Brownsville Weekly News

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By
~Melancholy~ _
_ JONES |

CIAA Gets Another Dose Of Deep South~s

| Athletic Supremacy; Frank Marshall Davis

Coincides With View On Rens, Trotters

| VIRGINIA UNION, famous ~dream team~ of the Col
-_ ored Intercollegiate Athletic Association, came to the Gate

City January 3 boasting two straight CIAA titles, 64 wins
~in its last 71 starts, and a sweeping triumph over Brooklyn
College, white, in New York City. Clark~s remnants of the
championship team of 1940 ~cooled off~ Huc~s boys 38-36.

Less than a fortnight ago, North Carolina State copped
the CIAA honors for 1941 with a record of 14 loop wins, no
defeats. The classy Eagles came to Orangeburg to play S. C.
State. Victorious earlier in the year by 46-44, the Durham
ites, in the role of champions, bid for 2 more impressive tri-|

umph than before. Instead, S. C. State won 40-38!

In the recent national college tournament at Cincinnati,
the N. C. State Eagles, were rated overwhelming favorite:
with Xavier, kingpin of the SIAC and three-time conqueror
of Bishop College, Southwestern champions, not participating. The entire CIAA and the Eastern seaboard in génera!
gloated over the encouraging outlook that fatten their pride
beyond end, despite no collapse of the great Union machine
But Southern University of Scotlandville, La., not~even rated

a ~dark horse~, tripped the Eagles 48-42 to capture the cov-. eted tournament and leave the great CIAA badly humiliated,. These recent basketball bombshells are highly reminis
cent of football disasters suffered in comparatively recent
years by CIAA clubs hooking up with SIAC combos, ~,

Back in "39, Virginia State~s Terrible Trojans were
sweeping everything in their wake up in the CIAA and
Langston~s:lion-hearted Lions were blasting all opposition
in the Southwest. They came right down to the last barrier
tied with seven wins, no defeats, one tie to to their credit
and the national championship a mere formality for Big
Jeff~s boys if they could span orris Brown in the classic
Peach Blossom arrangement,

The feat did not look formidable for Morris Brown _rated fourth place in SIAC with a record of five wins, two losses,
and-two defeats~having gone the entire month. of November with but one outright victory (over Clark in five starts).

But Morris: Brown had what it takes to tame the 'Trojans and smashed through with a 13-7 victory that gave
Langston the undisputed title.

Last season, Florida ruined A. and T.~s lofty belied at~

the outset. with a 7-0 victory, later deadlocking hitherto unbeaten and untied North Carolina State 7-7. At the dlose
of the year, Morgan pasted up an undefeated: but. once-tied
record in the CIAA, but declined all invitations to sepia
~bowl~ clashes.

The Orange and Peach Blossoms events are established
commodities and must go, their promoters feel. So with logical Morgan snubbing every effort to line her up in post
season competition, officials of the two ~bowl~ classics had~

to center their efforts in the Midwestern and Southwestern
circuits. -

Prairie. View was setting the woods afire at invitation
time, so-an attempt was made to land Sam Taylor~s men. A
fiat declination followed on the grounds the Texas athletes
had already lost considerable time from class, would lose
more because of the nature of thé 1940 schedule, and could
not afford additional absence from the classroom ~that would
be the net result of a ~bowl~ acceptance.

By elimination, the ~Midwest was the only field of se
lection. She had two excellent representatives~undefeated
but once-tied Wilberforce and once-tied Kentucky State, licked by one point, 13-12; only by the great ~Force. L

The Green Wave accepted the Orange Blossom bid anc
was tied 0-0. Kentucky State grabbed off the-Peach Blossor

invitation and was trimmed 28-6 by Morris Brown..

Later, ~Force, still unbeaten but then twice-tied, signet
papers to face Morris Brown's eventual triple champions ir
the first annual Steel Bowl Classic at Legion Field in Bir
-mingham. The Purple Wolverines scored a spectacular 19 -victory behind the two-men siege of John (Big Train) Mood.
and Joseph (Joltin~ Joe) Jenkins to bag the mythical nation
al title.

Southern~s' recent spread- eagle of the round-robin na
tional tournament at Cincinnati is another sparkling triumpl
- for the deep south. No wonder coaches, officials, scribes, anc
fans in general warn clubs from the other sectors:

~Stay out of the south!~

FRANK MARSHALL: DAVIS, deep-browed. selek-af-al
trades of the writing craft filling the rewrite desk at th:
Associated Negro Press, _ concurs to the letter with view
expressed by the writer in a column last week~that the Har
lem Globe Trotters and New York Renaissance beat them
selves in the. recent $10,000 world professional~ *-basketba:
- tournament in Chicago.

The Globe Trotters~ chances were jeopardized beeias:
erack stars of the team made themselves ~pawns~ of WindyCity glamor-girls on the very eve of the tournament anc
~whooped it up~ at Dave~s Cafe, swank South Parkwa
amusement joint.

As for the Rens, they sacrificed intricate teamwork de
veloped with a new combination minus Cooper by signin;
him just for the week of the pro meet and throwing him ir
the middle of the lineup. Even so, it was the rine free throw.

out of 15 they missed which did the mortal blow~and the:.

~were eliminated by one point, 43-42, by the Detroit Eagles
The Reng had led 42-41 with - 30 seconds to go!

442, 294 ATLANTANS.

ATLANT ~A, Ga.~(SNS)~

- Atlanta~s official metropolitan population for skp: wae listed Monday as 442,294, according to figures released~ by the Census Bureau. This represented an ho
| ee ithe pen 19.2 per cent gain, over the

population: of 370,920. ~Population~ of ae Rig
proper in 1940 was 302,288.

nan

All-CCC Basketball Tournament Selections.

FIRST:'TEAM |: é
LAYER - Position CAMP
Timothy Walker (41) _ LF Americus
Joseph Adams (21) RF Wewahitchka
Bear McCoy (31) 't~ Americus
James Benford (31) - RG: Greensboro
Henry Lemen: (4) LG Royston
SECOND TEAM
PLAYER Position CAMP
Leonard Berlack (14) LF Greensboro
Willie Goss (44) RF Americus
John Grant (13) eam, * Royston
William White (16) RG Wakulla
Louis Gabriel (8) ~ LG Lynn Haven

PREP SPORTDOM

By SAM McKIBBEN

NATIONAL PREP CAGE
TOURNEY THIS WEEK-END

State high school ~basketball
champions ard runner-ups, along
with a few other sextettes and
quintets of proved ability, from all
over the nation will assemble at
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama this
week end to vie for the national
interscholastic championship in
both divisions.~

Already recognized as the greatest prep school event of its kind
in the country, this, the seventh
annual national invitational interopen Wednesday evening, March
26, at eight o~clock.

Coacnes will meet in Logan Hall
where brackets will be made, seedings and the drawings of opponents will follow so that play may
get wnderway at an early hour
Thursday.

Teams fromm 35 states usually attend but ithis year~s tourney may
attract a larger number of participants due to an added swing toward prep basketball in different
sections of the country.

GEORGIA WILL

"BE REPRESENTED

Beach High School, Savannah,

finalist in last year~s national, and
runner-up in the 1941 Georgia
tate tournament, will be one of
the~ state schools to attend the
tourney.
Ballard -Schoul, Macon,. Georgia
may go. Henderson High, Jackson,
Georgia, will be there according to
a letter from Coach Carl (Peanut)
Dixon. Henry A. Hunt, Pt. Valley,
Georgia, | contemplates attending
the meet.

B. T. Washington, Atlanta, \Ga.,
1941 state champions, plan to go
but from reports released from
Reuben: Taylor, chairman of the
athletic committee,.the team. must
uvercome financial difficulties. The

Pro Basketball.
Results

FIRST ROUND

Detroit Bagles~. oj..e i.e leas 56
Kautsky~s All-Americans rudiis 43
Globe. Trotfers: <...5.+4.-.~ bac Op
Newark (N. J.) Elks...... Per
MY: BA ss lon ae

Dayton (Ohio) Suchers

see wee

<enosha ~(Wis.) Royals
Rochester N. Y.) Seagrams....

Toledo. Ohio) White Huts....
sheboygan (Wis.) Redskins..

scholastic tournament will formally.

students are rallying behind the
drive to get the funds.
SPORTSDOM OBSERVES
THISSA ~N THATTA

Conspicuous by their absence
from the Georgia State basketball
tournament: Hunt High of Fort
Valley, champion$ of the North
Middle Georgia Conference; Henderson High, Jackson, visitation
champions: of the same conference,
and Henry County, McDonough, for
four years. champion of the
NMGAC.

F. L. Kirkpatrick, Athens High
coach and president of the Northeast Georgia Athletic League,
proved the ~most cooperative~ prep
school coach of the year, sO far as
Sportsdom goes.

Bouquets are tossed to Coaches
Joe Green (Beach of Savannah),
B. T. Barrow (Ballard of Macon),
and Joe Daniel (Hubbard Training
School). for the same reason~cooperation on a large scale.

Frank McCoy, senior at Georgia
State College. and Coach Bailey,
Fair Street H84, Gainesville, and
Homer B. Scretchins, coach at
Marietta, are three of the best
young basketball officials this column orbed in.action at the different state tournaments this year.

BEST. PERFORMERS
OF THE YEAR

If Sportdom attemifed to name
the most outstanding prep baskethall players in the Peach State, it
would start out with Claude (Red)
George; a lad able to play guard,
center of forward with equal
adeptness. George captains the; State All Tournament team and
the B: T. Washington Bulldog
squad.

Robert (Pete) Turner, also
BT'WHS, would follow. Mel Hunter, Beach captain, Savannah, Walter Harper, Athens High captain,
Lecnard Holsey, Ft. Valley, and
Walter Washington, Beach, of ~Savanngh would follow in; the order
named. All of the toys are capable of playing any position and are
outstanding guards. Al} are crack
shots~what a combination
would make. 9

Atlanta~s prep basketball classic
nf the season~a clash between
Dunbar High School, 1941 champions of Kentucky (Lexington)
and B. T. Washington, 1941 Georgia champions~will be played
Tuesday night, March m at Sun
~| set Casino.

Dunbar, coaghed by F. t Baker,
who is a, brother of the BTWHS
mentor, is en route to the. national
vrep tourney. at~ Tuskegéé; and
would like to add the
scalp to her belt to partly avenge
the football setbacks handed her
by the Atlantans.

Neither ~of the state ~champions
heve suffered a defeat in inter
sirous of keeping a ~perfect~ recerd for the forthcoming tourney.
Athletic contests between teams
coached by the Baker brothers are
renowned for the intense rivalry
and this one ~ o no. x ee
tion. | #3 3

Singer Will

PHILADELPHIA ~ (S.N.S.)~
Marian Anderson had pledged to
charity and edltation Friday the
$10,000 Edward A. Bok award conferred upon her Motiday~ night.

~City of Brotherly Loye~, was
presented the award on the stage
of the Academy of Musi~ tefore appt re

Chicago. Bruins........... Jie
Davenport (lowa) Rockets. 17
Sshkosh (Wis) All-Stars.... 47
~ort Wayne (Indiana)......... 41
Philadelphia Sphas........:.,.. 48
Bismarck (N. D.) Phantoms.. 30
QUARTERFINALS

WIOUONE. Co bi eg kee kt 37
lobe Trotters ~.. 6... ae ks 36
NOMS 5 us psc hunt oe cen eae 43
WEOUNNE sos cp cys reves sie css 15
MOU do ke has oe Ss ee 43
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SEMIFINALS

VOOR ee ia a 43
~ene ete e eta Peer ae hae Deke ewe 42
hkite 2 oe an
Toleds 2. Be; 37
FINALS t
TM 2k cc 39
ONG ski cea; 37
CONSOLATION S
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scholastic play and both are de- |

Miss Anderson, a native of the |

shed audience that cheer- if

~The money,~ she~ said,
ehable some poor, unfortunate, but
riévertheless thlented~ people: to~ do}:
rome oa nit ole: shave
_ ~The eivara~ jed in |
1921- by Edward A. Bok for the person has. ~pe! ah act or

Tom Fagan S Company 4459
Bags Greensboro 42 To 31

~By LUCIvUs JONES
| (SNS Spert Editor

/MERICUS, Ga~(SNS)~Coach
J. Thomas Fagan, educational adviser of Company 4459, piloted his
well-conditioned cohorts to a spectaeular victory in the District ~B~
Tri-State Basketball Tournament
in ~Recreation Halj here last Friday and Saturday, March 21-22.
The Americus Wildcats tripped
Coach; George H. Andrews~ Company 4485 from Greensboro, Georgia 42-3) in the finals.

Outstanding for Americus were
Captain Timothy Walker and wWillie Goss with 10 points apiece, but
high point honors for = evening
went to Coach Fagays towering
eenter; Bear McCoy, ~ilo threw in
12 points.
BURLACK SPARKLES F

James Benford and ~. Alexander, with eight points each,
Samuel] Johnson with five, and

Leonard Berlack, with a dazzling
all-court performance, sparked the
losers? bid for victory.

In the semifnats, also played Saturday evening, Americus dispcsed
ef Wewahitchka, Plorida, coached}
by Educational Adviser Francis I.
Long,| 35-22 as Walker and McCoy
roped) 11 points apiece,. while
Greensboro stopped Royston, Georfia 28-19 in a stout defensive battle im which Berlack and Casilo
Hughes vaced the winners~ with
eight points each.

FOUR ELIMINATED. FRIDAY

In | first round battles Friday
afternoon and evening in the order
listed, Americus routed Perry,
Georgia 62-15, Wewahitchka spanked Due West, S. C. 33-22, Greensboro tripped Wakulla, Florida, 39 -24, and Royston trimmed Lynn
Haven, Florida, 37-23.

Gos. set the tournament high for
a. single game when he bagged 30
points in the Perry encounter, with
Captain Walker roping 20 for second honors. Other top marks of
the meet were by Benford with 17
points against Wakulla and by
White of Wakulla with 16 points in
the |same game against Greensboro,

GOSS SETS TWO RECORDS

Aside from setting the single
game high, Goss of Americus also
led tournament players in scoring
with 44 in three contests. Cap- |,
tain Walker ranked second with~ 41,
followed by McCoy, also of Americus,) and Benford of Greensboro,
with 31 each.

The eight teams entered from
Georgia, Florida and South Cardlina represented 80 players, every
sauad being restri~ted to 10 men.
Captain William R. Myer, commanding officers of Company 4459,
host unit at ~Americus, was in
charge of general arrangements,
assisted by Mr. Fagan.

COLORFUL BUNCH

ROHEMIAN

(Exciadive to SNS)
CINCINNATI, Ohio~(SPECIAL:
-Southern University of Scotlandville, Louisiana won the first annua] National N Intercollegiate
Invitational Basketball Tournament here Saturday night by defeating the touted North Carolina
State Eagles of Durham, North
Carclina, 48-42 in the championship finals.

The tournament was sponsored
by the Knoxville Alumni Club of
this city. The tournament committee was headed by Dehart Hubbard,
formér world and Olympic broad
jump champion, while general arrangements were in charge of Leon
Render, former Knoxville~ College
basketball sensation and president
cf the local graduate organization
here.

TWO-DAY TOURNAMENT

Six teams were entered in the
meet, with pairings being made
Thursday night, March 20, when
the drawing was conducted. Play
began at 2::30 o~clock Friday after
N.C. State Eagles By 48-42

noon, March 21. After a brief re- |
cess for supper, Play resumed at 7
o~clock in the evening. Three games
were played in the afternoon, three
others that night.

Saturday, play continued~ at 3
e~clock in the afternoon with ~ two
games scheduled. Saturday night,
following the usual recess for sup-~
per, action was resumed with the
consolation battle for third place
being run off first..Last came the
titular contest.
TOUGH ENTRIES 4

Competing other than Southern
anc N. C. State were Clark College from the SIAC, Kentucky
Stete and West Virginia from the
Midwestern loop, and North Carfolina A. and T., hailing from the
CIAA.

Southern brought supreme glory
to the Southwestern circuit with
her clean-cut romp ~through the
various rounds of the tournament,
while N. C. State, although freflecting credit upon the CIAA, was.

@ mild disappointment to most fans

in that, with Monied stac champion, the Eagles from Durham were

MIRACULOUS FEAT os
Of al teams,. South-\,

win the tournament, so Loven
feat-of the Jaguars goes into~) the.
records as an. Sata: 2 rane
prise.

Clark of Atlanta; 1940 stac
champion and 1941 runner-up \in.
that tough loop, was rated a ~dark _
horse~. and did succéss in car ae
the most enthusiastic~
threughout the tournament.
Clark fell before Southern 59-58
an overtime period Friday and
to N. C. State again Saturday 61- \ _~
54 in a free-scoring thriller. %,
- ~The tournament was staged on a
double-elimination: basis, two de=
feats being necessary to eliminate ~
a club, Southern and N. C. State
swept all opposition untit they
faced each other,. making the
Peek mee ihals a ~natural~.

By F. M. DAVIS

CHICAGO ~ (ANP) ~ Both the
Harlem Globe ~Trotters and the
New ~York Rens will have to wait
until March of 1942 before either
can again hope to wear the crdwn
of official world~s professional basketball champions. That~ honor
went Wednesday night to the white
Detroit Eagles in the final game
before 12,000 spectators at the International amphitheatre. The
Rens did save third place by drub-. bing the mixed Tcledo White Huts,
57 to 42, in what developed into a
contest between Dolly King and
Chuck Chuckovits.

Detroit Won the title by topping
Oshkosh, Wis., 39 to 37 after previously nosing out the Rens, 43 to
42, Tuesday night, and taking the
Trotters, 37 to 36, Sunday night.
The Motor City quintet therefore
performed the unbelievable feat of
trouncing the two greatest Negro
team, in basketball as well as the
champioris of the National league,

Monday night the great American
league kingpins, the Philadelphia
Hebrews, 38 to 31. Detroit, incidentally, had consistently lost all
season to. the Rens, Trotters: and
Oshkosh.

MAY BLAME THEMSELVES

But the two sepia aggregations,
who dominated the tournament in
both 1939 and 1940, have only themselves to blame for their failure.
Against Detroit, both were inept.
The Trotters, which led all the pray

Oshkosh, which had ~eliminated on [

until the fina] moments, lost because they committed 24 personal

fouls and neither Sonny Boswell |:

nor Bernie Price could find the
basket. The Rens, behind until
the last 30 seconds, lost.because
they muffed nine free throws and
admittedly the most dazzling passers in the game, couldn~t control
the sphere a half minute on a
throw-in from out of bounds.

The Rens, frankly, looked tightened up as the game began and
Detroit led at the end of the first
quarter, 13 to 10. During the entire second quarter no New Yorker
made a field~ basket although five
free shots were made @nd_ the
Eagles were ahead, 24 to 15, at intermission. But in the third period,
the Rens got g0ing and rang up
eight two-pointers, three of them
by Puggy Bell. Tarzan Cooper
went out on personals due to his
efforts to stop giant Ed Sadowski,
6 foot 7 1-2 inch, 224 pound Eagle
center who garnered 16 points,

LED 42-41!
Playing brilliant ball that final

10 minutes, the Rens crept closer
vand as the crowd yelled itself
hoarse, Pop Gates looped in a brilliant one hand toss to put the New
Yorkers in front, 42 to 41, with just
45 seconds to go. Gates wag fouled
as he shot and elected to take the
bal] outside. Because of the Rens~
reputation for keeping the ball min

utes ata time without the opposi
tion even touching the sphere, the
has throng was ~ to con
~s

Bea fen
Down 4

Down twice in the 13th before
the round was more than a minute old, the big New Yorker turned his back to Louis and walked
to the ropes, indicating that he~d
had enough. of. the ciampion~s
hard and solid: punches.

Honest Abe was down once in
the first and again in the third.

His decision to quit the ring.
automatically gave Louis the victory by the technical knockout
route after one minute and 30
seconds of the 13th round,

It was announced shortly after
the fight that Louis and Simon
would meet again in a return
bout on May 16.

_ Unable to keep the rugged
boxer down in the early rounds,
Louis coasted up to the eleventh
at which point he made another
desperate effort to end the fight
which. was. scheduled to go 20
rounds.

Joe thought he had finished his
man in the 1ith frame. So sure
was he of a knockout, he walked
to a neutral corner after landing
one of his hardest blows. But
tough Abe was still standing up

~after he had bounced off the;

Giant
Times

DETROIT, Mich.~(SNS)~Joe. Louis, weighing a mere
202 pounds, floored Giant Abie Simon,
times here in Olympia Arena Friday night. before the challenger decided he~d had enough.

~252 ~=pounds, four

foe, and quicker than the~ wink of
an eye, Simon was down in a sitting position. He was up at the
count, of nine.

Anxious to end the fight, the
Brown Bomber poured rights and
lefts on the tough body of old Abe
and next thing the folk knew, the
giant boxer was on the floor again:
He rolled over and slowly raised
himself. A handler threw a bucket
of water on him,:

Simon was on his feet again at
the count of eight. Joe was rea
to start drilling again. But Simon
had enough. He turned his back
to the champ, waved his hand at
the referee and walked to. his
stool.:

_ Louis almost slipped to the floor
in his own corner. in the sixth and
in the seventh hg had Sithon taking a semi-dive through the ~
rope.

A right to the face sent since to
the canvas~in the first, but he was
up before the referee could say
two.

Simon. took a good dedi of Winishment in the second and when
the third came around he fa\id
himself sitting down on the floor
@gain. When he realized where he
was, he gave off a big grin.

Rens, Globe Trotters Must Blame
Themselves For Defeat--Davis

cede a New York victory,

Anxious to grab the ball, Detroit
committed another foui. Again the
Rens took it outside. Now there
were only 30 seconds to go. In
went Capt. Eyre Saitch ie Willie
Smith, dazzling defense men, Ittte
play went the leather, fiying from
cne brown hand to another. Syddenly there was a flash of white
fingers. As the crowd gasped, Bud
Jeannette of the Eagles stole the
bell and dribbled madly down the: floor, a Ren in wild pursuit, to
flip the final two points. Jeannette
was fouled-and Detroit carried the
sphere out with 10 seconds to go.
The gun went off as the New
Yorkers fought desperately to gain
control and the game ended, De--
troit,. 43, Rens 42.

MISSED 9 OF 15 FOUL SHOTS

Although the officiating wag definitely pro-Eagle, the Rens: still
must blame themselves for the loss;
Their total of nine~ free throws
missed out of 15 tries, is~an almost |
unheard-of mark~ for this great
team. Pop Gates alone failed on
five; Smith on two and Bell and
King one each. Scoring star for
the losers was Wilmeth SidatSingh who had five baskets and
one free toss for 11 points.

54

KING-CHUCKOVITS DUEL

The Toledo quint was ahead at
the end of the first quarter, 11 to
10 against the Rens, but the Rens
turned on the heat to lead at the
half, 28 to 21, and'at the start of
the fourth quarter, 46 to 26. By
this time the personal duel between
King and Chuckovits was the point
of interest. The Toledo sensation
had already broken the tournament record for total points. and ~

total ~of~ 25. So: the
tried to feed the sphere
while the Reng sought to:
ly open shots at the
ae ended with King ha

in the third,.and three fret~ throws,:
while the Ohio white boy hada
like total on eight field shots and

next for Toledo with 11 points on
five floor shots and one free: toss:
By comparison with the. Detroit -
game, the Rens missed only three
free throws out of nine chances.
However, the tournament ~still

leaves unanswered. the problem of
which is the better team, the Rens
or Trotters. Both lost by one poing..
to Detroit; the champions, and intheir only two previous meetings |
each has won @ close victory.
are scheduled to play at the College All Star-Oshkosh game next
November. ~;