Brownsville Weekly News

Conference Cage Leaders:

~with a year of additional seasoning and an even stronger

| pretty. good country ball clubs.: They ~share the Southern:.. Fatercolieviate Athletic: Conference lead with Alatama and
] both~ are undefeated.

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Unbeatett Clark. Alabarnap!

Lane, Fisk, LeMoyne Are Yet To:

(Standing To Date,*SIAC Garis Only) ~ |
WON LOST-PTS. 0.PTS:. PCT.

TEAM

Clark; 2 0 161 7% 1800
Alabama 2 0 68 61 1.000
Morris Brown 1 0 36 34~ ~~: 1.000
Tuskegee eg 2 192 139 609
Talladega 2 2 109 120 500
Knoxville 2 3 148 168 406
S.C. State 1 y 110 110 ooo
Morehouse I 3 117 123 250:
Benedict? () 2 61 192 000
Xavier 0 0 0 0:.000
Florida 0 0 0 4 000
LeMoyne ~0 0 0) 0 000
Lane 0 0 0 0 000:

MOREHOUSE~S WEEK END road trip was a complete~
bust, but Coach Frank L. Forbes, fully aware of the limita=
tions of his 1944 squad at this writing, is consoled by the
fact that the men played alert, heads-up ball in both en-:
counters but simply were up against clubs with more reserve strength to use in the'pinches. -As'q matter of fact,:
the Maroons were trying so hard to-win the ~two games that
there are those who are inclined to believe they are ~press:
ing~~always a bad thing psychologically.

Following the 31-26 Maroon loss to~ Alabama Friday
night in Montgomery and the 25-19:loss to. Talladéza Saturday afternoon there, there is a widespread how! about
town already that Morehouse will be ~killed~> Une rest of the
year,.

The Marons may fulfill the negative prediction mentioned, but there is an inclination on the part of this. column to. rate Morehouse better than her last: three: pertormances. If George Coffee is ready in February, there is
evéry reason to believe the Tigers will be a rugged force.
It is difficult to believe a team that showed the type of reversal Morehouse turned in last season could do 200%. worse

incentive. _ Coffee, if and when ~he is able to step, should be
a mighty fine tonic for a weaker but not a demoralized

team..
As for the other two Atlanta colleges, they look like

~ Alabaina~s pair of conference wins are 37-35 and 31-26
verdicts over Tuskegee and Morehousé respectively;~ Clart
- has ruined Benedict 56-38 and S. C. State 45-41; and Morris~
msn boasts a 36-34 triumph over S.-C. State in ner only:

Tuskegee has a 44-26 decision over Morehouse, 43-19 |
se 41-28 routs of Knoxville, a~ 37-35 loss to. Alabama, and
a 35-29 defeat by S. C. State. Talladega ~whipped~ Knoxville
2422 and~ Morehouse 25-19; but was trimmed~ by~ Knoxville~
39-28 and 40-32.
Knoxville~s two wits and three losses:all resulted: in the
stated games between Tuskegee and Talladega. S. C. State~s

to the 1940 ~status of Clark, Morehouse, Morris Brown, and
Tuskegee to date. The average points per game scored
and allowed by SIAC members are ane below:

TEAM. G. PTS. AVG.. PTS. AVG.
Clark 2: 101 50.5 79 39.5:
Tuskegee~ 5 192 38.4 139 27.8
Morris Brown 1. 36. 36.0 34 34.6
Alabama~ 2 68 34.9 61 30.5
Benedict | 2 61 30.5 102 51.0
Knoxville 5 148 29.6 168: 33.6
Morehouse 4 117 29.2 123 30.7
Talladega 4 109 27.2 120 30.0

Clark led the conference~ in scoring average last year
with @ game-to-game ratio of 51 and is again ahead in that
department, with Tuskegee, Morris Brown, and: Alabama
following ~but a long way behind. Tuskegee is far'and away
the best defensive unit, the figures reveal, despite the faet

~Threatened By
N.B.A. Officials

and Benedict~s records have also been coveredin references |: Gymless Panthers of' Henry B, Hucles.. Most Amazing Team of 1939; Had To
Run Mile to Avail White Court

RICHMOND, Va. ~The. ~fighting traveling and contract. Just this
Panther,.cagers of: Virginia Unien |-year, Bob Daughtry, outstanding
University~ are ~in~ the ~- national } Buffalo, N. Y. scholastic star, was
spotlight. this season because ol| drafted~ for the ~dream team.~
their scintiNating performanée last | Wilmotte Burton, New York City,
year. shifty breaking performer, entered

In beating the national champ- also.

|\Va. Union Best Scoring Machine.
m Sepia Basketball Last Year; In previous years, Wiley ~Soupy~
| Campbell, of; Rankin, Pa.,rated the; greatest cager ever to don a suit
in CIAA participation, ~Gilbert
Fraser, accurate guard of New

York City, and Floyd Atkins, of
Gary, Ind.. have been contacted
by the Union coach. When Melvin
Glover, New York City high school
sensation, entered Union in preference to a New York> Renaissance
suit, sport fans knew that Coach
Hucles had been traveling.

Golored Star Now
Varsity Player On
Boston U. Five -

BOSTON, Mass.~ (SNS)~Charlic
Thomas, football star, whose spectacular rise to fame, in that fieid
caused a furore among New England football fans, again upset the
apple cart oy replacing the weteran Johnny F.ing as right guard

quintet.

Thomas gave the B, U. team a
noticeable lift in their 40 to.30 victory over Harvard Jate in December and thus won ~King~s - berth.

King suffered from a leg infeetiou
last year, whicn nus slowed him
up. 1? ="

ions; the Long Island University) -~~
Blackbirds, and whipping the day
lights out of the CIAA foes, winning a mythical crown, the Pantners compiled an amazing totul of
1081 points to 709. for opponents,
winning. seventeen games and
dropping only three by close scores

The Panthers played: before
thousands. of ~spectators and the
public response was always the
same~~Golly, they~re really $a
dream team.~ In~ New York City.
a ~full half hour of cheering followed ~the thrilling Union victory
over Long Island. Even pokerfacéti Coach, Henry ~Hucles smiled
broadly.;

But ther2~s a story behina the
brilliant record of the Unicr cagers. Those nine men on the ~dream
team~ who thrilled the New Yorkers last year cannot boast of their
own gym. Three nights a week, tale
Panthers must run almost a mii~
to the Richmond Community Gym
for practice; through rain, snow.
hail or sleet.

Having but an hour and a half
of playing time at this gym, the
boys must sharnven their cage eye
on a dirt court vn the school campus. Daily, the varsity players practic on this site; dribbling, passing,
set shooting. When the weather
becomes disagreeable, the boys are
forced to give up this kind of
training for~ other methods.

Usually basketball drills, popu
lar in Coach Henry Hucles~ style of
tutoring; convert these spare moments into~ valuable minutes. Especially, if they concern a manner of

accelerating ~ the scoring of the
Panthers.
Probably, the most important

asset fo the varsity team is Coach
Hueles~ wide range scouting program that usually brings in a
yearly crop of outstanding athletic players, who enroll with no
preferred rating. Just a look at the, roster of the Union teant will ins
dicate the extent of Coach Hucles~

Henry Armstrong

South Atlanta. Lyle Gittens, ~

lowing~ the ball like a
- nawis tht above scene snappéd In thie~ first ~halt ~of
the GlarksS.:G, State game Wednesday afternoon in

hands upstrevched to the extreme right, but ~ goa

Ostin~s left arm.~

is seen~ with wall in front ~of

WASHINGTON, D. C.~ (SNS)--
Henry Armstrong, world~ welterweight champion; was~ warned~ by
the National Boxirig Associatinn
this week, that he had failed tc
comply with the NBA~s six-montr
rule for~ defending his title and
fates probable suspension.

Lieutenant Colonel Harvey L
Miller, president. of the associa
tion; said Henry~s fight with Joe
Ghnouly, last week, was considere~
as a defense. against a ~leading
contender.~ ~In ~this catagory, such
rivals as Milt Aron, Charley Burley and Pedro Montanez were men+
tioned:

Armstrong is slated to fight Mon
tanez in~ New York on January 2%
for: the title, and ~will doubtless be
given~ grace until that~ date.

Ky. State's:
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In Transit

FRANKFORT, Ky.~(SNS)~The
Kentucky State College Thorobreds returned. home on ~Tuesday
after a Six day trip through West
Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ofiic.

On this trip, five games were played, the Thorobreds~ winning over

that she has played five loop games~ to~ date.
Clark is~ almost on the bottom defensively, only Benedict ~has'.a worse figure. Tuskegee has more tbtai points
192: teeta Brown and~ Morehouse~ renew~ their~ traditional
intra- city series at Sunset Casino Saturday night in Atlanta,-and, despite the fact that Morehouse will enter~ the battle with a badly blemished record; there~s no telling what
will happen. There never is when these two natura] rivals

clash.

eye cuts I came out of both battles
unmarked and unhurt.

~Everybody knows. what damage
I did to Hank in our first fight,
despite the fact..that I lost both
the. decision and the crown to him.
His mouth was so badly cut. insidé
| that it required many. stitches, and
he wasn't able to fight for r@donths.
afterwards. His right eye was
~lose and his left nearly so, the last
time we fought. His mouth was alsé
badly cuf again. ~} know just how to fight him. I
don~t box him the way he wants me
to~if 1,did it would be curtains foz
me. I fight him the way I want to
+which is just what he doesn't
Want me to do. In other words, I
~ross him up ~by cafrying the~ battle to him, standiig* close to him

Victory

If menry Armstrong and Lou
Ambers should ever meet again in
the ring, Lou feels certatn that ne

beat the little perpetual mcbattler: ~I have the Indian
sign on Henry Armstrong,~ Am
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crown, which Armstrong now holds,| Wonder what Henry has to~ say
been postponed~ twice ~arid |Pbout thisr 0~
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Henry garnered~ little from the | 5) 16, Monessen~s Big Five 36-21,

5085 fans in the Ghonouly. fight

) Gross receipts. were only $3,353

with 30 per cent going to~ the

*hampion.

and romping over. Wilberforce 63 -42: West Virginia State Collége
Yellowjackets defeated the Thoro
road tour, ~according to word re| ceived from St. Louis, Mo. In Fri
~day night~s contest with the Tigers

University, Jefferson
City, Mo., the Yellow Jackets came
out on the short end, 34-28, Competition between the Jackets and

of Lincoln~

héad~ cAn~: barely: be. ~seen. just insh

~cates, Almost Unseen, WhackedGoal

The right hand and leg: apuinet: ne, Coates: Belong ty Albert (Abbey?

Hentrtsde~(SNS STAFF PHOTO).

the St. Louis Argus cagers, at Pine
Street YMCA, St. Louis, Mo., was
somewhat keener. The local boys
pushed the St. Louisians to two
extrg periods
tory to the Argus, 37-33, -

Foe Of Baseball Rowdyism

on Boston University~s basketbail

to begin training for his bout with
Arturo Godoy, South American
heavyweight, which will be held in
Madison Square Garden, February
9. This will be the ninth defense of.
the title Louis won from Braddock
in 1937.

En route to Pompton Lakes,

' Louis and his entourage will stop

in Baltimore to see Joe~s protege,
Holman Williams, fight Cocoa Kid.
In the champion~s party will be
Co-Manager John W. Roxborough,
Trainer Jack Blackburn, and Freddie Gyinyard.
Bill Bottoms, _ dietitian, and
George Nicholson, sparmate, will
continue to the camp to prepare

nounced -that Blackburn, who had
spent the past week at Louis's
Springhill Farm, just 20 mils
northeast of Detroit, had planned
~the title-nolder~s training cam
paign so that he would have 16
boxing sessions with his sparmates.
According to Blackburn~s plans,
Joe will box every Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, com--
pleting his training on February 7.
In addition to Nicholson, who
has ~been in all of Louis~ ~eamps,
with one exception, since Joe prepared for the title bout with James.
J, Braddock, there will be two or
three other heavyweights to box
with the champion.
Nicholson acquired considerable
prestige by remaining in an upright position while he boxed more
than 250 rounds with Joe. The

champion ~floored Nicholson. while
he was training for his bout with

By RUSS J. COWANS
DETROIT~~ SNS)~foe Louis~ first ~glimpse of Dr. Joseph ~Bier~s health camp at Pompton Lakes, NM Ee
28, 1935. The Brown Bomber had moved in to begin preparations
for his fight with Primo Carnera.
Since that time, Luts has

accutted May:

Joe has been doing preliminary
work at his farm during the. past~
three weéks, running on the road
and chopping wood.

trained for all é~: his eastern..
fights at Dr. Bier~s. cagtp, with the exception of the Max Schmeling bout in June, 1936. And he lost that bout.

The heavyweight champion lefi | Bob Pastor,
here Wednesday for Pompton Lakes ~

Ken Washington,

Woody Strode To

Lee

Play Sunday

oe ENGELES~(A ~N~ Te ht
more stadium wiil be tne scene of
the~ return classic between, Kenny

for Louis~ arrival. Washington~s All- Americans - and
Los Angeles Bulldogs~ next
~Before~ he left, Roxborough an- elite cnoraates Jan. 21, at

2:15 o~elock,

Strenuous practice is beitig ned
daily at Griffith park, accoraicg to.
Coach Ed Storm,of the
collegian aggregation, acclahnec.the strongest 11 of its kind ever

organized on the Pacific coast.

_ Harry Smith, terice All -American guard, and Doyle ~Nave, passheaving ace of (U.S.C. Trojan,
herdes of the Rose Bowl, have reported for~ practice with the
Collegians at Griffith park. Workouts, starting at 1 p.m. will be
open to the public. althouzh later.
secret. sessions will be held behind

barred gates:

all-star: -

VALDOSTA, Ga~(sNs)~wi

- Johnson was sought in South

Georgia Tuesday. in connéction
with the ~shooting and killing: of:
Miss Idella Franklin, seco~ ng: io
Police Chief R. L. Kemp.

before conceding vic: |}.

~One of the first
things | do when
I get home from

and peppering away with both f

breds 36-29 in the first road game
while Pittsburgh~s Big Five scored
he ~second~ win 37-33 at Pittsburgh
In the latter two games, the Kentiicky boys made but 12 fouls out
of 4%. Poor foul-shooting had much
to~ do with both defeats.

Armstrong Foe

tain, was the outstanding star on
the road, accounting for 54 points
' in five games, ~and played a brill!ant floor game, Captain ~Pee Wee"
Mason, Matthews and Love performed capably. After returning
heme ch~ Tuesday, the Thorobreds
encountered a strong North CaroIin> State Pive and defeated them
on Wednesday 48-40. Towering ove:
thy Kentucky team by a considerafl margin, the North Carolinians
covld not cope \with the Kentucky
e~et-demons Mason, Sleet and
Terwn After the first five~ minfes, the rangy North Carolioa
rave never~ came closer than six
-ce'nts. and the ereht: point. margin
exrnered in the first half by Kenticky was retaired to the end of
te game. North ~Carolina: came to
Kertrcky boasting a~7 point win
_ovér West Virginia and but a three
point toss to Wilberforce.

~Jack Love and ~Skelton Mat-; | thews, freshmen. luminaries, ed
the Kentucky scoring with 12 and
1g points respectively; -Colbert,
ronev N.C. forward: accounted for
12 points.: Ym Two Cage Games

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Dr. J. B. Martin of Memphis, Tenn, new president of the Negro
American League~ Baseball Association... Dr.<Martin is rated as one of
the best busines? ~within the ~country: He is the proprietor of what is
reputed: to be the largest drug business in the south; operator of
thrivifig undertaking business and owner of half a hundred parcels |
of Memphis property.

Bit, RRAseln, Sehhe, sbi Wika Gad oetheipaa wiser or hg Mies all
dat thee is expected to bring sorely needed busine~s methods
into-Negro: baseball affairs. A stickler for fair play, apposed to rowdyism and believing thaf colored baseball players are the most colorful
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Stroh~s Bohe-.
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Try a bottle of
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