Brownsville Weekly News [Volume: 1, Issue: 36]

THE BROWNSVILLE WEEKLY. NEWS, FLINT, MICH.

Cas Rea DES POST, SEER ESL am ny oe ages

siliaieiiiiam Ex-Va. ae ~00
As Bright 1940 Olympic Sensation;
Called ~Best Runner In Country~

HOWARD DREW was first of the great Negro sprint
ers. His mark of 9.4 in the~ 100-yard dash was later tied,
- but it; stood sq long folk generally said there would be no
other -sepia space-annihilator like him. ~ But Eddie Tolan
camé- along and, by winning both ~flat~ races in the 1932
Olympics, made us forget all about his predecessor... Folk, after that, said, ~There'll never be another Tolan~. But Ralph Metcalfe; a portion of w career was
contemporaneous to Eddie~s, tied some of Tolan~s marks
and bettered others~only to have Jesse Owens bob upon
the scene and place him in the shade. Uwens climaxed the
whole business by winning both ~flat~ races, the running
broad. jump, and by running a victorious 400-meter relay
aneher in the 1936 Olympics at Berlin..

But when everyone began lamenting the passing of
Owens, upon the scene came Ben Johnson, the Columbia
University flash, who started tying and breaking records
in the 60-yard, 100-yard, 100-meter, 200-yard, and 200 -meter dashes.

Folk were:sure, with tlie maturity.of Johnson, that,
finally, we had come to what the psychologists call a ~dead
level~ in the production of expert sprinters. But Herbert
Thompson is now with us and, until the past Saturday
night, March 11, in New York City, had won 28 straight
60-yard dashes in indoor competition. The 60-yard dash
national champion was beaten finally by Perrin Walker of
Atlanta, white, who hails from Oglethorpe University, but
finished third, just behind Eulace Peacock and a step in
front of Ben Johnson, who shares the 60-yard dash record
with Jesse Owens with a best performance of 6.1 seconds.
Walker won in 6.2 seconds Saturday.

But. Thompson isn~t in a class by himself in that 60 -yard event. Barney Ewell, sepia freshman winge: mercury 4
at Pennsylvania State College, recently tied the existing
world record for the event by touring the distance in 6.1
seconds. Hosts of experts say he~s so good that he may
eventually run. the 100-yard dash in nine seconds flat.

However, the corner really started out. to talk about

this John Borican, late of Virginia State College, Peters~ burg, Va., but now a graduate student at Columbia University. He makes his home in New Jersey.: 2;

According to Carl. Mernier, white coach at.. Columbia
University, under whom Borican is performing at the present time, the colored youth is the greatest runner in the nation. Here~s what: Merner says of the 25-year-old ex-Trojan:

~For my money, Borican. i is the best runner in the country today. -

~Look at his record in the races. And besides. that, in
field events he has 23 feet, 6 inches in the broad jump; 6
feet, 2 inches in the high jump; 150 feet
throw; and 126 feet with the discus.~ The boy. would. win
points in any meet.~

Saturday night in the Knights of Columbus. races in
Madison Square Garden, Borican ran the fastest 1,000
vards on record in 2:08.1 to beat the great Glenn Cunningham of Kansas, white, before 16,000 wild-eyed spectators,
giving he Nordic just his second beating in his last twelve:
starts.:torican also. placed second to National Champion
Chariey Beetham, white of the 69th Regiment A. A- in the
twentieth running of the 600 meters. Beetham broke the
existing~ world record held by Jimmy Herbert of New York
~Curb Exchange by running the distance in 1:11.3, which
was two-tenths of a second faster than the time made by
the tolored boy last year.

Saturday, February 4, after only three hours~ hleep;
Borican broke the eleven year record in the..1,000..yards
event. to beat out Gene Venzke, Mel Truitt, and other celebrated white diistance artists. Tt was John~s first race on

a banked track.. Saturday, February 11, in the 32nd Annual Millrose
games in Madison Square Garden, Borican won the twothirds mile event in 2:39. breaking a world mark: which had
stood up since 1923 by exactly 4.6 seconds. A week later
at the same site, Borican captured. the 1,000 meters in.

2:28.6 and, meanwhile, Herbert Thompson was tying the |.

world record in the 60-yard dash with a performance of 6.1
seconds; Melvin Walker was high-jumping 6 feet, 8 inches
to beat the former champion, Lloyd Thompson of Xavier:
and Jimm Herbert was touring a brilliant leg on Nev
fersity~s victorious 400-meter relay unit. Interestingly enough, Thompson had won the 60-yard dash
February 11 in the same fecord-tying time of 6.1 seconds, ~while Walker had also triumphed in the high jumr
with:a leap of-6 feet, 7 and 3-8 inches.

By 1940 Olympics time, John Borican may be one ~of
the finest decathlon artists of a decade or quarter-century
Besides his surprising ability in most of the field event:
(except the pole vault and shot put; which he has yet ~tc
try), he can.run just about any distance one can name uy
to a mile. Note his best times in eight different distancr

events he has actually won.
-EVENT

~BEST TIME
a. 110-meter hurdles 2 14.8 seconds
b. 400 meters 47.9 seconds
ce. 600 meters 1 minute, 12 seconds
d. half mile 1 minute, 50 seconds
e. 1,000 yards. 2 minutes, 8.8 seconds
f. 00 meters 2. minutes, 28.6 seconds
gz. 2:3 mile 2 minutes, 39 seconds
h. mile 4 minutes, 12.5 secends
ican formerly liked the half mile as nis idea] event
Now, fRowever, he has set his ambition at running the great:
est mile ever recorded. He seys his keart will never be at
ease again until he has achieved the iatter end.

Whereas. Charles H,. Williams of Hampton - Institute
ell ~in winning the javelin throw in the Penn Relays
m}-years ago and Mozelle Ellerbe of Tuskegee Institute
ought une praise for souther colkam a re

it sprinting successes in the. Drake Relays.
@-last year, one ee ee se

in the javelin~

a al |

stitution. He is,-by. 9 far, the &
decpuete

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Manse

Series In Richmond, New York

Wylie (Soupy) Campbell Starred ine
Contest Same Twe Outfits Played
~In ~38, Ringing 27 Points

RICHMOND, Va.~(SNS)~ Be-}

ginning a series of clashes which
will have its climax in New York
City, the Virginia Union University basketball] team, (uncrowned)
champions of the C. I. A. A., will
play the Kentucky State basketball
team, champions of the Midwest,
Tuesday, March 21, at the Richmond Community Gym.

The two. teams will journey tc
New York City where they will
Play at the State Palace Thursday
and Friday, March 23 and 24. Other

On a record of 11 victories and

| two. qefeats, the Virginia Union

Panthers rested its bid for a first
conference basketball championship. ~The Kentucky State squad
has played one of the most. briljiant seasons in its history, winning 22 and lesing but 2.

The Kentucky State aggregation
played the Virginia Union Panthers
here last year, and the game will
be remembered for the spectacular
playing of Union~s Soupy Campbell
who shot 13 field goals and one

prospective games may be booked.! free throw for 27 points.

Best Sportsmanship

eyed

es Herbert Caldwell, lightheavyweight, who won the Smith and
Gaston prize of a complete boxing. outfit for

showing the best

pertsmanship during the recent boxing tournament. sponsored by

he (Birmingham, Ala.) Boys~

Club,

Four Negroes Crowned
Golden Gloves Champs

QHICAGO-(ANP)~For the. frst.
ime-in th> 12-year old history of
he Chicago ~Tribune~s annual
y0lden Gloves tournament, {our
Tegroes have been crowned chamons. Survivors of an _ original
tarting field Of 23,000 boys from
he Midwest and South, they won
heir titles before 22,132 spectaors at the Chicago stadium Fri~ay night.

The victors, w::0 Swept everything from lightweight to light
reavyweight in the eight boxing
livisions, are:

Johnny Pleaasant, Savoy A. 5

tweight;

vicharions. Last year. only one
came through, Heavyweight Dan
Merritt.. But in 1939. "domination
by colored amateurs: Was so great
that only two~ highly questionable
decisions given in favor of their
white opponents against Featherweights Homer Williams of Chicago and William Parson of Danville, Ill, prevented five of the
eight champions from being. dusky

youths.
Probably the most promising
fighter in the tournamdnt was /

Milton Jones. The St. Louis boy,
who is 17 and has been boxing less
than a year, is fast, shifty, aggressive, hard to hit, has a _ fine
left jab and a powerful right. hand.
Tall and still. growing, he. may end
up as a heavyweight.

Others who were eliminated. in

John Woodruff
Wins ~880~ At
Notre Dame

NOTRE DAME, Ind~ (ANP)~
After only one. appearance since
~ast spring, Long John Woodruif
returneg to track competition: at
the Central Collegiate conference
indoor meet at Notre Dame Saturday night by winning the half
mile run in 1:56.6. He: lost, however, in the 440 to his. - white
teammate from Pitt, Frank Ohl.

Still unable to show the form
that enabled him to establish 2
world record in the high jump, Ed
Burke of Marquette had to be content to clear 6 feet and get a tie
tor fifth place.

McDaniels, Chicago, muvidiaiaghty:
Joe Murdock, Detroit, light heavy,
and John Washington, Wilberforce
footoall tackle, heavyweight. ~

Those lesing in the finais were
Vernell WilHams, Gary, velterweight,. and Shelton. Bell, -Wilberforce, light heavy. Most of these
boys, however, have been named
on the Chicago squad which battles New York~s.- Golden Glove
champions at the stadium March
29.

MEDICS ATTEND POST
GRADUATE ASSEMBLY
PRAIRIE. VIEW, Tex~(ANP)~
A group of the nation~s leading
medics journeyed here March 13-16

to atteng the Post-Graduate Assembly for Negro Physicians at
Prairie View college. The Texas
Tuberculosis Association sponsored

a three-day session and. a mixed

faculty of waite and colored medical experts served. Dr. J. M.

Frenklin, resident physician, wel-~
| comed the delegates.

BLUFF, Ark=~(SNS)~
a complete. reve
of hare the Arkansas State cagers nosed out: the Southern university Cats 38-27-in the first
game of a two-game series recently.

In the first game the Cats~
strong~ defense kept the Arkansas. State quintet in check until
the third quarter. when Lewis
tied the score~ for Arkansas~ and
Lansdowne gave Arkansas a 17 -15 lead. H. Robinson of Arkansas
sank two long beautiful shots but
Southern was not to be outdone
and so Alston sank one from
center that: touched only the net.
At the end of the third quarter
Arkansas led 20-17. In the
fourth quarter the Lions, led by
Hutchinson, Phillips and Hobson,
broke loose on a~ scoring spree
to gain a 39-27 triumph. Lewis
of Arkansas was high point man
with 10 points followed by Hutchinson of Arkansas with 8. Xavier. Marcelle was high point man
for Southern with 7 points.

Thé second game started very
fast with both teams trying to
cop the last game of the season.
Burns of Southern opened the
fireworks with a crip, shot put
| ting Southern in the lead. The

score at the quarter was 14 to
12 for Southern; at the half 22

~to 18. for Southern with. botn

teams exhibiting fine play. In

tthe third quarter Hobson~s long

For. tis Sade exposure Mr, | g~
Galente collected.only $1,355. In},
Joe Louis be meets a much faster,

Land Of; The. Free

If Galento wants to have his
head. knocked off by the fastest
and hardest puncher the world
has. ever seen, let him: If the ex~
pected 70,000 fans want to see it,
let tnem.

Galerto has snorted ~0 long for
a crack at ~that bum, Louis,~ that
1 think he should get it. This 1S
still a reasonably free country: for
white pepole. Nobedy ever suggests
mobbing- Herbert Heover -when he
stands up to lecture on hew to
meres back the rosy days of pros
ri
Galentc: will probably look like a
tum in there with Joe; but who
doesn~t.

I have it on good authority that
~Double-duty~ Radcliffe wants to
~come to~ Atlanta. Of course he cannot unless he can buy his services
away from Dr. Martin at Memphis.
He wants to switch to Atlanta and
carry his: pal, Davenport, too.

-Atlanta isn~t making any pre~tentions in the matter, Radcliffe

shot gave Arkansas the lead but, and Davenport would: be welcome,
the accuracy of Marcelle~ 8 and { but not for-one moment will the
Burns~ shots kept the Cats in the} Atlanta franchise endanger~ itself
fight and it ended at, 30 to-30. It i by hiring men who would menace
was surprising in the fourth } jts American League connections.

quarter how the Arkansas Lions Radcliffe has been. contacting:
smothered the revolving offense i President John Harden: for many:
of the Southern Cats winning the months. He has: written him from
game at 43) to, 41. Cuba, Florida and Chicago, Lately }

Most mw the Louis ~toes
called ~bumis~~ after they fight hi

no worse than
peutier farce of~ 1921. -t doubt

that it is as: bad.

Carpentier tue bis valoda: ieibiien
ins ee Sak Dee ee

mits this. today: Galento- is at
least a. heavyweight, he. wets; 236
pours: stripped: -

~What~s All The Lure

he has been calling irom. Pee i
Yet, the proposition still;
he must: disentangle: Gites feria from,
Memphis and Dr. Martin. -

In 1938 John Harden spent big.
money; to give you Nish Williams,
Ormond Sampson, Die Lundy and.
~Red~ Moore~four: big: timers witb.
reputations.

What happened? Lundy broke an
arm. before the first game. of the
| season. Nish became disheartened,

and fell of in his work pag oe

but never got. here.~

hashed: fo haaligd
luck....1 should $78

| death in 1910,

| Woods~ first patent was on a steam boiler furnace,
| followed by an amusement machine apparatus in
' 1889, an incubator in 1900, and electrical air brakes: in 1902, 1903.and 1905. He.then disected his. attention
to telegraphy, producing several:patents for transmitting messages between moving trains, as well as a

number of transmitters. He thereafter invented 15 ap
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pA gg x FORE

A USEFUL
INVENTOR

Granville 7. Woods
(BORN 1860 - DIED 1910)

NE of the outstanding inventors of the Negro
race, Granville TF. Woods was responsible for

some of the most valuable innovations, electrical and
otherwise, in use by the public today. From early: boyhood he spent. hours ofihis time finding new ways of
making old: systems better, and in. 1884 in_Cincinnati,
his birthplace, he began to have-officialrecord-made
of his inventions, continuing his endeavors until. his

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of New York.

crowded m
history as

Sif ~EPEIFFER. BREWING: COMPANY: | o

penn a es

sbencabadides Kas vith lsbicioc Be asides
a number of others for electrical control and distribution. To further his interests he organized the Woods. ~
Electrical: Company, which took over by assignment. 4
all of his earlier patents, and in the course of time he
found a better market for his devices with several:

large: American. organizations. The records~ of the

Patent Office show. the assignment of a large number.

of his:inventions.to. the General Electric-Company of
New York, the. Westinghouse Air Brake Company of.,
Pennsylvania, the American Bell Telephone Company eae
of. Boston: and. the American Engineering Company 5

Although Granville Woods died at the age-of 50, he
into that brief span, and goes'down in "4
of the great lepentonrck his doy: | %

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