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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER, Mar. 22, 1947—Page 11
Garrett Leads Shelby ville Team in Title Try
Dayton Five Wins Title in Midwestern Cagers 9 League PORT WAYNE-The schedule of the Mid-Western Basketball league was ended here last Saturday with the Dayton, Ohio, Mor ticians running off with the title in the tournament held at the St. Paul’s gym They beat Fort Wayne’s Wheatley Center Elks in the final game. 61-52. , The Dayton team went mto the finals Saturday nlaht by winning over Mumde 57 to 51. In the sei-ond afternoon game the Indianapolis Ramblers bowed to Fort Wayne Elks, 49 to 45. Day ton and Fort Whyne clashed in the final night game, with Muncie and Indianapolis in the runner-up spot. The Ramblers topped the Muncie five by a score of 44 to 34 Pete Crowe and James Hawkins led the offensive for the Ramblers. The Dayton-Fort Wayne game was somewhat on the rough and tumble side and one player was ejected from the game. Washington, Fort Wayne center, sparked the drive of his team making 20 points. A. Tucker. Christian and Sullinger were the big guns of the Dayton team. Dayton led 31 to 30 at half time. Trophies were presented to the winning team and the runner-up by Ralph Warren, secretary of the organization. An award was made also to the winner of the consolation game. Two divisions of the league are planned for next season with teams in Cincinnati, Columbus, Ohio. Richmond, Ind., and Toledo, Ohio.
Clowns Start Spring Training at Miami, Fla.
Handicap Event Will Be Staged at ' Fun Bowl, Sat., Sun. A new annua’ bowling event to ! b staged at the Fun Bowl on Saturday and Sunday March 22 and 23 the Handicap Sweepstakes is I op< n to all comers, and both men and women bowlers will vie for ten prizes or a total of $100. The j first prize will be $25 cash. Bowlers with a low average will b ‘ on par with the experts as the : tournament will be conducted under the handicap system and the event is expected to prove a big thing with both bowling fans and ; local bowlers. The event is sponsorad by th a I Catavia All-Stars of the Social league. Oliver ‘‘Ned Day’’ Morton | is chairman of the tournament I committee and bowlers seeking to j enter the tournament can contact him through the Fun Bowl.
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BASEBALL RESUMED AT SHAW
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RALEIOH. N. C.—Baseball returned as a maior sport to Shaw University for the first time in 16 years when 25 candidates reported to Coach Howard K. Wilson at the university playing field. The first practice consisted of warm-up drills and infield and outfield practice. The team which will practice daily on the Shaw Athletic Field, is scheduled to play its opening game on the 29th of this month when it m«ets the Bulls of Johnson C. Smith in Charlotte.
The Indianapolis Clowns are gathering at their Spring training base in Miami, Fla. Willie Wells, Sr., the new playing manager, and 'osse tHoss) Walker, former pilot who will act as his chief aid, have a superb array of veteran and new talent to look over in camp. The Clowns’ famed comedy department once again will revolve around the inimitable ‘‘King Tut.” The Clowns will open their spring training season with a fourgame series at Jacksonville. Fla. March 30 and 31 and April 1 and 2 nights. They will return to Dorsey Park in Miami to play the invading Havana Da Palomas Easter Sunday afternoon and Monday night, April 7. The Clowns again will sponsor the United States tour of the peppery Cuban Winter Leaguers comprising the La Palomas. Anion? the men being counted on heavily by the Clowns in the coming campaign are such veteran stars as Pitchers Johnny WilHams, Manuel Godinez, Jim Colzie and Angel Atires Garcia, the lefthander who recently worked sensationally against the Brooklyn Dodgers In Venezuela; Infleld°rs Reece (‘‘Goose”) Tatum, Lon Lindsay.Ray Neil, Wells, Walker and others; an outfield corps headed by the fleet Henry (“Speed") Merchant and sensational Verdes Drake, and a smart catching staff headed by Buster Haywood. The pitching staff has further been bolstered by the acquisition from the New York Cubans of Carranza ( ‘Schoolboy”) Howard, former All-American football, basketball and baseball star at Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C.
Golden Bears Cast in Giant Killers’ Role
By CHARLES S. PRESTON
THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE: Shelbyvii.e Gulden Bears will have a wide following when they square away against experts’ favori e, East Chicago Washington, in IHSAA finals at 2:30 Saturday in Butler Fieldhbuse. Democratic make-up and. smooth, scrappy play of Shelby squad have won the hearts of Hoosierdom. Left to right,, front: Everett Burwell, Louie Bowers, Bill Breck, Emerson Johnson and Don Robinson; rear, Bill Breedlove, Don Chambers, the one-and-only Bill Garrett, Loren Hemingway and Marshall Murray.
ILLINi TRACK ACE MAY RUN FOR CANADA IN 1948 OLYMPICS CHAMPAIGN, ILL. (ANP) — Canada may have long-limbed, fast stepping Herb McK nley wearing its colors in the 1948 Olympics mest in London. The Jamaicanborn University of Illinois track s ar and world record holder said here last Monday that he is considering competing under the Can-
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iTOMMY BELL LOSES BOUT TO iJAKE LAMOTTA YEW YORK (NNPA)—Tommy Bell, Youngstown, Ohio, welter i weight, giving away a nine and j three-quarter pound weight advantage, made a gallant stand but lost a unanimous decision to Jake I^.Motta, Bronx middleweight, in i Madison Square Garden last FriI ‘yv ri^ht. j Tn the first rounLaMotta p- rrped both fists to Bell’s body tnd then sent a left hook to the jaw that knocked Bell through the ropes and onto the apron of th^ ring. At the count of seven, Bel’ ■vas up on his feet and at the end >f the round he had Jake in trouble with a vicious right and left to the head. Bell outboxed LaMotta in the second, third and fourth round® countering cleverly with stiff rights, jabbing and moving. La Motta took the fifth, sixth, am seventh with a savage boJy at
tack.
Bell’s counter attack and clever maneuvering earned him tb< eighth and ninth hut neai tlu ^nd of the ninth LaMotta had Bel! ’n trouble. LaMotta went afte Bell in the tenth after Bell haf* stunned him with a right to thf chin, lie drove a succession o' lefts to the body. Tommy, retreat ing. tripped and fell through the ropes, hut regained his feet at the count of four. LaMotta’s sav age attack in this round sealed the decision. Harry Ebbets, referee, and Jack O’Sullivan, judge, each scored seven rounds for LaMotta, two for BpU and one round even. Frank Forbes, judge, scored five rounds for each and gave the decision to LaMotta by six points to five. A crowd of 17,108 paid a g'os? gate of $87,348 to see the fight LaMotta weighed 161 pounds to Bell’s 15U4. The fight was the third between the pair, and the third triumph for LaMotta. ILLINI TRACK AGE SETS 300 YARD RECORD CHICAGO (NNPA) — Herb McKenley of the University of Illinois set a new world’s record for the 300-yard run here last Friday night, wearing a pair of borrowed shoes. Running in the fourth heat exf the Central AAU meet at the University of Chicago field house. McKenley was clocked by two of the three official timers at 30.3 seconds to clip nine-tenths of a second off the 25-year-old Indoor record Allan Woodring set in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1922. McKenley, who also holds the world's outdoor record for the 440yard run and is a co-holder of the American track record for the 60year Indoor sprint, was relaxing In bis dressing room Friday night waiting for his race to be called, when his specially constructed track shoes were stolen from beside his bench. The Jamaican borrowed a pair ‘of track shoes, went out and fcet the new world mark, then announced his retirement for competition in the finals because he was scheduled to run Saturday night In the Illlnola Tech games.
Ya. State Trojans Win CIAA Cagers Tourney
WASHINGTON, D. C. (NNPA) —The Virginia State Trojans won the second annual Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament last Saturday at Turner’s Arena, coming from behind in the closing minutes of play to beat the North Carolina
State Eagles. 54-47.
The Eagles were runners-up, Virginia Union placed third and
Howard fourth.
Trailing at half-time, 29-24, the rangy Trojans slowed down th? Eagles’ fast-breaking attack and tallied 30 points in the last half
to win going away.
Immediately following the game I the Norfolk Journal and Guide Trophy to the first place team was j presented to the Trojans by L A. Wilson of the Guide staff. Joseph j Harris of the North Carolina State Mutual Life Insurance Com- j pany presented North Carolina with a second-place trophy, and Union received a third-place trephy from Hugh Carter of the Southern I
Aid Society of Virginia.
The John R. Pinkett Trophy for the most outstandjng individual player was given to Leroy Banks of Virginia State, who scored 33 points against Morgan to set a
RECORDER’S SEMIFINAL TEAM Forwards — Fletcher, Lawrenceburg; Waite Archer, Clinton; Hemingway, Shelbyville. Centers—Garrett, Shelbyville; Tibbetts, Law-
renceburg.
G u a r ds — Clendenen, Pendleton; Freeland, Lawrenceburg; Johnson,
Shelbyville.
PANAMA NINE DEFEATS ‘BUMS’
FROM BROOKLYN !n. Y. CUBANS
BOSS PLANS BIG SFASIN
PANAMA CITY (ANP) j— The; General Electric nine. Pi* ama’s Professional League champions, defeated the visiting Brooklyn Dod- i gers 7-6 in a thrilling seven-inning | game held Wednesday at the Olympic Stadium. Only five days earli- | r they had copped the Isthmian I
Could history repeat itself? Could the interraci&l squad which won the Indianapolis semifinal round—led by a Negro star of stars at center— knock off the two favorites and capture the crown of iHSAA? This interesting question was rapping insistently at the door this week as the aifnual caravan of Hoosier madness —the state high school basketball tournament — headed for the last roundup at Butler Fieldhouse on Saturday. And the whiz kids’’ who would work out the answer to the question, once and for all—until next year—were the lads from Terre Haute Gardeld, Marion. East Chicago Washngton and Shelbyville. Last Year's Tournament Well, let’s go back in memory to the last ‘‘payoff playoff,” held m the identical spot a twelvemonth ago. As the games approached, the experts liked Evansville Central and Fort Wayne Central. Little Flora was the People’s Choice. Somewhere in between in pretourney dope was an Anderson aggregation (whose season’s record had too many games in the lost column. The experts were mindful of the fact that these Indians had come up by way of the "easy” semifinal, bowling over Lawrenceburg and a few other ‘‘soft touches.” The Anderson style of play seerne^ a bit ragged, unpredictable — the Indians gave away every game before they went crazy with their fast break and won it. They
jxtra speed and split-second timing which stamps an all-state player as distinguished from a good player. It Is cool fiaor-generalship and flawless ball-handling — and Garrett has them all. like the Anderson Indians of 1946, the Shelbyville Bears of i>4 < are subject to sudden bursts of scoring. They appear to play along for perhaps half a game, content to keep themselves in the contest. Then, sometime after the intermission, all heck breaks loose! A team of this kind is always dangerous, more so than a squad which shoots its bolt early in the game and then has to coast In. We do not believe that ShelbyTllle was really in difficulty when they were behind In the first half, either in the Clinton or Lawrenceburg sneounters. It appeared to us that they were saving “a little something” for the opportune moment. The fine Lawrenceburg team, on the other hand, started out like a house afire against Pendleton In the afternoon, leading at the end of the first quarter 21-8. But the boys—several of whom had been suffering from the flu—seemed to tire themselves out with this initial effort. They never reached the heights again, either during the last half of the Pendleton game or the Shelbyville contest In the evening. When the Golden Bears put on the pressure In the final half, the Tigers Just couldn’t match
it.
Which Is precisely what happened to the foes of Anderson last year, or you can take our tournament ticket! Threat to Wilson’s Record# Garrett was the whole show for Shelbyville in the afternoon game. He scored 27 points as the Bea^s came from behind to rout Clinton,
World Series title by besting the 1 white Canal Zone League winners by winning three of the five-game : series. More than 10,000 fans wit-
nesse.1 the game.
Tlie Brooklyn Fiatbushers ar•ived in Panama early Monday and up to that time had won the first I two gomes against other local Panana-a teams. When they ran up j against the G. E. men they met a ' brand of baseball that was equal | to theirs in ever y respect. It was
new individual tournament scor.ngj^ ar ‘ d tuck betvseen bottl teams
record
The Eagles kept the lead until the closing minutes of the game but becamfe rattled when Virginia i State threatened and wetu to pieces. In the closing minutes the Eagles missed nine consecutive tries for a field goal. Virginia State used its height to good advantage, towering over the shorter Eagles in play off the back-
board.
five innings with the game ending up in a tie at 0-6 at the
close of the sixth.
Vibrrt Clark, leftlmnded pitcher v ho - has been playing ball with the Negro teams in the U. S. during the past year, did excellent relief work in the sixth and seventh frames, and received the credit fr. r driving hon e th* 3 winning run for his team In the lower half of the seventh, which was the most
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mined to lift his New York Cubans into leadership of th c> Neg o National League, Alex Pompez, Cuban boss, is importing a tremendous amount of seasoned baseball talent from South of the Border this year. Heading the list of newcomers, most of whom have starred in the Mexican. Puerto Rican and Cuban Winter Leagues, is Claro Duany,
•‘the Cuban Babe Buth.”
Duanv a siv-r»»ot four. 220-pound ’eft-handed hitter, who ple.vs th' 5 outfield, has topped the batters In the strong Cuban League for the past three years. Last season he poled out 2d homers aud hashed
weren’t neat and dependable, like
slow-breaking Evansville Central. 48-26. i n the evening’s contest he Or so the experts said. ; again led the scoring, with 18 And maybe some of ihe experts counters, as Lawrenceburg went didn’t exactly like the idea of two down 44-37. This gave him 4ar)eter . Negro boys. John Wilson and John points for the day. and if ShelbyCochran, playing in the Anderson ville can manage to play in two regular lineup. The Anderson more games, the elongated ace will
The
coach and playdrs liked it fine, but in some Indianapolis circles interracialism is not considered cricket. Well, enough of the past. As everybody knows, the great Johnny Wilson and his teammates had the will to win. at d win they did
—dumping one.favorite in the aft- i er were outstanding in a well-round ^rnoon and the other in the eve ed lineup of good, highball players, ning. The squad, which lost only on« In Anderson’s Footsteps? contest during the regular season Now. this Shelbyville. The Gold- really showed some top-rate baa en Bears—three Negro lads and ketball in downing a hard-fighting two white hoys—found themselves Pendleton aggregation in the after this week in just about the kpot noon session. The score was 45-
be gunning at the scoring record set by Wilson last year (85 points in the state tournament). And we thought that record might last for-
ever!
For Lawrenceburg, Guard Russ Freeland and Forward Jay Fletch-
t , , occupied by Anderson a year ago. 41. Incidentally, it was Just aboiri ‘ W,t ^T M ° nt ^ ey 10 1 After Garfield and Marion have the same Lawrenceburg team whlcli the Mexican League. It was Duany, fomrht it out in the 1:15 game, the lost to Anderson in
Shelbyville squad goes up against East Chicago, the No. 1 fuvoiite,
at 2:30.
The odds are against Shelbyville, for they reached the finals
incidentally, who gave ex-Ma;or Leaguer Mickey Owens his lumps during a home-plate mixup last
season.
The baiK of the 1946 Cuban nine,
second-place winners behind the by way of the ‘‘easy” Indianapolis
for the champions wfth'lt po”" I e ’ ,ri,ir ’ B pa,t <•' the Frank wlnter
Herring got 14 for the Eagles.
MORRIS BROWN TO BUILD NEW STADIUM ATLANTA (ANP) — Morris Brown College, A. M. E. Church Institution here, plans the construction of a stadium capable of ■eating from 10,000 to 12,000 p *rsons and costing betw-een $150,000 and $160,000 facing Vine street on Atlanta’s West Side, it was revealed last week at the 62nd anniversary observance.
Austin opened by bunting down the third base lire but was thrown out at first by third baseman Lavagetto of the Dodgers. Arthur, the next batter up, got a safe hit when Lavagetto errored his grounder to third. Parris lifted one over second for a hit, and Arthur raced to third. Bralthwaite -was given an intentional walk. Kellrran worked the Dodger Pitcher Lombardi for a 2-3 pitch, then hit to short to force Arthur home, but the run
was cut off at the plate.
Newark Fugles, has been plavin?
ball in the islands. Many
of them clicked on the All-Star team that twice knocked over the N’-w York Yankees in recent exhibition eames. Pedro Diaz, Cuban regular third-sacker, sparked the Ponce team to a 12-8 win over ti>e Yanks in San Juan February 24, when he Connected for a two-
run homer.
Accompanying them will be newcomers Claro Duany, Hector Rodriguez, Lino Donoso and Pedro Ruiz., with more scheduled to ar-
rive later.
semifinal, defeating Lawrenceburg, etc., etc. Wait a minute! Is this where we came in? The comparison go°s further. In their star center, Bill Garrett, Shelbyville has a player w'ho fully deserves the title of -‘Johnny Wilson the Second.” As an old Anderson man, this writer would be the last to concede that if it were not true—but having seen Garrett play last week, w-e must admit that the resemblance of his play to Wilson’s is uncanny. Garrett Is an Inch taller than the Anderson star, perhaps rot quite so rubber-legged. But he too is poison under the basket, and a dead shet from the foul circle. He is d^nendable. as is the whole Shelbyville team, from the free-throw line. Garrett Great Player The mark of greatness, however, in Garrett as in Wilson, is the ability to sweep through the opposition and turn a stalemated contest into a rout. It is that
the semifinal!
last year.
Freeiand vs. Garrett The spirit of basketball at its best was displayed at the start of the evening game. When the two captains stepped up for final instructions, It was Freeland — only Negro on the Lawrenceburg squad —and Garrett for Shelbyville. The fans sitting near this writer were pulling for Shelbyville all day, because they liked the idea of thre# Negro players on the team. This Indicates, we believe, that the common people of Indiana are basically democratic, at least In their attitude toward sports. It is quite likelv that Shelbyville will emerge as the People’s Choice on Satur-
day.
But for that matter, three out of the four teams coming to the finals are interracial. East Chicago has Andy Spencer and Benny Dix in forward roles, while Don Pettiford holds down a regular forwa d bert for Marion. Besides Garrett. Shelbyville has Marshall Murray at forward and Emerson Johnson at guard. We’ve said It befo’-e and we’ll say it again—wonder if the Indianapolis School Commissioners plan to attend the games? Pardon us while we duck.
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