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The Indienapolis Recorder/ Mar. 31/1962—11

Basketball' If Writers 'On Level

Cincinnati’s National Champions—Better Believe It! ^*9® n / Humes, Miles Should Get AH Votes

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By CHARLES S. PRESTON

"Mr. Basketball" will be announced Sunday, but thi^ writer finds it hard to understand how he # ll be selected. According to a report last week, the player getting .the most votes for the All-Star team will win the coveted title. No special space to vote for "Mr. Basketball" was provided on this

year's ballot.

If this doesn't result in at least a three-way tie, somebody's playing dirty pool. Can you imagine any sports writer leaving East Chicago Washington's Bobby Miles, Kokomo's Jim Ligon or Madison's Larry Humes off his ballot for legitimate reasons?

Gary Grieger, white sharpshoot-

er from Evansville Bosse’s state i on adults (who can dechamps, is another who should be! * ent * themselves),

a unanimous choice. And since; In these matters, sports colum-

each writer votes for 10 in no special order, we fail to see why these four players should not top the list with identical totals. If everybody plays it straight, that

is.

DURING THE STATE Finals we conversed with one daily scribe who was highly critical of “Goose”

In these matters, sports coluir nists are rushing inf'where judge and professionally trained social workers fear to tread. And they’re going off half-cocked on the basis of hearsay, without properly knowing what they’re writing about. That's dangerously close to mob

psychology.

THE RECORDER LIMITS itself

Ligon’s alleged misconduct off the ,. 1 u/, basketball floor. “We ought to v t ot y? g for the ^ best ,P layer * i j v __ i • r. _ /*. in Indiana, rpcrarrilpss nf race.

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IH GEORGE WILSON, Forward TOM THACKER, Guard

GADDIE ROLLS 628 AT STURM ALLEYS Alvin Gaddie, 2947 Indianapolis Ave., went into orbit last week at the Sturm Recreation Bowling Co. alleys, 1442 N. Illinois, as he rolled a 628. Caddie’s game scores were 149265- 214. Other high totals were Lavelle Walker, 616, and Joe Johnson, 609. Fred McClaren, 536 Drake, continued his fast pace with a 168266- 169 for a total of 603. IN THE LADIES’ ranks, Ruth Holman bowled 539 and Barbara Parrish 500.

Bruton Blasts Jimcrow Still Dogging Players

make a stand by leaving him off the All-Star team,” he grumbled. We hope no Hoosier sports Writer would seriously go that far. We, for one, think this business of trial by newspaper of our juvenile athletes is getting out of hand. These young boys—who after all are products of our entire Hoosier Hysteria system—are getting raps in the prints that wouldn’t

jn Indiana, regardless of race, creed, color, location or stee of school, or what somebody’s Aunt Lucy may have said about the athletes’ private lives. fflffl ffl We are further limited by the fact that in order'to vo.te intelligently for a player, we must have seen him in action or at least followed his career over a long enough period of time'to have reasonable confidence in what

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Lincoln Students Resist Prexy On 'Bowl-In' Drive

WEST COAST SPORTLIGHT

The Board of Regents in March, 1959. at Madison, Wis., barred the University of Wisconsin athletic teams from playing in localities where members might be subject to discrimination. (ANP)

What is

JEFFERSON CITY. Mo. (ANP)

-Dr. Earl E. Dawson, president of Lincoln University, was hanged in effigy, the school cafeteria boycotted and nine students suspended as .1 student campaign to de-

NEW YORK pif^ een j segregate city bowling alleys took years after a Negro first a wei,d tu,n played in a major-league -The campaign against the alboiebdll game, vestiges of fhc levs ’ i imcrow P 0,icy had been £°- colar barrier still remaia a- cTmpu^hfplong the circuits traveled by , ter of the NAACP Both Negro boll players. ! and white students had been supOne of the sfors, Detroit! >> 0 ' tin!r tlle dl ' ive - Tigers center fielder Bill Leaders of (he campai/n, Bruton, speoks out in on however, turned their fire on

the school administration after Dr. Dawson—charging that the students had created the impression the campaigp. sponsored by the university— “took over control” of the

fight.

The President forbade students

Dodgers Continue Efforts To Ignore Jackies Feats

By L. I. “BROCK” BROCKENBURY

article "A Negro Ballplayer's Life Today" in the May issue of Spbif magazine, published

Thursday, March 29.

When Bruton was traded to Detroit last year, some 712 fans— including the governor of Wis-

consin and Milwaukee s business f rom talking with the press and the grounds that one man does and community leaders—paid $5 from taking anv further action ! Kaunas tnat one man Goes apiece to attend a dinner where 11 " taking an\ turtner action not make a team> i W ill have to d <" asa.“Boctpt J *.»

W^in^r^'i^^rpa^ed! — 1 d “» ^ st “ d - ts ”

a resolution Urging him to keep

LOS ANGELES (ANP) — Few people are aware of the subtle attempts made by the Los Angeles Dodgers (formerly the Brooklyn Dodgers) to ignore the great record established by the man who was unquestionably the brighest star in their history—Jackie Robinson . . . When Jackie was honored by the NAACP here, the Dodgers offered some lame excuses why they could not be represented ... It is no Secret that there's no love lost between Robinson and the Dodgers' president, Walter O'Malley, but it is not generally known that there is

not even a picture to be had of Jackie if one calls the Dodger cently at his “Salt Mine” fight

M&H camp, where he was training foi his fight with Alejandro Lavp-

berlain’s school, learned basketball on the playgrounds with such competitors as Wilt

and Hal Lear . . .

Slaughter was described by Stanford’s coach as the “best onegoal center in the game,” because he seldom scored but was a terrific rebounder and feeder . . .

LIGHT - HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION Archie Moore staged a real party for sports writers re

office for one.

* ffo<v can the organization forget % nore Jackie was contained in a that it was Jackie Robinson, who {release last week which, praising out of the 10 years he was with Willie Davis as a comer, slighted them, put them in the World Se- Robinson with the statement that ries 6 times ? If you disagree on Uavis “might very well inaugurate

a dynasty of dominance such as the _ Dodgers enjoyed in the days of "Roy Campanella, D o n Newcomb, Pee Wee Reese, Gil Hodges, Duke Snider at the peaks of their

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explain why else it is that B.R. (Before Robinson) the Dodgers

won the pennant only once in 26 careers.”

Is the major league’s racial barrier broken? Just how far has the Negro ballplayer come today? What are the major obstacles lie still faces? In a frank, hard-hitting article in the current SPORT magazine, now on sale, Detroit Conterfieldcr Bill Bruton swings away at ♦h<- > indignities the Negro ballplayers still suffer. He reveals the vast improvements that have been made, ami those that could still be made. Read this firsthand account of “A Negro Ballplayer’s Life Today.” In the May issue of SPORT Magazine NOW ON SALE EVERYWHERE!

his home there.

But as he drove about last winter making speeches to high School groups, he still met rebuffs, the magazine reports. “They still don’t think we’re human,” he says. “They don’t want to rent motel rooms . . . Then if they recognize me as a ballplayer, they 11 let me have it. “But I walk out. I don’t want it if they’re offering it only to a ballplayer.” The Alabama native adds: “1

years; and A. J. (After Jackie)

THE STUDENT LEADERS then

promoted a series of demonstra- , . tions that resulted in the suspen-i the y have won only once

sion of five boys and four girls.

The suspended students re-

fused to leave their dormitories unless university officials or state police physically carried them out. A large group of the student body supported them, and said it would employ passive resistance if officials tried to take the nine

Students OUt hv fnr<-r.

Many students went to class

After they had developed their great teams of the early ’30s, Jackie was the only one who departed, but even with Gil Hodges and Duke Snider and Roy Campanella, they went from molasses to vinegar! THeir latest sneaking attempt to

WALT HAZZARD AND Fred Slaughter, Negro sophomores, are the reasons given by UCLA Coach Johnny Wooden for his team’s winning the Big 5 championship and the right to represent the West Coast in the NCAA elimination tournament . . . Hazzard, wnu prepped at Overbrook High, Wilt Cham-

was a Negro long before I was > wearing black, in protest against

a ballplayer. And I expect to go on being one long afterward.” BRUTON’S FAMILY DOESN’T accompany him to Florida for spring training. When they did do so five years ago, his wife could sit only in the bleachers at exhibition games, while the wives of white players sat in the box

seats.

Even today Negro players travel-

what they regarded

rule.’

Washington Wins By TKO On Future Champions Card

as a gag

• Larry Washington, St. Rita’s

. j Boxing Club 126-pounder, won by I*OUNDE!) IN IKSfr as an all- a TKO over Bob Heflin of GreenNegro institution, Lincoln now has, field Boys Club in the “Future a daytime enrollment about one- Champions” boxing show taped

third white. The summer and night school classes are estimated as about even in racial pro-

portions.

Saturday at Station WTTV. The bouts were to be telecast over Channel 4 on Thursday. March 29, at 8 p.m.

In other matches Billy Swords (Greenfield) took a decision over

ing in chartered buses with their | since we don’t, we have to find

teams cannot enter a restaurant , a Negro cabdriver who can take ^‘ ndsay Brown (Indiana Fathers and eat with their teammates in us to a Negro restaurant . . . All! and Sons Club) at 105 pounds;

the south. “We’d have to eat in 1 you can ask is: How long must the kitchen,” Bruton says. “And we suffer these humiliations?”

Charles Durham (PAL Clubs) decisioned Jome.s Mitchell (St. Rita’s) at 147; and John Perry (St. Rita’s) decisioned Lawrence Peterson (Fathers & Sons) at 70

pounds.

AN INDIANAPOLIS ATHLETIC Club card was highlighted by a KO victory scored in 1:29 of the 1st round by Johnny Earp (IAC) ever Doug Osborne, GreenContinued on Page

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