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SPORT SLANTS
FOOTBALL
BOWLING
TRACK
DU SIDLE-iTTOCKS GAME HIGHLIGHT OF SEtSOH
FLANNER HOUSE
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Recreation Reflections
By Wesley O. Jnckson
Tin* Fltiuuer ‘Hmisi* Group Work finishing touchos to buildiug and department met with it’s WPA Re-I the Hoy Seoul troop. No. G3. are ereatioii h*aders and s«*t tl«e date just as glad to fix its den A full for their annual bean feed for the ! program will start soon for the
live ana elifbs. The date is No- parents and children, veuiber 22. and the affair will be IKYTXiTON
held in the main auditorium of! Ueeil Valentine has buill a stand Flannel* House. More tlian 2.»0 f or p 0 xiug elub to use the boys are expected to attend. Movies pmu-piug bag and several of the skits, and a fast moving program boys are looking forward to a good
will be offered also. ! chance in
FAYETTE CENTER Wright Colbert and his game room Austin Smith. WPA junior lead- ; s<H*ms to stay crowded at each ses- « r, and his vf»n completed a writ- j sion. This is dm* to the pleasant
ten plan for a full program during j surroundings and the poronalily of j f rora beginning
Hoy Thurman, Local Star,
Scores Twice; ’Force Downs Ky. State 13-12
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the mouth of November. A Fum- j the WPA junior leudersily night. Boxing show, and chil- | SCHOOL No. 26
dren play will spark the center to The John Hope Boys elub is a new high, it is hoped. I ainily I growing every day unacr the dinight embraces a large portion of ! rec tion of Kenneth RashI and with the center’s children parents and t bp club memliers ages ranging with the present statf of workers j from n years to ig t be club work Fayette should pace the other area | has reached a new high. The oldelubs. 1 er j>oys seem to go for basketball HAl’GHVILLE No. 6,1 in a big way and tbe younger ones Tbe Fifth and Sixth grade club arc taking the game room hi their
and the Seventh and Eighth grade i stride*.
club will move into their indoor
ipiartcrs this week. Alien Johnson and Herman Anderson have been holding their dun meeting on the inside but the activities were outdoors. With the Planner House equipping tbe club with games and a newly painted ping-,
pong table the club will grow. Tbe IN’ Ol R Qt Ei^TTON club boys will attend the Doug- , BOXJ?????
lass
Williams will be the boys’ host
SOUTH SIDE
Children on the southside are anxiously waiting to take over their now i-enter on Ray street. Edward lH*nny and William Johmom stated last week that the whole
FRANKFORT, Nov. 9.—The last team to defeat Kentucky State at home came back and repeated Saturday when Wilberfo roe’s Big Green Wave eked out a 13 to 12 win over the stubborn Thorobreds. who, on record, were the underdogs today. The points after touchdowns failed the usual accurate toe of Capt. O. Edwards and as a result, the Kentuckians suffered their Hist home defeat In four years. It. was in 193(1 when the
the Golden Gloves, -phordbreds lost their last game
at home.- Wilberforce turned the trick then by a 9 to G score. Saturday’s game was a thriller
to end. Both
Trotters • AH * Star Net Same Nov.
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Sparks Mid-west Fans
Heatin' the 6un
By At Moses for ANP
teams were as evenly matched as one could find. The Lome team was first to enter pay dirt, scoring in the opening quarter. A Wilberforce fumble late in the first quarter was recovered by Kentucky at midfield. Thurman passed to Hardin for 10 yards on Wilberforce’s 40. Another pass by Thurman, this time to Kentucky’!? freshman end. Gyrus, placed the ball on the onefoot line from wftich point Thurman went ovc’* for the first score of flu* game. Captain Edwards’
kick was no good.
I Early in the second quarter Wil- | beforce made its first marker. Following a Kentucky punt to own
CHICAGO. Nov. 15. (ANP) — Selection of the x5 members of the whit a College All-Star squad, who wilt play the Harlem Globe Trotters, world professional champions. at the Chicago Stadium Friday night. Nov. 29. has been completed. The Chicago Heraid-Amer-tean. sponsor of the annual professional- tournament, is sponsoring the coming classic and Hearst newspapers and radio stations as wrell as other editors throughout the nation selected the All-Stars. Shortest All-Star is Chet Jaworski, Rhode Island, forward 5 feet 10 inches. The remaing 14 are 6 feet or more with Sadowski, Seton Hall, and Jim Rue. Michigan, standing 6 feet 5. An inch shorter are Bill Hapac of Illinois, Bob Carpenter of East Texas Teachers, and Rex Ellis of Notre Dame. There's only one G-foot 2 on the
45. Wilberforce added two consecu. s 0» ad aml Is BUI McDonald of live first uowns to the Kentucky, Marquett?. The 6-fooi 2 members I 20. Hart from that point passed arf: Ralph Vangfhn. Southern Calto Price for a touchdown. Schnelb*- -fornia; Bob Caliban Detroit U.;
(By the Associated Negro Press) Alcorn G, Tougaloo 2. Lincoln (Pa.) 15. Va. Union 9. Morgan 34, Greensboro A. & T. 0. North Carolina 7, Floiida A. & M 7 (tie). Hampton 25, Howard. 0 Va. State 6. W. Va. State 5.
Paine 7, Claflin 6. Clark 3, Morehouse 0. Langston 14, Wiley 0. Wilberforce 13, Ky. State 12. Tuskegee 27. Knoxville 7. Miles 6, Fort Valley 0. Southern 13, Ala. State 7. Rust 11, Dillard G. Bluefield 3, John C. Smith 0. Allen 15, Ga. State G.
This city s colored football fans are going made as Coach Alonzo Watford's Crispus Attacks Tigers go through their daily strenuous workouts fo»* the outstanding game of the year — it's Thankgiving contest against the DuSable high
school of Chicago.
Hundreds of alumni have made reservations for tbe game w*hich is all tlie more important since Attacks nas a team equal to any
they have bad in years.
Thanksgiving activities will be
more awaits the Thanksgiving fioed of visitors who will deluge Butler BjwI Thursday on this
Thanksgiving event.
Sentimental reasons for a Tiger victory will be shared by those w*ho will be playing their final game for the Attacks Tigers. Presiding over the game will be ane of the Federation of Associated Club eighteen lovely ladies who are contesting now to be crowned “Miss Federation” at a gala coronation ceremony during the half,
at their highest following the game, j The game will start at ];30 p. m., with four hours of dancing to fa-1 and is sponsored by the Federamous swing music, hundreds of ’ Hon of Associated Clubs, Inc., as new and old faces coming from J a mean*; for scholarship fund for surrounding cities all this and the Attacks graduates. Sport Flashes Alleged Dirty Playing Causes Near Riot At Union Lincoln Game
RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 17. (AN P)—Three policement and a special squad of Union students were needed to quell a disturbance Saturday afternoon at Hovey field during the second quarter of the Un-
Strong precautions had to be taken to keen furious Panther fans
from the field.
“In all my 18 years of coaching, I have never seen such poor sportsmanship,” declared Coach Hucles,
ion-Lincoln footlball game when “Any time a player is injured 18 Freddie Cooper, Union’s running- feet from the playing field, some
est halfback, was “butchered” 18 feet from the playing field. Lin-
one must have had a foul purpose.’ Coach Rivers, of the Lincoln ! Lions, could not be reached for a
not be too greatly handicapped in of Chicago. Ted Strong, who play- coin won the game. 15 to 9.
height. Of the eleven players who e l baseball in Mexico all summer Cooper, brutally beaten, had to j statement, but one Lincoln student
went to Seboygan, Wis., Saturday ; with the Nuevo La Junta team, be taken to the hospital and late to start intensive training, only was d*ve in Sheboygan as practice repons arc that he bas three fracone is less than six feci tall. He began. ture= in his shoulder and arm is Agis Bray of Chicago, an even i The coming game on Nov. 2S which will shelve the mighty “Can5 feet 10. I will 1,3 the n.OOOth in which the nonball” for the season.
The others are Babe Presdey, I Trotters have participated over 14 Di-iven out of bounds after gain-; ..j see j t *« ^ a result, no Cleveland'. Sonny Bciswell, Tole-, years. They have won. 1,868 anu ins ten yards aiomid the Lincoln player was ejected, although
was quoted as saying, “It’s all in football. What do you expect!” The four officials who worked the Union-Lincoln game came in for a razzing when one remarked.
thieatret h is Sa t urd-i v rnuv< ‘ Question: Just among Negro big 1>’. Wilberforce big tackle, "missed ^tan Sznkaia. De Paul* Erwin i do; Puke Cumberland. Detroit; ; last season were victorious in 158 left era!. Cooper was thrown over lhe star ; Lincoln’s Capt . Frank theatre thi. Sat ... . Hie try for the extra point and * prassc Ralph Giaunini, San-: aui Ford. Columbus, O.: Bernie, of the Ml games played, accord- a string of Panther reserves ly- Murray, wearing No. 45. was rec-
the score was knotted 6 to 6 That, ta Clara, and Marvin Huffman, In- ! Price. Petersburg. Va.; Al Tucker,, ing to Abo Saperstein, ownw-coach. mg In .rout, to the Panther bench ogn i ze d j )V spectators as the playwas tbe *core at half-time. '.liana. The other two are even 6 , Montgomery. Ala.: Al Johnson. lo the tournament, they eliminat- f o where he crashed head-on with ip a n P d onto the nile 18 AVilberforce took advantage of fppt - Fjced Beretta of Prrdue and formerly of the New* York Ren», ed the famous Rens who in 1939 three Lincoln tacklers. The star p
a Kentucky fumble to annex its Ti,n MtfNatt of Oklaltofna. Inman JacKsem and Hillary Brown w< n Che world championship.
However, the GIHoie Trotters will f
men who was the fastest college
sprinter at 100 yards?
Pearl Humes.
Lebanon Girls SScuool.
Lebanon. Pa.
Auswer; Ralph Metcalfe. (P. S.- -
, . ..I wanted to say Willis Ward or
coin min nt.\ was waiting i'» pm m j>j|| Watson, had you asKi-d me
_ concerning men even larger Ilian
Marquette Ralph.)
Question: How is Buddy Mooroe progressing in the small towns since turning professional?
T. H. G.
New York City Answer: Not very well. Recently he was handed a rough going over by Bill Boyd, a fast big fellow*. in 10 rounds. Moore is being consistently over-matcher, and a bright career can easily be ruined this way.
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Question: Why are iiioie no Negro six day hike riders m.d wouldn't a good team catch on equal!) as well as a Jewish. Italian or
Irish team? John Stebbins
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Harlem
second tally. Thurman’s fumble of Schnehly s punt was recovered by Fuller, Wilberforce center, on Kentucky's 2S. Alternating in power plays, Brown and Ebbs, who had
substituted for Caslleman drove -a
through the Kentucky line for a j score. Brown going over for the tally. Schnebly’s perfect placement put the visitors ahead IS to 6. 1 The Thorobreds were not to be denied, however. A pass from Jones, sub quarterback, to McCullen early in the final quarter plac- i ed the ball on Wilberforce’s 23-1 yard line, Jones made 5. Then Thurman came back into the game and drove fo the Wilberforce oneyard line for a first down. On the next play, Thurman went over for the touchdown. Captain Edwards
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halfback was badly beaten and from the field. The Lions were crushed over the players’ (bench, penalized 15 yards for roughness.
As has been the custom, Thursday morning. Noveml»er 21, at more than 100 boys properly supervised will line up before the YMCA (o compete for championship
again missed the placement and ! awards of the annual Thanksglvtbe score was 13 fo 12. 1 hig classic. There will be four main
events, classified according to the
six teams of color in past 10 years or more. We’d like to see our lads go in for this sport, we be1 Here they’d quickly make the Answer: The yarn persists that I grade, our boys liaven’t the stamina to ]
last through six days of gruelling 1 Question: Will you forward me cycling (?). With little or no en- the address of Harry Edwards. Ocouragement from promoters of j lympie Games sprinter of 1920 who
this popular sqiort. we have not bad
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age and endurance r,i the participant. The Duck Wabble, a half mile jaunt is limited to junior pi oneer boys; the Gander Strut, one mile for older boys, and the two mile finale, the Turkey Run, can only be participated in by members of the school pioneer clubs. Individual awards will be made to the winner of .each event and an award to the school with the largest a mount of ]NUiits. The two mile o pen run is an individual achieve ment competition and registration
Answer: Address leter In WnrLs 1 ’*. ,r *" is L "' out ls 1,ot ““**«« to Prnffress 7(1 Coin,,, e S !, ( . 1)urtnlent ot ,, ublR . ga/e .
ty will co-operate with the association in providing escorts or traf fie officers to assure ns absolute
bus Avenue. New York City Question: Would you rate Dolly King, Long Island university, better at basketball than he = at foot-
ball?
H. L. Ansonia. Conn. Answer: The 1940 season has found King a football player second to none. The answer is foot-
ball.
Question: Will Golden Gate ballroom finally become a sports arena (from present indications), and who will take over basketball promotion? Luther Hurley New York City. Answer: Charlie Buchanan, who should know, feels that way about the “Gate” and unless plana dhange, Frank Forbes, will hanlle basketball. Question: From what I noticed at the fall amateur boxing shows, little if any profit has been made by the promoters, while last season, they did very well. What’s wrong? Bob Slater 127 West 111th st. Harlem Aafivyer The- last show made money* two previous ones were "bloomers”. Fans insist card is not up to last i sett son’s standerd and want more rip-snorting four round contests between classier lighters.. . .. , , v .. • ... 1 r -"* ’ Question. What’s the matter with UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles), thought they coil Id win with Robinson despite loss of Kenny WashingO'n-
safety for the children. Tnc fol- ■ lowing men have been asked to as sist the staff in the promotion of this project: G. Wesley Wade, Dr. E. D. Alexander, I>r. Theodore Cable, Bert Walker, Herman Holiday, Dr. Ward Wilson, George Gray and George DeCoursey.
T. J. Lo Angeles, Cal. Answer: Players like Washingttou. who virtually carry a team single handed, usually come along “once in a lifetime.” Question: Few men in ring history have been able to give away 30 pounds to a first class fighter like for example, a 145 pounder, licking a lighthenvyweight. Cau you think of at least four who could! all Negroes? Harry Wiley, Jr.. Boxing Instructor. Abyslnnia Baptist church • N. Y. C. Answer: Jack Blackburn. Joe Walcott. Sam Langford and Panama Joe Gans. Question: A brother Alpha 1’bi Alpha .sport fan contends that our leading sprinters were not necessarily good relay runners. and would eliminate such men as Eller bee, Thompson, and Dehart Hub bard, from high raukiug In this respect. Will you name an outstanding relay quartette? R. H. K. Bottom Mass,
Morgan Downs A. & T. College, 34 to 0 BALTIMORE, Nov. 15. (ANP)—i:ho entire game A. i? T. threatonMorgau won its six h consecutive ed to :;core. In the third quarter, victory Saturday afternoon in Mor- A. & T. was on the, two-yard line ! gan Stadium by defeating A. & T. with *hree downs to go. For two i of Greensboro, by a store of 34 consecutive downs they were held j to 9. Early in the first ‘period in their tracks. On the third dawn, Campbell ran 62 yards for a tou h- \. Sr T. was thrown for a three-
down. Only once after this during .ard loss
Smith Scores First N 9 western Touchdown EVANSTON. 111.. Nov. K . i AX remaining 15 yards with no one
' P)—Jim Smith, regular left oiid near him
playing his final year on t.ie This was Smith’s second touch-
_ Northwestern football team, scored clown in Dyehe Stadnim this seaT-, lhe first Wildcat touchdown in son. He tallied one against Indiami captain', who completed 17 out Saturday’s defeat of Illinois. 32 to ana on a locked kick in the fourth or 2n attempted forward passes. H 'before -S.l'OO spectalors. Ip cptarter wlneli he poked up and Despite (he unbalanced score, the second quarter Smifh pol he- ,ro “' yards out. , „ . ,, „„.t Smith is cunenllv handicapped uv the game \\us both exciting and |jj |lt { y le Illinois secondary, gather .. , SU5 .f a j.. weeks
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as® br.hrZva™.!:: Harris Over First As Indiana Wins more who scored three touch-j which played mo.-t of the game be-j ,,, rw ., Tlv ,,, . .. . r .
downs, and the passln K of (teorse tweep the 2f-yard markers. ; (A ^,_: Ia ^* *,„,“ " lbe '“Sieql; 'Z l^afftr'l»W»1 received ^ "" * 1 ' 1 "" 1 at Mk rtart of the second quarter. , x .
administration a statement on fu-] Archie Harris, Indiana’s star end. 0,her tosses * 1 , c ir ° osiers won
HAMPTON BATTERS HOWARD, 25 0
HAMPTON INPT .oVa. — A battered Hampton Inslitute football team fame back >n the rebound from la»jt week’s setback to defeat Howard University 25 to 0, Saturday. November 9. The outstanding features of the game were the broken field running of Eruest Duke” Green, Hampton sopho-
BATES CASE
SPURS ACTION
AT N. Y, 0.
NEW YORK. Nov. 17. (CNA) Leon Bates did not play in the recent New York University-Missou-ri game, which the former lost,
33 to 0.
p jU t — the ‘ Bates Must Play” campaign was not a failure. NYU students, learning the Jim-Crow lesson, say that the “fight has just, begun.” And they point to the ev-er-mounting waves of national protests which are still reverberating against the clam-like ears of Chancellor Harry .Chase and Athletic
Director Philip Badger of NYU.
The Jim-Crow ing of the sophomore Negro back, by collusion between Missouri and NYU officials, unloosed a local and national drive against discrimination in sports which mav yet boomerang into a kayo for Jim-Crow, It was general-
ly agreed here this wgek.
Following up their vigorous “Bates Must Play" campaign which
rallied support throughout the na-
tion. NYU students led by C.uy i aTU ] (Samuel Macklis,, field ’repreStoute now are engaged in form- j sentative. United Mine Workers. ing a permanent committee to fight j racial discrimination on their cam-P- |S|r> AX. Tim R AR us. and to obtain *n>;n the NYU jlilL VT tMM kNN-
day will alto be observed with the queen being crowned at the game. All university fratoiinities and sororities and many clubs will enter fi< ats in the competitive, fes 1 - 1 ival parade that will accompany tbe queen’s entrance into the sta-
dium.
ture policy in regard to the par-j inaugurated the afternoon’s scor- cvei Michigan State, 20 to 0.
llcipation of Negroes in inter-col-j
logiaie sports. Howard-Lincoln Game at Griffith
The flgiil against Hie Jim-Crow-
ing of Bates can be traced in such WASHINGTON. Nov. 15 (AN varying national organizations as r>)—For the first lime since 1930, t’*ade unions, student and faculty the annual Howard-Lincoln Thanksgroups. clubs, civic 'bodies, and giving Day football game will be athletic teams. played in Griffith Stadium instead More than 4 000 NYU students, of tIie se j loors fie i d individually and through then* or- , , ._ ganizatioas. demanded that Bates Hmne-comaig and Gridiron Queen
play, and (hey were joined hy the Missouri chapter of the American Students Union; the League for Liberal Action of the University of Wisconsin; students of Sarah Lawrence College; Thomas Rizzo, student (Congress, Benjamin Franklin High/School: the Jewish Students Society of the City College of New York, and the St. Louis
Youth Congress Council.
Among the educators who hit Jim-Crow were Prcf. 'Walter Rautens trau eh, Columbia university; the Teachers Union, NYU.. Albert Malt. NYU., Morris Schappos. CCNY., and David Goldway, Local 357. Committee for Defense of Pub-
lic Education.
Among union leaders were Joseph Curran, president, National Maritime Union; Michael Quill, president, Transport Workers; Joseph Harrison, executive secretary. Trade Union Athletic Association;
60ENS, PHILLIPS, WADE ON A. A. U.
TRACK AND FIELD BOARD
Paul Phillips and Louis Goens of tbe Flannel* House group work department have been selected as members of the Indiana A. A. U. track and field committee, for 1940 to 41 as was George W. Wade. The personnel of the committee consists of the coaches of the various high soIkkAs. Ray Sears of Butler. Herman Phillips qf Purdue and others. The committee had its first meeting October 21 at the Board of
Trade Bldg. The purpose of tbe committee is to cooperate iu making track and especially tbe A. U. meets which include lhe Planner House track and field meet, outstanding events of the season. Ways and means were discussed as to how track activities can be made of major interest in the state and city, the next meeting of the conir mittee will be held during the
spring.
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Answer: Howard Drew, Eddie Tolan. Ralph Metcalfe. Jess Owens. Question : Kindly rate the following football quartet in order of greatness: Manuel Rivero. “Red' Dabney. Jerome "Brud” Holland. Kennv Washington?Chested Flood Williamson, W. Va.
Answer: Washington, “Red” Dabney, Rivero.
Holland.
GUN CLUB TO HOLD FRY
The West End Rod and Gun club will hold its annual Rabbit Fry at El-Amigo club house Friday night, November 15- The public is Invited to attend.
All-Star Cage Squad
Name
School
Position
Height
Weight
Ralph Vaughn
So. California
Forward
6-2
190
Bob Calihen
Detroit “U.”
Center
6-2
192
Bill Hapac
Illinois
Forward
6.4
1S8
Ed Sadowski
Setor Hall
Forward
6-6 »/ r
196
Chet Jaworski
Rhode Island
Forward
5-10
165
Stan Szukata
De Paul
Gua^d
6-2
175
Jim Rae
Michigan
Center
6-5
190
Edwin Prasse
Iowa
Guard
6-2
1*5
Bob Carpenter
E. Tex. Teach.
Forward
6-4
190
Ralph Giannini
Santa Clara
Forward
6-2
175
Fred Beretta
Purdue
Guard
6-0
173
Marvin Huftmar
Indiana
Guard
6-2
185
Jim McNatt
Oklahoma
Forward
6-0
170
Bill McDonald
Marquette
Forward
6-3
191
Rex E!!i$
Notre Dame
Center
6-4
185