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| BY * BILL JOHNSON i TELLING IT LIKE IT REALLY IS„" ....*. .* Use your head and just a bit of common sense to prevent yourself from becoming the “other guy” that things are always £ happening to. Local sandlot baseball fans were sad dened to learn of the death of John Ulton Morrison, who, in younger days, was potentially one of the finest baseball players ever to perform on local diamonds. It’s difficult to feel sorry for the big league baseball players when one considers that they are threatening to call play stoppage in late May; it becomes crystal clear that all they want is to receive two or three paydays before going on strike...Isn’t there an old saying that “one does not bite the hand that feeds him?” Remember the Easter Monday baseball games which use to attract top crowds? Would you believe that North Carolina A&T State is still staging Easter Monday games? iuc aggies lour on oi. augusune s Monday afternoon in Greensboro. South Carolina State will host the ninth annual Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Track & Field Cham pionship Saturday and Sunday, April 19-20. Yes, that’s right, Sunday afternoon!.In the words of the man in the streets, “it’s going to be a humdinger!” The way I view it the four basketball teams reaching the semi-finals of the NCAA Championship Series handed the credit ability of the weekly polls a slap-in-the-face. It merely shows that polls have become subjective and are based on the opinion of individuals who, in most cases, never see many of the teams they’re rating...Look for the Detroit Pistons to dish Bob McAdoo before the summer is underway. Walter Payton has averaged an incred ible 1,385 yards in each of the five years in the NFL. He’s slightly ahead of Jim Brown’s record-setting pace of 1,368 yards per year. Brown, however, played nine years and is the all-time career rushing leader with 12,312 yards rushing. He also owns the scoring leadership with 106 touch downs. Bill Hayes opened spring training at Winston-Salem State University Wednesday on a high note. He expects to find replace ment for 20 lettermen who will graduate plater this spring. His biggest challenge likely will be finding someone to fill the big shoes of star quarterback Kermit Blount, the dandy little field general who paced the Rams’ attack the last three seasons. Wouldn’t you know it, sooner or later someone would try something new in the recruiting game. Charles Henderson, head football coach at Delaware State Uni versity, has sent out announcements stating that 26 “student athletes” have signed national letters of intent with the Dover, Delaware scnooi....And what else is new! Black college track and field coaches have mixed emotions concerning President Car ter’s proposal to boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Look for the Boston Celtics to draft Mike Gminski if their courtship with Ralph Sampson fails to materialize. The Philadel phia 76ers will also get richer in the upcoming NBA draft. Both Boston and Philadelphia have traded for early draft choices. Two of pro basketball's most popular players have become expendables. David Thompson does not figure heavily in the Denver Nuggets’ plans for next season and the New York Knicks have written off Earl “The Pearl” Monroe for future play. Several big white schools have inter viewed Alcorn’s Dave Whitney for coaching vacancies.Cable TV and NCAA officials are negotiating for a possible deal to send college basketball your way via the screen on Monday nights during the regular 1980-81 season. Philip Murphy, S.C. State’s 6’4”, 285 pound defensive tackle, has moved up to the second round in the NFL draft.If one is to believe his college coach Bill Davis, Mur phy can play with any team in the country,” college, pro or otherwise. If you’re wondering how the poor big league baseball players will make out if a strike is called, consider these facts: Bruce ^Butter of the Chicago Cubs would be losing ^6,930.69 per inning on the days he’s scheduled to pitch. He’s due to receive $2,310.23 for each out in the games he’s working. , Don’t be too surprised if Montreal gives Pittsburgh a real fight for the National League East championship this summer.... Roger Staubach may not be giving up the game of football after all. The retired Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback is being courted by CBS Television which is offering him $10,000 a game as a commentator. You probably will be seeing Oakland Raiders’ safety .lack Tatum on the movie screen this summer. He has signed for the role of » prize fighter who kills on opponent |in the Chicago Blues. Members of the Johnson C. Smith Uni versity girl’s track squad are shown first row, left to right: Lavette Griffin, Kathy Williams and Quaneta Turner. Second row, left to right: Laveme Lawson, Portia Brown, Inette Johnson and De borah Wallace Here Saturday Johnson C. Smith To Host Spring Sports Extravaganza Johnson C. Smith Uni versity will be hosting a Spring Sports Extrava ganza this weekend as the track, tennis and girls soft ball teams swing into act ion all over Charlotte. The Twelfth Annual JCSU Track and Field In vitation will begin at 12:00 noon at the West Charlotte High School stadium. Up to 15 schools are expected to compete, including Win ston-Salem State, Living stone, Shaw, Fayetteville State, A&T State, Guilford, High Point, Gardner Webb and Edward Waters Col lege The two-day JCSU Tennis Invitational featur ing Virginia State u.„ Old Timers Basketball Classic Set For April 17 It’s called the Old Timers Basketball Classic and any alumni of West Charlotte or Second Ward can partici pate. The old rivalry be tween the two high schools JCSU Youth Sporto Program Set Meeting The National Youth Sports Program at Johnson C. Smith University will hold their meeting April 9 at 10 a m. instead of April K. r . Two more meetings have been set for the school year, May 3 and May 10. The summer program is scheduled to begin June 16. The program will be ser ving fewer participants this summer. The partici pants that attend the last three sessions will be given first consideration for the summer program. Any program participant last summer is eligible to at tend for the remaining three dates. I has sparked. According to the West Charlotte alumni team’s coach, Thomas ‘Jack’ Martin, "We are just going to have fun.’’ The game will be held at McCrorey Branch YMCA at 3801 Beatties Ford Rd. April 17 at 7:30. Following the game there will be a disco with 50’s and 60’s music. Thomas ‘Jack’ Martin, will coach the West Char lotte alumni team. He coached the actual West Charlotte basketball teams from 1930 to 1960. He also taught science and physi cal education. The coach for the Second Ward alum ni team is Robert ‘Big AT Montgomery. He was a football coach at Second Ward. Sponsored by the McCro rey Branch YMCA, the Old Timers Basketball Classic is an effort to expose the many programs and facilities of the Y. It is still not too late for alumni to participate in the classic. Just contact Susan House at the McCrorey YMCA, 394-2356 and ex press your interest. ston-Salem State. Living stone, Shaw, N.C. Central, Barber-Seotia and Bene dict will begin at 10:00 a m. Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12 at Hornets Nest Park. At 11 a.m. Saturday, the girls' softball team will host Livingstone, Shaw and Fayetteville State in matches at the Hornets Nest's baseball fields. A number of outstanding performances have been turned in so far this spring by Golden Bull athletes. Mark Wright took top honors in the high jump at Gardner-Webb last week, clearing 6’10". Harmon Rodgers leads the quarter milers with a year’s best clocking of :48 seconds and is a member of the mile relay and sprint medley relay teams that took first place in Davidson's 21st Annual Relays. Freshmen .I/ihn TnnHan Phorlia Washington continue to perform well with Rodgers and junior Donald Bell. Their 3:18 mile relay time stands as the best mark in NAIA-26 district track so far this year. For the girls, Kathy Williams has been piling up meet points in the 100 meter and quarter mile runs while Quandra Turner has dominated the long jump. Tyrone Holland and Miles Smith are the top Golden Bull netmen com bining for a 14-6 individual record and a 8-2 doubles team mark. Coach William Jackson's tennis team will be a strong contender for the tournament title de spite the loss of several key players from last year’s successful squad. Davis Pleased With Preseason Drills j Special To The Post Orangeburg - After com pletion of the first week of spring football drills at South Carolina State, Bull dog second-year head coach Bill Davis said he was somewhat pleased. "Our older guys really responded well," noted Davis, after putting his squad through a full scrim mage on Saturday. "The rain interrupted us a little but we got in a lot of work h and accomplished a great deal. Things look very positive." The Bulldogs lost 10 starters, among them two All-Americans; however, Davis noted that the only areas that are a real con cern to the staff at this time are the kicking game and the tightend position. S.C. State will be without Orangeburg native Mal colm Montgomery, who handled all of the kicking chores the last two seasons and Mickey Pringle who was solid at tightend. Walkon Feldon Taylor of Johns Island will battle Michael Head for the top punting assigment while Greensboro's Desmond Gatson is the leading candi date for the placekicking chores. The staff will take a long look at several candi dates at the tightend. At quarterback, where only Prince Phillips re V V* * ” mi V Apv I UIIVL, Davis said a trio of juniors are battling for the number two spot. Ralph Waymer of Charlotte, Gatson and Ben Mungin of Johns Island all will receive a good look. Chris Ragland, who led the MEAC in rushing with over 1300 yards last season, heads a bevy of solid run ners which include former O-W High product Anthony Reed, Denmark native Henry Odom, a red shirt last season, and Mike Trip Eric Westbrook Named A& T Tri- Captain GREENSBORO - North Carolina A&T head football coach Jim McKinley an nounced recently the Aggie tri-captains for the 1980 season. Seniors Billy Mims, a tight end from Jackson ville, Florida, Eric West brook, a defensive back from Charlotte, North Carolina, and Frankie Chesson, a linebacker from Cheaspeake. Virginia, will lead the A&T football team next season. "Throughout their careers these young men exhibited skills on, as well as off, the playing field,” McKinley said. (let of Waterford, Con lecticut Davis was also pleased vith the play of a veteran iffensive line and the Bull log defense which still ooks to be solid after osing. in addition to All Americans Ervin Parker ind Phil Murphy, also Dex er Clinkscale, Samuel )unham, Terry Turner and taleigh Jackson. Davis noted a change in is coaching staff. James Ragland, former receivers coach, has moved to the defensive secondary while graduate assistant Mike Howell and student assist ant Willie Grate will work with the receivers. This week, Davis said he would install a new defens ive system and put in some additional plays on offense The Bulldogs will have a short week, taking off Friday and Saturday be fore Easter. Time has a way of sneaking up on us ? and before we know it. it is D-Day. This :j time D-Day is the U S. census count j that will take place in 1980. Somewhere, somehow. Black and other minorities have acquired the notion that we are beating ' the man when we fail to tell the truth when asked how many people reside in our ? house or apartment. I don't know the reasoning behind this conjecture, but I am going to state some facts and then let you decide who really loses when we cheat the census count Fact 1. Population totals are used to determine how many ! representatives from each state will go to Congress. (I know that we are not satisfied with only sixteen Black Congressmen.) Fact 2. Revenue sharing allocations by the Federal Government are apportioned annually on ‘ the basis of the local and state population. (This has a direct bearing on food stamp programs, work incentive programs, CETA, child nutrition act, etc.) ract 3. Should you lose your birth certificate and not have a way ■ to document your birth, the age search branch of the U S. Census Bureau can provide proof from your census record | This document is accepted as a substitute birth certificate by all federal and state agencies. Jfet'Bhck Vice President The Greyhound Corporation , Compare this other wav to invest $500. m Wachovia’s new 30 Month Savings Certificates offer you a number of investment benefits, including high yield, guaranteed \ return and convenience. Once your certificate is issued, the rate does not change during the term of the certificate. You have the ! option of having your interest paid monthly, quarterly or at matu nty. Certificates are issued for $500 or more. And your money is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation up to ' $40,000. Federal regulations require a substantial interest penalty ' for early withdrawal of these deposits. However, if you have to make an early withdrawal your Personal Banker can show you ways to keep your money working so any interest penalty is minimized. i Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Talk to aWachovia Personal Banker UVlav po,|y w Brewer Sugaw Creek Office 4111 N. Tryon Charlotte. 378-5307 Wachovia Bank&Trust -
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