Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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y-L- - : *'' 1 . L,... _;?7? 7_ 7" * i :?* '?' . Sports Close Up *y FRITZ POLLARD lor GLOBAL NEWS SYNDICATE New York (Global)?Speaking of breaking down prejudice, there are no greafter Ambassadors of Good Will than athletics. Our many athletes, with very few exceptions, have rison to fame and have become useful to their communities. Publicity does not always show the value of men, especially where track athletes are concerned. It appears that every time our boys take over and dominate any particular field, the publicity end of it then passes to some event in which our boys are not outstanding. V It is a known fact that the Face of Races has always been the 100-yard dash, but It seems that when our boys have had con- 1 trol of the winning in that event, the feature race became the one- 1 mile or two-mile event. On the other hand, when Charlie Pad- J dock and others were the leaders in this special feature, it was the featured race. < How can ?they count out a man like Harrison Dillard who has \ lost so few races in a lifetime and has equalled or cracked more j records in his specialty than any other athlete. And now, along : comes Mai Whitfield. For the first time in his career he is breaking all the indoor records up to and including the 800-yard run, but ( - yet they call the fe?Ttured face the Steeplechase or one of similar j ' 1 . *ypc> which has only been, w6n by _gne of these Americans over the others once in a while. " ] But that is the told one pays for breaking through. These boys all take it on the chin, carry themselves like gentlemen, make very good appearances at dinners and in various hotels and converse intelligently. They know what to do and how to do it. Is it any wonder our American Negro athletes are the greatest Am- , bassdors of Good Will and breakdown prejudice more effectively than any other group? So they threw the book at Eddie Jackson, former athletic di- ] rector and football coach at Howard University by even refusing him a hearing. If Jackson had been thoughtful enough to analyze 1 the Board of Trustees, maybe he would have known he didn't 1 have a chance. This writer still goes along with Jackson, to the extent that his firing was handled in a most unfortunate manner. 1 It is a closed case now, but I would advise Eddie to take a good \ look at the Board of Trustees the next time he applies for a job in a school. What thej- don't know about making a winning foot- ] ball team would fill a book. 1 ~ - Plenty of printers' ink has been spread around about Bay ' R obinson was a great boxer, but little has been said about the time Ray was a greater dancer than he was a boxer. Ray, as a youngster, started dancing on the corners of Har lem, picking up nickles and dimes because he could trip the light fantastic with the greatest of ease. Crowds used to gather around and throw money to this chap with the twinkling toes and pre- ( dieted a great future for him as a dancer. Actually, he Wanted ' to be another Bill Robinson. ? One evening when he sholud have been home he was out in front of Salem Methodist Church twinkling his toes. Pete White came along On hisway to get some of his boys ready for the Golden Gloves Tournament and saw this young lad, took him into the basement where they have a gym called te Salem Crescent Club i and asked Ray if he would like to become a fighfter. "No!" said Hay, "I want to be a dancer like Bill Robinson." But Pete White 1 and George Gainford told him if he could hit like he could dance, \ one day he would be a world's champ fighfter?and that was the i beginning of Pay's fistic career. ' i Those light feet were trained to dance into, away from and around opponents, until he became a Golden Gloves champ. Later, under tthe guidance of these same two men, he went on to fame i and fontupe, never losing sight, however, of the fact that he want-' 1 ed to be a dancer. Now as retired Middleweight Champ of the ; World, he has gone back to his first love. Delores Calvin's SEEING THE STARSl New York (CNS)?Rumors are revived "Porgy and Bess" proflying that Joe Louis will take duction that just weren't in the his singing protege, Dolores early shows . . . Parker, as his bride* But thei} The New York Beautician^ 4 rumors are always abundant when group staged a packed-to-theJoe is seen interested in a pretty rafters luncheon at Hotel Theregtrl longer than a month . . . sa's Skyline Roof. It was a fine Dolores is said to have gotten a tribute to their dynamic Prexy, cream colored Cadillac from Joe Mrs. Maude Gadsden, as a Valentine gift ... Negroes so integrated in Mount .. , This is a new twist: Press A- Vernon, New York that their gents tell us how easy it is to get leading church is just a few doors their star cilents in the white from Main Street and opposite columns. Seems that the whites! a smart, modernized plant . . - are eager to print our news for, Negroes go to leading white they have discovered too that i nierHteii?he or.n ? 9 t ...wv HilU V CI .">?* ... II Negroes buy newspapers. And Lionel Hampton rumored to top bosses are impressing on starting a magazine so often that J diWi l.vw IfcKiu dn.ul?-jit just isn-t news anymoi-e . . . tion is being sought after . . . ] Billy Holiday on ,the comeback The Mills Brothers joined the t trail, made two magazine covers ! Charlie McCarthy radio show on the same month. Neither mag 1 Sunday . . . Some new Gersh-jknew the other had her . . . win numbers are in the newly Folks in the knov/ are talking G^E Y . : J Sumter ? Superb shooting dominated play in last night's I Morris-Edward Waters basketball game and enabled the Hornets to /T| up the highest score they > have posted all year in winning ~ I Forwards, Carl Lewis and Richard Swindell, played an aggressive game under the backboards Stejyi \ jj&j regularly snatching rebounds from the hands of the Edward |jrai%i|V ; . Waters team and contributed 23 ind 15 points respectively. The high scoring center, Saniy Whitfield, has demonstrated n nearly every game that he can The big wheels In the Edward A Wng js crowned. George Waters assault were Laury with former on the A & T College 19 points and Frazier with 30. ouj |n a fund-raising contest at Frazier had the highest score connection with the March of for the night. He was sinking r(,aIlzed more than $2>50o for th baskets from every angle on the co?ege does ^ honorg whl|e M court. Morns' defense was un- sponsor and ^ Myrt,e L Ne I? t0 St?P ' Po,,? Campaign, look on. The en The loss of Sandy Whitfield to Hal, last Saturday ^ht. the Hornets was a great blow. Coach Brown remarked that ________________ Whitfield will be unable to play uiUlt l /LiW for at least a week. -iWvIr /xfilzbxgfl rhe HHS,S,afi { . hMhklil m v amp urum af-jmup Pvt. Charles B Beasley of Dar- JjT lington, S. C., is at Camp Drum, * 0 I R??" NT. Y., participating in Exercise x?P Snow Storm as a member of the XAN TICKER TAPE . . . 32d Airborne Division from Fort james Moody ork. playing colBragg, N. C. The Army's exercise iegiale dates . . . Five Grand ? ?^^ t- ^ repulsion ^ ^ Ga.) . . . Marvin Shnayer, of the RHYTHM & BLUES mag staff, insists he was inducted into, the! Army to replace Gen. Ike . . . Tosh Hammon, formerly of the Five Crackerjacks, died Thurs-1 day . . . Melvin Smith, the youth ful RCA-Victor artist, who waxis being staged to give troops ec* "Looped," continues to thrill vinter-warfare training with on whirlwind tqyr . . . Nick Zall jpeclalized equtpmehT^ihd clbth-1 Joined Universal Attractions' ing designed fdy extreme cold nighter department . . . Herb veather conditions. Included in Lance, the velvet ballad barlihe airborne phase of the pro- tone singing star, entered the jram will be at least one para- songwriting field wikth the hit :hute drop from the 82 Division "He TreaU Your Daughter paratroopers. Private Beasley, Mean" . . . Rudy Toombs due in >on of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Beas- Lorn L.A. . . . Eddie Vinson inkley of Route Darlington, enter- contract with ABC . . . Arnett ?d the Army last March. Cobb into Washington, D. C.'s (U.S. Army Photo) Hiltop nitery . . . We're back at ? a our desk after virus attack . . . rj \\t i| Burnie Peacock returned from Dears Wallop USO tour of h&ttlefront . . . r lnanln 70 /IQ Vivian Surkin, Girl Friday of hinroill in*W uU's auLlliu. Luul!> PuiRliisun, is Raleigh. N. C. ? After a slow an -ccoropusnea concert singing start, Shaw's Bears gained mo- star-now on her own . . . Rumor mentum and cruised to an en^ihas Jt that Anne Brown- famed 78-48 victory over Lincoln Uni- concprt arti* of the original versity. The first period scOre "PorKV and company, is was 14-5 in favor of the Bears, returning to U. S. for nationwide Len Lewis, Mont. Quidley com- concert tour under the S Hurok bined forces to load the 2nd half Banner Camile "award, fcadrive. Shaw led at halftime 31- tured *ar with Roy Milton's ork, 21. Lewis scored 19 .points for in recording sessions on West high-scoring honors. Quidley ad- Coast . . . Juvenile star Leslie ded 16 as Sam Jones, 15; and Uggams t0 appear on TV series Frank Banks, 14; contributed Lula Reed sOngsational in greatly to the attack. L.A. . . . Bill ,Doggett into Pep s Lincoln's lone scoring threat Musical Bar, Phila. . . . Gracita, was George Kennedy who had a erstwhile concert singing star, total of 12 [>oints The win gives now teamed up with Kelly n 7.7 ... th,. Owens whO. " W<tK f d" With Kflfl E?nce and 11-9 overall. Br,stir at the Earlc Theatre . , . Johnny Otis musical caravan a r\ xt i sellout at Waco, Texas, with SalDon Newcombe ,r niail. tb<. brmvn blondr bomb. Headed For J shell, besieged by autograph Korean F^ront J hounds . . . Bill Brown Mgr. at Harlem's Hotel Theresa, getting . New York (CNS)?Don New- ready to spring hostelry's 40th combe, formerly of the Brooklyn anniversary . .6. Babs Gonzales Dodgers as their No. 1 pitcher has wnxed his "Lullaby of the and now a year old member of Doomed" for his (Babs) label , the U. S. Army, is due to be or- Cootie Williams sockeroo at Hnr deied to Korea in about two+?? weeks. This announcement with i c^nr^''d and thus would be avail finality squelched rumors thatl1 '' '<> B*'P *< TV.<T,:ers witt Neweombe would soon be 1 dis- ^e'r ^ flag. In Korea, New -? ; ,combe will be joining such dis about the decline of Johnnie Hay. tinguished baseball personalitie: I lis religious songs and his sob- as Ted Williams, of the Rod Sox bing just aren't moving the teen and Dr. Bobby Brown and Jem agers anymore ... , Coleman, of the Yankees L XS^hl^ II 8E?^c' , " C&^Hj iiiii^Bi* in * Hk* t i m^xM m :^,^H HtfX ?-Ji<L. P.<y :>y. K Funderburke, of Gastonla, N. C., star center and All CIAA perfootball team Is crowned "King: of the Aggies" for having won A & T College. The contest was one of the principal projects in Dimes Campaign just recently concluded &i the college which e Gulford County Polio drive. Dr. F. D. Bluford, president of the Iss Louise Dodd, left, a senior of Roanoke, Va., Funderburke's sbitt, right, assistant dean of women and chairman of the campus jwning took place at the final rally held in the college's Murphy a Raleigh. N. C. ? Shaw's Bears i. roared from behind to down the lylr | West Virginia State Yellowjack| ets by a score of 66-63 Monday. V Wr West Virginia led all during the blBJPiCyv ^ t half and midwav th^ third ".VUXI^ii? - ^ quarter. Midway the third per_ ,, _. w' iod? Monty Quidley, scored 11 , lem s Savoy room ... in consecutive points to move the , Washington after creating a song- Bearg Qut fr0nt by gcore Q{ 4?. sation at Honolulu's Brown Der- 45 ^ yeHowjackets led 10-9 at by is turning 'em awa^at Fris- the end of the flrst and I co's Blackhawk Club . . . Fugarl- 32.26 at halftime. ans (Charlie Fugu-a's Ink Spots) Jimmy Morris?and Wilbur at Boston s Hi Hat. C-crazy rhy- Hooper were constant RCOrinR jthm!!! . . . Associated Booking threats fQr West Virginia They Corp.'s Joe Glaser had several; flnished with 2? and 1? u ^ of his prize winning dogs in the spectively MSG show . . . Wini Brown was! . ... . , ,| , ... - i ? . Quidley, who for the second socko with Earle Bostic band at, . , , . ' ,, , _ ? , ?i u 'straight game pulled the Bears Earle Theatres finale. Playhouse . . " _ " , , . out of the fire, shared scoring coming down to make way tor fm shaw f municipal garage . - Ban Bart;CTark had 16 ,nt3 eich UA prexy on nationwide tour ... 0_ T _ . f> , , v, . Sam Jones contributed 14 points. Duke Hampton into Cinny s Cot- . ou ^ . u m w O 4U T The win gfive Shaw a conference ton Club . . . Tab Smith, Little . . , r, . , Tr ? _ record of sax wins and seven Esther and H-Bomb Ferguson- .. itU ? . ? . 6 losses with six conference games unit clicking on Southern tour ... I rcmajnjng Recommended to diversion seek-j The Encore . . . Todd Rhodes u , - A _ ers: Carol Boyd's Piainistics at Hank 1 hompSOn And into Quaker City's Showboat . . . Cabbie Cancel N .Y. Urban League's year book AqSo?lt fharCTPQ has comely Audrey Anderson on ^nargeS jits staff . . . The Swallows In New York (CNS)?Anxious to auto mishap outside of Lancas- avoid any more publicity on| tci, P?. entertained convalescents his most recent escapade, Hank in nearby hosp while their car Thompson of the New York | was being repaired . . . Hall Sing- Giants, dropped his case against er saxsational at Pep's Musical Negro cab driver, William WinBar, Phila. . . . WW has excuu- frey. As Thompson explained it, sive on you-know-who. He wilt "Somethmp miahf n..? in sign off Sunday nite with "Good- the trial that I wouldn't want nite, Josephine!". - any publicity about." Winfrey also ?droj>ped his comijVlLLIAM BRANNAM plaint against Hank, too." I just Aiken ? William Brannam has want my license back and go to left Aiken, S. C. with his daugh- work," he said. Winfrey and [ ter, Mrs. Elfred Williams, to with assault after a fight two join her family in Jamaica, L. I., Hank had charged each other New York where he vvil1 make weeks ago when Thompson's car nis ndWi^. tulliUi'U Willi WlfiTPPy s caD. , i.. ??* ill V.- O. ! il Uijfc iSfiBjBBSB ^ HShBmKSMBhBI MMfiOi WMWMflK Walter Hunter, right, 230 pound, All-American tackle for the A & T Aggies for the past t*vo seasons and an outstanding peri former for the other two, rechecks the "fine print" of the New York Giants' Football Club contract which he signed on last Friday. Ix>oking on from left Is Bill Bell, A & T's director of athletics and head football coach who developed Hunter into the top \ notch athlete he la? Hunter, who hath* ftewr Ourtiam, N. t*., reports to the Giants in early August. ' mSm FREE mm comes PP lftS38, At no Mtn coot wttk rtry carton of , CANADA DRY oinger au^| 6-bottU carton ... { p'u? d?/>. ' * LIGHTHOUSE aad INFORMER, COLUMBIA, 8. Cs U Saturday, February 21, 1953 ? ?PAGE SEVEN Morgan Bears Gavilan Wants M Face Va. State Winner Of Turpin, 1 After Defeat Olson Battle E M*;HThdr New York (CNS) ? Seeking 5 for CIAA first division honors A ~ smacked down somewhat Tues- new worlds to conquer^Kid Gavl- 1 day night by Johnson C. Smith Ian? ** *** champ frcm Quba, JM University cagdrs, the Morgan canle int0 t0wn thil *** ^ "State College Bears face the Vir- Taunch an all-out campaign f?r ? - > ginia State College Trojans Sat- the middleweight crown, urday (^W&ruary 14) at 8 p. m.j . "1 heat everybody in Ihe' UfUl*, in the Hurt Gymnasium deter-1 terweights," Gavvy said. "Thare mined to make a conference j is nobody left and 1 beat most come-back. jof the middleweight?, too." .{ Earlier in the week, each Tal- j So now the Gavilan cbterie? madge L. Hill's charge shad hop- The Keed, manager Angel Lopez .< ed to sweep to victory in the Ave and trainer Mundito Medino-? j conference games then remain- seek the winner of the about-to- & ing on their current schedule.be Turpin-Olson bout. They will and to wind up CIAA visitation even junket to Europe for*thjj Johnson C. Smith cagers halt- Immediate plans for Gavilan ed that, when a clicking com- are up in the air, *or the mobination of William (Stretcher) ment. There's talk of an OV?rJones, Douglas Miller who scored the-weight bout with Johnny 26 points, Claude Saunders, Rob- Bratton in 'Montreal for M'rrh. j en weues ana unaries Motley fciut it fall through. The Kid will 1 dealth the Bears their worst de- spend some time on his 10 acrt feat of the season whipping them farm at Bejucal on the outskirts 93-74. . of Havana. Raymond ' (Spider) Murphy of " ? "1 Morgan was the second highest police in connection with the acscorer of the evening trailing cident. high scorer Miller by two points. - J-j Ernest Garrett, consistent high pHnpHnHMMMfe scorer, was third with 19 points. Jj But the Murphy-Garrett combo f couldn't stop Jack Braboy's charges.. Morgan's basketeers were \ ES/6WlftO|HM>OUMA\^A a "off' ' 1 scgvicC QCHwcagp PKAgiutvl : ^ _ moucanY <&r %OMe I6WM"T : di. - XI T M?0k*L OR DENTAL CABE L. / i Slijfhtly Improved wm4oor*WM?APfw?4w.j After Head Injury spoon, 4, was slightly improved Monday at Roper Hospital after ' being struck in the head with a metal pipe. 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