Ingemar, Floyd To Receive $1 Million Each For Bout
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Lightweight Title Bout Between Brown Moore - Hinted
Returned Match Scheduled
For Johansson's Home Town
00TCNBOSG, Sweden—(ANPi
—A million dollar purse for each
igfeier la the much-discussed In
ieaif Johansson - Floyd Patter*
em heavyweight title return
M«rt was predicted last week, af
ar tfee balky Johansson signed
he eesstract for the fight here in
t.» hensetwn.
lartead of September 23 1833. as
s-giaaliy scheduled, the bout now
sill take place sometime between
text March 1 and June 15. It will
« promoted" by former heavy-
NnSfet champion Jack Dempsey.
cornered the Swede here and
tot him to com* to' terms.
Dampaey was appointed 41-
e# fee embattled Rosen-
I *&fc® Enterprise*, which now
ba*r9 etdy ISs* name of He
former founder. Bii! Sosen-
Mte, tile boy-proaster who got
i pfttofol JeescM In ps-onaofctog
Coach Eddie Me Girt Opens
Smith !s Football Practice
masLOTT® Edche McGirt
jferted work Sept. 1 in
t» .ftfltert to eorry out a promise
U made seven months ago.
Speaking 5.4 fee annual Johnsoe
fe Smith University football ban
ket last Fe’orusry. McGirt told the
I trending membera of the JGSU
Llumai that fee was hopeful of
Lesnng * better team fe 1959 than
fee* outfit which won six of its
tight susm is 1953,
At- tfe* johneoss €* S»i*fe
J®iit Owens Will Direct
Jubilee At Springfield
ftjsfejtQSOTUft. BL IANP> —champion and sports specialist for
Jftss® Owws#f lo«o«r Olympic the Illinois Youth commission, will
Will Ilassev Retire?
WWA.m& &SK» HOGAN fKIDS BASSEY TO QUIT THE RING
MiNCHEST!®!, la*. (ANT)— : The manager of Hogs.si (Kidi
fs*wf& stteentfcr lest in Ms hid to regain his featherweight
erosm fgesss |l»vey Moor® in Los Angeles, has advised the Nigerian
ttfUwr 1» tint* rtn*,
tQwijne BlfeSsl.** teM tihe jam*, *1 don't Hke to see him rot
I fjtoo& fib* fife®. He fias bee® severely' cut in his last- two fight*,
i Ids record, how is the time to get out.”
PAIGE KNOWS NO AGE Ancient Satchel Palee (left) meet. —ith fertne. Brewklsn DoSgcr catch
jr Soy Campanella I right) at Cacipaficllas oM stomping grounds—Brooklyn’s EbbeU Field—before an
Ul-N«gro baseball program, August 23rd Paige, whose age seems to make ao differenae to hit pitching
west out s.ssd pitched two innings for the Havana Stars (UPI PHOTO 1.
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A Move Up To Schlitz
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the first Johamastm - Patterson
bout last June 26, claimed h*
was forced out of the organisa
tion by associates. UtoaeßSobu
also charged be was forced to
relinquish rights to radio &nd
television and controlling
share of the company’s stock
| in order to keep th® bout,
: Both the promotion os l enter
prise and its bow president, Vin
cent Volelia are suspended in
New York Therefore, it is unlike
ly that the bout will tee heH in
Gotham.
Meanwhile, hie delay in fee
fight is expected to aid Patterson,
who was stopped by Johansson in
th* third round of their initial
ruckus. Floyd, who appeared rusty
in th* bout after lengthy periods
of inactivity, will get chance to j
i sharpen his reflexes snd timing,
if Floyd regain* the form
University campus, where «n- j
feusiaas Is running at a fever
pitch. 55 candidates wfll begin
Sb days of foothill practice.
Counted among the candidate®
are 22 sophomores, stw: juniors,
three seniors and a high-prom
ising crew of 24 freshmen.
“What, we are going to do." Mc-
Girt said last week, “is find 22 foot
ball players so that w@ can alter
nate two teams Maybe it was my
bs achieved for tbs Archie.
Moore fight In 1956, he could
regain the tills. Floyd wis ?*-
ceptioß&lly quick ha knocking
oat the cagey Moore to the sth
round. Sohsasmon, while *
strong puncher, is slow afoot.
Patterson's querrelous manager.
Cus D’Amato, is remaining cur
iously quiet in the meantime. Nor
mally « talkative man, some
months ago he kept tip s running
feud with the now defunct Inter
national Boxing Club, and seemed
to enjoy every minute of it, Cus
this time Is letting Johannsors do
the talking. He apparently fears
wrecking Floyd’s chance at th* re
turn match.
Among erase mentioned for fee
return bout are Los Angeles, Phil
adelphia, Houston and Miami. Jo
hansson is said to have preferred
Los Angela* with it* 105,000 seat
coliseum.
S fauM test season, We never had two
! teams we could alternate.”
“But our picture isn’t dark. We
hav® a talented group of freshmen
scheduled to report So we should
have some real scraps for posi
] lions.”
Practice will be held Monday
through Saturdays, two hour
periods each day. with game-type
scrimmage on Wednesday and Sat
urday*.
direct. & two-day Junior Sport*
58.
The fourth annual jamboree, fee
jamboree beginning Friday, Aug
meet, which will feature, boys and
girls ranging in age from 10-15
years, is sponsored by the commis
sion.
Highlights of fee jamboree will
be track and field competition on
Friday, and sports clinics to be
conducted by track stars flown
hers from the Pan American Games
in Chicago.
Saturday’s program will include
swimming meets and an award
luncheon, at which trophies will
be presented to winners in ail e
vents.
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NCC SEEKS STRONG BACK
FTKSJS FOR '» SEASON
DURHAM • Biiilding a strong
backfiftM to back up an adequate
line was the chief pre-occupation
of coach Herman H. Riddick, as
the Eagles of North Carolina Col
lege began practice drills for the
1959 football season.
A total of 55 players reported for
practice Tuesday, Including 20 let
terman from last year’s squad The
Eagles finished sixth nationally a
moot Negro college teams last sea
son.
Riddick, entering hie 15th season
at the helm of NCC, had this to
say of tfe* possibilities of the team:
“W* could have a good team'
this year, if some of our first year
P -Mayers com* through for us to
ive us some depth.
ffetmwa* Ow» AdrerteMfa
% "'ITT”” v • v -
HEAVY RERPONStBUTY lf the A&T Cnl!fp, Aegie, ... to
repeal as OAA football champions. Paul Swann 6-1 quarterback from
Wsahlngton, D. €.. will have to carry more than his share of the
burden He is the lone quarterback returning from the 1958 champ
ship eleven Swann, % senior is an excellent passer, doe* most of the
counting and runs the ball with amassing speed.
GOOFIN’ OFF
BY "SKINK”
North Carolina College’s football oamp is flooded mth material
m usual, with twenty lettermen included m Uie ro’md-up The
schedule is loaded with church schools that cannot afford to recruit
«n abundance of select football material to work with . . Therefore.
State should have four or five “soft Saturday afternoons" m which
manpower will determine victory over an opponent’s exhausted first,
eleven.
On two or three occasions St Augustine’s College pushed the big
State team all over the field; but succumbed in the “evening” of the
game to the landslide of fresh replacements that the over-supplied
State bench was ab/e to release for action
“Breather Games” protect a team's won and loss column,
stud also furnish practice and experience for the few tough
engagements that are scientifically dotted here and there on
the schedule
ff the. coaching is right and the mental poise of the play
ers is intact, the big games will not be faced with a lack of
winning confidence and squad degeneration,
On the other hand, if a tough opponent has a heavy win column
over top-rated, stiff competition, they care less than nothing about
the “Chinese record ’that the opposing team has compiled, against un
equaled competitors
Neither North Carolina. College nor AdsT College has met with
any success against Florida. A&M. The scores have always been top
heavy and won with the greatest of ea.se , So what happens"
State drops Florida and picks up a church school so that it can
perhaps, have a chance to win one CIAA football title without a loss
to one or two outside schools.
Shaw University is the only CIAA school that has not been “mur
dered” by Florida AdsM In 1947 when the Bears won the national
championship, they defeated the Florida Rattlers. 18-0, and South
Carolina State. 6-0, the Capitol Classic in Washington, D C. These
two teams were rated’tops In Negro football circles that year. Altho
some critics termed the Shaw schedule as soft, it still included the two
top teems m the country, and one that no CIAA team has beaten
ane@-
SSet ewrytime that A.&T or State 'Mns a conference title
outside teams-—Tennessee or Florida—tarnish their outside
record with a lamblasting shellacklhgr.. . They are teams that
are loaded with material like AAT and State.
HILLSIDE MUM
he Hillside football camp is mum this year—not much to be
reard from that sector of the schoolboy football world.
The Hornets experienced a bad season last year ‘ and s closed
mouth i# best for the Durham aggregation right now, especially, when
all guns are pointed in their direction again this season.
Coaches Blunt and Easterling will bo trying hard to spring the
* lowly Hornets into the da railing football limelight that once the Bull
i City footballers enjoyed. But Pete Williams and his battery of Ligon
i High coaches are not being awed by the silence and are daily ready
ing their forces for the big Ligon-Hiiiside game that packs dynamite
and spine-tingling thrills year in and year out . . But Ligon will have
more so think about than just Hillside —Simon Coates at New Bern
Is not satisfied with the way the Little Blues treated him last year.
It was the first time that a Coates-coached team had ever lost to
j Raleigh . . , High Point has never done too well against Ligon: b»t
“Little Red” Atkinson is a coach that likes to upset regular-round pre
dictions. Big Atkinson at Rocky Mount will tee defending hi* stale
championship title when his Booker T, "Bookers” face the Raleigh
Clan, and Winston-Salem will have plenty to offer when they face
the Little Blues here in the last home game of the season.
Livingstone College is in the midst of a $750,000 building program
that was instituted by President Samuel E. Duncan—a former star
athlete at the institution—who started the mammoth building cam
paign after becoming amazed at a predicted SIOO,OOO campaign dis
closed by CAROLINIAN representative, Alexander Barnee after the
inauguration of the prex.v.
THE CAROLINIAN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP' GAME
Rain postponed the CAROLINIAN League Championship Game
here Sunday at Chavis Park between Henderson and Sroithiield. The
game will tee played Sunday, September 6. aA 8:80 pm, at Chanda
Park.
Patronize OitrSfi itisers
|Archie’s Manager
Drops Light flint
LOS ANGELES <ANP> - A .Joe I
Brown-Da.vey -Moore lightweight \
title but may be in the offing
That much was hinted by
Moore s manage \ Willie Ketchum
and George Parnassus, matchmak
er for the recent Moore-Hogan !
bout. Moore stopped Bassey on a
iKid) Ba?s*v featherweight title
TKO in the 11th round.
Ketchum -aid. after the
20 Lettermen Expected As
Howard Begins Grid Drills
WASHINGTON—Some 35 play
ers, including 20 lettermen. are
expected to report to Howard Uni
versity Coach Bob White Tuesday
(Sept 1) when the Bisons hold
their first pre-season drills in
j preparation for their 66th year
of varsity football
Two- a-day drills have been j
scheduled by Coach While during.
the first two weeks of practice.
They will be held at Howard Sta
dium Sixth and Fairmont Streets,
northwest, at 9 a m and 2 30 pm,
and will be open to the public.
The Bisons, who had a 6-2-1
record m 1958. will have less
than four weeks to prepare for
the 1959 opener Their first
game is scheduled for Satur
day, September 36th against
Virginia State College at Et
! trick, Va This will be the first
of eight games, inrlndiiu six
in Central Intercollegiate Ath
letic Association competition,
for the Howard team
Other Cl A A opponents on this ;
year's schedule include Virgin’a i
Onion, Delaware State Morgan |
State of Baltimore Hampton j
(Van Institute and Lincoln Uni- j
vers jtv of Pennsylvania Non on- j
: conference foe? include Fisk Cm- 1
versity of Nashville and Morehouse
; College of Atlanta
ui-sven linemen and nine backs
comprise the group oi let tea-men
expected to return this year And
although the large group of re
turnees should give the Bisons a
; good nucleus for the 1959 squad,
| coach White is faced with the
j problem of filling both cackle
i spots and the center position Milt
| Buck and Bob Shelton, last years’
| regular tackles, have been gradu
! 7 Lettermen
\ Report At
Albanv, Gq>
. j
ALBANY Gi —Only s** en let
termen are included among the 60
hopefuls at the Albany State Col
lege Hazard Drive Training Camp,
j readying for the Rems encounter
| with Miles College in Birmingham.
| Sept 26 Experienced varsity "A"
I men are led by the tri-captains —-
j senior halfback Eddie Robinson,
j Athens: junior end Milton Bostic,
! Athens; and junior confer Robert
; Bowens, Columbus Halfback and
punter Hank Campbell (Tiftonh
guard Tim Durant. (Orlando, Fla);
quarterback Art Gamble (Quit
j man): and guard Earl Summerime
! (Tampa, Fla) are other monogram
i | wearers
I Also in training with Coaches O
w O’Neal. Ken Dunson, and Joe
' Mitchell are several veteran play
ers. Charlie Pambro, Calvin Men
tion. Joe Peterson, and Willard
tackles, Krister Hightow
! er. guard: Mack Sewell, center, and
j Jesse Ivory, Jesse James, and Wil
• ham Wiggins, backs, are ail com
peting with the 45 freshmen and
transfers for berths on the 38-man
squad.
Stephens-Lee
Faces Tough
' 9-Game Slate
i
r ASHEVILLE—The Stephens-Lee
- High School Bears are very busy
; in preparation for their September
:> stfe opener. Coach Moore, with on
l ly two players from the 358 start
ing eleven returning, is busy re
> building .
; The Bears, who have lost on
ly three games out of the last
36. we in for a rough season
•with one of the school’s tough
est schedules facing them.
The schedule ts as follows:
Sept 4, C. A. Johnson High #t
Columbia. S. C,; Sept. 11, Carver
High at Winston-Salem; Sept 16,
Sept. 24. Second Ward at Asheville:
Atkins High at Winston-Salem;
Oct. J. Price High at Salisbury;
Oct to West Charlotte at Char
lotte: Oct. 36, Dudley High at
Greensboro: Oct 29. Logan at Ashe
ville; Nov, 5, Alcoa, Term., High
at Asheville.
What human beings sre unable
to understand, they attribute to the
Almighty, either as a blessing or a
' punishment
?m castoumut
WEtK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, ISS9
j cerra for my featherweight eham-
Mnore victory, that he would
n’t mind matching his little
tiger with Brown, lightweight
champion, “providing the mon
ey is right.”
Moore didn’t ntind fighting
the heavier Brown, either, If
the price is right. He said-
Frankly. Fd like to meet (world
bantamweight champion Josel Se-
ated, while Center Don Browne |
also a starter in 1358, recently en- j
listed in the Army.
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pionship But, I’m m this business
for the money and I’ll fight any
body, if the price is right.’’
Parnassus, meanwhile, said *
Moore-Brown would be a natural
He believes Davey could put on e
nough beef to withstand the bombs
of the heavy-punching Brown, be
cause Moore is showing signs of
outgrowing the featherweight di
vision. It took him seven times on
) the scale to make the 126-pound
limit for the Bassey fight.
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*Ttnrters?t«ad tSw tsew styL
was designed by & drunken
teat makes that hates
woossaT*
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