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18 THE CAROLINIAN RALEIGH. N. C SAILED VY. SEPTEMBER U. 1961 1: & @f * / / . %' -• / - f : *if*s •/■ ' ■ ' IpF £*■■■’'4 •« 4- a ,fc -•• t .-{BSE •■' til 1 V V *»>:*?« <•• ¥: •:■ •>; - «*•'■■ <*•'«► *•«** «* «* ! ißd.. CARRY PENN STATE'S HOPES Penn State hopes for All-American selection rest on the broad shoulders of these high flying ends. Bob Mitinger (86) and Dave Robinson (80). 7he Hitt.any Lions opened practice on September Ist. (UP! TELEPHOTO) Tan Player Who Set Grand Slam Record Med Cl’s “Player Os Yr.” WILSON fANF)—A Negro play er who set an ail-time baseball record of seven grand slam home buns in a single season was voted the Carolina League’s player ol the year for 1961. He is Chuck Weatherpsoon. who won the honor by a wide margin Ligon’s Little Blues Win Opener Dvsr Smith, 24-18 Tire J W. Ligon High School Little Blues go: off to a firing Hart this young fr.<- tbali season by edg ing a favorite E E Smith team, from Fayetteville by 24-18 in a game in Rahurh's Cha ws Park James Howard, a senior halfback with plenty of determination led •ke Blues offense, picking up 10? yards in nine rush me effr"ts Pat White's 54 ’ .ard pass to Howard set j up the first TD with Andrew Hor ton. fullback, powering over from ‘he one-vard line to put Ligon a head 6-0 in the first quarter, a lead they net s : • - >ed Pete Williams’ charges scored HOME RUN HI 7 1 EhS Detroit Tigers sluggers A1 Kaline, left, Jake Wood, center ana. Rocky. Colavite are shown in the dressing roots at Washington after tfre Tigers defeated the Washington Senators, 7-2. Kaline an§ Colavite both homeced in the first inning and ood hit a frand-a/aai home run in the 6th miring. (UP! TELEPHOTO). over runner-up Gates Brown, the league batting champion. In the balloting announced by Bill Jessup, league president Weatherspoon garnered 15 of the 26 votes cast by sportowriters sportscasters and field managers Brown received eight votes. one TB in each quarter hut failed to make good on any con eriuon in their efforts to run • e hail over for the two points ,oy Hicks, a capable halfback i h plenty of heart setup the ■ lues second score by throwing a strike to Dewey Lee, a rangy end, covering 24 yards Howard d White got Ligon's last two TDs on runs of 14 yards and 1 yards respectively. Licon’s forward wall, anchored by Levmont Jenkins and Freddie Curtis held the visiting Bulldogs to a net of 162 yards while the Blue? picked up 205. The locals had ■ l Weatherspoon's feat of seven I has never before been accom ■ i plished in the major or minor i leagues. i j Ironically Weatherspoon, m his seventh year in organized base ' ball hit only .219 for Wilson las: year. j 14 first downs to Smith's 6 to lead j in that department and thus avenge j last year’s 20-6 defeat although they j had a scare when the Bulldogs I racked up two touchcdowns and j come within one of tieing the Ra i ieigh squad in the last quarter. In addition to Pete Williams, the ! Blues are coached by the veterans , George Handy in the backfield. Hu bert Poole in tbe line and George Jones, a recent graduate of Saint 1 Augustine’s College who is hand i ling the ends This week Ligon travels to Wil ! mington to take on Williston High ; on Friday night. It Pays To ADVERTISE BEATING THE GUN By Bill Brower !for A VP) This advice ts for free to any scout m the National or American Football League. You want a back who can act on punt returns, who can carry the mail on kick off run backs, who can be spotted for a broken field dash? Well, we believe you man is Jim Tiller, who has been perform ing for the Toledo Tornadoes ol the American Football Conference. Performing, did we say? He has been setting it ablaze with swift ness and adroitness in the open field. Tiller is a mite of a man, as .football players go. He’s 5-10 and weighs, perhaps, a few ounces more than 155 pounds. In college, he was a standout performer for Pur due University. His size was against him and got nary a nibble from the talent hunters of the NFL and the AFL. The Montreal Alouettes of the Ca nadian Big Four League beck oned him for a tryout. A combination of circumstances —his size and too many expe rienced Americans led to his re lease. It was too late for him to return to Purdue to complete work on his degree. Lacking nothing better, he came back to his home town of Fre mont, Ohio, 40 miles from Toledo. For a small man who wants to go places, this was a wise decision. He decided to try out for the Toledo team of the AFC. a minor pro league just getting its feet wet. Since then. Tiller has been a positive sensation. He appeared on the scene just before the Tor nadoes were to play their first exhibition game. With Coach Bob Snyder teaching him a few of the team's plays on the sidelines. Til ler was ready for action two plays later. He scored a touchdown on a 54-yard punt runback and broke away for several other scoring threats. Then with a week of practice under his belt. Tiller performed against the Cincinnati Mohawks and this is what happened? He returned a 50 - yard punt i for a touchdown., he returned a ! 46-yard punt for another score, caught a 14-yard punt for a TD. other six-pointer. This occurred and caught a 38-yard pass for an ; with about two minutes of actual ! participation. In the next encounter he opened ! toe game with a 90-yard touch ; down on a kickoff. The second | time he touched the ball he raced 30 yards for another TD. and fi r-ib. scored again on a three yard da.-.i later in the game. Tiller has tried to attract atten * ion bv swelling his weight to 165 ito 170. 1 “That wav maybe they won’t deride I’m too small without see ing what T can do,’’ Tiller says. I’m always having to wait for a chance to prove myself. Tire first, time. I went out for football • they wouldn’t give me a uniform I had to wait a year before I got ! one.” At Purdue. Jim had three var ;sity seasons after a fine career at Fremont's Ross High. In his soph omore season, he was injured in football. In his second season he played on the second varsity unit. Last year he came into his own He was the Boilermaker’s top scorer with seven touch downs, averaged four yards rushing, led in receiving with 21 catches for 237 yards aver age and three TTK. was lead ing punt returner running t)3rk four for a 20.5-yard aver age. and caught seven aerials against lowa to tie a Purdue record held by three players. He went both ways. “I love football, and I love plav ing defense against the bigger man” he says. “I just can't make myself believe that I’m not as good or better as any man on the field no matter what they think about my size. I'm fast, I’m not afraid and I ‘ don’t stand around trying to make up my mind where to go. I know’ I can't run over anyone, so I have to so around them. I guess that’s about all there is to it.” San Diego Chargers Boasts j 8 Tan Players Sid Gillman. coach of the San Diego Chargers and former coach : of the Las Angeles Rams, has, more i Negroes on his squad than any other team in professional sports |. . It was only three years ago | that his writer was accusing Gill i man for being prejudiced against Neero players and that he had a quota of four Negroes . . . Eight of Gillrnan's present group of Ne groes have no-cut contracts . . Offensive stars of the team to date have been Paul Lowe, who was second by 29 yards to Abner Haynes of the Dallas Texans in j the race for most yards gained in I the American Football League in 1960: and pushing him for the left halfback spot. Bo Roberson, Olympic broadjumper and former | Cornell track and football star. Also on offense Is Luther Hayes, last year’s right end for USC. now' playing the slot back, and Ernie Wright of Ohio State, recognized in 1960 as one of the best tackles in the league, by is it i. **• 1 so many of tnosc who claim they wish to avoid pub licity go to restaurants and night clubs where they are bound to be seen and recognized? The scientists have found that Sevin and TDE are safe for use by fobac-co farmers around farm ioonds If mankind had a chance to make the world over, it probably would look exactly as it is today, or worse. ijXS i mm \ _ NEW AGGIE TRAINER Arthur “Art" Statum, an A&T College Aggie athletic “great" , returns to his Alma Mater as head trainer. All-Cl A A football end for three years, he won the NCAA heavyweight boxing championship and turned in sterling per formances in track and field while a student there. THE SPORTS GEAT BY BILL JOHNSON As I See 1t,,. The Way It Loooks To Me . Local supporters are happy over what they have seen of the Johnson C. Smith University football team. Coach Eddie McGirt and assistants Kenny Powell and William McCul lough may be putting together one , of the best football teams ever to represent the westside campus in quite some time. They have great performers in Pettis Norman. Harry Cherry, Geo Dorman, Elbert Whitting. William Joyner, and James Harrison, along the line. And the barkfield of Jas. j Lawrence and John Butler at toe halves and James Townes at full j should be one of the most explosive touchdown machines in the CIAA. The picture gets brighter as several freshmen are acting up as if they are impatient about waiting until next year to play. Halfback A! Hunley, a track star from Buffalo, N. Y., quar hacks Leroy Scott and George Foster from Union and Spar tanburg. S. C., and fullback John Foster of Martinsville. Va. are making serious bids for first string jobs. So are tackle Charles Mom son, 235 pound ex-Air Force veteran from Statesville, end John Bolding, 6' s', 180 pound track star from Richmond, Va. and Johnny New bly, 6' 3”. 215 pound Asheville lad. The Bulls will average close to 220 along the line and about 190 in the backfield. J. C. Smith lias also come up with a couple of basketball players who were outstanding in high school. They are Jimmy Purdue, 6’ 6”, 240 pound center at. Greensboro's Dud ley High, and Larry Sills. 6' 3”. IPO oound center from Buffalo, N. Y. James Whiteside, «’ 2”, 170 pound guard from Gary. Indiana has also enrolled at. Johnson C Smith. * * * * Veteran Rams Fear Trade LOP ANGELES (ANP> Ac cording to recent minors, several veteran Ram football players are complaining about their inactive roles. Among those dissatisfied with their present lot, axe Joe Mar coni, ousted from fullback: Fred Ryan, who appeared briefly as quarterback against the 49ers re cently, and Red Phillips, who has been ignored in the past offense, Los Angeles sports experts say. There has been no confirmation of the rumors from the players, however. MY Mets Sign Hurler With 28-1 Win lost Record HOLLYWOOD Fla. (ANF) A 22-year-old Negro pitcher with an impressive 28-1 won-lost record with the Indianapolis Clowns baseball team was signed to a major league contract by the New York Mets, a 1962 National League team and will report to the Mets’ Mobile, A'a,, farm team in the c*outhern Association next soring. He is Charley Middlebrook, a 6-foot 185-poimd southpaw, who had a 1.25 earned nm average with the Clowns. His signing was announced here by Syd Pollock, Clowns general manager. One of the most promising pros pects to, be signed recently Mid dlebrook wass coated by Wid Mat thaws, chief scout for the Mets. Financial terms elf tbs contract were not disclosed. i Robert Montgomery. former ! North Carolina College football t&r, has been named head football ■coach at Second Ward High School. ; The former All-CIAA quarterback, I who is a native of Gastonia, will j make his home here. ® • • * Early reports from the NCC ; training camp have coach Herm m ! Riddick beaming brightly over the : ire-season work of Robert McAd | ams and James Nunn. McAdams is I a Fi'2". 240 pound tackle and Nunn. I a Durham native, is 247 pounds ; Roth boys are expected to hold 1 down the tackles when the Eagles open rbe campaign at Columbia. S C against Allen University on Sept. 23. Riddick also likes what he has seen of halfback Charles Daye. Casualties have struck a serious blow in the Eagle camp with the sidelining of halfback Douglas Fai son and guard Luther Ellis, both iuniors who were considered start ers before going to the sidelines with injuries. » * » * Is there a bigger football team than West. Charlotte in high school circles? The Lions of coach Jack Martin have seven boys who go over the 220 mark on the scales. Jimmy Jordan is biggest at. .325, with Edward (Small Change) Mc- Millan close behind at 270. Jerry McCullough, Robert Jones, Frank Hubbard, Frank Brown and Robert. McMullen all weigh 220 pounds or more. ft * ft • HERE'S A TIP TO COLLEGE SCOUTS . . . Put the names of Wil liam Willis, 196 pound West Char lotte end. tackle Milton Wright, 210 pound Winston Salem Carver star, in your little black book for future references. : PRO BASKETBALL ; * Wed. Sept 27 -Charlotte Coliseum * * PP! PHILADELPHIA * ImS warriors '■ V; * Bk WITH WILT (THE STILT) + WBm. chamberlain . Prtnk McGuire \j, s??',■ ' \ •m m* . ..4* wilt m ypfcg ST, LOUIS wf 4. *§l,4 HAWKS \\ * S Runn * f o* NS* Kins e.«f by Bob Pettit * J| ORDER NOW—CHOICE SEATS ■K Ericas: Boxrt $3; Circle end P,r»"** -t; 5(5. mM&'l'mwm* *m Men. $3, and ft®». Senere! si.so 4s£ ' Write Coliseum h- Office end Stale Preference SM* W&w&Fmki 4L M* WW of Seats. «'-!«r* Fi|k,d Promptly |K£|< «' 1* " West Charlotte Downs Concord s Team, 38-0 CHARLOTTE West Charlotte Senior High School used muscles, brawn and slippery halfbacks to maul Concord’s Logan High, 38-0, here Friday night. It was the first football win of the season for the Lions, who drop ped a 22-12 decision to Winston- Salem Carver in their opener last week. Concord was opening its cam paign. Led by 225 pound tackle Rob ert Jones and 196 pound end James Willis, the big West Charlotte forward wall stalled the Concord barks with a net of 38 yards rushing and only 80 passing with five eompietions Iluliois High Opens (■rid St itMtn Friday 'BY SHERLF. BOONE I WAKE FOREST The Dußois ], High Lions will open their 1961 j football season, Friday, Sept. 15, i against the Pittsboro Hornets. The Lions are under the coach- ■ ing of T. E. Jeffries, and assist ant coach, George Clements. Clements is a new member who has been added to the coaching staff as Dußois. Clements, better known as “Tricks.” served as as sistant coach of the St. Augustine’s College Faisons. Hr r aved foot ball and basketball at Middlestown Senior High School of Middlestown, Ohio, and at Florida A&M Univer sity, He has had experience as a professional baseball player with the Winston-Salem Giants, also with the Cleveland Buckeyes of the Old American League. The Lions have 18 iettermen re- Morris Brown Wolverines Drilling For Tough Season ATLANTA (ANP) The Wo!-; verines of Morris Brown College last week were hard at. work pre- j paring for one of their toughest; football seasons. In the nine-game season open-! ing here Saturday, Sept. 23, the Wolves of Coach Edward J. Clem-: i ons wil play six conference tilts < and three against non-conference; foes. They will meet Benedict Col-. 1 lege in the opener. ! i The Wolves’ most nigged j ] foes include Tennessee State ’( Seagrams Cmirn - $4;05 «MM«-9irtii.iiss cnwptfr* new ynsk city BtwifO WHtSKSY, M Pww. 65% lipmm wunn in 12 throws. The Lions, meanwhile, v. ,- chewing up 192 yards with Terrific running game and 146 yards .with quarterback John Gander's pass ing Grand hit the tarkets six times with eight tosses. Two of West Charlotte’s scores were called back. Six others stayed on the board Touchdown maker*' for the victors were end Rooert Moore who scored twice and half back James Ferguson, fullback James Medley, end William Will - ard substitute fullback Cordell Poe who tallied once each. The Lions move up to Salisbury this week end to tackle Price High turning to the squad and 16 new comers. When queried as to what he thinks of this year's team, coach Jeffries commented that “he is looking forward so a most prosper ous season." He stated that “I have been very much impressed by the way the team has been shaping up Our team has the weight, speed, experience and confidence, and this is as much as any coach can ask Coach Jeffries agreed that this is going to be one of the best teams that he has coached since he began coaching at Dußois in 1958. The Lions are led by seven ex perienced seniors. They are as fol lows: Lawrence Shackleford, Wil liam Harris, Carlester Watkins. Al j bert Lucas, Joseph Peppers, Rich ard Dunston, and James Fogg and North Carolina College, among non-conference teams and the Rattlers of Florida A&M University and South Carolina State, among the conference squads. Morris Brown will play Ken tucky State College in the sea son’s homecoming game. Coach Clemons an dhis staff hope to build a winning combi nation around 19 lettermen from last season’s squad, and a group of promising newcomers.