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14 THE CABOUWI&R RALEIGH, N. C., SATURDAY. FEBRUARY *4, IMS SSBD Greyhound Favorites In Wake - Johnson Meet Wake-Johnston Cage Tourney Set For February 21,23,24 The Wake -Johnaton tournament begins Wednesday, Feb. 21 with renters at Cooper High in Clay ton and North Carolina School for the Blind and Deaf in Raleigh The finals will be held at the Berry 'OKelly High School, Saturday, Feb, 24. North Carolina Blind and Deaf v. ith a record of 11-1 holds down the fop position in the brackets. Apex Consolidated is second with * 3-3 record. North Carolina Blind and Deaf winners of the tournament for the last two years will try to make it three in a row. Their only loss this season was to Gamer Consolidated, Apex. Cooper, and Berry O’Kelly who have strong teams and hope to upset the Greyhounds of North Carolina Blind and Deaf Gamer Consolidated looms lire dark-horse, having beaten most of tfoe top teams during regular season play. Some of the leading high scihoel Tewing the GUN BT BILL BROWER for ASF Vie Power, the versatile Cleve land Indian, had a season last year that hardly pleased the Puerto Ri can. It was the kind of campaign that enhances the talk that Vic is a bad actor. Unfortunately. ’Jimmy Dykes, who was deposed as Cleveland’s manager near the end of the sea son. spread the word during the winter that Power was hard to handle. All of this Is distressing the likeable Power, who Is the most accomplished fielding first baseman In the game. So St’s small wonder that Vic has em barked on a personal public re lations campaign to disabuse the minds of Cleveland fans that he’s what they say about him. A MALIGNED PLATER In fact. Power, during off-sea son personal appearances to help drum up interest, for the Indians, has gotten a boost from the Tribe's front office. Oabe Paul, the general manager, recently told audiences in Toledo, Ohio, and Mansfield. Ohio that Power was one of the ’’most maligned” players in base ball. Paul had the notion—or at least he had been brainwashed to some extent—and vainly sought to trade ♦he volatile Pow er. But first he had a talk with the player, became con vinced of his sincerity and decid ed that he was an asset to the club. DECEIVED BT STYLE As for Power, he says: "T don’t know why It Is. but people don’t like me. I’m not very smart but I eats figure that out. T w ant to please peo ple. T try to be nice when I meet people 1 sign autographs, but I’m not the mean guy but there’s something about me people don't like,” Some of his contemporaries on the field ha\e accused Vic of show boating because of the stylish first baseman's tendency to catch every thing one-handed. Vie has what seems to us a logi cal explanation. He says he used the one-handed technique because he can see the ball better. Show boating or not, Power, with his ! one-handed grab* still makes few er errors than any other first base .man and most other mficlders, de spite the number of chances he handles. Power’s reputation as a bad actor probably came from his reputation in the minors while he was a New York Yankee farmhand. He was a fiery performer, who went all out. This kind of player inevitably gets into a scrap here and there. But the spotlight was oh Vic in the early 1 950 s because it looked for a time that he would become the first tan Yankee. But when the ankers could no longer consist him to t ie minors, they traded him to the Philadelphia Athletics There might be s sidelight to this. Vic )•• married to a light-com plex ioned Puerto Rican and when hr was seen in the bright lights of New York City escorting her, it was said that the Yankees con sidered him an SOB then and there. r.FTS WRITER'S SUPPORT Vic: had a poor season at hot. last, year, hitting only ,268, his lowest since his first season in the majors with old Philadelphia Athletics Dykes put the rap on him for part of the Indians' failure Further more. he accused Power of being a troublemaker. “Tt was a hum rap for Power." says Regis McAuley a Cleveland sport l wider. ‘‘Dykes was convin ced thal Power leafed on him sev eral times during the season. He hinted as much to inquiring gen eral managers at the winter meet ing's who were interested in mak ing a deal for Power.” Ds kes often referred to Power’s performance at the plate, and this has prompted McAuley to write: "But those of us who saw the In dians play all 162 games last season know how many balls Power hit right on the nose Hi at didn’t go through for bi.se hits. We saw him trying to hit behind the runners when men were on first or second and we saw him lift sacrifice flies to bring in men from third.” But Power was useful in other wavs Once Jimmy Piersall got in to a scrap with Jim Burning. the Detroit hurler. after he had hit. the former Indian outfielder with a pitch. Power sgt on Piersall to bring a halt to his mauling. players in the state can be seen in action; Grant of North Carolina Blind and Deaf, who is averaging over 30 points a game: Taylor of Garner who has a 27 point average, and Sanders of Cooper with a 22 point game a\-erage are just a few that will participate. This promises to be a most in teresting tournament as most of the teams seem about equal in strength. Glover Leads As Falcons Defeat Pels, Tha St. Augusrtines Collate Fal cons, trailing S 3 to 29 at the half, caught up at 87 to 37 when the second half started and drove to a 73 to 66 victory over Delaware State College in Ligon gymnasium here Friday night. Lamon Wvche hit. the basket for the points that, tied the scores and Alfred Glover followed up with a total of 23 points to give the Pal cons a 7 to 9 CIAA and a 9 to 9 ov erall record. Pacing the loser* were Kennety Person with 17 points, Frazier, 15: Gunnell. 12; Bratcher, 9; Joyner, 8 Penny. 3; and Harrison, 2. Falcons scoring honors went to Glover with 23: Wyche. 17; Belton. 13,: Newbold, 9; Davis, 5; Cottrell, 4; Lindsey, 2 and Randeli Hillside Bows To Little Blues DURHAM The Ligon High School Little Blues leaped into first place in the District 2 class 3-A loop with a thrilling 68 to 65 victo tory over the Hillside High School quintet here Friday night The Little Blues were trailing by seven points when they went into the final period, but Milton Mat thews hit the nets for three straight, baskets, enabling the visitors to catch up. He led the Little Blues with 20 points for top scoring honors as the team established an 8 to 4 CIA A record, while Bobby Height threw in 15 and Bobby White 13 points to round out the Ligon scoreboard Earl Mason led Durham with 19 points. Aggies Wirt Rifle Match WINSTON-SALEM The AAT College ROTC Rifle Team last week defeated the Wake Forest Riflemen. 1341-1334, in a shonlder to-shoulder rifle match conducted on the Wake Forest. Rifle Range Charles Richardson, of A&T, and John Harris, of Wake Forest, were leading scorers, finishing with i dentical scores, 275 out of a possi ble 300. The victory gave the Aggie team : a 10-2 record for the season. Clay KO’s Banks In Fourth Os 10 Round NY Bout NEW YORK Cassius Clay —a j big talking, light heavyweight j champion with a perfect record - ! won a technical knockout over un- I ranked Lucian (Sonny) Banks ir, j an ABC televised fight in Madison ! Square Garden here Sat. night. He floored challenger Banks in the first, second, and third rounds, but ring physicians agreed to per mit Banks to continue when the fight was halted In the third round The Clay predictions that ’’he’ll go about four rounds” and “Banks must fall”, occurred after 26 seconds of the fourth round Clay holds an Olympic gold me dal as light heavyweight champion j and a 11-0 record, including seven : knockouts in professional competi tion, his victims including Alonza Johnson, Alex Miteff, and Willie Basmanoff Banks now ha* a 10-8 record, with 9 knockouts in 13 professional bouts, mostly in his hometown of Detroit. Swedish dairymen take one af ternoon off a week, with a loss of only four per cent In milk produc tion. Mj.Neigblim “Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and b© thcorse®,* LOOSE BALL Carl Braun ( left) rushes for the loose hall after it slipped through the hands of teammate Bill Russell (right) of the Boston Celtics. New York's Phil Jordan (8) and Johnny Green (11) look on. The Knicks heat the Celtics 125-112. (UP! PHOTO). Johnny McLendon Stays On With Cleveland Pipers As Vice Prexy CLEVELAND fANP) Named a vice president of the Cleveland Pipers after he had resigned as coach of the team. Johnny McLen don called his new position a fit ting one and said it provided “a good finale to misunderstanding ” Earlier last week McLendon had resigned in a huff, blaming inter ference by team president George Steinbrenner. He said Steinbrenner undermined the loyalty of his players in him by having them sign a statement refuting a newspaper story that the players were not at odds with the team president. The newspaper story stated the players were threatening not io play in a game against the Pitts burgh Rens because Steinbrenner had threatened to withhold their pay following the team’s loss to the Kansas City Steers in the finale of the American Basketball League’ first-half championship play-off sc ! ries. Steinbrenner, the story added, had accused the players of not hustling. McLendon, it was reported, talk ed the players out of the boycott. It was also rumored that Stein brenner had given McLendon an ultimatum to win the playoff se- Walt Bellamy Compared With Chamberlain BV 111 \RI.feS J LIVINGSTON | CHICAGO tANP>—Here in tlu "Windy City” basketball observers, are boldly comparing Walt. Bel - j lamy. New Bern, N. C i.he gang ! ling rookie center of tin Chicago I Packers team, with Wilt Chambei lain of the Philadelphia Warriors Some even contend that Walt out shines Chamberlain m all around : playing ability. j Whether Walt, is as great a pin ?- ! jer as Chamberlain at so early a, stage in the ex Hoisier s profes sional career is. of course, highlv j questionable. But if Bellamy con - i tinues to improve at his current pace there may be real trooble a head for Wilt. PUTS ON GREAT SHOW Last Wednesday night, in the International Amphitheatre. Wait, put on a great show for 3.112 1 cheering fans, despite the fact ; that the Packers lost to the world j champions Boston Celtics. 122-115 * in a National aßsketball Associa- ! Won contest. Facing the great defensive mas ter, Bill Russell, Beliamy scored j 47 points and crabbed 23 rebound., j as he emerged the games’ highest. : scorer. With Walt teaming with guard Ralph Davis, who scored 28 point*, the Packers almost caught : up with the Celtics in the final j quarter, coming within threei points of doing so. But experience j finally paid-off for the Bostonians who salvaged their first victory in j l five games. j i Bellamy was both skillful and accurate in the gatr.c. Va rying his G, tense, he iw., cu on | “dunk” shots, drives and soft jump shots, and held his own against Russell on defense. He repeatedly slipped through the tight Celtics de fense, at times even faking out “Big Bill”. On two occasions. Bellamy drove j so fast down court, tnkt he left! f i ies, or else. McLendon was replac | ed as coach by Bill Sherman, form j or mentor of the now defunct Los | Angeles Jets. Commenting on his appointment as vice president. McLendon said: ’My wife and 1 like it here in Cleveland and are happy that well be staying. 1 feel this is a fitting position for many reasons.” Steinbrenner also said he was "delighted and proud” that McLen don had returned. Yet before Mc- Lendon's resignation, Steinbrenner | had accused the popular Negro I coach of not using his players cor j ~ ■ — FAMU Basketeers Ends Perfect Season: 21-0 * TALLAHASSEE The Florida •Vi-M University crowd-pleasing | basketball tram goes into the 29th ! annual Southern I intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament | with a perfect 21-0 season record. ' The league mark is 19-0. They were | 15-9 last year. j R. T Ha:- ev commissioner of the STAC, aid: "This the first time j hi trie history of the tournament. if not a first in the conference, a I team has gone undefeated during regular play. The tournament will be played at Tuskej ec Institute, Feb. 22-24. Like the '6l football team, the : hardwood "5 ' was almost unchal : ictiged. I’he Rattlers have not been | defeated in athletic competition Livingstone Defeats Fayetteville, 75-59 FAYETTEVILLE With dream:, es loop tournament play well out of their minds, the Page P. Saund ers edition of the Fayetteville Bron cos settled down to have fun iri their ow ri back yard with the Liv ingstone Collegf Boars of Salisbu ry. 75-59 here Tuesday evening. This CArolina-Carolina tilt went in to high from the lip-off, for when the Bears' forward, Larry Albert : isled in a difficult one to draw first blood., a Bronco reserve. Fred erick Ellis shot, back promptly with an easy under-the basket lay-up. That tie represented the first of -ix I Cepeda Seeks Big Pay Boost SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico <ANP> —Vacationing here at, home before returning to America for spring u-aining with the San Francisco Giants, slugger Orlando Cepeda indicated that, he intends to hold out for a sizeable increase from the Giants over his salary last everybody behind him. He moved in with long, ostrich-like strides. Wait also proved that he is leaiming fast how to play the rug ged NBA brand of basketball, For intsance, he knows how to ma neuver around. Instead of fighting ] to get passes under the board, he frequently moves out and uses his! short jumper. This loosens up the j opposition and he then moves irs I again. rectly and of utilizing race horse basketball. In his new position, McLendon, the first member of his race to en ter organized professional basket ball. will be in the front office working on personnel, promotion and public relations. He will con fer with Sherman on player per sonnel and will be available for speeches and basketball clinic. It is commonly felt, however, that McLendon would have preferred to remain coach of the pipers. But be J couldn't stomach Steinbrenner’* ' interference. i this academic year. All total they | have played 31 contests, 10 in foot ; ball and 21 in basketball. | Waite Bellamy, a 6-5 junior j guard from Memorial High in Pal- I metto, was the leading scorer. His | game average was 16 5. Barnes of j Marianna was the top rebounder | with 20 rebounds per game, j The mark set by the FAMU 1 courtmen assures them of an tnvi | tat ion to the College Division of the NCAA Regional piay-offs at a | site yet to be named March 9-10. | If the Rattlers win the SIAC tour ; nament next week, they will have a choice of participating in either j the NCAA or the National Assocta ! tion of Intercollegiate Athletics I play-offs. that vent, into the record books for the first period. Tire hammering campaign saw' the score flip to and fro with near clock-like regularity. Livingstone's Bobby Wiley, fast-moving forward, noured in 20 points to lead the field in scoring Bronco’s "Red Bib by” walked off the court with 19 points to his credit. An attempted Broncos come back during the final five minutes of play fell through and it became increasingly obvious that, the Bears had salied-awsy another ball game at. the expense of a dejected Bron co outfit.. | He returned his 1962 contract, calling for an estimated 33 per , cent increase, to the Giants un signed. Coped a received about $27,- 500 last season. WANTS ssfi.©oo I It is believed Cepeda is dirik r- I mg for the sum of around $50,000, ; And the fact that centerfielder ! Willie Mays aimed for $90,000, j seems to make Orlando all the I more determined. ! Cepeda. who topped the Nation i al League with 46 home runs, out i hit Mays last season. However, hts <l6 homers fell eight, short of Mays ! major leagues top output of 54. IMays is also a far better all-a --! round ball player than Cepeda. 1 season. Ray Robinson Loses Comeback Decision To Moyer In TV Bout NEW YORK Middleweight crown contender Sugar Ray Rob inson of New- York lost a televised title fight when Denny Moyer of Portland, Oregon, won an unani mous decision over him in a ten round comeback fight in Madison Square Garden here Saturday night. The greatest con-whack fighter in ring history, Sugar Ray became a professional fighter. October. 1940, when his adversary was only a year *nd two months old and won a fifteen round decision fight over the Oregon “kid” here last Oct , but Saturday night he lost. He was knocked into the ropes by the baby-faced Denny in the second round, but the two-to-one favorite has been known to back Into the ropes deliberately in order to lure the challenger. Re drew a tiny trickle of blood from the nose of Moyer at the be ginning of the fight and before the end of the round his nose was bleeding profusely and bothered him in the second round. Moyer pressed Robinson hard in the fifth and sixth rounds, continu ed to push him back in the sixth and seventh, and in the eighth was definitely tire aggressor. Judges Tony Rossie and Leo Bumbaum and Referee Arthur Mc- Kennie all gave Moyer seven rounds and both judges gave Rob inson three, but the referee count ed one round even and gave seven to Moyer and two to Robinson. - ; . ; : LISTON - PAt 7 ERSON TITLE FlGHT —bonny Liston of Philadelphia has been accepted as challenger by champion Floyd Patterson for a June title fight Patterson (right) is shown shak ing hand s with Liston as they met at the annual dinner of the Bosing Writers Association in New York (UPI TELEPHOTO ). NCC Relay Team Records 14th Track Victory North Caroliins College’s mile re lay team recorded it* 14th straight win, over a 2 year period on the cinderpaths here last Sat. night in a time of 3:25.6 in the Philadel phia Inquirer Track Meet. The Eagle foursome beat out Georgetown University, University of Maryland and Syracuse Univer sity. According to NCC's track coach' Leroy T. Walker, the Eagle's quar tet of Toe Goodwater, Wanza Poole, Tom Burke' and Andrew McCray is expected to run even belter m meets to come. It. was a spectacular evening for McCray. Besides anchoring the mile team in a blistering 49.6 fin- the New Jersey native posted a 2:18.6 time in winning t.he 1000 vend run. McOay’s quarter time on the relay was one of the best racked up during the meet. With the exception of Goodwater. Walker has a new crop of men or his may team. He feels that with a little more experience as a baton passing combination, their time is expected to come down. In fact he predicts that this crew will break 8:20 before the indoor season is over, PATRONIZE OUR ASVEKIISGBS Since he was outpointed by NBA middleweight champion Gene Full mer at Las Vegas. Nevada, last March 4, Sugar Ray has won four straight bouts, outpointing Canadi an Wilfie Greaves and Moyer and knocking out A1 Houser and Greaves, The Sugar Ray record now stands Athletic Boosters Club Is Organized In Durham BV PERKY R LEAZER DURHAM—Durham has it,® to bacco industry and the world’s largest Negro insurance company. Now another potential giant has emerged on the scene, the Bull City Sports Club, This organization is the out growth of a group of Durhamites. who annually journey to Baltimore to watch a National Football Lea gue game. This year the group saw the St. Louis Cardinals and the Baltimore Colts After the trip, members decided that the fellowship should be car ried on year round and from this spirit, grew the Bull Citv Sports Club. Their ultimate purpose is to boost athletics at North Carolina College and in the city high schools. Mem bership in the club represents a Seagram* (ft ~ Jl i 7 JjL Croton a— ||pli I j j Seven JuCcoura 1 mm* ; l—immriminruimi1 —immriminruimi m■mi m—i L . 8 AMERICAN | IVZJED WHISKEY & M vV „/ .Xarfd* « ft AmQl 0 sSsoyti *#■>**** I */* Qt. : S IW| tm a * -OISTIUWS COMPAKV. NEW WK CUT. KiKDEO WMiSttV. 85 MOO* 85% SMIN iOTMt SMtltt at 162-148-97. Moyer won four of seven fights in 1961. outpointing Willie Morton and Charlie Scott, dropping a de cision to Jorge Fernandez, knock ing out Willie Jenkins, losing a verdict to Obduilo Nunez, finally outpointing him in a return bout, and dropping the October 21 ver dict io Robinson. cross-section of Durham eomrraus ity, laborers, lawyers, doctors, eta, E. C, '‘Pops” Turner. All-Ameri can at West Virginia and a former Negro National League baseball umpire, was elected president of the organization, in December. AA ter two months of Turner's admin istration, the club has grown to 99 members. The affable Turner predict* that organization will make it* mark on the city and will soon compare to Atlanta's famous 100 Per Cent Wrong Club. "Our agenda for the rest of the year includes a trip to the CIAA tournament, Winston-Sa lem, March t, 2. and 3, a baseball trip to Washington. D. C.. and as suming some of the financial back ing of the newly formed Durham Stridors, a track club”, Turner said.
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