Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 May 1952 — Page 11
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“Third time's a charm,” and Promoter Wesley O. Jackson was hoping this week that the twice-rained-out opening of Negro baseball at Victory Field would actually take place on Friday, Memorial Day, with a twi-nite doubleheader starting at 6:30 p. m. The scheduled contest was a big one, with the Chicago American Giants facing the Birmingham Black Barons. Only the cooperation of the weather man was needed to launch another season of the sepia diamond sport that has proved so popular here in the past. 'i s The original "opening game” (American Giants versus the Philadelphia Stars' was drowned out before game time May 9. Last week’s encounter between the Harlem Globeti-otters and the Indianapolis All-Stars got into the first inning before the rains came. In other words, we’re gainin’ on ‘cm. See Managers’ Battle Pitting together two of the hottest teams in the Negro American League, the Amgiants-Barons contest was expected to develop into a battle of managers. The veteran George Scales is handling the Black Barons while Catcher Paul Hardy has taken over the helm for the American Giants. As a hurling staff Birmingham has Searcy Kellv, rated the best southraw »n the league; Groundhog Thompson. Wiley Griggs, Ted Richardson (secured from the Baltimore Elite Giants of last vear) and
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'Roosevelt Cycle' !TROUPE Rolls on in Track JOINS
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By CHARLES S. PRESTON
Supremacy in Indiana high school track competition seems to go by cycles. We had the Kokomo cycle of the ’20s, the Gary Froehel cycle of the ’30s, and the Anderson cycle of the ’40s. Now, it seems, we are well into the Roose-
velt cycle of the ’oOs.
Such was the conclusion to be drawn Saturday at Tech Field, as BO MALLARD’S boys from the all-Negro Gary school romped off with their second straight IHSAA championship with the greatest of ease.
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PILOTS AMGIANTS: Catcher Paul Hardy is now manager of the Chicago American Giants, due to play the Birmingham Black Barons in a twi-nite double-header at Victory Field on Memorial Day, beginning at 6:30 D.m. W. S. Welch, former Amgiants pilot, is now guiding the destinies of the Harlem Globetrotters baseball team.
Millie Cain, a recruit from
Nashville.
Peppei- Bassett alternate behind the plate with Otha Bailey. Baion battei’s who topped .300 I last season are Henry Kimbro and ■ ( Norman Robinson, outfielders, and 1 Wesley Dennis, first base. The ! infield is rounded out with Eddie i Brooks on second. Inin Castille at short and Rufus Gibson at j third. The club is owned by "Sue”
Bridgeforth.
Amgiants’ Mound Corps The Chicago team has a formid- | able mound corps headed by Ai Preston, formerly with the New York Black Yankees, who distinguished himself while hurling winter * ball in South America Other pitchers arc Johnny Williams. former Indianapolis Clowns
The scoie was Roosevelt
to 17 for second-place Columbus, 1 with 39 other teams sharing in the points and 33 more who failed
to tally.
In the process, Mallard’s rangy Panthers broke two of the oldest and toughest records in the book—the broad jump and mile relay. And they ' did it all without two of their
star performers.
EARL SMITH, a lad with a good deal of Jesse Owens about him. was the individual hero of the day. He took just lour leaps in the broad jump to hit 23 feet 2'i? inches—breaking the record of 23 feet 3 i inch which had stood
, for 20 years.
No telling what Earl might have I done with his remaining three j jumps, but he chose to save his 1 strength for the mile relay. Teami mates said that he runs “just i twice a year—in the j'egional and
1 state meets.”
Had Narrow Lead
Going into the mile foursome event. Roosevelt had a narrow Ifi 1 ? to 15 lead over Ft. Wayne North Side. Both schools had teams qualified in both the relays Smith knew, therefore, that the state crown was at stake as he ted off the Panther four-lappers. He and the North Side runner dueled around the track. Smith coming home first to give Roosevelt a 2-yard lead it never re-
linquished.
The crowd was thrilled by the superlative pole-vaulting of BREALON DONALDSON. Michigan City junior. He won the event at 12 feet and then went on up to
12’ 7’’.
At one point, the meet was a “three-ring sepia circus.” Smith was breaking the broadjump record, Donaldson was winning the pole vault, and LIONEL CLARK of Evansville Lincoln was fighting it out in the high jump (he placed second). We didn’t know which war to look!
TRIBE
“Just what the doctor ordered” for the ailing Indianapolis Indians arrived this week as Catcher Quincy Troupe, veteran star of Ne-
gro baseball, was optioned to j Walcott was what Father Time.
'Title's Not Going/ Vows 'Ageless' Champ ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. — The saying among those
i who put up the money usually is “Stick with the champion/’ ( but things are different when it comes to the June 5th 1 heavyweight championship bout between Champion Jersey
Joe Walcott and Challenger Ezzard Charles. Charles was favored this week by odds of 3 to 1, al-
; though Jersey Joe kayoed him in seven rounds to take the crown last July in Pittsburgh. Walcott has been idle since that bout, but he thinks he will win. Commenting on the forthcoming . , ” , , , battle, the champion, now 33 (?) • grimly serious Ezzard Charles de-
nied that he has “Walcott nightmares/’ but said of the forthcom-
years old, said:
“I think I have his number . . . You don’t get over the effects of a knockout like that very quickly. He was looking for my right hand all night. I got him with a left. He’ll do plenty of guessing in the
fight.”
The big question in regard
the local club by Cleveland. General Manager Chuck French confirmed io The Record-
who kayoed Joe Louis, has done to the Camden Cinderella Man. Reporters who visited Jersey
er on Tuesday that Troupe would (Joe’s training camp were at first i- 4...^ TI*-v rlivViimic r\f Hie loefe \irinH a nH
reach here in a day or two. He said he wanted to give Quincy, who is a widower with four children. time to arrange his family
affairs.
dubious of his legs, wind and reflexes. Then they watched Iiim run 3*0 miles around a track. Following that he went six rounds, two sessions each with three sparring partners. All the opponents were much lighter men who were in-
structed to jab and run.
ing battle in Philadelphia: “This is the most important fight I ever fought. He’s got it and I want it. That’s it in
simple English.”
The 30-year-old ex-champion, training for the effort to regain his crown, said his kayo last July does not bother him. Charles observed that “the longer the fight progresses the better hny chances will be. I’m heavier and seem to feel stronger. I like the extra weight as long as I can sus-
tain my speed.”
The fight will be broadcast and televised nationally, with the Philadelphia area blacked out.
East Chicago Washington’s bespectacled TRAVIS BUGGS edged out South Bend Central’s JIM COLEMAN in the 100. The speedy
Looks Very Good
The newsmen’s verdict was that 1 Walcott looks very good — fast, punching sharply and with great ! endurance. With this opinion Joe.
C.; Benson Husband, secured this vear from the New Oilcans Eagles, and Ait Shannon, a rookie from
(’hieago.
A brother-vs.-brother feud will be presented by the Hancock boys from Forrest City, Ark. Leroy is playing in the on'field for Chicago, while Eddie is Birmingham’s rookie
pitcher.
Manager Hardy is about set j
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Rutledge Pearson of Jacksonville, | ifi-.vard advance as Norih Side 1 tlUh n /r r ^ Fla., at first: Don Johnson at SC e- faded- In the third leg it was JOE BELLAMY anchoied Kokomo.
SEXSON bringing Tech up as the
The 32-year-old hard-hitting backstop is expected to plug the biggest current hole in the Indians’ lineup. Other positions had been strengthened until catcher loomed as
the weakest snot.
French indicated that troupe. , . . will be the Tribe’s first-string hls manager and trainer agreed,
in me iuvi. i hit ■ ri: c ariHitirin tn thn rnst- When told that Charles has a Coleman also plated second in the ^ alone wjth Dave p and A J sparring partner who is imitating 22 °- smith makes Indianapolis one .)f ,the champion’s famous dancing Marion’s DON WARD finished . .’ , j n t erracia p- clu b s in sl yle. Jersey Joe answered: beautifully in the quarter-mile.: . ^ Association Toledo I “ But U*®* haven’t got Joe coming up through the crowd for . ‘ Dortedlv Kansas Citv like- Walcott over there.” second. | 'hirve* three Negro players I Asked if he had learned anyAttucks’ ' n * > qualifier. appeared with tht / C leve- thing about Charles in last sum-
land Indians here Monday and l rn ® I ' ¥ S j ht ’ , r, u i dropped a foul, causing a press- He doesn t like a left hook . . box wag to observe: “He’ll stay • • }.} be f® ad y for Charles and here.” However. Cleveland is actu- the title isn’t going anywhere but ullv high on him and the dangor i bac k to Camden. After Chanes. is 'that the "Big Indians” will re- I want to defend the crown again call him in September. I don t care who
* * the opponent is.
DAVE POPE Is one Indian who he said the ehamp the management wishes would * * *
LAWRENCi JACKSON, was eliminated in the 100-yard
trials.
Others scoring points included CHARLES HALLIDAY of East Chicago Washington, third in the low hurdles; MILTON COLEMAN of Kokomo, third in the broad jump, and FLETCHER BATTLE of East Chicago Washington, tied for fifth in the high jump. JOHN HOGUE ran for Colum-
“Retire? Not until I can't climb
Anderson Athlete Aims at Olympics ANDERSON — Kuss Smith, star athlete of Anderson College, has his eye on the Olympic tryouts to be held July 2-3 at Tfcilare. Calif. Smith is w’orking out for the decathlon under his old track coach. Carl Bonge of Anderson high school. Included in the event are the 100-meter dash. 400meter dash. 1.500-meter run. high hurdles, broad jump, high jump, pole vault, shot put. discus hurl and javelin throw. Efforts are being made to line up a sponsor for Smith, believed the only athlete in Indiana who will try for the Olympics.
The next Panther. DICK CAMP-1 hus’ w inning half-mile relayists ,
with a strong defensive infield of I BELL, opened up a tremendous BILLY LOCKHART ed off ioi ,
ond and Lawrence Raines at short.
Kit her Eugene Hamilton or Al- 1 challenger, against Roosevelt subton^o Owens holds down third. stitute MARVIN ROBINSON, and
cutting the Panthers’ advantage to
Hancock is in right and Felix MeLaurin. who batted above .333 last season, alternates with John McDougal in left. Joseph Durham who can also play ’ any infield
right-hander; Danny Wright of j position, is in center. Laurinburg. N. C.; Joe Williams, | Roy Williams alternates southpaw from Washington,. D. Hardv as catcher.
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The anchor lap saw ADELL TURNER of Tech making a great bid, but finally being turned back by Roosevelt’s LEMUEL WILLIAMS. Evansville Bosse nipped ahead at the tape for second place. Tech was third and North Side out of the money. Those 10 fat points put the Gary hoys too far ahead to be overtaken in the remaining event, and congratulations were in oi-der. But the Panther half-mile relayists picked up fdurth position just for good measure. Members of this quartet were ALBERT JONES, JAMES PIPKINS, ERVIN WAL-
mile relay team which placed fifth. Other bovs seen at the meet were CHARLES JONES and HERMAN LEWIS of Tech. JAMES BURESS of Bloomington. GEORGE SIMMONS of Ft Wavne Central. GILBERT COLEMAN and CARL j MILLER of Muncie Central. SERA-1 1 FIN NAVA of Gary Froebel; BED- 1 DOW ECHOLS JAMES MARTIN. ; JAMES SMALLINS and CLIFFORD YOUNG of Evansville Lincoln: JOHN BROWN of Morion! Memorial; DENNIS MANUAL.
•‘play worse” when Cleveland bigwigs are watching. Davey look> so much like a major leaguer that it is feared he might be “not long
for these parts”
In Tuesday's double-header. Toledo like to never got Pope out. He had 3-for-3 and a walk in the first game — being put out only when he rose to his feet carelessIv after successfully stealing second in the 1st inning. In the nightcap he beat out a scratch hit: was safe on an error; grounded,
out. and walked..
AL SMITH’S backers were hoping his tremendous pinch-hit triple against Cleveland might at least get the door of his dog-house
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Ei Additional Panther points were
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broad jump with a nice leap of 223”; THEODORE TRAYLOR, second in the high hurdles and fourth in the low' hurdles; Williams. who got a point in the 440. and HENRY DAVIS, who tied for
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On the other hand, two of the saddest athletes on the field were the Panthers who couldn’t compete. Quarter-miler BILL DOOLEY, who first came to the state as a freshman in 1949. could hardly
walk with a leg injury.
WILLIAM HEAD, crack halfmiler who won his event at the Kokomo Relays, was the victim of a fouled-up technicality. School records showed him as over-age and to make certain he sent to Atlanta, Ga., for a birth certifi-
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