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THE INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER, May 3, 1947—Page 11

Clowns Open Season at Memphis May 4th

New Manager

We//s Boasts Strong, Fast Diamond Squad

‘HANK* ARMSTRONG STABLE LOSES HOPEFUL YOUNG 0. C. PUG

MEMPHIS, Tenn—The Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American league will open the first-half season here on Sunday, May 4, playing the Memphis Red Sox. Willie Wells, Sr., manager of the Clowns reports he has whipped a peppery aggregation of promising players into fine shape. The Clowns are scheduled for their home opener the following week-end at Victory hidd in Indianapolis against the Cleveland Buckeyes. Still experimenting with the huge and fine array of material at his command, Wells of late has seemed to favor a veteran lineup comprising the great and inimitable Reece (‘‘Goose”) Tatum at first base. Ray Neil at second, an outfield of Leovigildo Lugo. Verdes Drake and Henry (“Speed”) Merchant. Buster Haywood and Sam Harriston alternating behind the bat. and himself and Assistant Manager Jesse (‘ Hoss”) Walker, former pilot, taking turns at third base. The regular shortstop post was being held down by newcomer Sylvester Carlisle, but he was due for a battle for the job with the expected late arrival of the veteran ace. Jimmie (“Peewee”) Oliver. Another veteran given time to re port was Howard (“Dukes”) Cleveland. the outfielder. Newt Allen, the former Kansas City Monarch* star, is on deck as an outfielder

IQCOOSCOCOOQCOSCCCCGCCOC^ THIS WEEK’S HIT PARADE

According to Popularity 1. MAM’SELLE —Frankie Laine.

SAX-O-BE-BOP —Lester Young. BLOW-TOP BLUES Lionel Hampton. YOU LEFT ME ALL

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—Illinois Jacquet

YOU WON’T LET ME 5 GO—Johnny Moore. o

and intlelder. Pitching, always a Clowns’ specialty. looks greater than ever with the veterans Johnny Williams. Lefty Garcia. Jim Colz.ie, Manuel Godinez and the former New York Cubans’ ace, Carranza (‘‘Schoolboy”! Howard, augmented by such new finds as Tomas Quinones and Juan Guillve from Puerto Rico and another pair of promising fingers in Bill Barnes and Jim Brown. Brown also is adept at catching and playing second base. The Clowns’ comedy department, headed by King Tut and Goose Tatum, is better than ever and sure to delight the fans everywhere. enhancing the Clowns' reputation as the best drawing card in Race baseball.

Roosevelt School Gary, Wins Northern lml. Track Meet EAST CHICAGO—The high-tep-ping Panthers of Gary Roosevelt established themselves as the track team to beat in Northern Indiana here last Saturday by winning the East Chicago Relays. They edged out favored Hammond l)y a score of 76 17/22 to 76 3/11. The Panther victory ended Hammond's six-year reign over the East Chicago carnival. A week earlier Roosevelt had won the Goshen Relays, which also had previously been ruled by Hammond. Don Leek, fleet Panther stickman, was the day’s only double winner, with two record hurdle performances. He set a new record for the lows at 23.2 and tied the high hurdle record at 15.6. Roosevelt scored in every event and won the medley and mile relays. There w r ere 14 teams in the meet.

WlASHINCfrON (ANP) — Sparks literally flew last week* when the Armstrong^Stevenson-Hursey ‘‘managerial muddle” was aired before the district boxing commission. Smuggy Hursey, w'ho had been comanaged by Henry Armstrong, for mer triple - champion, and the Mighty Mel Stevenson, expressed his desire to divorce himself from Armstrong after the May 5 fight with Aaron Perry. Armstrong re ! sented the brush-off without b<Mng given a clear-cut reason. The boxing commission based its decision upon the instruction of the | rule book, which said a boxer could have only one manager. Therefore, it is permitted to recognize only one manager, and said that whatever agreement exists . between Stevenson and Armstrong , is no affair of the commission. Armstrong said that he had a : legal and basic contract with Ste- . venson to book fights for Hursey until he is 21, and that it is necessary that the matter be turned over to the New’ York Boxing Guild, of which he Is a member. Just what action it will take is uncertain but it is likely that the guild, whose members handle most of the

leading fighters the country, will freeze-out the prospective champion. by not permitting him to meet the better crop of boxers. Henry further stated that he did not wish to stop the up-and-coming fighter, because he believes that he has a future, but It Is quite possible that the guild will act, regardless of his will. Believing that there is something else involved in this situation, on which he could not put his finger, Armstrong told the commission that he was of the opinion that Smuggy was acting as a robot, moving upon the advice of his manager, and that he believed that one Norman Saunders - had persuaded Stevenson to break partnership with him. This accusation was denied by Stevenson who in turn accused Armstrong of working under the advice of A1 Weil. Armstrong pointed out that Weil was booking Hursey with Stevenson when he came into the picture. He further stated that as matters now stand he receives only one-third of the proceeds from fights and it would be very stupid on his part to give half of that to Weil.

Globetrotters Win 127 of 128 Games Played in Hawaii By HUBERT H. WHITE HONOLULU (ANP) — The Harlem Globetrotters are now back in the States, but they are not forgotten in Hawaii. During their Hawaiian tour, the team won all hut one of the 128 games played— that one defeat brought about when the Hawaiian teams, fed up with losing every game, imported two former island players to give them some help. The Globetrotters sustained their one defeat at the hands of Ephraim “Red” Rocha, Hawaii’s contribution to big time basketball and j a member of the University of Oregon team, and Wat Misaka, great little guard of the lUniversity of Utah, who were flown here for the game. The score of, the game was 44-41 in favor of the AllHawaii Stars. The final game of the circuit saw the Globetrotters banding the AllStars a stinging defeat of 67-42.

OHIO PUG MAKES BIG SHOWING

Rickey Scores Public too MuchLimelight on Jackie

NEW YORK (ANP)—The way things are at present, Jackie is “not a ball player, but a sideshow attraction. If I had my way about it, I would place a cordon of police around him to give him protection so that he might be a ball player.” Thus commented Branch Rickey as he advised friends and well-wishers of Robinson to leave him alone and give him a fair chance to prove his mettle. Expressing concern over the wholesale publicity that has attended Jackie’s introduction to major league bail, Rickey disclosed that his new player has received approximately 6.000 invitations to make public appearances or to attend various social func-

tions.

‘‘Why the boy is on the road to complete prostration,” said Rickey. ‘-He even gets more letters

than I do, and I receive a few. He scarcely has time to change into his uniform.” In order that Robinson might have more domestic privacy, the club is looking about for a Brooklyn apartment for him so that he can move his wife and baby away from the Manhattan hotel where the three of them are now stay-

ing.

LINCOLN TEAM LOSES TO HOWARD U. f 9 TO 0 LINCOLN U. Ra. — Lincoln University’s tennis team lost to a strong Howard University team on Wednesday of last week, 9 to 0. The Lincoln team CIAA champions in 1946 is inexperienced on the courts having lost several of its best players to the-Ar-my or through graduation last year. - . ■

LINCOLNS OPEN SEASON AT RICHMOND The Indianapolis Lincolns baseball team of the Western American Ass’n. will play the opening game of th eseason at Richmond, Ind. Friday evening, May 9. The Lincolns will clash with the Dayton club on this occasion.

The lineup of the Lincolns includes Sammy Seagraves, formerly with the Cincinnati Crescents, Herman Watts, formerly of the Cleveland Buckeyes. Benny Charleston, flashy outfielder and Ned Duncan colorful shortstop. Willard “Boots" Toler is manager of the team.

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H. Dillard Makes New IN HONOLULU

Record at Drake Meet

DES MOINES ( A N P ) — The winged fe d of Harrison Dillard, ace hurdler from Baldwin-Wallaee. Berea, O., carried him to a new meet record in the 120 high hurdles in the first day of the Drake relays hare last week-end. Bii ard lopped a lentil of a second from the old record to breeze the distance im 14:1. Entered against him were contistnats from Arkansas and Texas, uietvby giving the

event both an interracial and in-ter-regional flavor before 9,000 spectators. In the relays, Dillard anchored his team to a new meet record of 1:27 in the 880, thereby shaving half a second from the former record. According to one observer. •‘Dillard's performance was one of the few bright spots of the day for midwesterners,” and they lost i no chance to cheer him.

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Anderson High Wins, Relaus at Muncie MUNCIE—Double victories in the 100 yard dash and broad jump helped Anderson’s state track champions win the Muncie relays here last Saturday for the third

straight year.

Clifford Carter w r on both the century dash and the broad jump for the Indians. Teammate Bill Williams followed him home in the hundred, and Russ Smith was second in the oroad Jump. Anderson accumulated 34% points to 30 for Muncie Central. Fort Wayne South Side was third with 20%. while five other teams trailed in the “A” division. The meet was decided when Anderson’s mile relay team of R. Smith. Hamilton, Stage and Spearman scampered home ahead in the last event on the program. John Bright of Fort Wayne Central tied with Abbott of Kokomo for first in the pole vault. ★ ADVERTISERS ★ RECORDER ★ PATRONIZE

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By CHARLES S. PRESTON Smarting under an eighth-place finish in the 14-team Indianapolis Relays last Saturday, the Crispus Attacks track squad this week collectively vowed to do better in the City Meet, to be held at Tech field on Friday. Tech’s Big Green, by virtue of their triumph in the relay carnival, were prohibitive favorites to cop the city crown. A battle royal was expected to develop for second place, inasmuch as six Indianapolis teams were bunched between 15 5/G and 28 points last

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This writer could predict with a clear conscience that the angered Tigers wou'd hold that runnerup position when the final points were tallied Friday. However, our crystal ball was laid up for repairs after last week’s prediction. No Individual Races ‘•Honest confession is good for the sou.’’, as a former teacher of ours at Anderson High school used to say. and so we must plead guilty to picking Attucks last week on a false basis. We were unaware of the fact that thera would he no individual track events at the Indianapolis Relays, and thus the CAHS individual stars would not get a chance to shine. The Green-and-Cold squad, it is generally agreed, boasts several bril iant performers hut is lacking in depth, especially in the middle distances. A squad of this type cannot possibly make its best showing in a strictly relays meet. But we cling doggedly let our contention that the Tigers' will finish toward the top of a large meet which includes the individual track events. Attacks’ only first-place in the Indianapolis Relays was racked up by the half-mile relay squad of Lawrence Horner, Lively Bryant, Edward Smith and Eulas Jackson. The boys came home in the fine time of

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corded by the freshman half-mile relay squad (Curtis Watson, Arthur Dabney. Alexander Clark and Edgar Sweatt), which placed second in its event. The other Tiger score was a third in the 440-yard relay by Horner, David Hurston, Smith and Jackson. The race had to be run twice, as the runners were staggered wrong on the firs 4 occasion, giving results like an e’ection in Georgia. Attucks was third both times. Everything Went Wrong Otherwise* it was one of those days when everything went wrong f<y the Tigers. Lively Bryant strain* d a leg-muscle in the shuttle relay and 'thus failed to place in the high jump. It was won at 6 feet 7 5/8 inches, while Lively ; has leaped 5 feet 10 7/8 this season. Pete Oval ton ran his heart out on the anchor legs of the medley and mile relays, but in each ease his teammates had left him too far behind when they passed the baton. Reginald Cross injured his leg during a practice jump before the shuttle relay. It seemed that every time you looked around, Attacks was coming in fifth (the first four places counted). Score of the meet was Tech 70 5/6, Fort Wayne North Side 65%,, Lafayette Jefferson 29, Shortridge 28, Manual 26%, Washington 25%, Howe 24%, Crispus Attucks 20, Broad Ripple 15 5/6. Lawrence Central 2 and Warren Central %. Ben Davis, Southport and the Deaf School came up with goose-eggs. Awards for the various ev nts were bestowed by the student queens representing the schools. Miss Rosemary Anthony, a senior, was the Crispus Attucks queen. A CITY ELECTION ISSUE Establish an INDIANAPOLIS HOUSING AUTHORITY

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Candy McDaniels Is one of the boys. He hails from Cincinnati and the Marine Corps alnd claims to have seen action at Bougainville, Guadalcanal, Saipin, Okinawa. Imo Jima and Manila. Candy put on a most impressive show last Thursday night at ; the Civic auditorium. He won the decision unanimously ovjer Flashy s Sebastian, Filipino battler. However, It seems he could have finished his foe long tjefore the tenth. Sebastian never came forward to receive his blows — he j backed throughout the fight. Candy started out as If he was going to end the fight in a hurry, but he just could not catch Flashy. I In the seventh round, Sebastian threw’ caution to the winds and gave Candy several lefts and rights to his head and body. Edward .nor-uv knocked out Sanjimy Drew on the same card.

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