Lighthouse and informer. (Charleston, S.C.) 1941-1954, September 20, 1952, Page PAGE SEVEN, Image 7
SPEAKING OUT
Hv MILTON GROSS ,
(New York Post, Thursday, August 2S, 1952) '
The train tarrying the Yankees was speeding northward
through tiie night past charred hovels which line the
railroad tracks and serve as homes tor Negro families but
even inside the-men's lounge the bittnerness of th etimc and
tlie place was encroaching.
Two reporters sat with with AtUy Donald and Spurgeon
Chandler, Yankee pitchers, and were discussing the
prospect, of Negroes coining into organized baseball, Jackie
Robinson was only a college boy then and the big names
were Mule Suttles. Ray Datulridge. Josh Gibson and Satchel
Paige.
They'll never get in." Donald said, and there was the
venom of his rearing in his voice.
"If they did and I pitched against one of them." saidChandler,
t'J'd pick a spot out on his head and I'd throw
that ball for it as hard as I could.* i
"And Spud's got the control to do d l no," -Donald'
laughed as though he had iust listened 1? j?; 1.i i or ; i ih-ii< .!
to a funny story
That fall Rob Feller hired ;pi all-star tea.u m tea:-.'!
U'aguers and toured the- country "ptaving ;? team of Negro
all-stars led by Paige. Among Feller's iVibiw niUh>r- r ? -
v n.uiuifiiu uiei. ^pmi was one of lln- jir-'. 1"
-teller. Mi; collOeteTI his pay re.unlaf!\- and nev< f <>11?-<- ?'i
h<* try to "stick it in a batter's ear."
That momentous clay when Robinson was signed for
Montreal four years later I thought of Chandler and Donald
and the stinking nig sfjett they?houses in the
because of an .aiwvcr Rririndi-Iti( key. .7i\ gave to a
question.
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coaeh s w ill .steer the PantlHM ,.conferenres on Sept mi f hi, 17.
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{Orangeburg. !"ls' ginning m fear thr i J*
Oct. Ik. Florida Normal. St * V v Indium I he> lit vet j I!
I Augustine. Fla. ' wound about tin t:\neN strong J
Oct 20. A1 barn State. Albanv.: pihhing no: did the admit out |
I Ga. loud any worrying- ver Luke ,,
Get. 30. Benedict College. C 1- Easter and Larry Doby's long Li
! nmbia ball hitting. Hut now thev ate ITT
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Nov. tt, Point- Collude;. Auuus- worri.-ii about an Indian quality
. ta, Ga. and that's the team b :hting spir[
Nov. 15, Eward Waters College, lit.
i Orangeburg \ Thft Yankees hnv- lobg laugh-;
N'v. 22. Savannah Slate, o: at the Indians inferiority "
Orangeburg. complex. They f !1 that the In- i?.
Nov. 27,- Allen University. Col- d ans' fear of th Yankee unl- '
umbia. f. 1111 Kept thym m their place. I
..A re])orter ;it the historic press conference asked young j ||
Rickey what the Dodgers would do if the southern ball play- "
ers in the league refused to play on a team with Jackie orf.
against him. ">
"Robinson will play." Rickey said, "and as for the rest r
?they can go hack to the saw mills and farms and turpen-j
tine stills they came from. A year back there they'll he back
to us with their hats in their hands but we won't want
them." Sconce
a vain vesterdav these recollections came to mind. ! m
There was a piece in the paper out of Rock Hill. S C.. about j
David Mobley. a 22-year-old boy who became Die first No- ;
pro to play in the Tri-State Class 'H league s history. 1 he j
league president, a Dinosaur named Bobbv II v s. had re-1 ,,
tpiested that Rock Hill not play Mobley. A tho ganm bo. I?
pan the te'am's drectors met. and voted to iruri' tin i - i 0?
quest Mobley was inserted in Rock Hill's :invw'> iii the tifth i
inning. Today Rock Hill broke into print igai There was
another item that in ord^r to mauTtain barm my in io |'|
league, Mobley was dropped. I|
Could be that as I traveled the base!tall i?e.it over the ij
years I passed through Rock Hill. I checked ni> atlas and Jj
learned it is a town of 1 .'1,000, which, ronghb. puts it in a ?
class, in size, at least, with C-artersville, (la., from which ''
Chandler .came and makes it a trifle larger than Donald's
birthplace of Morton, Miss.
But on thii- day I rni", i 11 I I In | n~"j~iTr n*' 'Vi Hill because
I know that the presence of a kid' named Mobley II
would help remove the blinds from a few more ves. and ,?.
in the end would make for even more harmony. ?
Apparently the millennium has not yet come in base- I
ball, just as it is a great way off in business, education and - j
politics. Civil rights is an issue in the Presidential cam- |
paign and pigmentation of a man's skimstill carries more ?|
weight than the principles by which he lives. But as von
move about the baseball beat with a club such a.-^ the (liants. [7H
Dodgers, or Indians you appreciate the advance swhich have 111
been m ri /I.. f.,?- I. .. .. ? .1
mat. 1 a ' I 11111111111 ti t'l'l" HC" V ,
Then1 is 110 more pleasant companion ?rr alable p< 1
son than Monte levin or as stmulat iny a one as -Ja kit- Robnkson^
or as^ oayer^a one as I';iste|- nil ill' n """
a town as t hoy have always la-en of . ?ur nat ion. loeie an <i
also some stinkers. Hut. I know more than a few white ones
too.
It doesn't matter to nu- whether Kicke> nave Robinson
the opportunitTy to break down the harrier became of his
obvious attraction at the irate, his base hits m- ltickc\'s own
sineereity. It doesn't _ma.tter that Jackie was cautioned to
clothe himself in "an armor of humility." He doesn't now. hut ! "I
because he once did others now find no need'to. ||
To I ully savor how tar aiony the road 'we 1
we've yet to t'o back to the beyinniny. Ida iv was tine- I
the I)odye?*s. with Robinson, played in Macon. (la
Kh-ayie of the Klan t-hunderecl about niob \i>.!. ?>,, : . . *? 1
the same in Atlanta and other Southern < . , jTTI
w*a s no \ a>lenee. i m 1 \ t lit- peaee!u1 I >!a u t i i - <. 1 -11'
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no matlc iiow - n : 11 i. that r 11 n can I i \? a<\' 4 !c I
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1 n ?hhr^'f toiInvrs wore invited t < > m 'la
Adolphus. the i-ity's leading hotel. liohin d lto\ -1
( ampanella van anions them. They. like all .. i ;;
rode the elevator to the hall room and when tin . ann I
down it - imonitor said :
"It was (he first time I've ever had a Ne^ro in mi ear."?---p
Thousands iit anmk nf Thousands of >pro< In > from j
puTpit and dais could not actomplisb \s li;11 has. hall oeomp- h?'
lished. ; >. TT
This the people of Itock Hill should ha\e remembered
with pride, not with fear, and should never have ^ uored,
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