BY
BILL JOHNSON
SAY YOU SAW IT HERE.
Tennessee State graduates only five members
of its football squad, and each has been drafted
by professional football teams. That should be a
record for developing pro material. It was nice to
see Lee Elder become the first Black golfer on
.the PGA circuit to pocket 40 big ones. The
Washington, D.C. native is a sure bet to become
the first Black to earn more than $100,000 on the
tour in a single season.
Joe Alston, the dapper athletic director at
North Carolina Central University, announces
that the Eagles will play six football games in
Durham this season. One of the best at using
gimmics, Joe is calling the big football headliner
between Johnson C. Smith and UCCU the “Bull
Eagle Classic.” A record crowd is expected in
Durham on Nov. 6. Elizabeth City, Winston-Sa
lem State, Virginia State, the University of
Maryland-Eastern Shores and North Carolina
A&T are the other rivals who will visit Durham
this fall.
Remember Joe Caldwell, the dandy little
basketball player who used to thrill local fans
while playing with the Carolina Cougars awhile
back? In Greensboro Thursday night, reports
were that the former Cougar forward, who
reportedly earned a quarter of a million bucks a
year during his prime years, is broke and looking
for a job.
It looks like North Carolina A&T and the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte will not
get together on the hardwood for the second
game in their popular basketball series. A&T
sources say that UNCC refuses to play in
Greensboro. A&T is not interested in playing in
the Coliseum two consecutive years. So, don’t be
too surprised if the game, which drew 9,000 fans
here last season, is cancelled. Incidentally, A&T
has added Oral Roberts to its basketball sche
dule.
Muhammad Ali spared better with newsmen
on the CBS-TV “Face The Nation” program
Sunday than he did with Jimmy Young on
television Friday night. Could it be that age is
finally taking its toll.
The 1976 football game between Howard and
A&T has been moved from this 56,000-seat
Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in Washington to the
100,000-seat Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. It
will be played Oct. 23 under the sponsorship of
OIC.
DID YOU KNOW THAT - Livingstone College
won the ClAA Southern Division Tennis title?
The Blue Bears downed Johnson C. Smith, 7-2,
for the honors.
Who said athletes are dumb? David Brown,
starting offensive tackle at North Carolina A&T,
has been awarded a grant worth more than
$6,000 to study economics at MIT...North Caro
lina Central pulled out the red carpets for its
athletes last Wednesday night with its annual
athletic banquet in W.G.Pearson Cafeteria oh
the campus. The banquet recognized the top
athlete, scholar and citizen in the graduating
class, in addition to giving praise to both men
and women in basketball, volleyball, track,
wrestling and football.
A&T heard Ron Pinkney, sports director of
Mutual Black Network Sports, at its annual
sports banquet Tuesday night...Runningback
Reggie Frank Scott, who spent last year on the
I tojured list, ran for more than 100 yards in A&T’s
annual spring football game last week.
It’s great to be young and talented, especially
if you are an athlete. Chuck Munice, 220-pound
running back who recently graduated from the
University of California, has signed with the New
Orleans Saints football team for $1 million a
year, plus two Rolls Royces.
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McRae Wins Player Huey P. Newton Ready To Come Home?
Of Week Honors
By James Cuthbertson
Post Staff Writer
When he’s not eating ham
burgers, cheeseburgers and
Big Macs at McDonald's, he is
participating in some of his
other hobbies such as running
track, riding around in his
brown 1970 Pontiac Firebird
or hopping on the back of
horses for a cruise through the
.countryside.
Vernon Hunter McRae of
318 Auten Street attends South
Mecklenburg High School and
is this week’s Charlotte Post
’’Player of the Week” for his
honors in track events.
North Carolina Central Uni
versity is the college that the
6 0”, 156-pound All-County son
of Mrs. Rose McRae, will at
tend.
"My mother has been the
one person most responsible
for my success because my
father died early. I wanted
very much to be good in
sports, but I knew I was small.
She kept encouraging and
pushing me. She came to all
the games although she didn't
know anything about football.
She does now," he added. .
The extracurricular activi
ties include football, track,
and the Fellowship of Chris
tian Athletes for the six feet
four inch high jumper who
wants to major in Human
Relations, History or Physical
Education.
Quail Hollow and Spaugh
_ iran ? if
Vernon H. McRae
...Headed for NCCU
Junior High Schools were the
preparation grounds for the 45
feet and 10 and 1-2 inches
triple jumper and 2r4” long
jumper who is coached by
Niles Nelson.
He helped lead South to a 7-3
Southwestern 4-A Conference
Football record His favorite
star is Lynn Swann of the
Pittsburgh Steelers His favo
rite book is “The RookeisJ'
by Tex Maul.
Other stars include Grover
Rivens of North who hit a
homer and a double getting
two of the Vikings three hits in
a 9-2 loss to Garinger...Jerry
Clark of JCSU who ran the two
mile in 9:40...Lloyd Gibson,
Kent Weeds, Demarcus Cal
houn who ran the mile relay in
3:16 in the CIAA Champion
ship Track Meet.
Candidates Fail To
Impress Black Caucus
vummueu irom page i
when he said the.differences
between the candidates were
"Differences In style” not in
content. Gary, Ind. Mayor Ri
chard Hatcher was more criti
cal of the candidates when he
commented, “I was not satis
fied with most of their an
swers, and I don’t think the
other panelists were either,”
While many delegates agreed
with Hatcher's assessment of
the candidates' statements,
others expressed the view that
the panel had failed to ask
more specific questions that
could have been answered in
the allowable time.
In a wrap-up news confer
ence Sunday before about 60
reporters, members of the
CBD conference steering com
mitted appeared hard pressed
to state in specific terms what
the conference had accom
plished. California state As
semblyman Willie Brown, a
member of the steering com
mittee, said, ‘‘I don't think
blacks can judge from what
was said today exactly where
the candidates stand on these
issues. But what we did ac
complish was define a set of
issues that the candidates can
address themselves to.”
Basil Patterson, chairman
of the steering committee,
said at the same news confer
ence that "No candidate can
win in November without us"
because they recognize the
power of the nation's 8 million
registered black voters.
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HAVANA (NNPAi « Huey
P Newton, the 34-year-old co
founder of the Black Panther
Party, exiled in Cuba for more
than a year; is awaiting his
lawyer's okay to return to
America and stand trial on a
bizzarre string of alleged
crimes
In our hour-long interview,
Newton stated that he was
very happy" in Cuba He
appreciated the red-carpet
treatment of Fidel Castro's
socialist government, but he is
ready to return home and face
the charges against him -
"though" said he. "I'm not
guilty."
"I was about to go back and
face the charges"--but then
"renegade scab Eldridge
Cleaver returned.” New ton
said "So my attorneys came
in and they advised me to wait
until after he iCleaver) goes
before the House of Internal
Affairs Committee to see what
charges might come out of
that "I am in a position to
wait and see "
While his big. winning smile
and easy manner give the
outward impression of a man
at ppace with himself. Newton
is an intense, restless young
man who must deal with an
issue head-on once he has
made a decision. He is also
homesick, yearning to be back '
with relatives and friends and
to operate from the American
scene which is more familiar
to him.
I got this impression of New
ton after meeting him at din
ner. and later chatting with
him over drinks with other
newspaper colleagues who
were part of an American
delegation on a visit to Cuba a
i> I*. M. Tuesday is the dead
line for placing your news
items and photos in the Char
lotte post.
couple of w eeks ago
I met New ton in the lobby of
the Havana Hivena, a luxury,
Mami Beach-type facility
built by American gangsters
just before Castro led the Cu
ban people to independence in
1939 after three decades of
American domination and ex
ploitation of the island 900
miles from Miami. I introduc
ed myself and extended mv
hand to New ton and he shook
it with both hands as though
we were old friends and had
not seen each other in years.
He looked more like a movie
star than one w ith a reputation
of a revolutionary theoretici
an. Possibly influenced by
i astro s practice of wearing
only military fatigues. I had
somehow expected him to be
wearing something resembl
ing a "Black Panther outfit"
at least the leather jacket.
Instead he looked like a model
who just stepped off the cover
of Gentlemen's Quarterly
wearing an expensive, perfect
fitting faded denim outfit. He
looked younger than his 34
years, but a slight limp from a
bullet wound received in a
confrontation with police re
minded that his youthful look
could not be attributed to an
easy life
During the interview . it
became obvious that there re
mains bad blood between
Newton and Cleaver, the for
mer minister of information
for the Black Panthers who
was expelled by the parts in
1971 in an ideological spat
In addition to calling Clea
I 1 " -
ver a renegude scab. " New
ton sharply criticized him lor
supporting Secretary ol State
Henry Kissenger s foreign po
licy related to Third World
Countries, and blamed Clea
ver for the Panthers violent
philosophy during the turbu
lent Sixties
McMichael
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