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NEW YORK—This is about Freddie Red Cochrane, World Welterweight Champion, and his failure to accept a match with Ray “Sugar” Robinson for the title. Recently the Harlem slugger issued the following stater ment through his manager, George Gaipsford: “For the past three years, boxing commissions, ring magazines, and newspapers have established Ray Robinson as the number one contender for the Welterweight Title. Red Cochrane, the champion, has been discharged from the U.S. Navy for eight months and has made no effort to defend his title. Cochrane has engaged in a number of tuneup bouts and IS STILL TUNING. His last tuneup was the ill-fated bout with Rocky Graziano. his two time conqueror. It has been a boxing commission rule and still is that a champion must defend his title every six months. I, Ray Robinson, •am ready to fight Red Cochrane> anywhere and anytime that any boxing commission so designates. We, George Gainsford, and Ray Robinson, are. also re’ady to give Cochrane, whenever he signs up for a title match, a $50,000 guarantee, a $10,000 house built anywhere in New Jersey, 50 per cent of the net receipts, and training experiences paid, and should we be fortunate enough to win the title we will give Cochrane a return match within 30 days.” But still uochrane keeps out of the .way of Robinson. There seems to be a well laid plot on the part of Cochrane and his manager, Willie Gilsenberg, to avodd any contact with Robinson except on their own terms which I have heard involves a 10 per 'cent cut on Robinson if he should win the championship in such a bout with Cochrane. If this is true and Robinson and Gainsford have intimated that the Cochrane front office has some feuch « deal whereby Cochrane would have 10 per cent of the title, if Robinson w’on then evvery boxing commission in the country should start an investigation, in fact, boxing commissions should have started an investigation long ago because it does boxing no good to have a champion who will not fight local contenders, holding on to the title. : Cochrane is one of the few fighters in recent times who has been going around making a lot of money fighting overweight
bouts' without putting his title on the line. It was something that Joe Louis, the Heavyweight Champion has never indulged in; something that Henry Armstrong, who held three championships never stooped to do, and it brings back the old days of Jack Dempsey and others who went around lighting non-title and over-weight bouts to make money only, while defending the title once or twice a year. There is where the racketeering comes in. If Cochrane is allowed to get aw'ay with it then boxing is bound to suffer. Boxing should not be made to suffer after its brilliant upsurge following close on the heels of the rise of Joe Louis. Henry Armstrong. Beau Jack, Bob Montgomery, and others who have made the game clean once again.* Cochrane looked very bad in both his fights with Graziana, notwithstanding wiiat the newspaper boys said in the buildup that followed the first fight. He w’as knocked out in both battles, it will be recalled. But he looked bad as a champion. His boxing ability is nondescript and he is not a pretty fighter to watch. Evidently, Cochrane and his manager know r these things better than we do, and that is probably the reason why they have persisted in running away from local challenges and have been fighting over-weight tune-up contests, only to make money. Somewhere dow r n the line, some alert boxing commission, whether in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, California, New Jersey, Michigan, or Illinois, is going to catch up with Cochrane and force him to make a stand. Cochrane right now' is trying his best to meet some white boy in a championship fight rather than Robinson. It is a known fact that Cochrane has yet to fight a Negro, which means that he has drawn the color line, something that has never been done during the whole period of boxing’s present day popularity due of course to the example set down by the outstanding Negro boys who have made the boxing boom. If Cochrane is drawing the color line, and it appears that he is, there is all the more reason for some boxing commission to, take up the challenge, laid down by Robinson and Gainsford and force Cochrane to a title defense. Until that happens, boxing can definitely be said to be slipping.
Dayton. Ohio
Coach Watford’s Grid Squad to Play Dunbar
ATTUCKS TIGERS VS. SUMNER OF ST. LOUIS FRI., SERJ. 28: The Retail Merchandising Class at Attacks is all ready for football fans who will patronize the game. Above is shown the “SNACK SHOP.” The class in Retail Merchandising operates the SNACK SHOP in which it puts into practice all the fundamentals of merchandising or buying and selling.
BOWLERS OPEN FALL SEASON LEAGUE PLAY
STAGES ONE-MAN ART
SHOW IN NEW YORK ~Thea7e7
OHIO ATHLETE SETS ETO PACES IN GERMANY FRANKFURT. Germany, (Delayed)—The hottest pair of legs to race around a German track since Jesse Owens gave the lie to that super^race theory at the .Berlin Olympics in ’36, failed to save the Mediterranean Theater of Operations track and field squad from a 69 to 54 defeat by the European Theater champions, before 30,000 at Victory Stadium Monday in
August.
Inter-theater records fell in 11 of the 15 events. And, in the recapitulation. three of the new marks belong to Private First Class j William Dillard, Cleveland Negro beaming the blue and white colors of the Mediterranean. Former Bald win-Wallace College sprinter ! and hurdler, Dillard won the 200- , meter dash, and both hurdles in | the fastest ^time yet recorded in
servicemen’s competition.
In addition, he anchored the record-busting 400-meter relay combination to personally contribute 16M points to the losing cause. European Theater Standard-Bearers w'on seven events and surpassed
and
Beatin’ the Gun
By ALVIN MOSES
BASEBALL FANS THE AGENDA.
HEAD
the full swing of the bowding season is rolling around. The West street alleys will not be the same this year with little William Brown in the service and also big John
Silas.
But we have with us for the start of the season manager, Bob McComb and Edgar Harding back again to slug the “maples.” The Fun Bowl is under new manage-
Mediterranean Operations records j in the process. They made the j only sweep taking all nine points in the shot behind Sergeant Irving Kintisch’s impressive 51 feet, 10 inch toss, and compiled their margin of victory by placing two scorers in 11 of the other 14 events. The European Theater team gain-
chestra Association to paint a e( l unexpected points in the 100canvas interpretation of Cnl. Marc meter dash when Private Dick Ford, Blitzstein’s symphonic poem, . . Pride of the Mediterranean Thea“Freedom Morning.” composed in ter °f Operations sprinters from England as a salute to the Negro Detroit, finished out of the money, troops in the war. Corporal Charlie Edwards, Negro, He followed in April 1914 with Oise Base thinclad from Hammond, a one-man show' at the Artist’s Indiana, scampered over the slow
PHILADELPHIA, (ANPi — A two-week exhibition of oil paintings by Claude Clark, local paintfr, opened at the Bonestall gallery, New Vork City, on Sept. 17. This is Clark’s first one-man show in New York, the mecca of f ne art. He first won recognb tion :n March 1944. when commis
| By GEORGE WHITTAKER
The baseball season is over and sloned ly the Philadelphia Or-
Gallery here.
turf in :10.8 to win, barely nosing out his teammate. Second Lieuten-
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ment due to the passing of William hope that the ••pin tL.S^ |
Clamcn. Mr. McComb is doing a will be bettei than ■' '-*= spraeant Mo/el Fllerbe nf tVilnrn fine job, and with help of bowling the previous season, and that all 11 * lozel EI1 rbf Colum fans of the city he should be a [bowlers will respect the pinboys ^ surprise occurred in the great success role in the game. We can not have imr surprise occur leu m im great, success. I ..Ja. gruelling 3,000 - meter marathon Here is wishing ' * IcUom i . ‘ when Mediterranean Theater of Oi> and Mr. Ferguson that you w.l The Industr at league udl «««> | er aUon» Sergeant Ben Drteu Booali. have-a great year. We hope that ) Wednesday night, Sept. 26. Alli„ ™ r. ... .u.
all bowlers will help to keep your teams expected to bowl in the
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yards behind Private Billy Marr, entrant from Port Jefferson, N.Y. After the third lap of the six-lap grind there was no question about the eventual winner as the steady pace set by Technician Fifth Grade Bob Black, European Theater Negro froip. North Attleboro, Mass., left The'rest of the field floundering in
his wake.
NEW YORK, (AXP)—As the swan song of the 1945 baseball season is about to be sung, we indulge in one of our customary seasonable chats with our faithful readers. Since we’ve been indulging in these informal get-togethers in this column for more than 10 years, it hardly comes under the new business side of our Town Hall agenda. We’ve w’atehed Negro professional baseball grow from the cake and coffee salary days Of Cyclone Joe Williams, on down to the fabulous stipend associated with Leroy (Satchel) Paige, of Satchel Paige, Inc., placed at upwards of . . . $40,000 for six or eight months of baseball labor. Likewise, (tear readers, we’ve gained knowledge of the fact that the six franchises of the Negro National League together with tlie six Negro American League clubs do a great season’s business of . . . Two million dollars and in anybody’s language,—that’s not bay—hey???? BUFFOONS AND ROWDIES SPOIL FUN. Trek with me. if you will, via the route of the.imaginative powers of the mind to a Sunday afternoon at the famous old Polo Grounds or the more recently erected Yankee Stadium, the ball yard the immortal Babe Ruth helped to build. Some 12,000 to 14.000 fans are in the stand, nine-tenths of them are colored. Sprinkled here and there are white spectators representing various strata, of life from barkeeps to ranking officers (and their escorts) of both branches of the armed services. This assemblage is out to enjoy the things on the distaff side of life. A glance sells you on that opinion. Now let's look at the disturbing side of this two-reel baseball cinema. One observes that packages resembling the kind housewives toil under of a Saturday night’s shopping tour, are brought out into the open. Before your startled gaze you see quarts of liquor, cups, and mixing concoctions placed in open view. From the moment the game starts until the noisemakers decide to
leave the park, — drinking (or should I say swilling) becomes the order of the afternoon. Decent people who become vocal in the protest of actions like the aforementioned are given a glance which decoded says "You mind tour business or my switchblade will persuad*- you to.” Then there is the uncouth rowdy or brawler who next comes in for an inning of our attention. He knows that the traditions of baseball give him the right to yell until his lungs burst. One wouldn’t care a hoot if the mouthings of these stupid coots provided wholesome entertainment for those sitting alongside or within easy earshot. Often remarks are of a bawdry nature causing persons of both races to look askance at each other. Too often this sort of clowning, court-jestering and buffoonery on the part of these "joy dispellers" provided no little work for the policemen. Fights brt-uK out in various sections of the stands distracting the attention of fans who are keeping scorecards and giving i the opponents of admitting Negroes into the major leagues : much desired Irate material i The few in this case make ; baseball afternoons at Negro National League classics a veritable hell at times . . . believe me, readers. WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. Unless ibis matter isn't handled by us, and I do mean the decent and civic-minded colored people. I’m afraid the white ballpark operators will be forced to settle the matter in the usual way. To see an issue made out of all this, to permit it to become a caqse celebre, would stand ferever as an indictment against our doshc or inability to cope with the lawless element, I think. Could a plan be worked out where 15 or 16 colored detectives be stationed in the sections where the trouble breaks out? The announcer, in this case dynamic Joe Bostic, could compliment the fans who make all of us proud because of their presence while issuing a none too subtle warning to the troublemakers whoso actions contribute so heavily to behavior patterns.
BARONS AT HOME CLASH WITH N.Y. BLACK YANKEES
Coach Alonzo Watford will journey to Dayton, Ohio, this week-end with his Attucks Gold and Green grid squad to clash with Dunbar of that city on Friday, September 21. The Attucks beat Dunbar, 13 to 7, in the game played last
year.
The probable line-up for the game with Dayton is as follows - S. Bell, Ig; O. Grundy, rg; R. Dupree, c; H. Murray, rt: John Lampkins, It; P Overton, le; Harry Brittain, re; Robert Washington, qb; Ralph Weathers, Ih; C. Perkins, rh and Ben Johnson, fb. The 1945 Attucks team appears to be one of the best assembled by Coach Watford in several years. With the start olj the season he had the equivalent of five teams, or more than fifty-five contestants out of which to build a first strong winning eleven. He ventures however, that an even break will be luck. Coach Watford came to Attucks in 1933 and ranked high in the state’s high school football circles up to about 1943. And this happen to be the year the school entered into Indiana inter-scholastic athletic competition, with Coach Watford out on a Hmb on account of his choice of material for a winning eleven. The tide has changed as the Tigers start the current season. The I first string eleven includes seven letter men back for the glory of the gold and green. These are Orville Williams, for fullback; Robert Washington, quarterback, William Rasdell, guard; Oscar
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BIRMINGHAM. Ala. (Special) — A big welcome is planned here for the Birmingham Black Barons
when they come home to face the (Harper, tackle; Jeff Cliff, regular the double stripe. Summary:
CAHSTIGERS PLAY CLINTON TIE GAME, 6-6
CLINTON, — The Attucks High School Tigers played the Clinton High School eleven here last Friday night a game which ended in a 6-to-6 tie. The offensive plays ci both teams netted touchdowns in the first quarter, anl both teams missed the try for an extra point. Attucks took the opening kickoff on their 35-yard line and moved down the field for three first downs to the Clinton 25-yard line. Orville Williams carrying the hall for Attuccks, circled the end in a 25-yar(i run to score for his side.. The attempt to kick the extra point failed on a bad pass from center. Receiving tne kickoff Clinton took the pigskin on its own 40 yard line, moving up for* five first downs. These included a pass from Gilman to Torasso which carried the ball to Attucks’ 5-yard line. The home team’s fullback Gilman smashed off-tackle to tie the score but failed to make the extra point. The two squads displayed their best action in the last three quarters. The visitors missed a. scoring chance at the beginning of the second half when Clinton fumbled on the Attucks 40-yard line. Again Attucks drove to Clinton’s 5-yard line before Quarterback Bob Washington’s aerial was intercepted by Gilman five yards short of
l New York Black Yankees in a double-header Sunday, Sept. 23, and iu a night game Sept. 27. The teams also are scheduled to meet Sept. 25 at. Knoxville and the next
night at Nashville,
j The Birmingham rooters, perhaps the most loyal iu all Negro baseball, are anxious to demonstrate to their Barons how they appreciate the way the latter fought (through the season despite a string
quarterback, and Leslie McClung, I Attucks (6) Clinton (6) starting guard. Force.;... Left End Fararre Fi’st line men may include al- Harper.... Left Tackle ..McLared) so: Jack Force, lelt end; Herman 1 Rasdell Left Guard .Pictchkites' Murray, left tackle; Stometh Bell, Dupee Center Comba left euard Ralph DuPee, center; 1 McClung.. Right Guard ..Barbee
Marion Taylor, right tackle; Fin- Taylor... Negro [ley Bryant, right end; Allen Jack- Bvyant... son, left halfback, and Marslmll Cliff Weathers, right halfback. Jackson.. Other promising candidates are Jones Right Half
as follows: ;Williams Full .
Right Tackle ...Povlin Right End Torasso . Quarter Stesani . Left Half .. .Goodman
Reinerlo . .Gilman
j of injuries to key players that Harry Brittain, George Berry, —Score by Periods— would wreck most squads. The Ba- Donald Bryant, Charles Houston Attucks 6 0 0 0—6 rons, however, always gave a good John Rogers, Willie Horton, Os- Clinton 6 0 0 0—6 account of themselves and especi- car Grundy. Peter Ovelton, Charles Touchdown — Williams, Gilman, ally rose to the heights when they Jones, Gaines Johnson, Gilbert i Substitutions—G^ttucks) Overton, defeated the Homestead Grays, 4 Little William Beil. Thomas Whit-' Murray, Bell, Green, Grundy, Berry, to 2, at Philadelphia, Saturday ted, Earl Lawrence, Carl Perkins. Brittain; (Clinton) James, Graham. Sept. 8. and the next day in a Don Lewis, Anderson Gridgley, !Giordano. Referee—Harmon. Um double-header at the Polo Grounds Walter Trice, Alfred Smith. Ed Pire — Moritz. Head linesman —
in New York, won again from the gar Trice, Carl Radford, Richard Meyer.
Grays, 9 to 4, in the first game j Collins, Ben Johnson, Charles —
and 6 to 4 from the New York Cubans in the second. Coming west, the Barons then proceeded to take the Kansas City Monarchs handily
a l Columbus, Ohio.
Johnny Britton’s return to third base after an ill-advised trip to Mexico and the sensational pitching of Frank (“Groundhog”) Thompson. pint-sized southpaw, were two of the main factors in the Barons’ late surge to their status as one of Negro baseLalFs best. The final Negro American League batting averages also give Manager W. S. Welch’s team something to point to with pride. Art Wilson, flashy shortstop, finished in seccond place with .372. Outfielders
Freddie Shepard were fourth and
and .352. Britton w - as not far behind with .345. Lester Lockett, who alternated between third base and the outfield, boasted a mark of .305 and First-Baseman Lorenzo (“Piper") Davis missed the .30u mark by one point. Johnny Huber (added to bis value to the club as a great pitcher and star catcher by hitting .298. incuding among his 20 hits two triples and two doubles.
vj r, Samuel Hatten. Lormie Bell j 'and"cde^r^otTo^k^ stay
U'irvin Barnett. Harrison Martin, j n t j,p rine
Willie Haughton, Homer Canady. | .
Donald Davis, Walter Coleman Herman Bledsoe, Donald Smith, Homer Bledsoe, William K. Johnson, Cornelius Lawherd, Oliver Johnson John Thomas and Ralph
Weathers.
WILLIE JOYCE WINS OVER NEW YORKER
Gig DISAPPROVE FIGHT DECISION AT
CAMP ATTERBURY, IND. CAMP ATTERBURY — A roar
! of disapproval arose from the islands, where more than 3,000 GI-* were seated, as Robert Caine, STU, white, w - as awarded the decision over Leonard Hardy of Hq. Secj tion. Station ComplemenL in a boxing match held here last w'eek.
The scrap was part of an eight-
bout card held in the Outdoor Arena, and pronounced one of the
best shows of the summer.
NEW YORK — Willie Joyce, leading lightweight contender from Gary. Ind.. won easily over Danny Bartfield of the East Side last week as Bartfield failed to come
and Ed Steele j U p f or fjjp seventh round. The } Caine weighed in at 161 and Harfifth with .356 fight took place at Madison Square dy at 158. The Negro battier
Garden. forced the fighting throughout the Bartfield threw one easy right three rounds, and had hia opponin the first round and injured his ent obviously wobbly at the finish, brittle rigl-f hand, which had been Many spectators came to the ringbroken in half a dozen fights be- ' si^e to check if they had heard fore. From then on he did not the decision correctly.
BIG
FOOTBALL GAME ATTUCKS HIGH SCHOOL
VS.
__ SUMNER HIGH SCHOOL
of St. Louis, Mo.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 28TH
3:00 K M.
3:00 P. M.
Attacks Field
West 12th Street
Enter Gate on 12th Street
Admission—Students 40c, Tax Incl. Adults 50c, Tax Incl.
GRID COACH BELL OF N.C. AGGIES GETS NEW AIDE
GREENSBORO, N. C. (ANP) — Charles W. Carter, former Morgan college football star, was named last week as assistant coach for the Agricultural and Technical col Dge here, according to an announcement by Dr. F. D. Bluford,. college president. Carter will help William Bell, allAmerican grid star of Ohio State, w T hip the local Aggies into shape for their gridiron 1945 schedule, which begins on Oft. 6 in Raleigh. N. C., against the Shaw university eleven. The Aggies will play Hampton’s A. and T. on Oct. 13, at home, then invade Durham, N. C., on Oct. 20 to play North Carolina college for Negroes. On Oct. 27, they will play West Virginia state at home and meet Morgan State col-
FOURTEEN TIGER GRID VETERANS START PRACTICE AT TUSKEGEE
TUSKEGEE—Fourteen veterans of the Tuskegee Tigers’ 'grid squad reported for practice and drills here last week. Other candidates included about 25 freshmen. Players with previous service records who- reported for duty Monday were Frank Wade, tackle, Chicago; John Rice, guard, Memphis. Tenn.; William Dennison, guard. New York; Pernell Miller, end, Anniston, Ala.; Dorsey Walker, guard, St. Louis, Mo.; Charles Mays, center, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Frank Latimer, halfback, Tulsa, Okla.; ! Lindorf Blakeley .halfback, Asheville, N.C.; Clarence Mayberry, tackle, Vallejo, Calif.; Isaac Jones,
end, Waco, Texas; Alex Brown, halfback, Milledgeville, Ga.; Ulysses Washington, halfback, Tuscaloosa, Ala.; James Cathey, fullback, Topeka, Kan., and William Bethel, end,. Mammoth Cave, Ky. Cleve L. Abbott, head football coach started the first official football practice of the 1945 season last week he was assisted by Edward If. Adams, Tuskegee, '34; Ross C. Owen. South Dakota State College, ’25; Guy R. Trammell, Tuskegee, ’36; Ernest T. Bailey, Tuskegee, ’27; Henry C. Harrison, Tuskegee. ’28, and Arthur Sawyer, Tuskegee, '43. Rueben A. Munday. Hampton, ’27, line coach is on leave.
lege at Baltimore on Nov. 3. They plan to entertain Kentucky State at hqme on Nov. 10, which they hope will get them into shape for their encounter on Nov. 17 with Virginia State college at Petersburg, Va. The Aggies will play their Thanksgiving game at home against J. C. Smith university. A number of A. and T. star gridders and new candidates have reported and are being carried through hard drills, according to C. A. Irvin, the school’s public reations director.
Former Tiger Star Joins Grid Coach's Staff At Tuskegee TUSKEGEE — Arthur Saw’yer, outstanding as a halfback on the Tuskegee Institute football team several years ago, joined the Golden Tiger coaching staff this week. Sawyer became fiationally known -as the “Little Terror” because of ihis lightning speed and for the man(ner in which he bulled his way
Merritt Loses Bout To Arturo Godoy ELIZABETH. N. J. (ANP)—Dan [ Merrit, a Baltimore heavyweight boxer, was floored nine times before he lost to Arturo Godoy, Chil!ean heavyweight, by a technical knockout here last week at Twin City Bowl. The end came in 2:38 of the second round of their scheduled 10-round fight. * Merrit was on the losing end of the fight all the way. Godoy was punching him hard and fast. The Chilean’s blows dropped the Baltimore lad to the canvas nine times before Referee Gene Roman stopped the bout in the second. Merrit had been floored four times in that round. His slowness enabled Godoy to hit him easily. Godoy, one of Champion Joe Louis’ victims, registered his fifth victory since arriving in this country early this year. He has scored four knockouts and one decision. Merrit weighed 202% pounds and Godoy tipped the scales at 203%.
through opposing teams for substantial gains and to “Pay dirt” territory. The addition of Sawyer to the coaching staff should strengthen Tuskegee’s board of backfleld tutors.
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