Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1943 — Page 11

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1943

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Barons Meet Giants Sept. 17 for League Title

DC Fans Await

Nat’l League Classic With Ranking Players

WASHINGTON. Sept. 10. (AM*) —Mule Smiles, of the Newark Eagles, ami .Jml Wilson, of the Washinjiton-Ilomestend Grays, two of the oldest veterans in the point of service and age, were named rival managers for the tirst Negro National League All-Star classic to l»e staged Thursday nite Sept. 0. under the lights at Griffith stadium. Slit ties, former home run king, will pilot the North All-Star team, composed of ranking players of the Newark Eagtes, New York Gubans and the New York Black Yankees. while Wilson, home town product. who performs mirach's for the Grays, will pull the managerial strings for the South All-Star nine including stars of the Homestead Grays, Baltimore Elite Giants and Philadelphia Stars. The line-ups of both teams, as announred by Cum Posey, league secretary represent a who's who in Negro National league baseball, and pack all the fundamentals for a strong teane-batting power, defensive strength and topflight pitching. On the North team. Suttles will have Leon I>ay. John (Neck l Stanley and Dave Barnhill to hurl, while Wilson will defend on Barney Brown. Bill Byrd and Edsel Walker to do the pitching. Besides Day. Newark will send Lonnie Pearson, firsthaseman or outfielder: Charlie Ruffin, catch er: and Watkins. thirdhaseman while the Yankees* representatives include, in addition to Stanley. Harry Williams, second-baseman: Marvin Barker. outfielder: .Tim Baker, shortstop, and Tex Burnett, coach. The Cubans, besides Barnhill, will he represented by Horatio

Martinez, shortstop; Bill Brooks, catcher and outfielder, and the sensational Showboat Thomas, linsfbaseman. The Philadelphia Stars, for the South team, will send Splo Spearj man. thirdhaseman; Barney Brown, pitcher'; Homer Curry, outfielder, and Gene Benson, outfielder, while the Baltimore Elite Giants’ colorberaers include Robert (Kite) . . Clark, catcher: Henry Kimhro. outfielder. Felton Know. Seeomlihasoman : Gorg Seals, coach, and Byrd, pitcher. Josh Gibson, the league's current home run king and leading batter, heads, the Homestead Grays' representatives. which alos indludes Buck Ivoonard. firsthaseman: Jerry Benjamin. < enterfielder: Edsel Walker. pitcher: Howard Easterling, and Sammy Bankhead, infielders. A percentage of the entire receipts will got to the Lend-a-Hand club of Washington, which is renovating its home for unmarried mothers. Dr. Ionia R. Whipper. director. K The committee in charge of the game's arrangements include Judge j William C. Ilueston. chairman: . . Thomas T. Wilson. C. W. Posey. Mrs. Effu Manley, president, secretary and treasurer of the Negro National league, respectively, and tin* various club owners. Rufus Jackson. Homestead Grays: Abe Manley. Newark Eagles: Ed Bolden, Philadelphia Stars: James Sender. New York Black Yankees: Alex Pompez. New York Cuban Stars: Vernon Green Baltimore Elite Giants. Also lo al newspapermen including Art Carter and Harold .Tackl-on. Afro-American: Ric Roberts. Pittsburgh Courier, and Lanier Covington. Washington Tribune.

GIBSON NIGHT BAD FOR GRAYS STARS WIN 4-2

WASHINGTON. Sept. 10. (ANP) —Celebration of Josh Gibson night attracted a crowd of G.(HK) to Griffith stadium on Thursday night, but the event failed to make an impression on Barney Brown, slender Philadelphia Stars’ southpaw, who rationed nine base hits in a manner which would gain the approval of OPA in knocking off the Homested Grays, -t to while stranding 12 runners. The Philadelphians solved three Grays’ pitchers, Partlow, Carter ami Wright, fur but four singles: these, however, were interspersed with a glaring miscue by th<» usually steady Bankhead at shortfield. in the third, admitting two runs. A circus catch of Jim West’s 420-yard drive by .Terry Benjamin saved the Grays from a rout in this frame. Two men were aboard and two hands down at the time. Rain halted the game for more than an hour. The victors reflected a deadly economy of hits — bagging four runs on four singles. Carter and Wright held the Stars hitless over the final four frames. Josh Gibson was presented a gigantic hat witli cash gifts from his many admirers, a floral horseshoe design and two traveling bags. The hitter waft donated hft- the IT om est en d Grays’ management. 'Flie Elks and other groups, led by the Washington chapter of the American Sports Writers association. represented by Harold Jackson and Russell Bowser, handled the formal presentations between tin* sixth and seventh innings.

CIO AGAIN ASKS NEGRO PLAYERS IN BIG LEAGUES

NEW YORK CITY—All major baseball leagues were last week urged by the United Furniture Workers of America. CIO, to admit Negro baseball players on an equal basis with all other players in major league competitions. A resolution adopted at the recent Third Constitutional Convention of the Union declared that racial discrimination, whether in employment, education, or baseball "is a source of disunity and demoralization” and plays into the hands of "those who are opposed to the win-the-war program.” It was mailed to Judge Landis. The resolution pointed out that many “major league baseball players had been inducted into the armed forces and there are vacancies and opportunities to engage many star Negro players of recognized ability. The excellence attained by Negroes in competitive boxing, track and baseball -were also cited by tile Convention.

Championship Clash

Expected to Shatter Attendance Records

SKEGEE AIRMEN TAKE HONORS IN ARMY SHOW

Writer Who Fled Nazis May Face Them as Soldier

J ov and cartoonist for 14 years, ; walks into one’s friendship with | a skeleton key of cosmopolitan j cordiality and keeps the staff gasp- | ing with his tales as a globe-trot- ! ting newsman.

TUSK EG EE AIR FIELD. ALA. — One of the most unusual inciSeerningly unable to elude the odor i dents of his mission abroad was of printer's ink. Bill Chase, former i his encounter with the highly-in-columnist of the New York famous Hrrr Goehbels. Nazi minAmsterdam Star-News and one of ister of propaganda, at the Berlin the few Negro correspondents to Olympics. Goehbels was vainly atro\er the 1936 Olympic Games in tempting to convince Chase of the Berlin, recently became Pvt. Wil- j superiority of the Nazis. Bill stood liam Chase of the Army Air Corps, his ground, and in the heated arBill is stationed at the Tuskegee gument that ensued, the intrepid Army Ai»* Field and is assigned to j Chase remained adamant. Added the Public Relations Office as fea- i fo his discon.fort—which, incidenture writer and. cartoonist for the tally, lasted until he got hack to Hawk's Cry. camp newspaper at , Paris — was the insult handed Tuskegee. down by Der Fuehrer when lie Pvt. Chase, a professional writ- ' turned his back on Jesse Owens,

! sensational Negro sprinter who was tlie hero of the Olympics. Exj asperated, the angry New York j correspondent cabled from Berlin. |QUOTE HITLER INSULTS JESSE ; OWENS UNQUOTE. This almost I got him into another pack of trou- ; hie which he barely eluded by get- ; ting out of Germany post haste. Now that Bill is in the service, he has two obsessions. One is to become a corporal so that he can elude some of the KP duty which next to Hitler he hates most. The other ambition is to return to Berlin again. This time with a tommy gun in his mitts instead of a pad and pencil. He hopes for the time to come soon when he can cable the home office, QUOTE NO GOERPELS COMMA NO HITLER COMMA NO BERLIN STOP ARGUMENT WON AFTER SEVEN YEARS STOP.

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Indianapolis’ Victory Field has been chosen as the site of one of the games in the Negro American League’s championship playoff series, between the Birmingham Black. Barons, first-half winners, and the Chicago American Giants, who clinched the second-round on

Labor Day!

The series between the two clubs to see which will succeed the Kansas City Monarchs as league titleholders, a crown, the

ATLANTA, Sept. 10. (ANP) — latter aggregation has worn for Stealing top honors in the south- the last four years, opens this eastern premiere of "This Is the j Sunday. Sept. 12, at Comiskey Army” was the crack 50-piece Tus- j Park in Chicago, kegee Army Air Base band under j The Indianapolis game will be the direction of Capt. Frank L. i staged on Friday night, Sept. 17,

Manager W. 5. WEICH, (left) of the BIRMINGHAM BLACK BARONS (Negro i American league) instructs his ace pifehen right hinder John MARKHAM (center) and southpaw Sreocfif McK/NNiS (right.)

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By W. Douglas Brown (For ANP) (Qt Who was the first Negro to enter the United States Naval academy at Annapolis? (Qt Who be a me the first nth tefe to win the national decathlon and pentathlon championships in •me year? (Q> Who is the Haitian minisster to the United States? % fQ> What Negro president was paid a visit by President F. I>. Roosevelt on his history making Casablanca trip? fQ) Who was the first Negro radio announcer in the city of Birmingham? (Qt Where was Jimmy lamer ford the popular Negro orchestra leader horn? (Qt Who was tlie late William L Reed?

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RED SOX CRUSH GIANTS' HOPE FOR At PENNANT

CHICAGO, Sept. 10. (ANP) — The hopes of the American Giants for the second round championship of the Negro American LeagYi 0 were dashed Thursday night when Bill Mathis of the Memphis Red i Sox hurled the Dixie boys to a beautiful 2 to u triumph before 3.500 wildly cheering ball fans. The Giants, who need three vic1 tories in the series of doublehead- ! ers to he played here in Comi iskey park to be in sight of the | championship were held to five hits by Mathis who did not yield a walk. * W; Proceeds of t no game playedon Sunday men! to the local

branch NAACP.

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(A) William Blevins who lias born on the same radio station for over 10 years. (A) Denver. (A) One of the firsl Negroes to he elected to the Massachusetts house of representatives. Tie also served IS years as executive secretary to the governors’ council

Batteries: Mathis and Jessup and T. Radcliffe.

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REPORT HUBERT QUITTING UNCLE SAM FOR FISK WASHINGTON. Sept. 10. ( ANP l —Giles B. Hubert for ihe past three years connected with the Farm Security adininisl rat ion of the department of agri ultun* is relinquishing his post to return to Fisk university where In* will head up the department of economics, i! is reliably reported. Mr. Hubert came to FSA from Fisk and was originally slalioned in Washington. Later tiis unit was transferred to Ciminnati where In* Jias made his headquarters since. A replacement has not boon decided upon.

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TUSKEGEE AIR FIELD. Ala — Aug. :t<>. Far removed from the scenes of his past athletic prowess. Aviation Cadet Bernard Jefferson. former Northwestern university grid star, returned to the limelight last Monday. August 30 at the Tuskegee Army Air Field. Instead of cavorting before a sta-dium-filled mass of pigskin fans, he stood on the stage of the Post theatre calmly awaiting the presentation of gold bars and silver wings, emblematic of a flying officer in the Army Air Forces. As Lt. Jefferson walked off the stage, tlie thoughts of many persons in that audience must have flashed back through the years to a December afternoon in 1936. Became Nationally Known The shrill blast of the referee’s whisl’e echoed through the hushed confines of the shadow-clad Dyclfe .Stadium in Evanston. 111. Its I fading blast heralded one of the greatest, upsets in the annals of footbal] history, as a comparatively unknown Negro hoy. Bernie Jefferson, led a fighting hand of Northwestern gridsters to a victory over hitherto unbeaten Mini peseta. The two-year reign of the mighty Gopher gridiron machine j had ended, hut the career of one i of Northwestern’s football immorI t:tls was only beginning. Lightning Strikes Twice During the fall of 1938 the Gophers returned to the national football spotlight as they amassed another string of victories. Northwestern the meantime had mediocre success. The impending clash between the two rivals was a ‘must" on the sports calendar. Coach Lynn Waldorf’s Wildcat • levon. obviously keyed up for this all important game, outplayed and; outfought Minnesota all afternoon. The sole touchdown of the day was seored by the scintillating ‘ Negro halfback Jefferson on a per- 1 !-ona! jaunt through the entire ' 1 C'onhor team. Lightning had struck ! twice in the same place. Bernie had done it again! All Star Player As a fitting climax to a meteoric career, Bernard Jefferson was selected on the All-Big Ten team and mentioned on several All-American elevens for that year. Anti-climax came with his being voted by the nation’s fans to participate in the annual All-Star game against the world professional championships New York Giants at Soldiers. Field, Chicago. Upon graduation from Northwestern, Bernie left football ’>°- hind him. He obtained a job as physical education instructor at Wendell Phillips high school in Chicago. Not contented, he returned to his hooks and received a teacher’s certificate from Chicago Teachers college which enabled him to become the head of the physical education department a! Medill elementary school in the same city. Air Corps Volunteer At the outbreak of. the war. Bernie volunteered for the Air Corps and was sent to the Tuskegee Army Air Field in Alabama for aviation cadet training. His ath lotic prowess had preceded. Bring a luminary had its bad points, hut he waded through the tough cadet course without a grumble* Finally the morning of Aug. 20 arrived. It was a far cry from the gridiron. Instead of n.oleskins he wore khaki. On his shoulders were gold bars and on his proud < iiest was pinned the dream (f almost every youth of today, a pair of silver wines.

Drye. The band as it swung down Peachtree street playing ‘Stars and Stripes Forever’ marched with such precision and played so brilliantly, the thousands of white and Negro observers lining the street broke out in spontan-

eous applause.

Setting a precedent in Atlanta parades, the Negro band was not placed at the end of the procession, but marched in front of a contingent of white marines. During the premiere in front of the huge Fox theatre here, the hand j rendered a short concert featuring “This Is the Army, Mr. Jones.” taken from the army film presented for the benefit of army emer-

gency relief.

starting at 8:30 Both the Black Barons and the American Giants are immensely popular here. The Barons have always been sensational here, as everywhere else, while the American Giants are unheated at Victory Field this season, having scored victories here over the Kansas City Monarchs and Baltimore Elite Giants. There will be no raise in prices for this playoff game. The game should shatter all attendance records for a Negro game at Victory

Field.

Louis, Robinson, Nicholson, Wilson Head for Camp Lee CAMP LEE. Va.—Sgt. Joe Louis

Barrow, heavyweight champion of nhe world, will stop at this post September 15, during his 100-day tour of military camps in this country, before going to entertain

fighting men on far flung fronts. Sergeant Louis will take on his

former sparring partner, Sergeant George Nicholson. Also in the party will he Cpl. Walker Smith.

Few states issue more hunting ! better known In welterweight ranks and fishing licenses than Indiana as Ray Robinson, and Pvt. Jack with the Hoosier State ranking ^Mson former welterweight

fourth hi the issuance of fishing | ( 'hamp.

licenses and fifth in the number' Augmenting the two bouts of hunting licenses. Harrell F. Mos-' the visiting firemen is Uke-

the Division of ly t0 be a dls P lfi y of Camp Lee

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HOOSIERS LOVE TO FISH, HUNT, FIGURES SHOW

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Fish and Game, reported today. The large number of hunting and fishing licenses issued in Indiana is an indication of the unusually high percentage of residents of the state who enjoy these outdoor activities, as well as an indication of the good fishing and hunting which have been developed and maintained through the con-

servation program.

Records compiled by tho U. S. Fisli and Wildlife Service, show that Indiana was topped in the issuance of fishing licenses only by Michigan, Ohio, and Minnesota. Michigan. Pennsylvania. Ohio, and New Y'ork issued more hunting licenses than Indiana. A total of approximately twenty-five million dollars was spent for fishing and hunting licenses throughout the United States during the 1941-42 fiscal year the Fish and Wildlife

Service report shows.

Indiana has been a leader among the various states in the improvement of hunting and fishing conditions a program in which the sportsmen and conservationists continue to play a major part thru the operation of conservation club brooders to rear game birds and the operation of club rearing ponds to produce game fish. This co-op-erative program, carried on more successfully in Indiana than any of the other states, has made possible more extensive restocking of fields, woods, lakes and streams than would he possible otherwise.

According to the Third Service Command itinerary the Brown (Bomber will arrive in Virginia September 9. He will come to this military installation from Fort Eustis completing his Virginia tour here.

BOMBARDIER UNIT PLANNED WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. (ANP) —The war department announced last week that the training of Neg: o pilots for an all-colored bombardment group to go activated on July 1 or sometime next year will begin within a month at either Del Rio, Texas, or Fort Dodge, Kansas. Other Negro flying cadets will begin training as navigators and bombardier officers in December at a field to he announced later. Ground crews for the bombing unit are in training now at air force installations throughout the country. continued the announcement. One all-Negro pursuit squadron has seen action in North Africa. It is the 99th Pursuit Squadron led by Lt. Col. Benjamin O. Davis. Jr., s*till located in that theatre of war. Fighter pilots are still being trained at Tuskegee Institute where the 99th received its training.

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