Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1961 — Page 11

The fmfianapolb Recorder, May 27,1961—11

Poole Wins Mr. Junior America Title

Morgan^ Brown, Givens State Cinder Favorites

By CHARLES S. PRESTON

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Central Indiana likely won't have a team winner at the State Ttttek Meet to be held Saturday at Tech, but we've got some bays who'll make the winners go. The IHSAA big cinder show •— worth watching all day if it's a nice day — will get off the launching-pad with track trials at 10:30 a. m. It will go into thircf-stdge orbit with the

track finals starting at 2 p. m. hope to cope with the likes of Gary Roosevelt, which won with 43 points at Mishawaka, and surprising South Side, which did practically as well with 42 at Fort Wayne. But the presumed victors will have to hustle to get around the boys — three of ther Negroes — who. set four new Regional re-

cords here. They were:

MARVIN MORGAN OF ANDERSON, latest and fastest of a quarter-miling family, who turned in the year’s best 440 in :49.2. The big and strong Morgan sprinted opt of Lane 4 to the head of the pack, and just kept going till he ran the opposition into the ground. Tech’s tall Jim Jackson hurried

him all the way.

Last week’s Regional here was too much a dogfight for any of the surviving squads to get state championship hopes up. Tech won with 22 points, closely followed by North Central with 18, Andersin 17. Richmond and Muncie Central each 15, Wood and Ben Davis each 10, while 15 other teams

trailed in the scoring. None of these teams can

Lincoln Takes South Regiofial BLOOMINGTON — Evansville Lincoln won the track Regional here last week, qualifying 4 boys and its half-mile relay team for

the State Finals.

The Lions scored 25 points while Terre Haute Wiley was second with ISti. Martinsville counted 15. Terre Haute Gerstmeyer 12, New Albany 11, and 20 other

teams trailed.

ARTHUR JOHNSON AND KenGrimes of Lincoln finished 1-2 in the 220, and the same runners were 2nd and 3rd in the 100-yard dash. They also led off the victorious 880 relay team, with MauContinued on Page 14

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spaceman without a eapsul?, who broke the oldest mark in the book by broad-jumping 22-10, Brown fiot-faulted on his first two tries before coming around in the nick of time. The old record of 22-6 was set by Anderson’s Gene Wilson (brother of John) ’way back in

1950.

SPENCER GIVENS, the mighty man from Richmond, who put the shot 55-4% to surpass his own mark last year by a whopping

Jolley, Lapsley Named to Squad For North-South All-Star Series

FORT WAYNE — Two tan basketball players have been named to the North All-Star team that will meet the South All-Stars in a pair They are J. C. Lasley of Fort They are J. C. Lajsley of Firt Wayne Central and Mel Jolley of Muncie Central. Lapsley, 6-1 and. 170, led the Central Tigers in scoring with 380 points last season. He hit 42 percent of his field goal attempts, and 69 percent of his free throws. Lajsley was second in rebounding, and rated the Tigers’ best defesive man. Coach Herb Banet called him “the most coachable biy we’ve had at Central,” He was an all-citv end in football. JOLLEY, WELL-KNOWN in the North Central Conference, is a 6-0, 170-pound guard. He was a Bearcat regular two years, and last

season scired 251 points and had 192 rebounds and 125 assists. Scholastically, Mel is in the upper fifth of his class, and he is vice-president of the Honor Society. He was all-Seci-state guard last season, and an all-Conference end in football. Other players on the North squad include Rodney Hicks, El>yood; I$arl Brown, Oak Hill High School, Converse; Skip Collins, Valparaiso; Kent Paul, Huntington; Dave Cix, Kokomo; Gary Novak, Fort Wayne Concordia; Steve Frenchik, Hammond Clark, and Jay Miller, Goshen. THIS IS THE third annual North-South series. The North game will be played Tuesday, June 13, at the Fort Wayne North Side gym.

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11 inches. DAVE SNAPP (white), Broad Ripple's tireless half-miler, who nipped a second off the mark of Muncie’s Fred Winkerson as he came home in 1:57.5. Nobody but Anderson had better count on the mile relay, either The Indian foursome of Roger Melson, David Davidson, Tom Johnsin and Morgan outraced a swift Richmond quartet in 3:25.1. Making the event hum for the Red Devils were Dave Laughlin, John Mader, Mike Chenoweth and Jim Majors. Shortridge was 3rd, with the quartet of John Tyler, Cinnie Whitehurst, Howard Maxey and Ronnie Moore. THE RAY WAS FILLED with heartbreak as well as triumph. Wood’s defending state century champion, dashing Dick Davis, reached the bitter end of the road as he pulled up lame and failed to qualify for the State Meet. With both legs injured, and four weeks of inactivity behind him, Davis was doing his running . on sheer charater. We hope some good college grabs this fine boy, who also plays football and basketball and is in the tow 3rd of his scholasticically. Another disappointment was the 3rd-place tie of Tech’s Larry Dunville in the high jump, at only 6 feet. The event was won by North Central’s Tom Brady at 6-214, while Richmond’s little Larry Satterfield was 2nd. For some reason it was a poor day for high-jumping all around the state. But Duncille qualified, and will get another chance this Saturday. WHILE THE SENIORS Sometimes fade, the sophomores come on with a rush. In addition to Shortridge’s sparklers, probably the rushin’est was Roy Thurman of Wood, who took 2nd in both the • Continued on Page 14

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'#jp§i§i' THE ANDERSON EXPRESS: Marvin Morgan, Anderson's get-there-now quarter-miler, brings home the baton for victory in the mile relay at last week's Regional at Tech. In 2nd place is Jim Majors of Richmond, while Ronnie Moore of Shortridge is 3rd in the close finish. Earlier, Morgan hod won the 440 in the record time of :49.2. In the State Meet at Tech on Saturday, he'll be shooting for the state record of :48.9 set last year by Floyd Theus of Gary Roosevelt. (Recorder Photos by Jim Burres)

SPENCER GIVENS of Richmond

CLAY'D RATHER FIGHT FLOYD THAN LISTON By BENNY THOMAS BATON ROUGE, La. (ANP)— “Fl6yd isn’t fighting him, why should I?” With that comment fast-rising heavyweight contender Cassius Clay, of Louisville, indicated he would rather fight champion Floyd Patterson than Sonny Liston, the No. 1 Contender. Clay, who won the Olympic light-heavyweight title and then turned pro, was) an honored guest at a Southern University all-sports banquet last week. He is scheduled to meet Alex Miteff of Argentina in a nationally televised bout in Louisville in June.

WHO GOT THE GOLDEN EGGS? Goose Pleads No Contest To Back Taxes Charge

Boxer Award At Mayer Chapel Goes to Bolden A 16-year-old Tech student was granted the Outstanding Fighter Award at the 3rd annual Mayer Chapel Boxing Championship concluded Saturday. Robert Bolden Jr„ 126pqund Open champion, was the fighter who received the award. Other champions crowned after the 18-bout tournament were: 160 Pounds — Jimmy Ayers, Mayer Chapel. 126 Novice — Hosie Chapel, Christamore House. 118 Novice — Robert Battles, Lockcfield PAL. 112 — Rol Hinderllter, Mayer. 105 — John Pippins, Christamore. 80 — Bob Simmons, Christamore. 70 — Robert Paris, Mayer. 60 — Jerome Carpenter, Mayer. 60 “B” — Pell Wadleigh, Indianapolis Athletic Club. 50 — Michael Carter, Mayer. THE NEXT BOXING activity at Mayer Chapel will be the Sportsman’s Banquet, which will be held June 13. Mayer Chapel will take part in a TV boxing show at Louisville on July 8.

KANSAS CITY (ANP) — Charges of failing to pay an estimated $118,000 in back taxes and penalties on about $130,000 in earnings over a 4-year period were made against Reece "Goose" Tatum, the veteran basketball comedian, in Federal court here last week. Tatum pleaded nolo contendere (no contest). The plea was described "by presiding fudge Richard M. Duncan as "a gentlemanly way of pleading guilty/*' Goose’s willingness ti face up to the charges drew some consideration from Judge Duncan, who said: “It mar be that he earned money but somebody else got it. If lioks like this man's skill may be primarily confined to his hands and feet. He may need a manager or a guardian or maybe both,” This view was shared by George Aylward Jr ., one of Tatum’s attorneys He said he did not lieve Goose fot all the miney that was coming to him. A LIGHT MOMENT came when the Judge asked Tatum his age. The Goose said he was 39, and the judge commented: “Same age ,as Jack Benny, eh?” Tatum flashed a smile. Judge Duncan ordered a presentence investigation and set a hearing for June 16.

0'Ree Makes Hockey Summit As He's Traded to Canadiens

BOSTON (ANP) — Willie O’Ree last week completed the big jump from the minor leagues to a frontrunning major club when he was traded to the Montreal Canadiens by the Boston Bruins in a 4-player National Hockey League deal. Going to the topnotch Canadians increased the possibility for O’Ree of playingf on a world champiinship team next season. The dominant cluub in hockey for the past several yearfs, the Canadiens led the league in regular season play before being squeezed out of the Stanley Cup playoffs. The Chicago Black Hawks eventually defeated the Detroit Red Wings for the world’s title. The first Negro player to reach the major league In hockey, O Ree is a left winger who is cinsidered one of the fastest men on ice. Perhaps his fine playing against the Canadiens helped influence the trade. He has scored gamewinning goals against both the Canadiens and Detroit. O’Ree is an ambitious player who has set himself the standard of scoring 20 goals in league play in one seasin. He remarked recently: “I feel now as though I be-

that rosy for O’Ree. He had a rough time with the race problem in the minors. Opponents often called him vile names, and once he was even spat upon. But like Jackie Robinson in baseball, he stuck it uot. He might have fought back, but chose not to on the advice of his coach at Quebec. When Willie broke into professonial hockey with the ’Bees in 1956, Coach Punch Imlach told Continued on Page 14

Gary Roosevelt Prime Favorite In State Meet

Fort Wayne South Side has an edge in numbers for the state high school track meet to be held here Saturday, but it looks like defending champ Gary Roosevelt has, the quality. The Archers and Pantners were the only teams to qualify both relay foursomes where the points count double. In addition South Side will bring 9 individuals in 6 events as a result of last week’s competition, while Roosevelt has 7 in 5. But there the Fort Wayners’ advantage -ends. Both the Archers’ relay teams qualified by placing 2nd. Both of Roosevelt’s we^e 1st, and the Pantheir half-mile quartet set a record of 1:30-4. Louis Thomas, Art White, Clay Leek and fleet-footed Rich Calloway were the boys who set the 880-yard batin mark for Don Leek’s all-tan squad. CALLOWAY BROKE THE 100-yard-dash record by edging Bernie Rivers if East Chicago Washington in :09.8. He also tied the 220 mark in :21.7. Other Roosevelt qualifiers were James Harris, who won the halfmile in 2:01.7; White, 3rd in the 100 and 220: Leek, 3rd in the high hurdles, and Larry Hood. 3rd in

Shortridge Youth Takes National Physique Honor COLUMBIA, Mo. — Harold Poole of Indianapolis last weekend wan the Mr. Junior America title. The 17-yeaf-ald Shortridge High School funiar took the nation's top prize for the under-21 age b r a e k e t in physique competition with 17 other conte stants from throughout the U. S. It was believed to oe the first time a Negro had ever won the crown. No Negro has won the Mr. America title — only remaining goal on Poile’s road to glory. Besides talcing the top title in the competition here last Friday and Saturday, Poole also won the Most Muscular Junior American crown. He placed 2nd in two subdivisions — those for Best-Developed Arms, and Best-Developer Legs The competition was AAU-spen-s'or ed. Poole, who trains in his kitchen at 1259 Eugene in Indianapolis, earlier had won the Mr. Mid-States and Mr. Indiana contests, as well as numerous others. He was accompanied here by Lawrence Cimstock, Shortridge teacher who has taken a keen interest in his career. WHETHER POOLE WILL take the big jump to the adult Mr. Anierica contest, in which the competition is admittedly rugged, is undecided at this writing. He placed 17th in the meet last year. The nation-wide event will will be held June 23-25 at Santa Monica, Calif. Also sponsored by the AAU, it will take place in the Civic Auditorium, 1855 Main St. One of the chief obstacles to People’s entry is a lack of funds to make the trip. Approximately $300 is needed. Anyone desiring to contribute may send donations to The Recorder, care of Sports Editor Charles S. Preston, and they will be passed on to Poole.

the 440. The Panthers’ mile relayists, whose time was 3:26.6, were Walter Little, William Smith, Harris and Hood.

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George Crowe Sent Down; 66 Negroes Left in Majors George Crewe and four other Negro players were among those sent down to the minor leagues last week, as the major league baseball clubs pared their rasters to the 25-man limit. Crowe, a brother of Ray Crowe, Attucks athletic director, holds the major league career record of 14 pinch-hit home runs. The St. Louis Cardinals dealt him to San Juan, Puerto Rico, of

the International League.

According to The Recorder’s

count, there are now 36 tan players in the National League and

30 in the American. They are: National League SAN FRANCISCO—Felipe Alou,

Matty Alou, Orlando Cepeda, Sam Jones, Juan Marichal, Willie McCovey, Willie Mays, Jose Pagan.

LOS ANGELES— Tom Davis,

Willie Davis, Jim Gilliam, Charlie Neal, John Roseboro, Maury Wills.

PITTSBURGH — Gene Baker,

Joe Christopher, Bob Clemente. CINCINNATI — Marshall Bridges, Leo Cardenas, Elio Chacon, Vada Pinson, Frank Robinson. MILWAUKEE — Hank Aaron, Felix Mantilla, Lee Maye. ST. LOUIS — Curt Flood, Bob Gibson, Bill White. CHICAGO — George Altman. Ernie Banks, Andre Rodgeirs, Billy

Williams.

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