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3—The Indianapolis Recorder, Jan. 2,1960
Big O Assaults Madison Square Tournament Records
AND ATTUCKS WON, THE STATE
Let Old Year Go, Say Floyd and Ray; Banks, Wilt and 0 scar Made Much Hay
Local Welter Wins 5th Bout Professional boxing admittedly is at its lowest ebb in the history of Naptown. But though down, our lair city is not yet out while it (an boast an undefeated welterweight. Jimmy Russell, 1415 N, Persh- « mg. is the up-and-coming fighter who recently polished off his 5th professional opponent against no defeats. Gene Wilson of Pasadena, Calif., was the victim of a 6thround TKO on the loser’s home grounds. The 22-year-old Jimmy is a cousin of Richard Russell, last year's Ben Davis basketball star. Jimmy played baseball and basketball himself at Washington High School. |£usse)l started boxing at Planner House in 1951. He was three years in the Golden Gloves, and won 35 of 38 amateur fights. He used to light on Tiny Bland's TV shows. HR TURNED PRO in 195G, and his first time out kayoed Joe McDaniel in Detroit’s Olympia. Other victims following in order were Bobby Jackson at Flint, Mich., by T K 6; Johnny Montgomery at Bowling Green, Ky.; Billy Johnson at Cincinnati. 6 and Wilson. Russell s manager is William Hart, 1844 Soutlieastern. Russell trains at the Southside Armory, and works at Sears-Hoebuck's F-ast-gnte store. “Sugar Hart! 1 want to fight Akins, so as to get a crack at Jordan!" says Jimmy optimistieally
By CHARLES J. LIVINGSTON
For ANP
Although Floyd Potterson and Sugar Ray Robinson were shorn of their titles, otherwise the year 1959 was successful for colored athletes in almost all the major fields of sports. Potterson was o victim of circumstances. Obviously suffering from ring rustrness, Floyd looked slow even against handpicked mediocre opponents and ran into a world of trouble when he took on Sweden's Ingemar Johansson.
On the night of June 26 in Yan-
kee Stadium, Patterson lost his prized heavyweight title to the Swede with the big right-hand punch on a 3rd-round knockout that stunned the boxing wmrld. He was leading on points until Johansson caught him coming out of his fa-
miliar tortoise weave.
Since then. Patterson has been on the sidelines waiting for a promised rematch, while his controversial manager, Cus D’Amato. promoter Bill Rosensohn and other principles in the fight were Investigated by the New York State Athletic Commission and the state's at102 ney. Both D’Araato and Kosensohn were suspended. Meanwhile, ^Floyd trained in Connecticut for the phantom fight
that never came olT.
Sugar vs. NBA
SEARCY WITH ILLINI: Hd gar Searcy, Atrucks star of 1956-58, is sophomore on Illinois team that will play Purdue at Lafayette on Jan. 11. Big Ed was leading scorer of lllini freshman team last season.
crowds of 92,394, 92,650 and 02,706 saw Neal, Maury Wills, Johnny Roseboro and Junior Gilliam in action in mammoth Los Angeles Coliseum. They also performed for record gates in Chicago's Comiskey
Park.
Outfielder A1 Smith played for the Pale Hose hut Earl Huttey, one of the finest receivers in the American League, rode the Sox bench. Attendance-wise, a new gate record had been set when 93,103 fans poured into the Coliseum to see a benefit exhibition game for
( the injured Roy Campanelln boi tween the Dodgers and the New : York Yankees. Campy got. a great
l ovation from the vast throng. Bosox Integrate In the pennant races the White
i Sox subdued the Yankees, with Els-
ton Howard and Hector Lopez; the
Oscar's Mother Says Magazine Story 'Stinks' NEW YORK —- Oscar Robertson headed for what looks like o new Holiday Festival basketball tournament scoring record here, while his mother was denouncing on article about him that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. The Big O hod 72 points for two tourney gomes os his University of Cincinnati team qualified for the final game against lowo. He needed only 19 points to break the oll-tinio individual scoring record of 90 set by Tom Goto of LaSalle
in 1955.
The Cincinnati-lowa finale was to be televised over WTTV in Indianapolis, storting 9 p. m. on Wednesday, Dec. 30. Oscar admittedly has been in a I Paced by tan 6-7 Nolden Gentry,
'BIG O' ASSISTS HOGUE WITH BOOKS, TOO: Oscar Robertson (right), University of Cincinnati's senior AIIAmerican, helps his sophomore roommate and teammate, Paul Hogue, in battle of the books. It is reported that Oscar, who has a tutor in English, got an A while his tutor got^o B. Hogue, the son gf o Knoxville high school principal, *j had scholastic trouble last year but blamed it on "big city life." His chief hobby is reading (Recorder photo
by Jim Burres)"
of Yvon Durelle in Montreal, Aug Bill Russell out of the rebounding 12. ~ ! spotlight and threatening the presDavcy Moore lifted the feather- I tige of the great Elgin Baylor and weight title from Hogan (Kid> Has-1 hob Peitit.
Rebertson, the famed “Big O,” continued his sensational Play for a 42.2 average, leading ail other scorers by 9
points a game.
Ray Robinson lost his middle- j,, , Rod Sox ho b ke their weight title by order of the Nation-, " o|or b y bringing up Pumpsie 21) h“ha d noTdSondcd dlirmH th2 I C '2?"j ( .]a"nd 'with‘hUstU.TX^nio prdscTibod pprifld. The NBA sane- j amf fam^l'firffUbaseman'vlc ,! on ^ a ,lt ' Tm'hI?. C h 1 Powt'r. gave the ChieAgoans plenty bas.lio and Gene Mdimer wim-h, f ( . ompeli(iori but los1 out jn the
Fullmer won on a 14th-rouml .
kfioekoul. Fullmer won a 15-round ‘ . ,,
In the National League, Sam
of the
12 Tan Stars in , 4- a* * 9 4- Ik X Pro Bowl Game LOS ANGELES (ANP) — Four ton players will represent the Eastern division and eight will be on the Western squad in the annual Pro Bowl football game in Memorial Coliseum on Jon. 17.
decision over Ellsworth (Spider) Webb in Logan, Utah, Dec. 4. Robinson, who hadn’t fought since he whipped Basllio to regain the title last March 28, complained bitterly that the NBA was using pencil and pa- j per to take his crown away. He returned to action and stopped light-heavyweight Bob Young of Brookline, Mass., in
the 2nd round.
Contrasting with these setbacks, oilier tan athletes made hits in
Jones was the workhorse
San Francisco Giants, who also lost
in the home stretch.
‘•Hammerin’ Hank" Aaron won the batting title with .355. But it was Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs who took the league’s Most Valuable Player award. Finishing with a .304 batting average, Ernie hit 45 home runs and also set two fielding records for shortstops. Sn Francisco's rookie 'Wniio Mc-
scoring slump in this tournament. In the first-round game in which the Bearcats trounced St. Bonaventure, 96-56, the onetime Indianapolis Attucks flash couldn’t buy an
outside basket.
WITH THE EXCEPTION of one one-hander from the keyhole neighborhood, he had to rely on inside shots and free throws for scoring. He said later that he
i didn’t play “too good/.” It was a .great tribute to the all-time star that even on this cold night, he smashed the single-game scoring record to smithereens, life total of 47 points wiped out the former maik of 39 set by Dick Ricketts of Duquesne against Day-
ton in 1954.
Oscar’s free-throw mark of 19 tied the tournament record, as the i i*fiderdog Bonnies fouled recklessly to keep him from scoring. Robertson's single-game record didn’t iast long, fn the second | round Tom Stith of St. Bonavetii ture 'also a tan player) tossed In 48 points while his team. won a 96-86 consolation victory over Man-
hattan.
sey of Nigeria with a l3ht-round kayo on March 18. He knocked Bassey out again in a rematch Aug
19.
Joe Brown, busiest of the champions, defended'his title three times. He outpointed Johnny Busso and stopped Paolo Rose and Dave Charnley. Jordan, center of a probe in California in which four persons were charged with trying lo muscle in on his tight purses, beat Virgil Akins and Dennis Moyer in title
defenses.
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In basketball the big news was | ihe Trotters, tennis queen Althea made by Wilt “The Stilt" Cham-! Gibson took over as the No. 1 forward,
borlain, who left the University of j drawing-card. She reportedly is Though off in his scoring. RobKansas to tour with the Harleiii , drawing down $60,000-plus for her | ertson passed brilliantly, set up Globetrotters at a record salary of | exhibition tour with pretty Karol his teammates time and again, and
snagged 17 rebounds.
Iowa meanwhile looked very sharp in both its tournament ; games, and Cincinnati will have to hump to wrest victory from the siiarpsltooling Hawk-
eyes.
Gridiron fans down under were
ilsiillESiss annual Orange Blossom Classic at! |\ - ^he big O fell to his season s Miami on Dec. 5. The game deter-i cv, ( n r ^ goals
mines the mythical Negro National i and *J ec :
Championship. | For the first time this year
he was ontscored by a team-
A l.l V mate, burly Bob Wiesenhahn, Althea 011 lOIlt who hit 28 markers. B \ w ■ iPioi , Oscar suffered an injury early in Where Chamberlain left off with! the game when he was hit in the
eye by Frank Majewski, St. Jo«-
$65,000, and Oscar Robertson ol I Fagcros.
' lhe University of Cincinnati. ,| Chamberlain drew record crowds ; with the Trotters, then joined the i Philadelphia Warriors of the Naj tional Basketball Association. As a • pro he has been terrific, shoving
The Pan-American Games in Chicago saw a host of tan stars. Outstanding were Ray Norton. Luoinda Williams and
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the lowans hit 36 of 75 from the field as they ousted St. John s 9184, in the opening round. They showed fancy and accurate balihandling that will make them g
Big 10 contender.
Then the Hawkeyes upset favored NYU, 80-75, with Nelson scor-
ing 19 and Gentry 18.
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MEANWHILE BACK AT Cincinnati, a storm of protest brewed over alleged misstatements in Milt Gross’s story in The Post. Mrs. Mazell Robertson of Indianapolis, Oscar’s mother, was quoted as saying flatly: “I think the article stinks/ The remark was allegedly made by Mrs. Robinson at hte UC-Brad-'.ey game at Cincinnati last week. Sbe was also quoted as saying: “I never saw the man who Continued on Page 6
Y Masters Pace Volleyball Loop The first half of the City-Wide Pow'er Volleyball League closed last week with the Central Y Masters in firm control with a 10-0 record Teams following were Municipal Gardens, 7-3; Athenaeum Turners, 5-5; Central Y Seniors, 5-5; Fall Creek Parkway Y, 3-7, and Eastdde Y, 0-10. The second half of the season will begin Saturday, Jan. 15, at 1 p.m. All games will continue to be played at the Fail Creek Y. The Southside Turners have entered the league and there is room for one more team to complete an 8-teapi loop. Organizations interested should contSct Walter Lienert at the Athenaeum or Eric Oakshott at the Central Y. At the end of the season a dour hie elimination tournament will be held.
On the East’s offensive team will be Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns, who will be the No 1 fullback A pair- of devastating blockers arc tackle Roosevelt Brown of the Eastern champs, the New York Giants, and John Nisby
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of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Later Buck Shaw, the Eastern j Series coach, announced the selection of! Marion Campbell, 250-pound tack-!
le.
PICKED FOR THE Western offensive unit were Lcmnie Moore, halfback, and Jim Parker, tackle, both of Baltimore, and J. D. Smith, San Francisco fullback. The defensive unit included Gene Lipscomb, another Baltimore performer, at tackle; Lamar Lundy from Richmond, Ind., and Purdue, a Los Angeles star, at end; and two halfbacks, Erich Barnes from Elkhart, Ind.. and Purdue, Chicago Bears player; and Abe Woodson, San Francisco. Red Hickey, who will pilot the West squad, added veteran back Emkn Tunnel 1 of the Green Bay Packers to his team.
i baseball, boxing, football, basket-] Covey joined Willie Mays and Orball, tennis and track. ' lando Cepcda in the assault on
pitchers, and wound up with the
i Neal Series Star. of ,hr Y< ' nr aw>rd
On the diamond, Charlie Neal starred afield and at bat as the I lowly-regarded Los Angeles Dodgj ers returned to past glory and | clobbered the Chicago White Sox, 4 games to 2, in the richest World
— r
Archie Rolls on In boxing, Archie Moore, Davcy Moore, Joe Brown and Don Jordan successfully defended their titles Moore kept his light-heavyweight
on record. All-time top crown with a 3rd-round knockout
DOWN the ALLEYS With BILL MILTON
Here Are 'Milton's All-Stars'! Here I go leading with my chin again. The All-Star Team of the season and the lineup as it should be is:
Lovell Walk-
Althea Irked by Norfolk Jimcrow NORFOLK. Va. (ANP) — Althea Gibson, irked by segregation of an audience which had come out to see her play Karol Fagcros of Miami in an exhibition tennis match here last week, expressed her indignation with a touch of fire. “What is this?” she asked when she noted Negro and white spectaContinued on Page 6
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2. N o r r i s
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3. Roy Street Hi : 4. W i l 1 i a m
; Brown.
i 5. W i 1 li a m
: Gooeh.
j The sixth man j would he Aaron J "The Bear” Vin-
: negar. * * +
| The City Tournament will start Jan. 1, and so at
this writing teams throughout the city are preparing for the big event I’m putting my money on
MILTON
Rainbow Room (smiles).
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* HIGH GAME PRIZES thisVcok were won by Fred McClaren, 257; Bill Ping, a visitor^ 255, and Aaron Viiinegar, 235. For the women, winners Were B. Parrish, 177; Willa Murrell, 175; Vivian McGuire. 175, and C. Smith, 172 Sea Ferguson gives these ojien bowling prizes.
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Congratulations to the Wells Gulf team: Ernest Wilson. Lovell Walker/ Earl Benson, Harry Pet- i ers, William Ridley and Dave
Hughes. * * *
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