Brownsville Weekly News

By Lucius JONES

National Golf Champions Produced at New|

Wi PACH Net a gia a eee |

Lincoln Country Glub.in Atlanta, Georgia,
Faster Than Anywhere Else in Country.

THE NEW LINGOLN Golf and Country Club, located

cut Simpson Road in Atlanta, Georgia ~ Gate City of the|:{
South ~ is the cradle of more nationa] champions than any |;

other metropolitan community in the nation.

Chicago, has her famous Robert Patrick (Pat) Ball, only q

i ir-time winner of the coveted national open title; Ashe
e. N. C. boasts her crack John Dendy, three-time victor. in {he coveted meet; and other leading, cities like New Or
leans, La. (Edison Marshall) and Gadsden, Ala, (Solomon
Hughes) have produced national champions.

But the Gate City leads in the productica of national
champions with claim to Howard Wheeler, 1933. and 1938
winner of the open crown in Chicago; Hugh Smith of
~Thomaston, Georgia, 1940 open champion who will be~ defending champion in the meet next August in Boston; as
well as Alfred F: (Tup) Holmes, erstwhile national amateur

champion, and ~Miss Mel Moye, former national women~s
champion.

~It mast also be remembered that Dendy, after all his

_ efforts, never. won the coveted national open title until the
became affiliated with New Lincoln in Atlanta, Playing out
of the Gate City; Dendy twice crashed through for title, so
bos it would be nothing short of an injustice to fail to give

ew Lincoln its share of praise for the former Morehouse
collegian~s great~ development ittto championship timber.

Wheeler and Dendy won the Southern Open twice ~
Wheeler i in 1933 and 1936; Dendy in 1932 and 1934. Dendy~s

three national titles go Wheeler one better, but he has com-|_

peted longer than the ex-Brooklyn caddie in the U. G. A.
championships.

Smith boasts but one national crown, but has really

established himself as the No. 1 golfer to hit Southern Open
ranks. He won the title hands down in 1937 and 1938 and
came se last year to make it three. Zeke Hartsfield won
in 1939
Smith, by the way, holds the all-time low of 263 fot 72 |
holes on the New Lincoln course and it was carded in South-|ern Open play in 1938. Wheeler, on the other hand, has the
all-time low for the National Open, turning in a spectacular
~284 for even 72 hole par figures in 1938 over Chicago~s Palos
Park course~one of the five toughest in the land. Another
bouquet for New Lincoln!
Atlanta~s New Lincoln also. boasts the unique record
ef producing three national champions in one of and the

same year ~ 1938 They: were Wheeler in the Open, Holmes

in the Amateur, and Miss Moye in the women~s ~Nationals~~~. 99
The. New Lincoln links has a par of 33 in and 33 out
- for an 18-hole route of 66 and the longest. hole is the 311 yard
eighth, while.the only, other hole over the.300 yards is the
~25-yard. fifth. The 18-hole yardage is 4,614 yard. Hugh|
Smith i is the only player ever to turn the 72-hole par of 261
informal competition. His 263 in 1938 hanking a_ stroke
under,
~Best nine hole performances at New Lincoln are shared
by Dendy and Zeke Hartsfield with 28~s, while the top 18 -hole figure of 59 is held jointly by Dendy,. Howard Pitts
-and John (Honey) Smith. ~Honey~ boasts a 29, which was
~the record until the pair of 28~s came along. Wheeler has
shot the. New Lincoln course in 61 (five under par) several
times, ~but never in tournament play; hence, the record for
tourfiament figures (a hot 61) goes to Hugh Smith, |

Members of the Hole-in-One Glub are nine in number.
The lucky players, the ~hole, and yardagg, are given below:

PLAYER HOLE YARDAGE: Theodore Gooshy..........--.............--- No. 9 vt Aa 280
ee eee st... No. 1: 244
A NI no eons rsenep cep No. 3 207
~John (Honey) Smith A ee No. 3 207
ee SO nonce No. 4 190. Stokes. Stalmaker...........................- No. 4 190
Bea Wes 2s. No. 2 152
Det W. W. Wheeler......................-. No. 2 152
a 2 Gp" daleeiaien aeiane segment ee ne No. 2 152

_. By deduction, then, one is to conclude that the thighest
- holes at~ New Lincoln are those in which ~aces~ have never

fallen~the 325-yard fifth, 280-yard sixth, 288-yard seventh,
- and 341-yard eighth.

-. Atlanta~s Arthur L. Miller is a former national presi~dent of the United Golf Association, having filled out the
~anexpired term of deceased Leonard E. Kenerly, late of New
_ York City, and later served in that capacity. Kenerly had
ssucceeded Robert: H. Hawkins, pioneer president of the organization, while Ralph Chilton followed _~ in the na-: tional executive seat.

_~ ~Phe past ~Sunday, at invitation of Mr. Miller, the column
~watched Morris Brown team go through ~ ~wood~? control ex
_ertions and a later five-man: rampage on Old Man Par over
the first nine, holes. The: quintet were William Shannon, Wil~Ham. Turner, William: Mitchell, Clarence Jackson, and Floyd

~Tipton. ~Their ~cards were as follows:

CARD
334~354~354~34
353~354~44435
44344535436
545444343 36
565,~446~454~43. Jackson, with 20 and 17 foot putts, revealed a brilliant
~short game~, but. Mitchell~s 24-foot niblick ~pitch~ for a
r three at the third hole was more spectacular, because
dE, came after his wood.shot: had bounded far off course after
hitting ~a tree, thus leaving him in a spot~ Where he might
easily -have taken five. Even more spectacular were 305 and
--$15 yard tee shots with a Jim Thompson wood by Shannon.
e latter enabled him to do a difficult par four at No. 5.
ae them ost, phenomenal feat of all was Shannoni~s 70-foot
pee for a i three at the seventh ~hole. It was pitched

om. amid. outside the fence which had to be
es

PLAYER /
"Jackson

sanded surface of the green with
ug resistance of excessive sand and
rerplur irae ea The column has covered many seconal meets and experienced endless thrills watching specacu ar ~golf in a driving: rain,. soaking fairways, and soggy
nt? the~ hppa in 1985 in New York when
Solomo: but nothing seen in any of those

[ JOE? STILL~ KING OF THEM ALL.

MARIO Wad. Aur eu Week, Nov.

TONY CAME CLOSE TO
LIFTING LOUIS CROWN
CLEAR OUT OF THE

- FIGHTING BUSINESS
FOR HIS PAINS. ~

~SCUSE ME, FOLKS
~JUST HEARD OF }
RA NEW ar. ~
i St En

NOT ONLY SEEKING
A ~WHITE HOPE~ -SUT
ANY KIND OF HOPE J

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Joe Louis, Entire Negro Race

DETROIT~ (ANP)~ While
most people here are still commenting favorably about the radio
program over a nationwide hookup
Sponsored by the Urban | League
Sunday, March 20, at which time
& plea was made for jobs for.Negroes in industry in connection
With the defense program, one organzaition here known as the Atlas
Power group, strikes a sour note
and severely criticises the program
in particular and the Negro. in
general

The Atlas Power group, headed
by Arthur Reed, is circulating leaflets entitled, ~Claim Your Heritage,~ with a sub-head: ~Don~t Let
Injury Follow Insult,~ After having made an overture of no apolo-.
gies for the statements, the leaflet said of the ~supposedly Negro
leaders~: ~We heard ~Mammy~
Ethel Waters, Uncle Tons and
the professional flunkies, Bill ~Bojangles~ Robinson, Rochester, Jos
Louis Barrow and others, Such a

program was the most dastardly in
silt and: ~show of ignorance ever
heaped upom the heads of a race
of people.~

~SLAP AT WHOLE RACE

The pamphlet takes a slap at
ministers, churches, religion Negro
business. He says Negroes have no
right to even dare to approach the
great industrial leaders while Negroes will spend $35,000 to $100,000
for amusement places for-~~a pleasure drunk race,~

~Our most worthy champion, Joe
Louis,~ the leaflet expounds, ~and
even ~his Managers have no background but that of the average
poor Negro yet thousands of ~the
Same class of which they ~ were
birthed stand by and see them
squander thousands of dollars on
such things as golf links; amusement farm, riding academy, club
houses and petty insurance companies.~

VICTIM OF ~COMPLEX~

Mr. Reed, head of the~ Atlas
Power group, is an inventor of
sorts. He has a brake which he has

been ctiddatorteet to manufacture
for,some time. The sale of stock
in the.company he reprsents has
not been- satisfactory and it seems
that. the group is sore with..the
world because the race cannot see
the prospects of.the company~s
the prospects of the | company~s
future development.. He strikes - at
the ministers because, as the leaflet says, the preachers would not
allow him to sell the idea in their
churches and solicit funds for its
manufacture.

The power group has a yearn to
build factories and employ _ the
masses of Negroes and wants it to
be done with Negro capital, having refused white interests. They
say~the thing that has kept the
Tace poor is the fact that ~we
have $200,009,000 worth of churches
and $19,000,000 wortn of Masonic,
Pythian, Odd Fellow, Elks ~and
Woodman temples and lodge property, but not a penny for industries of our own.~

Ethiopian Clowns Split
Pair Of Games Against
N. Y. Mohawk Giants

MIAMI, Fla~(SNS)~The New
York Mohawk Giants. displayed
sensational fielding and pitching
performances in the season~s opener
at Dorsey Park, when they took
the famous Miami Ethiopian
Clowns into camp by a 4 to 1
ceunt, before a crowd of 1,800 fans,
with Perry, Jackson and Walker
laboring on the mound for the Moaawks, and Abbadaba, Kankol and
Macon working for the losers.
Smith lead the batting attack for
the New Yorkers with three singles
and a double in five trips to the
plate.

The Ethiopian Clowns_ had their |
revenge on Monday, however, |
handing the visiting Mohawk.
Giants a 6 to 0 whitc-wash, with,
Kankol and Abbas ha urning |
to the sich te turn in the shut-out
for the paintec-faced diamond

Te.

performers, holding the New York~ |

ets to a lone hit, The score by
innings:
At Miami, Pla.

~R H E

N.Y. MOHAWK GIANTS |
003 200 000-4 9 0

ETHIOP CLOWNS
000 000 0-1 3.3

Batteries: ~Perry, Jackson, Walker and Bird. Abbudaba, 1
Macon and Tarzan,

{Monday~s-game 8,

2

N.Y. MOHAWK GIANTS
000 000 000-0 1 2

ETHIOP CLOWNS
003 012 O0x~6 12 0
Batterits:: Jackson, Johnson,
Petry and. Bird. Kankol, Abbadaba
and Tarzan, Khora.:

~NEW YORK, N. Y.~(SNS)~The
Ethiopian Clowns~ will face the
New York Mohawk Giants in an
exhibition at Clearwater, | Florida
this Sunday, April 2; leaving after
the game for appearances together
at Thomaston, Ga. on Monday
afternoon, April 21; and Macon;
Ga, Thursday and Friday pues
April 24 and 25.

The Ethiopian Clowns are slated. to oppose the Ft. Benning
Regimental team at the Colum
-Association~s

Memphis Stellar _
Boxers Ready For
Tri-State Meet

His, Tenn.~(SNS)~
fter giving a fime account of
themselves in 1g 2 Alabama at~the A. A./U. Elimination
Boxing Ratnaha t,.and in Boston, Massachusetts. at the Golden
Gloves Championship bouts, Mem
-phis~. best colored amateur nrize
ring. artists will be presented here
through Thursday night in the anpual. Tri-States -Amateur Boxing
~~Tournament.. ~The
tournament got underway yesterday, at Beale Avenue Auditorium.

The Memphians who went - to
Boston, after. weiing at ~ Montgomery were: -. Joseph Atkins.
featherweight; Cassell Tate, flyweight; Archie Smith, heavyweig
and Whit Little, bantam.

~In his bout in Boston smith
showed up so well against a high*\ly touted white~ amateur heavy, |
mtil, White. gk sports writers |
went ha~ | Over. him. One
writer said,

resday night, April 23: and on!

Sunday and Monday, April 27 and

78, open the Negro baseball sea- |:

son for the Mobile Black Shippers | he

at Hartwell Field, Mobile, with a |:

double he:jiar Sunday afternoon |....

and a might game on Monday. The } ~

Mohawk Giants are scheduled at an Irish

a-Puliteer ~ prize | ~
for courage were awarded at the |

bus Ga. league park next ~Wed- ~Second =

REYNOLD

MO MERY, Ala.~(SNS)~
Track teams from 29 colleges scat_
tered all over the southeru, gouthwestern, and mid-western. sections
have been invited to participate in
the Second Annual *Bama State
Pelays which will be held in Hornet Stadium Friday and Saturday,
April 18 _ 19.~

Acceptances have been pouring
into Athletic Director C. J. Dunh~s
office all week and __ indications
point to SoMe score or more participants for the event this year,
more than triple the number of en_
trants of last spring when only
six teams came. Three major con.
ferences, the SIAC, Southwestern,
anq Midwestern, and a number of
non.conference colleges scattered

represented.

~Xavier copped. the major por.
tion of the honors in the initial
met ~last spring as she did in all

local team which pushed them
with close seconds on most occa.
sions last year, is geared to end the
long reign of the Catholic clan this
spring. Ret the great Tar.
rant, Who won the Southern. Conference dash events last spring and
+ater placed in the summer meets
at~ Columbus, Milwaukee, and Fres.
No last summer,, the Hornet stan.
ties are regarded by many as

most serious threat to Ralph Met
ealf~s boys.
Tarrant and two of his new

" By JAMES H. PURDY, Jr
MEMPHIS, Tenn.~(SNS)~
The Cuban Stars of Havana,

Cuba, will invade the Memphis
Red Sox~s territory for a-two Day
~~Three Game baseball exhibition
this Saturday aid Sunday at Martin~s Pield. *

The Game Saturday, April 19th
Will be catied at 3 p. m. the first
dobule-header for the season is
scheduled for Sunday. April
and the game will be calle promptly at 2:30 p. m.

The Cuban Satrs is-the only
ALL; CUBAN baseball Club now
touring the United States of America. They gre full fledged members
of the Negro National League and
is the only Club bonded by the
United..States Government.

The first edition of the Cuban
Stars made their official appearance in organized. Baseball in
1905 with only nine (9) players
and; played. a foal of. fifty-four

20th |

Cuban Stars Meet |
Red Sox Saturday |%

games during their. three. months
stay in the States.

Today the team travels in its
own bus and catties 18 players who
average 160-games per season doing
their five months stay, playing |.
Afternoon, Twilight and Night
Baseball, ~Most of the players are
small in stature, according to their
manager, it adds greatly: when
speed is essential.

Very few of the players on the
team can speak English readily and
_offtimes their signals are spoken
in their native tongue, Spanish,
which sometimes confuses the average ball player who is unfamiliar
with the e.

CUBANS DEFEATED MEMPHIS
BILL TERRY~S TEAM

A few seasons ago the Cuban

Stars defeated,~Memphis Bill pen

ry~s~ New York Giants while

were doing ~Spring Training~, ~i

Cuba, while otie Gtsthe Eaanes GP

ing 12 winigs ~to 0 51 es,

a eas

~Says Jimmy

td
(EXCLUSIVE LETTER TO SNS)
~~Billy Conn and Lou Nova, chal.
lengers for Joe Louis~ title, are
yelling their heads off because Joe
Louis: won't: sign to Meet them immediately. Well, Al Smith -would
say, ~let's look at the record~ of
these two men in relation to fight.
ing colored boxers,
~Nova has never given a colored
boxer a chance to earn a dollar.
~Men like Eddie Blunt, Buddy
Walker, Lem Frankliny Tiger Jack
Warrington; Willie Reddish, Jim
Thompson or Roscoe Toles cannot
get Nova into the ring with them.
Nova has Said many times:he will
NOT box a cmored man but Joe
Louis and, should he win, he'll
never box another one. Still he
insists upon Joe _ Louis fighting
him.
-~Do you think Billy Conn would
get into the fing with Blunt,

son, Tiger Jack Warrington or
Roscoe Toles? - Still, while refusing
to let the above mén earn a liv.
ing with him, Conn is hollering
ploody murder,- because Loui:
won~t~,meet him. Of course, you
know. Joe Louis is a very intelliEent yourg~ Man. ag well as being
one of the best heavyweights 1
shave ever seen And, being intel.
agent, he has 2 memory. Sy Billy
Conn. and -Lou Nova, stop trying
to kid a great. champion and stop
-boxing old: men, cripples, and setups.. Show: the boxing ans you
-will let a colored man earn some
money,by boxing him~but not a

arches, or ~T. B.~

~Bob Pastor ana Abe Simon have
boxed every colored man that a
promoter has asked them to meet
and -here is a list of them: Otis

Franklin, Reddish, Walker, Thomp\

-colored boxer with asthma, fallen |:

Conn, Nova Fail To lve
Sepia Aspirants ~Break~,

Johnston

Thompson, and Roscoe Toles,

~The synthetic heavyweight Billy Conn. ran out ~of a signed contract to box Clarence Jones in
Buffalo some time ago.

~Nova and Conn are insisting Upon Joé Louis meeting: them. If Olsen~and Johnson were to say things
as funny, the customers would roll.
right into the aisle. ~

Imagine Lou Nova, a man who
hag been in a. sanatorium for @
year, frying to get a match -with
Joe Louis.

~It would make a ~horse laugh to
see what some of the experts like
Ed Cochrane, and the rest of the
Chicago boxing writers wrote after
watching Fancy Dan~s tefrific battle with Gunnar Barlund. -Barlund
wanted to fight but his manager
didn~t want him hurt. I ask you,
is that funny or not.

~Oh, I almost forgot, Bob Pastor and Abe Simon have gone
thirty four rounds with Joe Louis.
Do you think Conn, Who can~t
hurt you or Nova, who gets angry
if you miss him with punches, could
stay any length of time with Joe
Louis? Bob Pastor gave Joe Louis
two great fights. Abe Simion gave
Joe Louis one of the hardest contests any champion ever had and
both are clean cut college men,
born and raised in New York~.

(Signed) ~ James J. Johnston.

Victory |

A f~w years ago both were
Glo eae ube

Bese: state of Goria will be

other meets in this section, but the

will compéte in the ~coming | meet
will be Haines (discus) anid Amos
(low hurdles) aoe Morehouse, ~Tarrant (100 yard dash) and~ Walker
(high jump), of "Bama "State, ~Ber.

1y high jump) of ee fee
(distance runs) and (p p

vault) of Xavier:
Holmes, two coniary aie
Florida, and Slade" ~iat s
quarter milers and relay ats
of Tuskegee.

~Texas Smith, "Bama State~s:.and low. hurdle performer;

son, will be so-ely Ss
~is b:
making rapt progress on the~ le.
to the team this sone.
The Hornet track team partici-.
| pated in the Pfairie View College
Relays last week in their first ~
performance. of ~the present _s
son. A tough schedule calling
their appearance in all of 2 ine ~na
~jor meets of this section | and. the
~Penn Relays will keep the boys.on
the gg: until~ school closes in tiga

Golden Gloves.
King Defeats
Coast Champ

By SAM McKIBBEN

KANSAS CITY, Mo. ~ 3S)~
vin Site gee es
weight te ~pounded

i

was a far cty from being invulr
able to a deadly barrage of ~

jabs and right hand ~pu.| thrown from all angles,

Gerald White, 135-pound sensa| tion, won a clean. cut decision over
_Dick Porteur, coast ehampion.
White would have hung a kayo on
his foe had he been ~# bit more
fggressive, After the bout he. ex_ plained that a long ride from Bos| ton, Mass., had so tired him until
~fe wasn~t "put to par. We are glad
for Porteur~s sake that White, was
tired.

Roy. Miller, 160 siugeet. Jost, his
bout with Frank Gimble, elongated
puncher from the coast. Three slip~downs cost. Miller the fight, rather
than Gimble~s superiority although
the lad is good.

Levi Southall, a clever little. 126
pounder, went like a house-afire in.
the first ~anto and a part of. the
second before tiring visibly, ~He
_Spurted a little in the third to cop
-the decision but it Was close, ~
close.

The evenings best bouts were
those in which White and Jordan
figured. ral

seldom wasted a eee Sgite
ability to take it was so | Monday night. That big boy from he
~coast can really punch and he
Ala few times too.
White, a peantiful fight: maope, pokes well and peck de
Nel eb in_ hi
est. The ho fh.;

Throughout, In madi ~sa hd
White is a. smart, crafty.
that should go a long way ~ar,the
fistic mos. cults

Bridge Tourney )

NEW YORK~ (ANP) Fig ers