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RAUKIQK. W. C.. SATURDAY, MAY 8. 1871
HCCTON ESCORTED TO DE’GOUT - ’r i.' 'i 111[ Detroit’s MISe
Horton is escorted to the dugout by Jim Northrup, No. 5, and A1 Kaline,
No. 6, who were on base when he hit his first inning homer off Angel Rudy
May. The first four Tiger batters scored as Detroit jumped off to an early
4-0 lead. (UPI).
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FSU “BLUE CHIPPERS” - Fayetteville State University got me names of
three of Cumberland County’s top athletes on the line recently. They are
shown at the signing with their parents. Seated (1 —r) are Mrs. Earthaleen
Godwin, James E. Godwin, Morris C. Godwin, Samuel Bell and Mrs.
Bertha Bell. Standing (1-r) are James Godwin ana Neal Godwin.
Hackett And Johnson Chosen
To Captain Shaw F oothallers
Shaw football coach, George
Clements, announced this week
that his football team had
chosen “two of the finest play
ers on the squad as co-captains
for the 1971 football season.”
William “Bulldozer*' Hac
kett, the Bears up-coming sen
ior running back, and forth
coming senior center, Joe
“The Mover” Johnson, will
lead Clements’ squad during
the 1971 football season.
Hackett, a 6-1, 2151 b. senior
from Trenton, New Jersey was
the other half of the 1-2 punch
of Hackett - Wynecoff last
season as he pushed through
on 132 carries for 560 yards
while losing only 31.
Joe Johnson, a senior from
Aubundale, Flori la will be the
Tennessee State Wins Baseball Games,
But Uses $4,000 Worth Os Equipment
ATLANTA, GA. - The- Big
Blue Tigers of Tennessee State
University came to town for
games with Clark and Morris
Brown last week.
They won the game from
Clark, and //ere all set to
play a double-header with
Morris Brown Saturday after
rain had washed out activities
Friday. The rains had halted
by Saturday, but ihe games
were “Washed out,” just the
same.
Reason? Friday evening
while the Tigers’ entourage
was enjoying the evening meal
at an Atlanta restaurant, big,
bold, bad thieves broke into
the Tigers chartered bus and
made off with most of the
baseball equipment, including
hails, bats, uniforms, shoes
and gloves, along with play
ers’ personal effects, includ
ing clothing, Polaroid and -ln
stamatic cameras. The total
loss is set at $4,000.
“in au my years as a player
and as a coach,” moaned Hy
lon Adams, Tenn. State base
ball coach have never seen
anything like that before.”
But there was a bit of “hon
or among thieves,” at least
there vas one among the group
who had a “conscience.’’ The
team’s medicine kit, which had
been pilfered along with other
items on the bus, was return
ed to the bus under cover of
darkness.
As a result of the thievery,
the Tigers had to cancel also
a game with Middle Tennessee,
unless officials at MTU can
arrange a postponement to an
other date.
With three straight wins over
key “ball snapper*' this com
ing season. Johnson is 6-land
weighs in at 220 lbs.
Coach George Clements su;, s
that he expects Hackett a.id
Johnson to be two of the cogs
in his regrouping effort during
the ‘7l season. The Bears lost
12 men, most of whom were km
defensive standouts luring the
*7O season by the graduation
route.
Clements and the Bears will
be shooting for their second
winning season in as many
. years. Having finished the 1970
season with a 5-3-1 record,
the Bears are faced with re
placing 10 defensive giant sand
two offensive v. izards.
“Hackett and Johnson -ill
help us to make our new men
3Y LUTHER f ARMICHA! 1
Jackson State, Morris Brown,
and Clark, which JeU In - scoiy
Os 8 to 6, the Big Wuo a ! *
5 Shaiv Batters Rank
In Rank In Top Ten
Coach Jim Lytle’s Slav
University baseball niru
placed five men in th< 2nd,
3rd, -Ith, sth and sth slots last
week in NAIA Hist: iot 29 ‘Bat
ting Leaders” competition.
Boasting :i ,400 or more
batting average as of \pril
IGth were Charles Sumter, a
19 yr.-old Ist yr. iufielder
from Philadelphia, Pa. with a
.473; Albert Hooiser, a 20-
yr. old 6-2 junior pitcher
outfielder from Blue Ridge,
Va. with .444; Willis Lancaster
a 21-yr. old, 6-2 Junior catcher
from New York City with .438;
Zollie Me Co wan a 19 yr. old,
5-11 Ist yr, pitcher-outfield
er from Loulsburg, with .421
and Alvin Wilkes, a 19- yr, old,
5-11 Ist yr. lnfielder from
Asheville, with ,400.
All seven are strong contend
ers for batting leaders in the
fisjai NaIA competition and two
stand good possibilities of
grabbing off top honors in CIA 4
play. -
With 12 games under their
belts, the Bears have a 9-3
overall record, placing them
in strong contention for tin
third CLAA crown in as many
years. They shared top honors
last year with A&T State Uni
versity when both teams tied
and playoffs could not be ar
apart of an integrated group of
ballplayers with the kind of
team spirit we need,” Cle
ments said.
The Bears have just com
; "ted )• ir spring training
chon s and according to Cle
' •: ts, “they look real good.”
lie said he would never predict,
“I'm not that kind of coach, but
I fee] that we have just as good
a chance this season as we had
last year.”
The Bears face nine seasoned
opponents in “71” kicking off
the season with Federal City
College in Washington, D. C.
The remainder of their sched
ule Is loaded with conference
ta - including CIA A runner
ups Johnson C. Smith Univers
ity.
P-'aied to be on a winning
streak.
an; ed because of the lateness
of the season.
\lthough the season got off to -
j slow start, losing the first
game and having to cancel
three games because of rain,
the Bears moved into the win
column against Delaware State
Colle.gi 9-8 followed by an 8-7
win over Yirgitiia State
College. They lost to Hampton
Institute 10-12 but followed it
with a victory over Durham
Business College 6-3.
The; tightened the CL4A race
with a doubleheader and Win
ston-Salem State University.
They currently have a CIAA
record of 8-1 and a NALA rec
ord of 6-3.
Joe Ira/ier. Heavyweight
Champion, guest speaker
at his home state (South
Carolina) legislature:
“We must save our people,
and when I say our people,
I mean both hi ack and
white.”
A wise man’s country is that
one where he is happiest.
-Italian Proverb.
Mashburn To Face Tough
Test In Fight Against Blue
BY PETE HOLDEN
NEW YORK - Bobby Mash
burn, the hard hitting Harlem
'black bomber’ may face a real
Lincoln
Net Ttsii
Defeated
SALISBURY, MD. - On Sa
turday, April 24, the Lincoln
University tennis team parti
cipated in the Delaware Valley
Conference Championships
held here.
“The team made a good
showing’’, according to coach
William O'Shields, "despite
the very high winds.”
In the singles action, Chuck
Williams lost to Ngai of Phila
delphia Pharmacy in the first
round, John Moore drew a bye
in the first round but was de
feated by Owens of Salisbury
St. 12-5 in the second round.
The Lions’doubles team con
sisting of Roderick Willis and
Tyrone Franklin earned a
berth in the semi-finals by
beating Salisbury’s team 12-4.
They were beaten in the semi
finals by Eastern Baptist.
The singles winner in the
tournament was Cabinet from
Rutgers College of South Jer
sey. The doubles winner was
also from Rutgers. The second
place team was Eastern Bap
tist.
Delaware
Shocks
Maryland
DOVER, DEL. - Pummeling
a trio of Bowie State hurlers
for 19 hits, Delaware State
shocked the Maryland tossers
with a lopsided 17-2 baseball
victory last Tuesday.
Vern Riggins, Ralph Short
and Calvin Jones wielded the
potent bats for the winning
Hornets, collecting 13 of the
19 safeties. Riggins rapped out
five straight singles that
chased home three runs. Short
belted a double and three sing
les that also drove home three
scores. Jones clouted a triple
and three singles In counting
two RBIs.
Nate Sheppard also tripled
for Delaware State, which
scored in all but the first and
seventh innings.
Article Reveals Rise
Os Black Pro Athlete
More than 30 black athletes now mr.ke more
than SIOO,OOO a year, mostly in baseball and
basketball.
Yet just 25 years ago there was not a
single black player in the major leagues or in
pro basketball. In contrast today there are more
$103,000 black athletes than whites in baseball
and basketball, reports writer Bob Marcus in
an article in the May issue of Sepia magazine
on “The World’s Highest-Paid Black Athletes.”
Marcus, who is a sport col
umnist for the Chicago
Tribune, notes in his Sepia
article, that 15 out of the 16
highest paid basketball play
ers, all making more than
SIOO,OOO annually, are black.
Ten black players in the big
leagues are in the SIOO,OOO
annual bracket, Marcus re
ports in Sepia, topped by Willie
Mays at $160,000. Lew Alcin
dor at $200,000 annually with
the Milwaukee Bucks basket
ball team exceeds the highest
baseball salary.
In football Gale Sayers of the
Chicago Bears is the only black
star making SIOO,OOO. The
other sports where black stars
are over the SIOO,OOO mark are
tennis, soccer and boxing. Ar
thur Ashe earned $141,000 last
year and is expected to top that
Davis &Tigerbelles
Honored At Dinner
NASHVILLE - Iris Davis, the
speedy little sprinter who has
been named North American
Athlete of the Year, and her
fellow Tigerbelles were hon
ored at a small dinner- given
by Tennessee State Univers
ity’s President Dr. A. P, Tor
rence, here recently.
During the course of the af
fair, Miss Davis and her team
mates were lauded by Presi
dent Torrence; Howard C.
Gentry, Director of Athletics;
Edward S. Temple, the Tiger
belles’ coach and Mrs. Mabel
Crooks Boddie, Director- of
Public Relations for the Uni
versity.
In addition to Miss Davis,
other members off the Tiger
belles honored were Diane
test when he fights Alvin * Blue'
Lewis of Detroit, in a fifteen
round main event in The Mich
igan State Fair Colisieum, on
Friday night, May 7th.
The ‘black bomber’, who will
be boasting a record of twenty
fights, sixteen K. O.’s, and
two decisions against two loss
es, since he turned profession
al in 1968, will be riding high
on the crest of recent wins
over sluggers Jim Howard
and Lou Hicks, who like Bobby,
also fights out of Sunny side
Gardens, in Sunnyside
(Queens), Long Island.
Alvin ‘Blue’ Lewis, a native
Detroiter, who has had much
more pro-experience than the
23 year old bomber, is expect
ed to throw everything at the
fighting New Yorker except a
‘warm welcome’, according to
Bobby’s manager, John Crain.
Out in Detroit, however, the
21st. Century Promotions, Lie.
its President Lou Handler, and
match-makers popularly
known only as “Pop” and
“Brown”, claim fight inter
est for the Mashburn-Lewis
slugfest is at an all-time high
in the motor city.
Traveling with the ‘black
bomber’ as they invade the
Five Jackson St Athletes
Chosen To Appear In Book
JACKSON, MISS. - Five
Jackson State College students
have been chosen to appear in
the 1971 edition of Outstanding
Athletes of America. Selected
were: Charles Ellis, Allen
Richardson, Marvin Brown,
David Walls, and McKinley
Kincaid.
Ellis was a standout center
from Natchez, Mississippi and
a 1971 Pittsburg Courier All-
American. He has signed a
pro contract with the Dallas
Cowboys. Richardson is a jun
ior wide receiver and a young
er brother of the Jackson State
famous Richardsons, Willie,
Gloster and Thomas.
Brown, Walls, and Kincaid
are performers and led the
Tigers to NAIA. Brown led all
Tigers in scoring with an
amazing 24.5 scoring average.
Marvelous Marvin is a junior
from Heidelberg, Mississippi.
Walls a 6-9 senior forward
from Madison, Mississippi has
recently been drafted by the
National Basketball Associa
tion and the American Basket
ball Association. Kincaid, a
6-3 junior guard from Morton,
Mississippi served as a play
maker and captain of the 1971
Tiger hardwood crew.
Announcement of their se
lection was made by the Board
of Advisors of Outstanding
figure on the tennis circuit this
year. Brazilian soccer star
Pele is one of the highest paid
athletes in the world with
$720,000 In salary annually.
The largest earnings of all
are made by boxers like heavy
weight champ Joe Frazier and
Muhhamad All, both of whom
drew $2,500,000 checks for
their last fight. Actually Joe
Louis was the first black boxer
to earn large amounts of money
in the ring, the first black
heavy champion Jack Johnson
making relatively little by
comparison, $145,600 for beat
ing Jim Jeffries for the title,
Louis earned $4,684,297 in
his ring career, but that was
topped by the $7,738,010 made
by Floyd Patterson. In his title
fights alone, Muhharnad gross
ed $8,112,282.'
Hughes, Deborah Smith, Debra
Wedgeworth, Patricia Hunter,
Diane Waters and Delores
Jackson, the manager.
Recently the group turned in
winning performances in the
Pan American Development
Track Meet, held at Tennessee
State, and the Dogwood Relays,
held in Knoxville, Tenn,
In his remarks, Coach Tem
ple praised his Tigerbelles for
theli accomplishments.
“We’ve come a long way
this year. But we have a lot of
work ahead of us. Our track
program at Tennessee State is
put on a world basis. We are
aiming for world recognition, **
he said.
Coliseum which is located in
Detroit, will be his trainer,
Bobby Gleason (in whose Bronx
gym the bomber trains), Bob
by’s wife the former Miss
Helen Deering of Beckley,
West Virginia; and manager
who is well known In the fight
game and in the black baseball
leagues, John Crain.
The New Y'ork party, travel
ing with the bomber, as if
adding fuel to the flame', will
pit John Crain, a native De
troiter against ‘blue’ Lewis’s
Detroit manager, in a battle of
wits.
Mr. Crain, the former as
sistant trainer for Henry
(Hank) Armstrong when the
latter held a coveted three
boxing titles at the same time,
is a son of the late Rev. and
Mrs. William N. Crainaform
er Pastor of the St. John’s
Methodist Church, at that time
located on St. Auburn at Maple
Streets in Detroit.
Yes it will be homecom
ing for an old family name in
Detroit as well as an old name
in New Y’ork City Athletics
when John Crain shows off his
highly tutored ‘black bomber®
In The Michigan State Fair
Coliseum on May 7th.
College Athletes of America,
an annual awards volume pub
lished to honor America’s fin
est college athletes.
Coaches and athletic direc
tors from individual colleges
and universities across the na
t lon nominated the winning ath
letes on the basis of their
displayed abilities, not only in
athletics but also in community
service and campus activities.
Other criteria for those se
lected for Outstanding College
Athletes of America Included
strength of character, leader
ship both on and off the playing
field, and scholarship.
According to the late coach
Vince Lombardi, those chosen
as Outstanding College Ath
letes distinguish themselves
because necessary traits for
leadership have been learned
on the playing field.
These traits, Lombardi said,
are ‘‘sacrifice, self-denial,
love, fearlessness, humility,
and the perfectly disciplined
will.”
Star quarterback Johnny Uni
tas said this year’s Outstand
ing College Athlete winners
can be looked upon with esteem
“because they know what hard
work and determination can
bring to them and their loved
ones.”
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is called out at second as Milwaukee Brewt
Roberto Pena whips the ball to first ! . -
na’s throw was not in time for the
play. Action took place in the bo‘ u
eighth inning of the first game May 2. \
won the game 2-L (UPI).
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J LEE ELDER MOVING UP - New Orb
Lee Elder of Washington, D. C. sm.
cloud of sand with the ball in the midi!
a fairway trap toward the seventh
1 in the third round of the Greater W
Open. Elder bogied this hole, bu> )
the first 3 holes, followed by tv o p i
Elder a good following as he rno <
stroke behind leader Hubert Gn
final day of play. Elder’s 207 is ■ >.