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TH ANNUAL SIAC

By LUCIUS JONES

Joe Louis Not At Fauit If Foes

Are ~Hamfats~~: Bomber Gives More To

Poor Than He Makes On Indoor Battles

JOE LOUIS is being ridiculed widely~in some cases:
by members of his own race~for the fact that -he ~goes
to bat~ so often against ~mediocre~ opposition in defense
of his world heavyweight boxing title.

The Nordic press started the trend long ago. Of late,

certain divisions of the sepia press have joined in:the anvi

chorus. In fact, it has begun
to appear that, when widely
read columnists run short on
live matter for publication
they fall: back on their ~old
reliable~-~Joe Louis.

Whether favorable or adverse, the writing boys seem
to realize when they~re ex
pounding on Louis they~re
turning out highly readable
copy. No doubt about that.
There~s but one Brown Bom
ber.. Negroes aren~t ordinarily supposed to make important dough; own several ex
pensive cars, dude ranches
fine clothes, and a_ lion~s
share of the world~s goods:
and, by implication, one is led
to believe they are regarded
by the other race as somewhat unusual when they
prove of unimpeachable character and are gifted with extraordinary common sense..

Aside from being virtually invincible, Louis has_his
share of the world~s goods:
and, unlike the gluttonous
Mr. Jack Johnson, he has not
used his important position
as champion of the world to
the disgrace and discredit of
his people. Meanwhile, he

has gone merrily along: his way, putting his title on the line
for all aspirants who.desire a crack at it. In these ventures
he has met with. uniform success.

hae tle most

publicized Negro in America.
But, getting to the point, those

who censure Louis for taking on

y Joe
~ ~copy~ in ne

so: many ordinary opponents
should hang their heads in shame
for the followaae reasons.

(1). A champion is supposed to
give every worthy contender a
chance at his crown; if Mike Jacobs~ judgment of a ~worthy~ foe
ig cloudy, it-is not the fault of
the Brown Bomber, who is under
contract with the Twentieth Cenury head-man;

(2) Gymnasium tune-ups and
sparring bees don~t provide complete equipment for keeping a
champion in shape. He has to keep
fighting~actual contests~in order to keep his physical and psychological balance, his timing, his
footwork, his all-round boxing
science,

(3) The money Louis makes in
his repeated indoor battles doesn~t
amount to the gross amount he
gives away to oe charities;, (4) They didn~t criticize Joe
when he fought regularly before
becoming champion; why jump
en him now?

They say one of the major faults
of Louis~ fighting ~hamfats~ is that
the latter don~t need the money;
then the question is raised: Why
mot fight some fellow who really
needs the money

The column reacts but one way
te such a line of reasOning. That~s
in this manner: If, as is contended, Louis is fighting nothing but
~hamf<~s,~ how could anyone doubt
these guys~ real need of the six
or ~seven thousand dollars they
draw for facing the champion?
-Can anyone offer a better reason
than actual need and want~as' {0
why. a ~hnmfat~ would risk life
jand limb agains~ Joé Louis?

~Mr. Jack Troy, in his Own column of a few days ago, opined that
it is a sad commentary on the
havyweight fight game these days
that the ~top~ price on tickets to
a title go used to be $30 but, in the
~Louis-Dorazio promotion. was down
to a paltry $5.

If Mr. Troy cnn recall, the top
price for Louis~ outdoor title defenses has averaged $27.50 over the
entire space of time he has held
the title~this in an area of depres_ sion. The column knows; f has
been on the scene.: ~top~ Mr., tions prevailed at a peak of Amer
>

~matches in Philadelphia and Chicago (1926 and 1927), It is a high
tribute to Mike Jacobs and Jot
| iis seats te. a toes of =
| depression, they were to revive
' ~@illion dollar~ gates in the Max, Baer and second
| title ~fights with ~a eas dig mst
| Ing iat was only $2 less than

that of the said ~boom~ period.
The $5 ~top-vir:

a merely the peak price for ap
~indoor~ bout. Some of Louis~ other indoor matches have commended a better figure. Jack Dempsey
made no indoor title defenses~in
fact, he enly made five Outdoors~.
but it is a reasonably fact that the
top price for such bouts would
have been-correspondingly low, due
to the s~ructure of the present day
heavyweight fighting game.

If the opponents Louis is called
on to face these days are ~pushOvers~ and ~hamfats,~ it is certainly not Joe~s fault. He doesn~t
make his competition; he = only
faces it like a true champion.~ In
short Order.

A neat, little ~hought, though, is
just how one ascertains just how

eppenents are. He makes equally
short and business-like work of the
boys they ra~ed ~good.~

It matters little here how long
the persona] sieges on Louis continue, because, fortunately, they are
too remote to.do him norial harm
And too, if they ceased, a lot of the
writing boys, withduil cOlumn: in
prospect, would have nothing whatever to offer critical and demanding John Public..

Morris Brown To
Play Lincoln (Mo)
Gridders In ~41

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.,~(SNS)
~A back-breaking, eight-game
schedule faces the Lincoln Tiger
grid squad next fall, accotding to
announcement by Coach~ Raymond
H. Kemp, director cf athletics at,
Lincoln. Playing the most imposing
array of opponents in many years,
the Missouri team places for the
first time on its schedule, Morris
Brown College, of Atlanta, Georgia, National Negro Collegiate
Champions for 1940, and Lane
College of Jackson, Tennessee.
Both of these teams will play in
Jefferson City. The Lincoin-LeMoyne College encounter, piayed
successfully in St. Lowis last year
with Lincoln the 13-7. winner, is
again scheduled for the Mound
City, Tennessee State College returns to the jist of teams to be met
after an absence of two years from
the Mid-West Conference. Completing the 1940 opposition for
Lincoln are: Langston, Wilberforee, Kentucky State, and Philander Smith. The Tennessee game
will be Lincoln~s homecoming, and
the Lane game the annual Public
School Day attraction.

In addition to~ the National

Max ~Schmeling ~ Champions, Coach Kemp points

out, the iist includes the Mid-West
champs (Wilberforce) ang three

~| ruary 12-15, under auspices

ATLANTA, Ga.~(~NS.)~

~A young Tennessee boxer, symbol. of the Tri-State~s Amateur
Boxing Association~ work among
Memphis. boys, Lowell Strong,
heavyweight, fought his way to
the championship of his division in
'the mammoth Golden Gloves bouts
held in St. Louis, Missouri, Febof
the Globe-Democrat,._ newspaper.
Young Strong who excelled the
best boys of his weight in Memphis. in various Tri-State Association tournaments and shows, was
cartied to St. Louis by Harry T.
Cash, head of the Memphis organization, to take part in the
Globe - Democrat~s tournament.
Strong fought under the colors of
the Slaughter. Athletic Club.

Before s record-breaking erowd
vf 12,891 howling fans, the Memvhis ~fighter belted out a decision
over a white boy, Ed Posage of

Lowell saad VAR: Made Big
Hit In Atlanta AAU Matches
Last Year, Wins In G.G.'s_

prenmenewene

Wine Golden Cloves Title

Belleville,~ | Missouri. Strong~s
overhand rights that caught Posage and sent him reeling once or.
twice in the first and second

ence in voting.

_Posage had the advantage on
infighting but missed his mark
frequéntly when they fought at
longer rnage.

The Belleville fighter replaced
James Whiteside, to whom he had
lest in the semifinals, when the
latter reported with an ~injured
hand.

Strong was added to the roster
of open division champions who
went to Chicago last week to par--
ticipate in the Western Gloves |
Championship fights. The fighting '
in the Windy City begins Febrv-!
ary 24, lasting through February
26. These three nights of fightting will bring the tournament
down to the semifinals. The last
two rounds of boxing are scheduled Friday night, March 7.

Young Strong~s picture appeared with other champions in lead
~hammy~ the Bomber~s respective.

ing St. Louis papers. He was also
the recipient of one of the tro
bouts.

BIBLE THOUGHT

USE THE LIGHT YOU HAVE AND
GET MORE: Whereunto ye do well
to take heed as unto a light that

rounds provided the slight différ|

~phies offered for winning. jn the;

finals.

shineth in a dark place~2 Peter
1:19.

| ary 24-26 inclusive.

ident of the Tri-State Amateur Boxing Association.
carried him to the national Golden Gloves matches in Chicago Febru
T. LOUIS, Mo.~-(SNS)~Lowell. tia of Memphis, Tennessee,
neve heavyweight seen on the left, above, won the regional

Golden Gloves Boxing Tournament sponsored by the St. Louis GlobeDemocrat, local daily, recently, beating a crack white rival in the
With Strong is his trainer and manager, Harry T. Cash, pres- |}

Strong~: s victory.By ~CHARLES L. DE LAY

NEW ORLEANQ La.~(SNS)~
~Two more one-sided victories
Morehouse of Atlanta, Ga., bowed
40-9 Feb: 17 and Tilltson vaunted
Eagles of Austin Texas bowed 54 -23 Feb. 18, both. games played
here at the University gym) gave
the Xavier University Gold Rush
of Louisiana. an undefeated record
of twenty-seven consecutive victaries.

The Xaverites -will piace their
unblemished record on the floor of
che Tuskegee gym in the annua)
SIAC basketball tournament Feb.
27, 28 and March 1 in an effort to
win ~the tournament title a title
which the Xavierites have ~held twice
in the past three years, being
champions in ~38 and ~39: The Gold
Rush has already won the visitation, championship of the SIAC
for 1041 ispo facto; by virtue of
their undefeated record.

The Xavierites claimed the Nnational basketball crown in ~39
when the Orleanians had a consecutive win streak of forty-five
tames. Last year, Xavier dropped
three ~games out of twenty-five and
if they should come through the
tournament undefeated the Gold
Rusb will have a clean claim te
~the National Cage Title of ~41.

Six seniors complete their ca
teams that played in Bowl games
during the past season: Morris
Brown, Wilberforce both in the
Steel Bowl) and Kentucky State
(Orange ~ Bowl).

The complete schedule foliows

reers aS basketeers cn the Gold
Push squad: Captain Frank (Blot'to) Crozier, from DuSable High
| Chicago who was all-SIAC choice
during his first and second~ years
and is the gveatest ball-handler

Lucius (Luscious) Thomas, from
Tilden -Tech of Chicago who was
all-SEAC and jAll-Associ} ted. Negro Press guard in ~39; Allen
(Chuck) _Simmers from~ Sumner

play on the cage team has been
equal to his performances on the

ever to carry the Gold and White.

High School of Cairo, Ul. whose,

Xavier Brings Record Of 27 In
Row To SIAC Tourney This Week;
Six Seniors On 10-Man Ensemble

position on the line and won allAmerican honors in ~39 and 40;
Eldridge (Dizzy) Williams of Kansas City, Kansas, whose ~ brilliant

~floor game has made him an indis~pensable reserve; Henry
~Harris of

~Prees~
East St. Louis, Il

whose six feet seven itjches of
height have placed him in a position to save many games and preserve the consecutive win streaks
of Xavier; and Bugene (Buk
Green) Saffold of Chicago whos:
ability to pull his shots in ~clutch~
spots has made him a desired man

gridiron where has starred at every) to have on the floor many times.

mythical ~Battle
here last Friday night, Coach
Henry Hug~les~ fighting Virginia
Union Panthers swamped the
mighty Va. State Troajans, 72-35,
on the stage of the MOsque Theater before over 3,000 fans to hang
up their 11 conference win of the
season. 0

In the preliminary contest. The
Trojan JayVees eked a 29-28 win
from the Union JayVess.

During the halftime period, the
huge audience sang the ~Alma
Mater~ songs of Union and State.

PLAY HARLEM GLOBE:
TROTTERS
The Va. Union Panthers and
the Harlem Globe Trotters are.beoked for a game here in.
Richmond, Va. on March %h,

September 27, Langston, at Langston; October 4, open; October il,
Morris Brown, at Lincoln; October |
18, LeMoyne, in Si: ~Louis; October

25, Kentucky State, at Kentucky

State; November 1, Wilberforce, at

Lincoln;.and November 25, Phil- |
lander Smith, at Little Rock.

~announced last week by Gummy ninucsege white sports pro.
moter.

Opening ~up a whirlwind naaibed, attack designed to smother the Va.
State zone defense, HUC~S BOYS
took the lead early in the game.

RICHMOND, Va.~(SNS)~In the.
of Richmond~.

Va. Union Tops Va. State 72-35;
Plays Harlem Globe Trotters

Bob Daughtry dropped in 2. field
goal.from center court to begin
the scoring; Glover shot a short
one to make it 4. Powel; and Brown
scored to even the count and State
took the lead, 5-4, when Powell
made good a foul attempt. The
Trojans~ sdiq advantage of the
game was short liyed as Mel
Glover broke through the center
of the zone defense and hung up
a ~ shot, wunitad the total, 6 -5.

The dead-eyed Panthers - pulled
away, dropping iay-ups when p0ssible and swishing beautiful mid
~court goals when easier shots were

unavailable. Eagle-eyed Bob
Daughtry, Prosh Garnet _Blair,
and crack Captain Mel Glover led
the Panther score parade ip the
inaugural

period.
So intense was the Union scor- |

ing, even with reserve material,
that the Country famous HUC~S

BOYS led 31-14 at the half.

The Trojans found themselvesat
the. beginning of the, second half

and their scoring machine rolled | ~

up to the short end of a near
ee eS oe ae |

-ean do it. His famous team has

OPENS

Conference Basketh all To

AT TUS

At Tuskegee This Week End

APLANTA, Ga.~(SNS)~

Collegiate basketball ~showman: |
ship will reach its zenith in the
country~s greatest sepia sports extravaganza, the~ eighth annual

SIAC tournament which begins at
one o'clock Thursday afternoon in
Logan Hall, Tuskegee Institute,
Alabama.

This grand finale to a colorful
basketball season assumes the gargantuan aspects of a ~Roman hotiday~ for the spectators. For. the
players, ~ is the.year~s haleyon
event in which they merit the ex
pression personification of britliantée~ on the* hardwood.

XAVIER Ig
41. FAVORITE

That fickle goddess Dama Fortune has placed the ominous wreath
of favor on Xavier~s head...Clatk,
1940 tournament champion...and
she was all the word implies...is
expected to bow before the mighty
Gold Rush that will pour out of
New Orleans, Louisiana. Xavier is
the unanimous choice, of pre-tourney prognosticators who also con
aii - championsh:p

tend that the.
~it the most bril
match will

| iant tournament of the series.

flying high and
handsome behind the scoring twins
Thomas Hornburger and econ
Smith, is favored to garner second
place honors. MORRIS BROWN
and CLARK or vice versa, for third
and FLORIDA ~for fourth,
We, like all writers, want to make
it. known that we do not pretend
to be infallable in our deductions,
but it looks that way at this writing. Clark looked mighty good
heating Morris ~ Friday night.

We see by the newspapers where
Ted Wright~s invincible gold-white
garbed. ~Gold Rush~ is out to cop
its second, SIAC basketball tournament title in three seasons, the
~third in four.

- Among us beginning in-row No. 1
and back to the last tier, there
isn~t. the slightest doubt that he

raided bOth the ~SIAC and the
Southwest with more than 25 consecutive wins,

Smooth as one of these powerpouring 1941 streamlined autos,
the Javiers, like Old Man River

Clark, Only SIAC

Mississippi that flows through New
Orleans, keeps rolling along.

Tournament Jinxes

Clark went to Tuskegee favored
to win in the inauguration of the
event back in 1934. The team got
to the finals as predicted. She drew
Tuskegee as an opponent and
smiled~ confidently because during
~the visitation stretch, -Clark had
~beaten Tuskegee four in a row by
cOmfortable. margins. ~Tuskegee
beat her that night, 44-28.

~Alabama came to Tuskegee as
favorite in 1935 and 19386 and did
not fail.

The most amazing tournament
of history, the underdog Clarks of
1937, put Xavier in civilian clothes
in 1937.

Xavier put two years together in.

1 ing~ trip them. '

~} Pemberton - Henderson - Watson.

1938 and 1939, as per the script,

|\Naming A -Winner

This year, as'in 1937, 1938 and
1940, I pick Xavier! In 1939 I picked Clark because, as I have said,
the Cardinal had it that year in
the surplus.

Tuskegee, if she gets the assign- | i

ment in the finals, will never handle Xavier and deep down in: theiz
hearts, the Tigers realize it. They
don~t have the style or: the physical
advantage to give the gold team
any bother. Xavier has~ defeated
Tuskegee, 34 to 16, in Logan Hall.
this year and this was pre-dated
by three other decisive wins.

Panthers opened up the storing
fuli force and the contested vic~ory developed into a rout.

While Va. State~s star Percy
Smith has seen better evenings, it
took Mitchell Powell, Sophomore
forward, to harness the. State
scoring Offensive. Short and
swift, Powell led the visiting shot
nakers with 13 points besides be~ng a terror on the defense, Big.
Willie Hurst, guard, turned in a
fine ~performance for a team that

was no match for the CIAA
shamps.
This coming Wednesday, the

talented HUC~S BOYS take on the
St. Paul Tigers at the Community
Gym here.

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Cast With Style
To Worry Xavier a

According to my deductions, and
those of most the other guessers,
the defensive masters from Lduisiana will kick the stuffings out of
any team that dares a venture to
Tuskegee this week.

Already the chant is~~~Let~s go |
to Tuskegee. to the basketball tournament for a look at the sure
winner~xXavier!~~

Se, for the fifth time in five
straight years, Xavier cOmes to
Tuskegee with the wise money on
her side. The tournament is. now
in its eighth year so it is easy to
discern that Xavier has been the
big parade, the Mr. Big of the
greater portion of its ~history.

and walked to glory: Last year she
ran into an accident from Tallahassee, five deadly Rattlers under
the tutelage of Squire Jake Gaither. e

I have seen ~great combinations
move into Tuskegee these past.
seven years. and I have seen te, 4
chance and ~tournament. officiat
Bray - Rhodes - Cole-McQuitterGant fe 1935 and 1937~quite the
finest SIAC team, all things considered, I ever saw. They failed.
What about Clark~s greatest team
of all-time, 1939~Younger-Coates
They failed. Boy, those two teams
had rhythm!

Florida, if she gets the assignment, will be beaten almost as
badly~perhaps worse. Xavier has
~murdered the Rattlers four times.
Morris Brown would be tactically

equate, as. she was_ against
Clark last week, and Lawson
would find himself in a mortarmixer if he tried his old stuff from
the circle. ~Crozier and: Reeves
would sew him up. Ask. Pinky
Haines. With Laws0n sewed up, the
immediate future for Senor Graves
would be very, yene gloomy and he
knows it.

Clark, of all the contenders,
would fare best against Xavier. Ted
has yet to meet.a team with the
scientific movement, the breaking
speed of the Cardina] club kings of
1940.

Because of Clark~s ~father tepid
defense, Xavier would defeat Clark
by a nice margin; but outside of
Clark, look for no other team to
even show.

Bryson led his team by running up 11 points. Pinkston led
his team to victory by running up
a total of 22 points. The game
ended with Fort Valley winning me: Negro Aces"
Win Races

Indoors~

NEW YORK~(AtP) -- John
Borican of,the Shore A, C. and
Bill Carter of Pittsburgh turned in
championship performances Saturday night before 14, in Madison

A. ~. meet.

Borican, displaying the form
that made him a sensation two
years ago, won the Matt Halpin
half mile in 1:52.6, breaking the
meet record of 1:52,.8, set in 1931
and equaled last year by Long
John Woodruff. His winning margin was 10 yards over Charlie
Bectkam, white star.

A newcomer, Carter defeated
Thomas East of Cheyney Teachers,
recent conqueror of Ewell of Penn
State, in 63 seconds to cop the 60

-yard dash. Eulace Peacock, former

Temple star, was entered but was
eliminated in the semi-finals,

Ed Dugger of Tufts, favorite in
the 60 yard high hurdles, was up~set by Allan Tolmich, white, who
won in 7:4 seconds. Dugger, how
72. Jim Herbert formerly of New
York U., finished third in the Buermeyer 500 behind Robert Simmons of Nebraska and John Campihe Wladopres btsciinia

SCORES

MORRIS BROWN....... o a
TUSKEGEE............. - 4
Cheek occ wedens edie e dae. 5&1
Morris Brown..65.5-- 40%
Tuskegee........ PS.

Hleorida..-....: ee.

Social School Noses
Out Ft. Valley
Tutors, 33-31

FT. VALLEY, Ga~(SNS)~ After dropping a heartbreaking game
to the Invincibles of Morehouse
College for intramural honors, the
Atlanta School ~of Social Work
basketball team rebounded by beat~ing a fighting faculty team of Fort

~This game, beginning a friendly
athletic relaticnship between these
two institutions was witnessed by
a capacity house of Fort Valleyites
and visitors. The game, hotly contested from start to #nish, brought
to light the shooting genius of Joe
Roulhac, scholarly captain of the
Fort Valley Schoo) faculty team.

Joe Roulhac, shooting 15 points
for the home team, gave the visitors no end of trouble trying to
break up his down-the-middle

score 46-24.

shots.

LeMoyne Carers Lote To

Knoxville In

son last. week-end when they dropped their final two games.

threat. He was high point

with 15

LEMOYNE LOSES IN

FINAL MINUTES
The following Saturda: night,

Last Game

|in the last two minutes, the
Magicians finally folded before

Mosely and Jackson scored the tyet winning baskets respecvely

Square Garden at the New York -

ever, took his preliminary heat in |

BASKETBALL

Valley College 33-31, the past week

the onrush of the Bulldogs when