IFired Jimmy "The Greek" sticks to what he said
Thursday, April 21, 1988 Winston-Salem Qiwnide Pag© B5
By A J DICKERSON
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Jimmy
"The Greek" Snyder, whose
remarks about black athletes during
a television interview cost him his
CBS commentary job, is back in the
hospital for tests and observation
after complaining of chest pains.
W The 70-year-old oddsmaker
was in good condition, Miami Heart
*E!'Institute spokeswoman Esther
Saporito said Thursday.
Snyder, dismissed from "NFL
Today" in January, said he woke up
in his hotel room here Wednesday
with chest pains.
"1 don't take any chances, the
sooner they can do something for
you the better," he said from his
hospital bed. "They (doctors) are
just looking to see what they find."
He said he was undergoing a
series of tests, such as electrocar
diograms, and hoped to be hospital
ized "no longer than the weekend."
Snyder was ho.spitalized last
July at Duke Medical Center in
Durham, N.C., where examinations
disclosed that an artery to his heart
was blocked, and again shortly after
his January firing.
Synder has stood by his contro
versial comments about the superi
ority of black athletes made on
WRC-TV in Washington. He and
others had been asked to comment
about the progress of blacks in
society in commemoration of Mar
lin Luther King’s birthday.
Within two days of the
interview, CBS fired the 12-year
veteran of "NFL Today." After his
hospiUilizalion in Durham, where
he lives with his wife, Joan, Snyder
took up residence alone at a posh,
occanfront hotel on Miami Beach.
"I've been hiding there for 2
1/2 months and then this had to
happen," said Snyder, adding that
he didn't feel "too good right now.”
Ten alumni inducted into N.C
Cenral Athletic Hall of Fame
Special to the Chronicle
DURHAM - North Carolina
Centra! University inducted ten
people into their Athletic Hall of
Fame last Saturday night, including
one of the slate's pioneers in ama
teur tennis.
I H,M, "Mickey" Michaux Jr. of
Durham was a standout for the
Eagles, holding their top seed for
three of his four years at the school.
Upon his graduation in 1952,
Michaux was regarded as one of the
best amateurs in the state.
Joining him in the NCCU Ath
letic Hall of Fame as pioneers in
women's athletics, will be Mrs. Eva
McLaughlin of Nashville, N.C., and
Mrs. Ophelia Goldston Young, who
died in Baltimore and will be
inducted posthumously.
James W. "Chips" Sligh was
inducted for his basketball excel
lence at the school. Sligh, who
scored 1,229 points in his career at
NCCU, now teaches in St. Croix in
the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Five were selected to the HOF
in football, including Thomas A.
@1 Ministers balk at
Sunday baseball
■By The Associated Press
Rev. Gary Ashley of Westwood
baptist Church said children now
devote six days to playing ball with
practice and games and that week-
long sports would not be healthy.
: Ashley coaches outfield for the
sl9- and lO-year-old Dixie Youth
\ ibaseball team. His son, Joshua, is a
l^pember of that team.
Last year, the city park and
H^reation board adopted a ix)licy to
9|allow organized sports activity on
• Sunday between 1 and 5 p.m., said
Linda Ivester, city park and recre-
ation board chairman.
' The policy’s intent was to
I allow rescheduling of games that
were postponed because of
^nclement weather, she said.
"I can assure these people this
ihing will not get out of hand.”
Allen of Durham, James "Champ"
Brewington of Greenville, Jerome
F. Gantt, who now resides in
Detroit, Dr. Melvin M. Spencer of
Silver Spring, Maryland, and
Garvin Stone of Fort Sill, Okla
homa.
Allen was the CIAA’s highest
scorer at the single wing fullback
position during his four years at
NCCU. The former head coach at
G. C. Hawley High School in
Granville County is now retired
from the contracting business.
Brewington, currently the head
basketball coach at Rose High
School in Greenville, was an All-
CIAA and All-American lineman at
then North Carolina College from
1957 through 1960. He was draft
ed by the Green Bay Packers and
later played for the Oakland
Raiders before an injury relegated
him to coaching.
Gantt, a fourth-round draft
choice for the Buffalo Bills, played
football for the Eagles until 1970.
After a stint with the Bills, Gantt
played on two Canadian champi-
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Sonny Got The Juice
Sonny Weaks of Reynolds pauses to enjoy a little orange juice
during a break in a Centra! Piedmont Conference meet between the
Demons, Parkland and Mount Tabor last week. Weaks outran the
other juice at the meet, Tabor's Julius Reese, in the 100-meter dash.
But Reese returned the favor in the 200 (photo by Randy Pettitt).
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ALABASTER, Ala. - Local
* clergymen are balking at the pro
posal to play youth baseball games
on Sunday.
"A lot of people will use that as
an excuse not to attend the house
of God," said Bill Lawley, youth
iwsior at the First Assembly of
God of Alabaster.
But Larry Martin, president of
the Alabaster Dixie Youth League,
said he has little choice but to
tehedule Sunday games
The league has 35 boys and
girls teams and only two fields to
play most of the games. Under
Dixie League rules, he said, 15
^pames must be played before teams
can make the all-star games at the
^end of the season. With several
rainouts this year, teams may not
^nteet that requirement unless they
Bnlake up those games, Martin said.
E|p Martin said no games are played
^on Wednesday because of a conflict
with mid-week church services.
Some clergymen have asked
their parishioners _ including sever
al coaches in the league _ not to
participate in or let their children
play in the Sunday games.
But Martin, who attends Con-
|S)rd Baptist Church, cried foul to
ihat tactic. "All these men are
jhurch-going men. I don’t think it’s
ight for (ministers) to do that."
Martin said his own pastor
gave him the OK to play on Sunday,
as long as the games didn’t infringe
g on morning services.
He said four games were
t :heduled last Sunday, but ballplay
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