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By Luctis ~Melancholy ~Jones

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~Mozelle Ellerbe Of Tuskegee, Barney

Dashes At Penn, Drake Relays

A FEW DAYS AGO this column did a treatise on track
athletics in which it expressed the firm conviction Mozelle
Ellerbe, the Tuskegee flyer, would be slower even if suc~cessful again this year.

The words were truer than anyone dreamed at the time.

i s ne The past Saturday afteree; werbe successfully de
noon,
fended his Penn Relays 100 -yard dash title won in 9.6

seconds last year at Franklin

~Fielf. But his time _ this
spring was 9.8 two-tenths of.
a secohd slower than. the
1939 performance.

Ellerbe gained the finals
by outsprinting two white rivals, Alfred Deibolt of Colgate and Lawrence Ridder of
Dartsmouth,.in a preliminary
heat. Again, the column~s
prediction stood up. Ellerbe~s
time was 9.9 seconds, three' tenths of a second slower

than his championship per.
formance in the same meet. a
year ago.: The 100-yard dash finals
saw Ellerbe threatened seriously by Welby Williams,.
sensational relay anchor and

' dash man for the great North
- Texas Teachers, but the Tus
kegee flyer had too much re
_ serve and literally hyrtled

through the final tape ~a flash

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i al i! 2-4 * ~~ s6who finished second, and
John: Maher of Villanova-and David Lawyer of New York

fighting men since
George: Dixon, -had better prepare
for serious. trouble,
evening, May 1. On: that night at
a: the Golden Gate Boxing club, Pro* ahead of that gifted sprinter, | moter Fred Irvin: will throw
rough
two other classy white boys, | Dano. Leave it to the fistic genius

of Promoter Irvin to arrangé such
a thrilling card for the fans.

By J. C. CHUNN

Herschel Holmes, a dynamic
figure in Southern track circles,
was studiously watched by his
handlers last. Friday afternoon on
the Atlanta. University athletic
field. The lean Morris. Brown athlete appeared to be in top condition- along. with. other members of
his team that are being timed by
Head Coach William J, Nicks, who
clocked the ~bronze flash~ in the
fast time of 9.9 seconds for the
century dash.

The writer watched the youngster and felt that had he been
pushed he might have clipped two
tenths of a second from that time,
and, believe it or not, the time he
made will be hard to beat, because
T. honestly feel that 9.8 or even
slower time, will win the event: at
the relays, and Holmes, without a

previous time ity his. colorful
career.

Mapp, Jenkins, Strickland,
Moody and three or four others
were given trials under the watch,
and turned in hopeful performances, but, in meny cases, failed to
even approach any of the: meet records that they will participate in
this spring. However, they gave indication of rounding into prime
condition and it is believed with
this showing better marks will be
made and faster time recorded.
Strickland was throwing the javelin for many good marks hut failed

Herschel Holmes

Rare Form In ~100~

doubt, is much faster than at any

a.

to ~reach his 170 mark made last
year when he placed in the conference- meet heré. Moody will try
for a place on the team by heaving the 16 pound shot. Mapp is
another youngster who gives Morris Brown~ a great chance in the
100 dash event, This boy Was
clocked a fraction of a second
slower than Holmes.
GOLF IMPORTANT -

Tt has really happened after
many years of prevailing upon officials' of the athletic department
to do, so. They will make every effort to send a golf team to Tuskegee this year to try at the
Southern Intercollegiate. go 1 f
championships. ~Florida~ Coles, 8
very fine golfer, has -toured the
Lincoln courage in 69 and 68 respectively and will try, along with
~Bulldog~ Turner, from Rome,

resentative pair at the golf meet

this year. Both boys, and maybe

two more likely: youngsters, will
be- added to the team. Plans are
underway to get them to Tuskegee
a few days before the meet to get
in some much needed. practice on
the long and troublesome Tuskegee golf course, Turner is believed
to be a great medal player, he
handles his irons with all the skill
of a veteran. Coles is better with
his woods and. is believed to be
a steady man on the greens where

his putter has been deadly thus

far this. spring.

FRED IRVING DIGS UP TARTAR
FOR PACE~S DEBUT

NEW YORK~GEORGIE PACE,
tated by fight experts the country
over: as the greatest~ of the ~little
the days. of

Wednesday

the
Canadian in with ~Pablo

University, who finished third and fourth respectively..

' Meanwhile, Barney Ewell of Penn State, also colored,
was sweeping his way to a clean-cut victory in the Drake

Dano, from the same stock that

produced such a fightifig fool as
PANCHO: VILLA, ig the most fear
___Relays at Des Moines, Iowa, in 9.9 seconds, Ewell was 8 eq ringman in the bantamweight

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BEATING THE GUN

By Al Moses

freshman sensation last year when he created considerable
attention: by sprinting the 60-yard. dash in the. indoor record-breaking time of 6.1 seconds. Billy Brown of L. S. U.,
defending champion, was three yards behind Ewell in the
finish of Saturday~s century at Des Moines,

The Penn Relays~ victory of Ellerbe, pride of Hastings,
Florida, was his third successfu] defense of a major relay
century dash title. In 1938, he won.the Tuskegee Relays~
100-yard dash, repeating in the identiaal time of 9.5 sec
onds in 1939. In that same year, 1988, he won the NCAA
title up east in 9.6 seconds, Last summer, he journeyed out

to Los Angeles to defend the

Clyde Jeffrey of the University of Southern California,

white, in 9.6 seconds,

~ Aside from the victories mentioned, Ellerbe won 20 of
22 races for America on a barnstorming tour in European
countries the summer of 1938.
the 1938 Prairie View Relays and SIAC Carnival in Atlanta.
Ellerbe was unattached winner of the Tuskegee Relays in
1935 and captured the Kansas State ~100~ last year in 9.5

seconds.
Ellerbe supplemented his

Penn Relays by doing-a lég on Tuskegee~s sprint medley
outfit. Four other Tuskegee athletes were with Ellerbe and

Coach William O~Shields on the trip. They were Louis
Slade, SIAC half mile champion; Marvin Fretwell, probably
the best conference quartermiler at this writing; Upshaw
Sams, who is equally proficient but not a champion in both
the quartermile and half mile; and Raymond Head, freshman sprinter, who was a great prep dash man for Tuskeg'
High School until his graduation last June.

Other colored: colleges entered included Xavier University, Hampton Institute, Virginia State college,
University of Jefferson City, Missouri, and Bordentown
Manuel Training School of Bordentown, New Jersey.

The ticker tape reveals that Xavier won a heat of the
440-yard~ relay in 42.2 seconds, but came in third behind
the University of Pittsburgh. and. North Texas Teachers in
that order in the finals of the event won in 47.7 seconds.

Gilder Farrow of Xavier was

of the 400-meter hurdles won by Harry March, white,
the University of of North Carolina.. Xavier also placed third in the half mile relay won by
North Texas: Teachers in 1 minute, 25.4 seconds~a. new
Penn Relays record. The University of Pittsburgh was

second.

* division. Gonquerer of evdry worth| while scrapper in his class, Pace
should defeat Pablo and coast on
to the~ popularity erijoyed orily by
-Joe Louis and Henry Armstrong
among. modern Gay pugilists. Funny how the name of FRED IR~VIN: fhas revolutionized: plans in
~the cauliflower industry, as boxing
is. known. Jack Dempsey, Jimmy
Johnston, and our old friend....
HUMBERT FUGAZY, are looking
around the country for a soft spot
in~ which to promote. They~ve chosen, Ebbetts field. (never a popular
spot) as the garden in which to
divert some of the overnight attention: from Irvin, who scored like
@ combination Tex Rickard-Mike

title successfully by beating

Berger (sell-out) show. The fellows who~ were out with hammers
in+a sort: of walking, knocking bri~
gade against Fred Irvin who never
did anything to harm them....are
now keeping ~his home and downtown (Strand Theatre building
suite), busier than a post office
station, trying to pat him on the
Wack....arqi impress him as. to
how..... they were glways in his

He won the 100 and 220 in

work in the century at the

But Fred is a hard-boiled thinker and business man. He knows
only two well who his friends are....make no mistake on that score.
The first of our race to promote: a WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP
BOUT (John Henry Lewis, against
Max ~Marek, ex-Chicago Golken
Glover) and numerous other titular matches, all the island of Manhattan (black and white alike) are
acclaiming in the newspapers and
at the better dowutown club lounging rooms. We want to take this
opportunity to thank the thousands of Hatlemites who packed
the GOLDEN GATE to stch an
extent that 1,500 were turned
away at the doors, for Irvin~s
initial professional venture. We
Say..-.continue to. pack the place
for this bronzed fight genius until he and his associates become
wealthy and famous for THEIR
SUCCESS....means also that..... HARLEM CAN RALLY AROUND
3TS OWN AND PUT THINGS

Lincoln

second in # preliminary. wage
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Colored Artists
Vie For $100

CHICAGO~(S N S)~Nearly 100
entries~ from all sections of
United States were received

the
at

OVER...thank you fans for heeding our last week's editorial on
~The Local Boxing~ Picture~.

artists ig judging the posters submitted. All entries will become
property of the Exposition.
~ The contest was held to select
a poster for nation-wide distribu- |.
tion calling attention.to the coming Negro Werld~s Pair at the:
~Chicago Coliseym from July 4
through September 2. It is expected to attract 2,000,000 persons
from. all. sections. of the nation..
Posters were received. fromi such.
widely scattered areas gs Califor-.
nia, New York, Texas and Florida
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Jacobs, in his Bernie Miller-Maxie }

Col. Retaining his last year~s decathlon title, Todd (white), amassed -g point total of 6,730 points or
1838 more than~ his last season's
tally. Arrington rolled up 6,225 to
lose out by four points to Uyval
Jonés, Wayne university, Detroit,
who finished second. ~Before the
start of the classic games Arring<
ton was ag prohibitive favorite
among the boys who never take in
track meets without betting their
money~ on their ~sure thing~ athletic performers.

come pemene

STILL SEARCHING FOR ~ALL
TIME~ MILE RELAY QUARTET!

We ran into a group of young
~Alpha Phi Alpha collegians last
week who proceeded to ply us with
questions we were hard pressed in
answering. One ran something like
this: ~Who. do you think could
have taken ROY MORSE, HOWARD P. DREW, H. V. EDWARDS
and IRVING T. HOWE in a. 880
yard relay race??7?~ That one
wasn~t so difficult we thought and
weighed it with this answer......
FULACE PEACOCK; BEN JOHNON, EDDIE TOLAN, atid~ MO
4) ELERBE,~from aq crop of
dashets: who cropped: up during the
1980-40: ~era, Then: ~without. giving
@ @ellow a: chance t6 catch his
breath, somedne yelled out.....:
~Aid who'd lick~ the last bunch
you just nominated??~ Our guess
to that twister tan something like
this: ANDERSON (Univ. Southern
Calfornia}, THOMPSON (Jersey
City), RALPH METCALFE (Xavier
University track coach), JESSE
OWENS (Olympic immortal).
Our personal ~all-time~ 880 yard
relay combination woul@ be. these
arid JESSE ~OWENS. The mile
(All-brown); ~relay~ for ~all-time~
yould: shape up as follows: BINGA

WOODRUFF (maybe~ we would at
the~ last: moment substitute Phi
Beta: Kappa. student. JIMMY LvUVALLE, for Dr. Dismond (on time
performance glone) for DISMOND.
epitomized the~ ~fighting: type supreme~ among all track. performers:...and: this writer. ~must: have
fighters~ on anything that. would
be our very own. Let us hear from
you fans, for the woods are full of
selections. 2

Dream Team
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~TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala ~
With the leading track and field
teams of the nation having signifified their intention of entering the
14th. Annual ~Tuskegee Relay
Championships, the meet this year
promises to be the greatest of all
The special events are drawing
more interest~ than in previous
years because of the calibre of- the
contestants. In the Olarence Mat
er ol;
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thews Memorial 100; Mozell Ellerbe

May not compete, because he has
been invited io run on the coast
in the Finnish Benefit attraction,
which is scheduled about the saniedate of the relays, However, Norman Holmes, Ceritral Collegiate
Champion, and beaten ~by a gnat~s
eyelash last year at_.Tuskegee; ~is
potentially as. fleet- as ahy sprint
as a Hollywood cameraman.

Joe Louis Takes It Easy

World Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, at leisure, ~doubles~
The Brown Bomber is booked fora
defense fight in Yankee Stadium
~making.

this June, Plans are still in the

who won. the: classig 100 in ~ 1939; 0 |.| tern ~Inter-collegiate

who isa star in his own right, Wa~ |
ley easily could be one of the ~fa
vorites, Ealey~; time at ~ Prairie
View on a slow track against a: 15 -Mile wind was 9.8 seconds. a

Then
streak~ of lightning, Blackett

University of Missouri, and several
other fine sprinters. If Holmes is
right, he will survive this severe
competition; but it may be a bit

there is Xavier University~s | keg

relay championship of America. An
event they won in i931, Praitie

View State College has dominated

this event since 1934; and~ holds the
record at 3 minutes and 2-10 sec
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