Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 September 1960 — Page 11

The Indianapolis Recorder, Sept. 3,1960-11

Wood, Tech Bring Aces to Jamboree Lott yeor. Wood's gridders surprisingly "won" the city high school football Jamboree. This yeor, it'll be a surprise if

they don't.

> The annual pigskin prerue with its colorful showcase of alt the public prep teams in town was slated for Friday night, Sap«.~2, at Tech Field. As usual, the Woodchucks are halfbacks MacKenzie Brown and short on quantity but oh, that quail- Donald Woods, guard Norman ty! Coach Gary Fox will probably Terry, and tackle Jack Justus, field an all-Negro backfield con- Halfback Robert Jones, another rising of the following four aces: | returning Veteran, was sidelined — At fullback, 207-pound state with a leg injury last week, heavyweight wrestling champ ACROSS TOWN AT Attucks, Frank McGrone, a dash man ini Coach Graham Martin has a right track who runs like the Cannonball to sing the blues with a squad that Express and is a bear on defense, consists of 22 backs and only 18 At halfback, senior Dick Davis, linemen. “We’ve got a little speed, the state 100-yard dash champ. and we’ll have to use it because we — At halfback, 190-pound Willie don’t have the size.” Martin said.

Smith, veteran line-buster who is

co-captain along with Davis.

—^ At quarterback, southpaw lAdale Johnson who last year uncorked some amazing long passes that seemed guided by electronics. WITH THE EXCEPTION of Johnson, these boys are seniors and n6w is the time for them to blossom forth in the full flower of their abilities. They will probably have te run behind a so-so line, where only two letter men are returning— 160-pound wrestling champ George Jones at guard, and 174-pound Wil-

liam McDowell at center.

Others showing up well in early drills for the Chucks included Oscar Bowman, halfback; Larry McCloud and Lionel Porter, ends;

“If we could play the games with halfbacks alone, we’d be all right.” Center Nathaniel Gore at 200 pounds is the only Tiger weighing over 185, and most of the players tip the scales between 155 and 170. Returning standouts are halfback Tsadore Robinson and quarterback

Jesse Brooks.

Jesse, incidentally, is one of three brothers on the Tiger eleven. His twin, Wesley, is a halfback while 135-pound William, a year younger, plays end

and quarterback.

Other lotter men include tackle Charles Chumley, converted from center, guard Giles Partee, end James Coe; fullbacks Robert Jackson. Richard Allen and Joe Hard-

Albert Waterman, Ed Chester and an( j halfbacks Sylvester Bobby Staples, tackles; and John p arr j s h an( j Dave Bridgeforth.

Loflin and Jack Jackson, guards IF WOOD DOESN’T do it. Tech is given a good chance in the pre-season dope. Coach Wallv Pot-

LITTLE LEAGUE AWARDS: End of a happy and worthwhile season was marked recently by the Douglass Little League in presentation of awards for outstanding achievements. Left to right, back row, are James Byers, Manager-of-the-Year; Otha Hamler, manager of the champion Cardi-

nals, and Joe Hazelwood, manager of the Indians; front row, Wendell Madry, Cards' pitcher, holding the championship trophy; Steven Wode of the Indians, winner of the Elsie Clark Memorial Award for sportsmanship, and Walter Smith, master of ceremonies. (Recorder photo by Jim Burres)

Lucas, Oscar Pace U. S. Super-Team

Rafer Sets ‘First’ by Carrying Flay in Olympics

Sophomore end Allen Bridgeforth

is showing promise.

NEW SHORTRIDGE COACH

ter has a fullback to rival McGrone Tom Rosenberger found an enthusiin 200-pound Ronnie Barlow, who astic turnout of 62 for the squad, also has a sprinter’s speed. Barlow but only three holdovers from last ran the hundred in :10:6 last spring, season. They are end Kenneth WarThe coach rates him in the class ren and tackles James Graham and with Ron McCauley of Tech's un-[John Miller,

defeated 1957 team.

> Six other regulars are back from last season, and take a look at this size: 200-pound and i-7 Dave Barnes and 160-pound Penny Rushton at end; 225pound tackle Walter Jones: 165pound guard Gary Sarver; 200-pound center Phil White, and 160-pound Ronnie Heitzuaa at quarterback. Other Tech letter winners include

Figuring prominently in the Blue Devil backfield are likely to be three halfbacks: 180-pound Elbert Cheatum, 154-pound DeWitt King and 154-pound Lucius Perry. Good sophomore prospects are fullback Kirby Williams and end Howard

Maxev,

MANSFIELD LAMBIRTH will be running again for Howe. Blow the whistle for the kickoff! ' — REGISTER TO VOTE —

SEE FL0YD-ING0 3RD BOUT POSTPONED TILL SPRING ROME (ANP)—Organizational j of Patterson’s manager Cus D’ind promotional as well as tax - * J ---------- -

difficulties may force a postponement until next spring of the third floyd Patterson-Ingemar Johans(ofl heavyweight title fight, a source close to Feature Sports, fto, the promoters of the bout,

Stated here recently.

/The fight was suggested for Nqr. 1 in the Los Angeles Coliseum and the two fighters were to Inset here just before the opening of the Olympic Games last ffoek to sign for the bout. HoWStrsr, the source said this plan was kbafidoned when the difficulties

developed.

1 THE FIGHT THUS is following glosely the pattern of the second bout, when negotiations hit repeated snags, and investigations

Amato forced one postponement

after another.

The exact nature of the present organizational difficulties was not spelled out, but an increase in the Coliseum rental was said to be giving the promoters a headache. The arena was originally offered for $25,000, but its price had reached $75,000 at

last report.

Also, the fighters may have to pay prohibitive taxes if the bout

is held this year.

(The Recorder said immediately after the June 20th fight that there would be no rematch this year, because of the tax an-

gle.—Editor)

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ROME (ANP) ~ Decathlon champion Rafer Johnson of Kingsbury, Calif., scored a historic "first" here lost week in leading the 160-man U. S. contingent into the Olympic Stadium to the cheers of 100,000 spectators as the 17th modern Olympic Games opened amid impressive ceremonies. A native of Hillsboro, Tex., the tall, elegant Johnson was the first member of his race ever to carry the colors for Uncle Sam in the Olympic pageant. Johnson was a picture of poise and grace as he passed the reviewing stand where President Giovanni Gronchi of Italy accepted the salutes of the thousands of athletes from the 87 nations represented in the Olympics. ALTHOUGH RAFER HAD never won a gold medal in Olympic competition, teammates praised him as the personification of the ideal athlete. Significantly, one of Rafer’s biggest boosters was a white Southerner, Louis J. Wilke of Bartlesville, Okla. A member of the U.S. Olympic Executive Board, he said: “We not only felt Johnson was probably the greatest allaround athlete in the country, but also an example of our finest traditions.” Lee Calhoun of Gary, Ind., the hurdling ace, agreed wholeheartedly: “Rafer is the ALL-American Boy,” he commented. “To most of the guys on the team he represents perfection.” White Don Bragg, tne pole vault specialist from Pennsylville, N.J., added that Johnson “is always master of himself.” The 24-year-old UCLA graduate student gained the Olympic spotlight when he ran up a world record 8,683 points in the final Olympic trial at Eugene, Ore., July 8-9. The performance marked a spectacular comeback following an injury that had sidelined Rafer for almost two years, during which time Vasily Kuznetsov of Russia set a world record with a total of 8,357. This mark topped a previous high established by Johnson in defeating Kuznetsov in an earlier meet in Russia. THE MEN MEMBERS of the U.S. team, resplendent in black jackets, white trousers and white straw hats with red-white-and-blue bands, also included a number of other standouts who helped give the U.S. its strongest representation in the history of the games. Among them were world high jump champion John Thomas; Ralph Boston, who twice had crashed Jesse Owens’ 25-year-old broad jump record; the famed “Big O” of basketball, Indianapolis Attucks’ Oscar Robertson, and Calhoun. Other favorites were Ray Norton, reputedly the world’s fastest sprinter, and Cassius Clay of Louisville, leading member of the boxing team. Clay enlivened “Olympic Village” with his dexterity at jitterbugging. WOMEN MEMBERS OF the U.S. team included such stars as Wilma Rudolph, Willie White, Barbara Jones, Lucinda Williams and JoAnn Terry, who was a classmate of Robertson at Attucks. All are products of the famed Tennessee State “Tigerbelles.” In the discus and shot put, hefty Earlene Brown, a California housewife, was favored to lead the U.S. to victory. In the Olympic trials she tossed the discus 176 feet, 10% inches—9 inches farther than the 1956 Olympic mark. She also shot-putted 50 feet, 10% inches AMONG THE ARMY of writers here to cover the games was perhaps the most respected of all Olympians, Jesse Owens. Owens has long survived the hated Nazi dictator, Adolph Hitler, who refused to shake his hand after he had won three gold medals in the Berlin Olympics in 1936.

Archie Moore Tapped by Helms Hall of Fame - If s About Time

Winters to Fight Clay's Brother On Louisville TV A change in the Louisville TV boxing program scheduled for Saturday will pi' Chester Winters, Mayer Chapel 165-pounder, against Rudy Clay, the brother of Cassius Clay who is fighting with the Olympic team in Rome. Other Indianapolis boxers on the card, according to revised plans, will be 147-pounder Leonard Kelly and 112-pounder Ollie Hurt, both of Mayer Chapel. The program will be televised on WAVE-TV. Channel 3, from 6:00 to 6:30 p. m. The station can be picked up 18 miles south of Indianapolis. — REGISTER TO VOTE — W. I. Clowns In Triple Bill The West Indianapolis Clowns softball team will present a tripleheader on their home grounds Sunday starting at 1:30 p. m. Teams taking part in addition to the Clowns will be the Bethel Cubs, Ft. Harrison and an All-Star nine. Winners of the first two games will meet in the nightcap. On Labor Day, the Clowns will play in a tournament at Shelbyville which they won las', year. The Dayton team failed to show up for its scheduled game with the Clowns last Sunday because of an automobile acci- , dent at Richmond in which several of the players were injured, Clowns’ Manager John Caldwell has learned. The Clowns were eliminated from the A.S.A. Tournament when they lost for the second time to Kramer Corp. by a 5-4 count. The Clowns had won five straight games up to that point. Seven-Up won the local tourney and was to compete in the regional round at Peru. — REGISTER TO VOTE — Tennis Tourney Next Week The Capitol City Tennis Club’s annual open tournament will be held next week at Northwestern Park, it was announced by Joe King, president. Match play will begin at 5:30 p.m. each day Tuesday, Sept. 6, through Friday, and at 1 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO — Archie Moore last week was elected to the Helms Athletic Foundation Hall of Fame—an honor which, like everything else, came late to the world's light-heavyweight champion. Archie has now been making a living with his fists for almost a quarter of a century. Back in 1936, when Archie began fighting in St. Louis and Indianapolis, Jim Braddock was the heavyweight champion. The reign of Joe Louis was still a year away. John Henry Lewis was lightheavyweight king, and Barney Ross held the welterweight title, which he didn’t lose to Henry Armstrong until 1938. That should give you old-timers some idea how long Arch has been throwing leather. BY 1945 ARCHIE was in the big time. Gus Lesnevich ruled the light-heavies, but he wanted no part of Moore. Neither did his successors, Freddy Mills and Joey Maxim. Negro champions—L o u i s, Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Walcott—fought all comers in the heavyweight ranks. But the white kings of the light - heavyweights wouldn’t give Archie a look-in. He launched a unique letterwriting campaign to sports writers throughout the nation—and finally, in 1952, Maxim was brought to bay. Archie won a unanimous decision, and a championship after 16 years of striv-

ing.

He has held the title ever since and meanwhile, here’s what has happened in other classes: the j heavyweight championship has changed hands three times; middleweight, seven times; welterweight, eight; lightweight, six; bantamweight, five. BUT OLD ARCHIE—he’s 43 by this newspaper’s reliable sources—just keeps rollin’ along. And while his dream of a heavyweight crack seems fading away, there isn’t even any competition in sight in the light-heavy division. — REGISTER TO VOTE—

ROME — Jerry Lucot of Ohio State and Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati paced the greatest Olympic basketball team of all time as the tournament went into its semifinals here Thursday night. In the Americans' first three games which they won easily by lopsided margins, Lucas scored o total of 57 points and the "Big 0" from Indianapolis Attucks counted 55. Eight teams were to compete in the semifinal round. U. S. Coach Pete Newell has been pouring it on because in case of a tie in the wonlost columns, the number of points scored will he considered in determining the winner. The interracial Yanks ran away from Italy, 88-54; Japan, 125-66, and Hungary, 107-63. Russia, expected to provide the strongest opposition, beat Mexico 66-49 and then yras upset by Brazil, 58-54. But one defeat does not automatically mean elimination from the Olympic tourney. The Russians came back strong to knock off Puerto llico, 100-63. Terry Dischinger of Purdue had scored 38 points in the first three games, and Walt Bellamy of Indiana

29.

— REGISTER TO VOTE — Syracuse Nats Sign y Skuir SYRACUSE, N.Y. (ANP)—The Syracuse Nationals announced the signing of Dick “Skull” Barnett, former Gary Roosevelt and Tennessee State star, to a 1961 National Basketball Association contract. The Nats signed Barnett, a jump shot artist, along with Leroy “Spike” Gibson. Both were drafted by the Nats last year, but Gibson was cut off the roster before the season started. In his rookie season, Barnett averaged 12.4 points a game. He scored 46 points in two games in the Lockefield Dust Bowl tournament at Indianapolis last week. — REGISTER TO VOTE —

Rafer Le^ads the Parade

ROME — Rafer Johnson, 26-year-old world decathlon record-holder, last week was the first Negro in history to carry the United States flag at the head of the U. S. delegation in the Olympic Game’s inaugural parode. Behind him marched four U. S. Olympic Committee officials and 240 athletes. The former UCLA star was a unanimous choice of the committee's executive board for the honor. He is heavily favored to win the decathlon, being picked even by Russia's top Olympic track-coach.

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on Saturday and Sunday. Divisions include men’s and women’s singles and doubles, junior singles and doubles, and mixed doubles. For further information call Marion Rice, WA. 5-9564; LeRoy Graves, WA. 5-1748, or Ferdinand Hardy, AT. 3-2606. THE TK1-CITY MEET, with visiting teams from Columbus and Dayton, Ohio, will be held this Sunday, Sept. 4.

DOWN the ALLEYS

With BILL MILTON

High-Flying Fowlers Host St. Louis Fowler Insuronce will toke on Ringside Lones of St. Louis on Sunday ot 6 p. m. at the Fun Bowl.

The Fowler team started the season

in a big way as| they walked off* with first place in matches at Ver-|g motnt Recreation,!! Columbus, Ohio.jii Their score of 3,033 set a record.ppL The insurant .s boys opened with a 973, came back with a 992 and then closed with a record-break i n g 1,068. They were

ed by Joe King with a total of 660 and high game of 259. Other members’ scores were: Harry Webster, 630; Bill Brown, '617; Thurman Moore, 588, and Roy

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MILTON

Street, 538. BILL BROWN WAS elected president of an inter-city traveling league which was organized at Columbus. Indianapolis will have two teams in it: Fowler and Wells

Gulf.

The loop, which opens Sept. 11 at Dayton, will also have teams from Cincinnati, Dayton, Louisville and Columbus, O. * * * RAINBOW ROOM, the league champions at the Fun Bowl for four years, now include Nato Farmer, Robert Young, Bill Milton, Charles Avant, Johnny Pillow and Aaron Vinnegar. They will play their match game of the year Oot. 2. — REGISTER TO VOTE —

Sugar Could Win Title 6th Time In Fullmer Bout LOS ANGELES (ANP) — Sugar Ray Robinson, one of boxing’s greatest performers and most colorful figures, gets another chance to rewrite history Oct. 8. The Harlem dandy, described by some as the greatest fighter pound-for-pound the sport has ever known, will challenge Gene Fullmer in his. sixth attempt to win the middleweight title, in a 15-round championship bout at the Sports Arena here. He already holds the retord as the only man to win a world title five times. Sugar Ray also formerly held the welterweight title before relinquishing it to fight Jake LaMotta for the middleweight crown. His 13thround knockout of LaMotta in Chicago on Feb. 14, 1951, brought Robinson the middleweight title for the first time. SHORTLY AFTERWARD he was upset by Britisher Randy Turpin on July 10, 1951, in London, but came back strong to stop Turpin in New York’s Polo Grounds, Sept. 12 of that year. In an attempt to win the light-heavyweight title from Joey Maxim in New York on June 25, 1952, Robinson was KOed by a 100-plus degree heat wave. Then he retired Dec. 18, 1952. After a lapse of almost three years he returned to ring action and won the title a third time by knocking out Carl “Bobo” Olson in two rounds in Chicago. He stopped Olson again in a rematch in San Francisco, then dropped the title in a 15-round controversial decision to Fullmer. Sugar Ray came back strong to knock out Gene in 5 rounds in Chicago in 1955, winning the title for the fourth time. HE NEXT DEFENDED against Carmen Basilio, battle-scarred welterweight champion in September, 1957. Sugar lost a close decision to (Continued on Page 13)

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