise Ne
fro baseba'il leagues. Mo.st of them
failed before anything tangible
«as done. In Februarj’ 1920. the
Neero National League was organ
iied by Andrew (Rube) Foster,
David Wright, Jo.seph Greene and
Cary B. Lewis of Chicago. 111. Ten-
ny Blount of Detroit. Mich.; Lo-
r*>n*o S. Cobb of St. Ixiuis, Mo;
Elwood Knox, C. I. Taylor and
Charles Marshall of Indianapolis,
Ind.; J. L. Williamson of Kan,sr)s
City, Mo.; W. A. Kelly cf Wash
ington, I). C.; Elisha ScoH of Lea-
venwor|^. Kansas and John Mat
thews of Dayton. Ohio.
Foster was chosen president and
secretary and the clubs making
up tbe league were the Chicaeo
Negro baseball thrived, it» East
West Game in Chicago, drawing
thousands until J.tckie Robinson
broke the color line in 1946.
This heralded the death knell of
the once powerful Negro le^ues
that sent Larry Doby, Don N?w
combe, Roy Campanella, Satctiei
Paige, Dan Bankhead and many
other greats to the major leagups.
Dr. J. B. Martin today heads a
Negro American League that '.s
more of a name than fact. Dr.
Martin, a Chicago, 111. Republican
and a member of the Sanitary
Commission, operates the circuit
from his office. The league has
dwindled to the Birmingham &laek
Barrens. K. C. Monarchs, Detroit
Stars and Raleigh Tigers.
Among the great Neg.-o baseball
players since the Emancipation
Proclamntion have been:
PITCHERS: Andrew (Rube) Fos-
Amevican Giants. KansaS City r ‘.er. Satchel Paige, David Brown
Monarchs. Indianapolis ABC’s and
Detroit Stars, In December, 1920,
the New York Bacharach Giants.
Cuban Stars, Columbus Buckeyes
and Hillsdale Giants joined tho
circuit.
An Eastern League was organis
ed in 1922 with pdtvard Bolden
as president, its members were
the Harrisburg Giants, the Hills-
dales and the Brooklyn Royal
Giants.
The first Negro World Series
was held in 1924. History was to
■ee both leagues collapse in 1932.
The Negro American League
was formed in 1935 and was com
posed of the Atlanta Black Crack-
■ ■ INFIELDERS: Jackie Robinson,
Ben Taylor, Leroy Grant, Samuel
Hughes, John H. Lloyd, Judson
Wilson, Leonard Grant, Andrpw
Fackson, Frank Warfield and Ave-
lino Canarcies, Ernie Banks, Mau
ry Wills, Junior Gilliam.
Today more than 60 Negroet
play in the major leagues. To pin
point the democratic gains since
the Emancipation one must note
that in the early I920's, Negroes
were not permiited in the grand
stands in Sportsman’s FarK in St.
Louis, Mo. I
Branch Rickey, who opened the
doors of the big leag^te' game,
could not even admit iirt Ohio
Wesleyan friend and tfeammatr
who dropped by his office. He wqs
Dr. Charles Thomas, a ' St Louis
dentist. Rickeyi then vi^6’ presi
dent and jeneraJ j;Qan§ger- of the
St. Louis Cardinals told I)r; Thom
as “Some day we'll have'all that
changed.” While this might be eas
ily regarded as a prophecy, in
view of Ridkey's.integratilm'of the
Negro into organized ball, some
twenty odd years later,; he wns
merely expressing a logical belief
that the refusal to sell tickets to
Negroes would end one d^y.
"Rickey as president an^ general
manager of the Brooklyn Qbdgere
broke the color line. 'i
I'ullet Rogan, Rji?hard Redding,
Joseph (Cyclone) Williams, and
Don Newcombe.
CATCHERS: ClareAcp' Williams.
Josh Gibson, Ernie Wright and
Biz Mackey, and Roy Campanella,
John ^Ro.sebori) and Elston How
ard.
Ol/TFIELDERS: Alexander Rat
cliffe, Oscar Charleston, Bingo De-i
Moss, Peter Hill, William Monroe,
Oliver Marcelle, Otto Briggs, Ed
ward Douglass and John Beckwidi,
Larry Doby, Henry Aaron, Va^ champion Green
Pinson, Minnie Minoso, Willie this week.
Mays, BUI White, Roberto Cle- Jeter was the Packers No. 2
men'e, Frank Robinson and Hec- choice in 1961 but elected to
lor Lopez. i play in the Canadian league.
NCCs Tate Wins Nat'I
Jump Championship
— North Carolina College’s
Norman Tate won the Nation-'
al Cllegiate Athletic Associa- j
tlon's hop-step and jump champ '
ionship here over the week-end
with a 51 foot, one-half inch «f-
fort.
The slender Orange, New
Jersey^ native won his second
national champiorship in sue-
Widow of Davey Moore Does Not
Think Boxing Should be Abolished
CHICAGO—Davey Moore’s wid
ow does not think 'ooxing sho-jU;
cession and his third one of the : abolished, she reveals in the
outdoor season. It was only last
week in Chicago, Illinois, that
Tate set a record of 49 feet,
inches, in winning the NCAA
College Division championshfp.
The Eagle sophomore thinclad
has been virtually untouchable
since he annexed the i>ennsyJ'
vania Relays event with a 49
feet, five inch try. Two weeks
later he captured the Central
Intercollegiate Athletic Associa
tion crown and later added thff
Carolines A. A. U. and tbi>
NCAA College Regional. Peters
burg, Virginia, titles.
July issue of Ebony, now on the
newsstands.
“Many opponents of the fishf
game say that because David died,
boxing should be abolished. 1.
personally, do not agree with
them,” Mrs. Moore asserts in un
article written exclusively for thf
magazine
“I am firmly convinced that Ds
vid’s death was not boxing's fault
Sugar Ramos’ fault, or anybod.'
else's fault, bot thut it was God'«
will. I beheve that 'f 't is your
tlmi to so. you'll go, ro!:ardless
of yhat bu.siness you are in.”
BONNIE LOGAN
1962 but fell short of the repord
of 51 feet, two and one-fourth
inches set by Luther Hayes.
University of Southern Caliiar-
nla, in 1961.
Coach Lwoy T. W^alker had
Tate with the relay team* earli-
Iowa Flash Signs
With Green
GREEN BAY, Wis. Bob
Jeter, Iowa State football fla^
of two seasons ago^ wa^. .$igne!l
to a contract by the world
Bay ‘‘Packers
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Durhamite to Enter USLTA Event
In Chattanooga This Week-end
Bonrie Dayle Ix)gan, ol Dur .side high schopl as a freshms**'
ham, described as the legitinnstp ,^xrt, 'year,- collected thr^ ti"*
lv}ir to former tennis queen Al- phies for her work in the USLTA
thea Gibson, continued to a.’* Maryland championships in Balti I er in the year to give him that
laurels to the score she has al-^ more early last we6k. She wc* j competitive Incentive needed
H^eady gathereil in the. t.anrfis' the under 14 and under 16 sin^- for the hop-step and jump. When
world by two Important victor-J les titles and was a member r* , th-e NCC 440-relay team stretch
les last week. the doubles t«ani which captulred
Bonnie, “captured won twft j the under 18 championship,
championships and shared A day later,, she moved into
third in a USLTA sanctioned action at Druid Hills courts an?
tournament In Baltimore then re began play in the ATA Mary-
turned to action a day lat*;- i,n"| land State Junior charnpion-
B«|ltlmore to fight her wav to| ships. There she swept to the
the finals in the ATA MarvlanS ^finals in the girls i)'nder 14 and
ohampfonships in two diVlsio^’Frihe wonien's singled, pnly to see
of the singles chamoionshios be- I rain wash out the final day ol
Tate's jump of 51 feet, ow-' The 27-year-old widow says thst
half inch, exceeded the Jump of , the abolVlion of boxing “wouU,
50 4»t8t, 11 inches posted by , have been the last thin?" her hus
UCLA’s Kermlt Alexander in band would have wanted to hap-
voung widow has just been ap-
^ointed to q secretarial po.st by
Ohio Gov. Jamps A. Rhodes. Two
years a,?o the family moved from
Sprinf'fiold. Ohio to a new home
in Cclumhus.
“I know that it is now uo to
me to prove that David’s life ar.U
sacrifices werp not in vain. We
are not rich, but we have a little
to show for his years in the ring.
I '.vant to keep it that way,” she
says.
Mrs. Moore says she “would not
' nco'jrage'’ either of her sons—
now 8 and 5—to become profes
sionat fighters. “But if I felt that
is what they really wanted. J
'.vculd hot try to stop them.’’
Siie .sav.! th,-;t if -her hu.sband
■'could hava his say now. he
wr.uld not have wanted boxing
abolished because he loved it'
fql*e rain forced postponement
of the event. .
The young tennis star, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Loa-
I’l. .Tr. of 418 Massey Avenue is
scheduled to appear in the
TTSTTA - snfctioned Tennessf^'
Valley Invitational at ChaT-
tahooga this week-end.
H‘!r mother told the TIMF^
n^rly this week that her sched'^;
led appearance in Greensboro '
the Southeastern ATA chartip-
lonships wns In dobut because
of the Chatta-f'oopa tourney.
Bpnnia, who will enter Hill-
action.
She' is ‘‘scheduled to ^et
Anne Koger, of Lo^nchburg, later
this season to settle the under
14 title. ;
Bonnie’s appearance in Chat
tanooga will be her second. She
won the under 12 champio»’ship
Tri The UStTA sa-qctlOTtetl -Tenn-
essee Valley Invitational last
year only to see her yiotdrv de
faulted because ,of eligibility
rules. '
She will be entered in the
under 14 fflrls singles at Chat
tanooga this week-end...
ed in the Pennsylvania Relays.
Walker gave Tate the gr^n
light to work exclusively on his
specialty. The move was a wise
one, as Tate has become the se
cond North Carolina College per
former to capture a NCAA
championship. Lee Calhoun
holds the NCAA record ^ the
120-yard high hurdles w'llh s
13.5 showing in 1957. Calhoun
also won his specialty in 1956.
Arthur Ashe,
pen.
“David’s death, as the coronei
explained’ was a ‘one in a million
accid''"t,’ Aopidents ti"’in'>n tn
ovrrvbodv. S3me people just walk
acrn'is the street and drop dead
Bovine is a de’n'erons snort all
right, but I don’t think it is any, tennis athlete
more dan?erou than fonthnll or the
auto racin". Thnse whA partiei
pat" take their chancpR."
Moorp died after Insina t'lf
featherweight chamoicnshin to Su
gar Ramos in a 10th round knock-j Ashe, a nativ-? of Richmond,
out, and stnkm-; his head against , va.. was defeated by McKln*.
the bottom rin« rope in a freak|iy, g-.”?, e-2, last ThuAday.
accident. Mrs. Moore secalls how] Young Arthur, who is now n
she consoled Ramos after her hus j sophomore at UCLA, was ham-
band s death: “I b"i?an fselinp i pered slightly by an arm injury
sorry for him, I told him that i' | which affected his normally
was God s will and -the befit he strong service and grouhd
strokes.
Ashe Bows To
M^K>nIev In
Wimblfldon Play
WIMBLEDON, S’- gland —
first Negro maTJ;
to participate in
British tennis champion
ships here last week, lost to
too seeded American play'f^
Chuck McKintey in the third
round of the tournament.
Bowling Lanes
Manaoers Meet
fould do ‘Aras to' be as good
champion as my husband had been
' I just couldn't let the boy awa.v
feeling bad for the rest of his
life."
Left with five children, tl'e
Ashe advanced to the thirtl
round by virtue of victories ov'^r
Caroles Fernandez, of BTaiT*.
and 6-1, and James Hillbrand,
of Australia.
Clinit For Football and Bisketball
Coaches to be Held at A&T in km.
nttFtj'.ys'i.ORn ^ than 1S^- r'»rv»r lTi"h aid r'i«rl»s McCitl.
qohnnl.and coUose football and |nti"h, head basketball coach
basketball noaches B’-e expectea at the Charlotte, West, Charlotte
t.o. attend the A. T. Coaching ,Hi"h School, whose teams last sea
nta to
SilMe
be held here, August
Clin!
T-lO
J Bilfv-,Bell, A. & T. athletic di
rector aW directpr of the clinic,
said, this week that applications,
are arrlvmg da ly^ and mdicaticn*. 1 ^
NEW YORK — Eight man
agers of American Bowling En-
j t^rprises’ Lanes in th« South-
I east met in a three-day confer-
. ence in Atlanta recently to dis
cuss methods of improving bowl j
ling as a sport in the South.
' The Neero ma"a?ers. each ad
ministering a bowling center re-
nrp^entlng close to a million-
1 doll a r investment, discussfd
I wavs of promoting bowling, and
listened to nntslde’’R tel] them
how it should be done.
^ The managers, and the Lanes
they represent, attending the
meeting were: Duke Fosrte.r.
F*un Bowl, Atlanta; Pete Chat-
mon, Star * Bowl, Birmingham:
Bell said that special emphasis' Kharn Collier, Spring Lanes.
son won state ebampionship,s.
■IN HrM|
OkSktttconiei
tkatfCtlUci
on the clinic’s Injury C«re and
Prevention section, is to be made
are that admissions might be
dosed before the clinic gets un
derway.
Bell said that applications had
come from far away as Canada
and California.
The clinic will feature a star-
studded faculty, headed by Wood
row “Woody” Hayes, head foot-
baill coach at Ohio State Univer
.fity, and Ed Jucker, head basket
ball coach at the University of
Cincinnati, whose teams in early
season last year were rated num
ber one in the nation.
Other staff members include:
Clarence Stasavich, head football
80ach at East Carolina Collega
and one of the nation’s top pro
ponents of the single-wing attack-,
Joe Dean' former basketball
star at Louisiana State University,
and Bob Davis, often called profes
ilopal basketball’s greatest Ut
ile man”, formerly with the iio-
phester Royals and former head
eoach at Seton Hall, and the en
tire cohching staff of the A. & T
College Aggies, including: Bert
PiSgott, head football coach' and
his assistants—Murray Neely antf
Mel Groomes and Cal Irlvin, head
basketball coach.
A nc'AT feature is being added
this ydar. Prefenlationa on ipedal
probietns in city and suburban
idSb 'school athletics are to bt
made by David 1 - Umti,
ball coach at the Winston-Salem,
Charlotte, T. Kelly, .King Bowl
Chattanooga; James McClana-
han, Rollaway Lanes, Memphis:
Clarence Kilcrease, Pinnacle Lan
Hprnsby Howell, head trainer for i es, Nashville; Alfred Braxton,
the A. It T. College Aggies- and | Cool Lanes, Richmond; and Al-
Al Proctor, head trainer for N. C. j phonso McLean HI Hat Lanes,
State College at Raleigh. I Savannah.
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