Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 September 1961 — Page 11

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The Indianapolis Recorder, Sept 16,1961—11

Attucks Favored Over Howe in Afternoon Grid Game

Pro Gridders Cross NAACP Picket Lines at Houston

Out-of-Towners Chalk Cues for Do-Funny’s Meet

By GEORGE I. TEMPLE

Will a cue artist from out of town be able to dethrone Sonny “Ghost” Singerton, the reigning Naptown bank pool champion? Can some visitor cope with the wizardry of Willie “Do-Funny” Ridley, whose play is now as sharp as barber Pat Horne’s best

Satujday night razor?

These are the top questions as the big Bank Pool Festival, slated for Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 16-17, is taking on an all-Middle

West atmosphere. , Competitors from Cincin-

nati, Chicago, Dayton and Louisville have called in to make reservations, the management revealed, and it is reported that Detroit will be represented before the deadline at midnight Friday, Sept.

15.

These fresh faces are expected to add interest to the unique fourway tourney. With competition going on in Pro, Semi-Pro, Bug and Doubles divisions, a spot is assured for every comer. DO-FUNNY’S POOL CLINIC at 546 Indiana Avenue, where the festival will be held from 9 a.m. till midnight both days, is alive with players sharpening up for

the big shoot-out.

By LLOYD C. WELLS For ANP

HOUSTON — Negro plovers on the Oakland Raiders pro football team ignored pleas of the NAACP and Progressive Youth Association in crossing picket lines thrown up around Jeppson Stadium, to play in a game between the Raiders and

the Houston Oilers here Saturday.

In so doing they were humiliated not only in the eyes of members of their race, but on the field as well. The Oilers, holding fast to their segregated seating policy, swamped the Raiders 55-0 — before a crowd that included only 25 Negroes.

The lopsided drubbing, with several Negro stars in the lineup of the losing team, could only encourage the Oiler brass in its determination to continue the jim-

crow seating policy.

(At this writing Hurricane Carla has caused the 4th game of the Indianapolis-Houston baseball playolT series to be moved to Naptown from the inundated Texas city, and it is possible the entire series will be played at Victory

Field.

(The Buffs, who took a 2-1 lead in the series, have five Negro players—J. C. Hartman, Hank Mitchell, Harvey Branch, Sam Drake and Jim Proctor.—Editor) Before the Houston-Oakland game the NAACP wired four Negro players on the Oakland team, advising them of the boycott and asking them not to cross the picket lines. THE TELEGRAMS WERE sent by Mrs. Hosea Evans, local NAACP executive secretary, to George Fleming and Charley Fuller, halfbacks; Charley Hardy, offensive end, and George Fields. Along with seven other players, they were informed that Don Suman, Oiler vice-presi-dent, had told Mrs. Evans point-blank that segregated seating is the policy of his team and will continue in effect throughout the 1961 sea-

son.

The scant 25 Negro fans attending the game came from an approximate Negro population here of 250,000. THE NAACP NATIONAL office and CORE headquarters in New York assured local Negroes that the Oilers will be boycotted and nicketed in every city of the American Football League where they play this season. Fleming spoke for the group of non-cooperating Negro players. Their stand was the opposite of another pro group, headed by Gene “Big Daddy” Lipscomb, who refused to play at Roanoke, Va., last month because of jimcrow seating. At that time Lipscomb said: “I can’t go against my race.” Last spring John Thomas, Ralph Boston and 18 others refused to cross picket lines to participate in the Meet of Champions in the same Jeppson Stadium here. MEANWHILE FRANCIS WILContinued on Page IS

North Central Has High Scorer North Central, with high-scoring Dennis Walters leading the way, will put its new-found football prowess on the line at Noblesville on Friday, Sept. 15. Walters scored four touchdowns last week as the Panthers rolled over Carmel, 42-0. Other TD’s were counted by Dave Clutter and Curt

Stephens.

Walters also racked up throe PAT's, while others were added by Dave Lewis, Charles Peters and Charlie Gale.

Chucks Play Thursday Wood will start next week’s football card early when the Chucks host Lebanon at Manual’s field on Thursday, Sept. 21. The game will start at 7:30 p. m.

6 With Warriors As Kickoff Nears A half-dozen tan gridders were still on the Indianapolis Warriors’ 33-man squad this week as the fledgling pro team pointed for its first league game Saturday at Cleveland. With further cuts still to be made, the sextet included Tommy Fletcher, flashy halfback from Richmond and Purdue; Willie Jones, ex-Purdue fullback; Roy Pratt, end, Indiana; Bob Maxey, halfback, Shortridge and Butler; Joe King, center, Attucks and Indiana Central; and John Autry, 6-1, 235-pound guard from Prairie View A & M. Head Coach Gene Gedman still had to pare his playing roster to 30 before Saturday’s kickoff, as well as to make room for any future National and American American Football League rejects j who might be hired. JONES PLUNGED for a touchContlnued on Page 13

HOOSIERS' ACE HALFBACK: The lone lettermon in Indiana University's backfield, when the Hoosiers open their grid season at Kansas State on Sept. 23, will be Nate Ramsey, ISO^pound junior from Neptune, N. J. Coach Phil Dickens believes Ramsey is one of the most underrated backs in the Big 10. As a sophomore Nate tied for the team scoring lead with 12 points, and averaged 4.4 yards per carry from scrimmage. He starred in the spring game when he scored two touchdowns.

BE AT IN' THE GUN Tiller a New Buddy Young Looking for a Break?

By BILL BROWER For ANP

TOLEDO — This advice is for free to any scout of the National or American Football League. You want a back who can scat on punt returns/ carry the mail on kickoff runbacks, be spotted for a broken-field dash? We believe your man is Jim Tiller, who has been performing for the Toledo Tornadoes of the American Football Conference. Performing, did we say? He has been setting the league ablaze with swiftness and adroitness in the open field.

Tiller is a mite of a man, as

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pigskinners go. He’s 5-10 and weighs maybe a few ounces over

155.

In college, he was a standout performer for Purdue University. But his size was against him and he got nary a nibble from the big-league pro ivory hunters. The Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Big Four League beckoned him for a tryout. A combination of circumstances—his size and too many experienced Americans—led to his release. IT WAS TOO LATE for Jim to return to Purdue and complete work on his degree. So he went baok to his home town of Fremont. O., 40 miles from Toledo. For a small man who wants to go places, this was a wise decision. He decided to try out for the Toledo team of the AFC, a minor pro league just getting its feet wet. Since then, Tiller has been a sensation. He appeared on the scene just before the Tornadoes were to play their first exhibition game. With Coach Bob Snyder teaching him a few of the plays on the sidelines, he quickly was ready for action. He scored a touchdown on a 54-yard punt runback and broke away for several

other scoring threats. THEN, WITH A WEEK of practice under his belt, Tiller performed against the Cincinnati Mohawks and this is what happened : He returned a 5U-yard punt for a touchdown; returned a 46-yard punt for another score; caught a 14-yard pass for a TD, and caught a 38-yard pass for another sixpointer. All this occurred in about two minutes of participation. In the next outing, Jim opened the game with a 90-yard touchdown on the kickoff. The second time he touched the ball he raced 80 yards for another TD. He also scored on a 3-yard dash later in the game. Tiller has tried to attract attention by swelling h i s weight to 165 or 170. “That way maybe they won’t decide I’m too small without seeing what I can do,” he says. “I’m always having to wait for a chance to prove myself. The first time I went out for football they wouldn’t give me a uniform. I had to wait a year before I got

one.”

AFTER A FINE CAREER a Fremont’s Ross High, Jim had three varsity seasons at Purdue. In his sophomore year, he suffered an injury. In his second season, he played on the second varsity

unit.

Last year he came into his own. He was the Boilermakers’ top scorer with seven touchdowns; averaged four yards rushing; led in receiving

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Williams Wins Hi-Lo Golf Tourney in Sudden Death

Webster “Red” Williams defeated Bureus McGuire in a sudden death playoff to win the annual Hi-Lo Golf Championship tourney Sunday at Purdue University, West Lafayette. Williams and McGuire battled to a standoff at 156 in the championship flight. Then Williams took the title when McGuire missed the green and was short with his chip shot. One stroke behind for 3rd place was Bob Kent with 157. Fifty golfers, including a dozen guests of the Hi-Lo club, battled par in the sweltering 92-degree heat. Other flight winners were: FIRST FLIGHT — Bill Carr, 164; Charles Wooden, 166; Claude Street and Shirley Adair, 174 (to be played off sudden-death). SECOND FLIGHT — Wesley Harrell, 164; Rollo Quarles, 173; Joe Craig and Otto Penn, 174 (to be played off sudden-death). A consolation award, donated by

Carr’s Beauty Shop, will be given each 4th-place finisher. Special awards included: Most Birdies — Sam Dailey. Highest Bogey — Finnis Baker. Closest to Pin — Charles Smith, whose drive came to rest about 6 feet from the pin on the 178-yard, par 3, 6th hole of the South Course. • High Man — James Dabner.

A “JOHNNY GREEN DAY” Tournament, to be held Sunday. Sept. 24, at the Douglass Golf Course, will bring to a close the Hi-Lo club’s activities for the season. The 18-hole tourney will honor the Douglass pro, Johnny Green. Ten prizes will be given on the gross and net — 5 places each. The entry fee is $4. Non-memoer goners are invited to take part in the meet. Russell Smith is president of the club, and Bill Can- tournament director.

Muffin, Phillips Nominated for Ammy Awards A pair of tan athletes were among basketball and softball candidates for Ammy Awards at the 3rd annual All Sports Banquet of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 14. Gerry “Muffin” Williams, star Butler eager, and hurler Don Phillips of the Barrington Cubs softball team were among those to be honored at the feast at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. “Muffin,” the middle-man in a well-known Shortridge athletic family, holds the state high jump record of 6-6 though he stands only 5-9.' He set a sophomore basketball scoring record at Butler Iasi season with 430 points. When not pitching for the Barrington softball aggregation, Phillips is a counselor at the Indiana Bovs School at Plainfield. CANDIDATES FOR AWARDS in seven other sports were to be

announced.

SHORTRIDGE TO HOST SPARTANS

Shortridge, which has fallen on hard times football-wise, figures to have at least half a chance when it hosts Sacred Heart on Friday, Sept. 15. • The Spartans can be beaten (see story elsewhere), which is more than the short-handed Blue Devils can say about most of their scheduled opponents. A 31-yar<1 pass from Bill Stewart to Kirby Williams provided the Satans’ only score last week as they were smothered at Richmond, 41-6. The victors passed the ball around, with TD’s being tallied by six players: Rick Lear, Bob Hampton, Jim Majors, Ogle, Wright and Mader. Rick Puthoff kicked 5-for-6 extra points.

Ripple at Tech Features Friday Night Schedule Fans who want to see high school football as it should be played are hereby invited (at their own expense) to CYO Field

at 2:30 Friday afternoon (Sept. 15).

Victory-hungry Attucks partisans are promised a win, since the Tigers held Cathedral to a last-minute 19-6 verdict last week while Howe was losing to Tech 39-0. The contest will take place in God's daylight so the spectators as well as officials can see just which side, if either,

is employing improper tactics.

It is necessary to make this has three daylight tilts carded this

observation because Frank Wilson of The Indianapolis News, covering the Attucks-Cathedral slugfest, singled out the Tigers as aggressors while he saw the Irish as innocent victims. Sports writers (including this one) are only fallible men, and it takes a lot of self-confidence to point the finger at one whole team, and none of the other team, in a night football game. We do know there were some suspicious-looking injuries on both sides, such as the broken lip sustained by Attucks’ Robert Jackson three plays after the opening

kickoff.

ONE OFFICIAL AGREED the game was poorly called, but another stoutly affirmed it was just a traditional Cathedral-Attucks donnybrook. To make sweeping generalizations about the teams involved is not good reporting, in our opinion. With 22 players (of constantly changing identities) going 48 minutes, you just can’t see that much from the sidelines at

night.

Which brings us back to the ax this reporter grinds every autumn—in fairness to teams and officials, as well as spectators, HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAMES SHOULD BE PLAYED IN THE AFTERNOON. Between an economy - minded School Board and some exploita-tion-minded adult fans, this crusade of ours hasn’t proved too pooular except at Attucks, which

Washington and Manual Meet For Southside 'Championship'

The Southside high school football championship—or at least leadership—will be decided right quick Friday night, Sept. 15, when Manual plays at Washington. The Redskins and Continentals were the only two Southside squads to emerge unscathed from last week’s firing. Each scored a touchdown in the Jamboree, incidentally. Fullback Billy Hattiex, expected to be a leading scorer this season, added two touchdowns to the one he had tal-

lied in the Jam session as Washington racked up an 18-7 victory at Columbus.

fall. But we still ask the public to consider the question with an open mind and from various

angles.

ASIDE FROM THE fisticuffs, the Cathedral-Attucks encounter was a humdinger. Cast as pushovers, the Tigers wouldn’t take the part and had a 6-6 tie with only 56 seconds to go. The touchdowns had been scored by Cathedral’s Bill Perry and Attucks’

Benny Parker.

At this point the Tigers properly decided to shoot the moon, but a pass was intercepted by Gary Tofil. Five plays later Bob Perry passed to his brother Bill for the win- *■ ning touchdown. Bill kicked

the extra point.

Cathedral scored again on a plunge by Dick Dullaghan with 1 second left on the clock. MEANWHILE TECH, vfliich hosts strong Broad Ripple A 8 p.m. Friday (also Sept. 15), was having an easy time with Howe. The Greenclads* fullback John Smith returned a punt 40 yards In the 1st quarter to open the scoring. Tech scored three more times in the 2nd period to turn the

game into a rout.

Fast little halfback Mike Drane paced Wally Potter’s gridders with 12 points, while other TD’s were scored by John Nell, Tom Weliever and Gary Titus. PAT’S were registered by Don Woods, Larry Wellington and Mac Brown. RIPPLE SHOWED ITS expected power last week by battling vaunted Kokomo to a 20-20 tie. Jim “Goose” Ligon, the basketball star, continued his Globetrotter tricks when he scored a touchdown on a pass that bounced out of his arms into Ripple halfback Tom Corsan’s arms and then seco n d - bounced into “The

Goose’s" wings.

Ligon also grabbed another one —a 35-yarder—that would have ! meant victory for the Kats, but

Pitcher Joe Purichia as usual officials nullified if with a double-

had a busy night for the Conti-} offside pentalty.

nentals. He set up both of Hat- Ed Isert tallied two TD’s for tiex’ TD’s with long passes to Kokomo and Charles Jewell kicked

Dennis Troth and Thurman Jen- a pair of points,

kins. Then he rambled 59 yards; Rinple’s touchdowns were by for Washington’s third touchdown. Randy Minniear, Rodney Young , , . . . . and Jay Douthit. Minniear and Columbus got into the scoring Douthit t , hc points . after _

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Cathedral was scheduled to play at Hammond Noll on Friday.

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JIMMY TILLER Purdue’s Gift to Pros? with 21 catches for 237 yards and three TD’s; was leading punt returner, running back four for a 20.5-yard average; and caught 7 aerials against Iowa to tie a Purdue record. He went both ways. “I love football, and I love playing defense against the bigger man,” he says. “I just can’t make Continued on Page 13

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