Brownsville Weekly News

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SPORTS
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Track, Field Records Established By, - Southern Negro College Stars Compare

Favorably with Best in United Sates
(Best Marks by Southern Negro Polleges)

EVENT ECORD
100 yard dash 9.5
220 yard dash - 21.0
120 yard hurdles 15.0.,
220 yard hurdles 23.7
440) yard run 48.4
yard run 1:57.5
830. yard: rane 1:27.9
Mile. run - 4:22.5
Mile: relay: 3:20.9
Two mile relay 836.3 -
Broad jump 24:1),
High jump 615%
Shot put 51:4%
Pole vault 12:6
Javelin 195:7. Discus 145:7

BACK IN EARLY MAY, 1938, when Mozel Ellerbe, the

~Hastings, Florida, Howitzer, catapulted his bronze frame

to a spectacular triumph in the 100 yard dash at the twelfth
annual Tuskegee Relays in the impressive time of 9.5, O.
B. Keeler, pioneer columnist of the Atlanta JOURNAL,
white afternoon daily, admitted he felt the Tuskegee timers
were: seeing pink elephants on their stopwatches,

That was the prevailing opinion of the white press gen
erally regarding creditable cinderpath times chalked up in
all-Negro college track and field carnivals.

The position of the Nordic press seemed plausible

eriough at that time, because no athlete developed in a
southern Negro college had, then, made his presence felt
in. any major white meet of the country~even in the few
cases where any Negroes were entered at all.: Athletic Director Cleve L. Abbot{, famous Tuskegee
coach, always resented this backwardness and did not relish the lack of recognition accorded southern Negro track
and field achievement at all.

To make a formal step toward removing the _ skepticism of the white press regarding performances of southern
~Negro track.stars.. Coach Abbott entered Ellerbe in the
1939 Penn Relays. You know the story from there.

Southern Negro track history _was revolutionized as
Ellerbe, the Tuskegee flyer, toured:the classic 100 yard
dash in a spectacular 9.6 to win the Penn Relays century
from a crack field of five Nordic rivals. He had survived
earlier semifinal heats, one of which he won in 9.7.

-. Later, Ellerbe won the NCAA century. He captured the
Kansas State Invitational 100 yard dash in 9.5. In 1940,
he repeated: in both the Penn Rleays and NCCA in 9.6..

Keeler had beén converted! He greeted Ellerbe~s spectacular success in these major meets. with a lead paragraph
in his sports column of this substance:

~Skeptical though we all were, it, is now ~time to concede those timers down at the Tuskegee Relays. really know
their business. When they clocked Ellerhe in 9.5, we thought
they were not mentally balanced. But if Ellerbe can run the
Penn Relays and NCAA in the same time they computed
at Tuskegee, it is evidently not our business to further doubt
the efficacy of Tuskegee timing.~

~To add further credence to and reliability in timing of
performers of contestants in Southern Negro track and field
championships, Norman Holmes, Atlanta, Georgia, Annihilator, bagged the Central AAU century dash in 9.7 at Mar
cuette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1939. In the.

field events, Joshua (Shagois) Williamson. and Lilburn
{Joe Louis) Williams of Xavier won the high jump and shot
put: respectively in the 1939 Drake Relays. Last year, both
Xavier and Tuskegee placed.in the three relay events, between them, at the Penn Relays. Edward Culp, miler, and
Gilder Farrow, hurdler, also won Xavier pdints in the Drake
Relays. |

All this achievement by athletes representing southern
Negro colleges has removed every vestige of doubt concerncerning two things:

(1) Reliability of timing in southern

meets;
(2) Inherent excellence of sepia athletes in track ath.
tics.

colored _ track

The second annual Alabama State Relays were conduct-.

ed at Montgomery the past Saturday, April 19, and eight
records fell, while two were equalled.

Smashed marks for the Bi dcestao Alabama - State
meet were as follows:

NEW OLD
100 yard dash 9.5 9.6
440 yard run 49.0 49.5
440 yard relay 42.0 43.1.
$80.:yard ~relay 1:28.2 1:29.0
Two mile relay. $:06.3 8:28.5
~Broad: jump 24:1% 23.64% ~~ |
~ Shot put 45:01%4 42.0
Mile run 4:22.5 4:39.9

Equalled. records were the pole vault mark of 12 feet. |
6 inches, and the 120 yard high hurdles in 15 seconds flat. |
The new ~Bama State mark in the century now equals that. in the Tuskegee Relays and SIAC meet. The 120 yard hurdles |

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mark tied the SIAC record. The Alabama State broad |

jump mark of last week is the best in southern Negro col- |
lege history and surpasses both the Tuskegee Relays and |
SIAC figures. The same is true of the mile run in which,
Xavier~s Edward Culp beat his previous effort of 4:24.1
at the SIAC carnival in Atlanta last spring by a wide margin~4 22.5.

National Interscholastic,
Southern Intercollegiate
Tennis Tourney May 8-9

25th Annual Championships of the
erican Tennis Association

~TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.~

_FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, MICH.~

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Members of the Tuskegee University women's
track squad are seen dtjting a visit in the office of
Mayor Tom Taggart of Atlantic City, -N. J. The
~team was at the seashore to compete in the National
Senior Women~s Indoor Track aiid Field Champion.

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Hayette Hall.

Front row (left to right) Mrs. Christine Pet~ty, coach; Lelia Perry, Lucy Newell and Alice Coach_
man; rear row,
Hester Brown, Lilly Purifoy, Rowena

Mayor. Taggart, ~~ Barnes,
arrison: and

By J. M. (SLIM) REYNOLDS
(Exclusive to SNS)

MONTGOMERY, Ala.~(SNS) ~
Xavier University of New Orleans
did not dominate the second an-.nual Alabama State Relays. here
the past Friday
April 18-19, as she has done other
southern meets of the past few
years, because Coach David Albritton, late of Ohio State and coholder with Cornelius Johnson of
|the world high jump record, has
developed a phenomenally strong
and well balanced array of cinderpath and field artists at "Bama
State.

Xavier amassed most points with
55 and 1-3; but- Alabama was within a hair~s breadth with 46 and 5-6,
while Tuskegee -had 19 and 2-3,
Southern 17 and.2-3;.Morehouse 15,
Fort. Valley five, -Morris Brown
three and a half, and Stillman Institute one.

HAINES BRILLIANT

James (Pinky) Haimes of Morehouse, most effective SIAC high
Scorer the past basketball campaign, was the only individual
double: winner and~ hence high
point man of the meet with 10
points accumulated on first places
in the discus. throw and javelin
toss. However, Ulysses (Champ)
Amos, hi? Maroon teammate, won

and * Saturday

the 220 yard low hurdles in the
impressive time of 24.5 seconds.
| Cecil (Skeet) Franklin of Morris
Brown placed in the javelin event.

The biggest surprise of the
day, though, was provided by Marshall of Fort Valley, unsung product of Coach William O~Shields,
the ex-Minnesota dash man, who
upset a fast field of favorites and
won the classic 440-yard run in
49 seconds flat.

TARRANT CLICKS

Leo Tarrant of Alabama ran
true to form in setting a new meet
record in the 100 yard dash which
he won in 9.5 seconds, equalling
the SIAC and Tuskegee Relays
record. Edward Culp of Xavier,
greatest miler in conference history, had no trouble taking that
event in: 4:22.5.

Xavier and Tuskegee were by far
the most powerful in the relays,
each copping a pair of the four.
SUMMARIES
100 yard dash

Tarrant (A), Hicks (X), Siete
(X)~9.5.

120 high hurdles

Paxton (X), Fallow
liams (A)~15 flat.
220 low hurdles

Amos(M), Farrow
(S)~24.5,

(X), Wil
(%), Towns

440 yard run

Marshall (Ft, V.), Bryant (CX),

Pinky Haines Only Individual
Double Winner In "Bama Meet

Epps (S)~49 flat.
440 yard relay

Xaxier, Alabaha, Tuskegee ~ 42
flat.

880 yard, relay
Xavier, Alabama, Tuskegee~
1:28.2.:
Mile relay
Tuskegee, Xavier, Southern~
Fwo mile relay,
3.22.7.
Tuskegee, Alabama, Southern ~
8:6.3,
Haines.(M), Foston (A), Scott
(A)~127 feet.
Javelin

Haines (M), Mills (X), Franklin,
(MBC)~172: 1 and X-8.
Broad Jump

Walker (A), Douglass (X), Al
Jones (~A)~24:1 1-2.
High Jump

John. Jones (A), Walker (A);

three-way tie (Culver of Tuskegee,
Carter of Tuskegee, Martin of Alabama with Carter winning toss for
medal)~6:5.
Shot Put
Robart (X),
(A)~45 1-2 feet,
Pole Vault
Brown (S), Farmer C&),
son~ (T)~triple tie, 12-6.,
Mile Run
Culp: (XxX),
(X)~4:22..

Scott (A), Greene
Robin
Baugh (A), Easley

Gary Indiana; Vashon and Sumner of St. Louis; Paris Texas and
Kansas among Entries.

JEFFERSON CITY. Mo.~(Spe
|ed to converge on St.
| 10 for the monster Middie-Westcrn

| nival.

-tial)~The cream of the nation~s
high school track stars are expect
High School Track and Field CarAbout 300 contestants from
30 high schools representing nine
states, s~ Me as. far aistant as Texas.

imen's singles championship will |
Diay the winner of! the men~s Colorcad Int ercolicgiate Athletic
sociation for the Williems~ Cup on
Wednesday Arrust 2f, at. Tuskegee, during American Teords
Association Chaurinneshins

In the inters~e <'>
Fath <checl mav prte
in): the Co: Guirk

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tee cpvier hh

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Louis, May |: |; medley relay championship of Tex
-According to advance inquiries
East Tech of Cleveland, Ohio may
ehter at least one man in the meet,
Another school that plans to be
present is Gibbons High schoo! of
Paris, Texas. The ~Gonhers from
Paris, Texas have won the sprint

as there straight years. Their stra
is Lewis Smith, Texas state chimpion and record holder in 440.
Last week at Sunshine Invitation
/al Meet at San Antonio, Smith won

led in 49 flat in stepping ~the dist- |

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tine 440 in 51/2 and then was clock
ance.

The strong and well-baianced

' Vashon High schoc] Wolverines de
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fending their Missuuri state title for
the third straight year are favorites
to~~win the Middle-Western meet.

~Other strong teams expected ti
{fake part are Kansas Vocatlonai

and two~ ~contestants in back of the | School of ~Topeka, Kansas; Reose
singles events
Play will start at 9 a.m., May 8,
for both college and nigh ~schools.
The draw will be made Thursday
evening. No two men or women
from the same University shall
meet before the second or shird
round, if possible. Tne amateur
riles of the United States Lawn
Tennis Association and the American Tennis Association will apply
in. all intercellegiate and interscholastic events.
Lodging will be furnished all contestants, Meals mar be secured in

belt high of Gary Indiana; Lincoln.
High of Kansas City, Mo.;: Northeast Junior High of Kansas City,
Kansas; Washington High of Ashland. Ky.; Sumner High cf 5t.
Louis, Mo.; University High of
Jefferson City, and a host of other

teams. Preliminaries are slated to be

Neld at ten a. m: in the 100,

220 200 yard hurdles and*120 yard |,

high hurdles. nad finals in the discus. *
The final will open at cne thirty

~with the crowning of ~Miss Middie- |
West~ and parade of -contestants.

Pubic School Siadjum, vast con
Nation~s Prep Stars To St. Louis
For Middle-Western Track Meet

~Tete amphi-theatre seating 24.000
fans will be the scene of the ~meet.
This beautiful stadium will furnish
a, nearly perfect setting for the
track meet.

The-meet is all-high school with
no college or exhibition events to
detract from the prep events.

Twelve handsome trophies~ will be
in competition anc 60 gold, bronzes
and silver médais will go: the
individual contestants.

The events to be. contested are
as follows; 100, 220, 440, 380, mule,
120, yard high hurdles. 200 yard
low hurdles broad jump, high jump.
pole vault, discus and shot put and
half mile medley relay.

The meet. is under the sponsorship of Mo. State Negro InterScholastic Athletic Association. Entries will close May 6, 1941 anc
Schools interested in entering men
should contact, J. D.- Parks, sectreas., MNIAA, Lincoln,University,
Jefferson City. Mo.

CHICAGO WAITERS UNION

PRESENTS RESOLUTIONS *
CINCINNATI~(A N P)~At the

30th general convention of the Ho-: A. PF. of L., held here
Monday in the (Plaza

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TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala~
General announcements for the
15th Annual Tuskegee Relay Carnival, May 10, and the (13th Juhior
and Senior -Women~s~ Track and
Field Championships, May 9, 1941:

The baton will be used in ali relays. No entrance ~fee will be
charged. Entry blanks will be, mailed April 28. Entries close May

Please let uS hear from you as
soon as possible. Send in names of
outstanding athletes and their
events at once for ~your own pub_
licity.. No post entrigs will be accepted after midnight May 2.

Lodging will be furnished all
contestants and coaches free, with_
out cost. Contestants and coaches
will have to pay for all meals.
These may be secured in the school
cafeteria gt a nominal cost.. It is
estimated that the cost per contestant per day will be about sixty

~cents. Of course, this depends up_
on the amount of food eaten. Meals
taken in the cafeteria will be paid
for in cash. This year~in addition
to the large number of challenged
cups and trophies. for relays and
special events, a large certificate
suitable for framing will be awarded to the winners of the first, sec_
ond and third places, respectively,
in each Junior and Senior event
for women as well as in the events
for college men and high school
boys, individual medals will not
be awarded this year. The engraved Certificates~ taking their
places. Drawing will take place
for all women~s events May 8 at 8
p. m. Logan Hall and for all.relays
May 9, at 8 p. m.

The~ Major, Julius B. Ramsey
Challenge Trophy presented in 1929
by Mrs. Carrie S. Ramsey, is the
most famous trophy. in competition
of women sports ~today. Trophy
winners have been: 1929, Tugkegee
Institute, 1930.31, Fort Valley State
College; 1931, Tuskegee Institute;
1933, Fort Valley State~ College;
1934, Booker T. Washington High
School Atlanta, Ga.; 1935-36_37-38,
Tuskegee Institute; 1939, Prairie
View College? 1940, Tuskegee Institute.

This trophy will go to the senfor
women~s 440 yard relay winner,
and will be held by the winner for
one year when it will again be put
in competition.

The Frank A. Young Challengs
Cup, put in competition last year,
will also go to the winner in this
event. Tuskegee Institute won the
first leg on this trophy last year.
Other Frank A, Young Challenge
Cups are as follows: The Famous
Challenge cup for one mile relay
championship of America, Won last
tyear by Tuskegee ~Institute and
which after 25 years of competition
will be placed in Tuskegee~s Trophy
room. Prévious cup winners haVe
been: In 1937, Prairie View; 1938,
Prairie View; 1939, Prairie View;
1940, Tuskegee Institute. The reéc_
ord time for this event is 3.19.2
seconds, made in 1938 by Hollins
Marks, Alleniece, and Marion, of
Prairie View State College. Also!

~there is the Frank A. Young: Challenge Cup for the one mile relay
championship of America to be
held permanently by the team win-,
ning three times. Legs on the cup |
have been won by the following
teams: 1987, Tuskegee Institufe
High School; 1938, Booker T. Wash_
ington High School, Tulsa, Okla~homa; 1939, Xavier Prep School,

| New Orleans, Louisiana.

~ Arthur Sewell, -wealthy Chicago
investment broker and real estate
dealer, gave a beautiful Challenge
Cup for the 4-miile relay champion.
ship of America. The first leg wag
won by Xavier University~s great
4-mile team anchored~ by Edward
Clup, former Chicago prep star and
winner of the Moton mile..

Joe Louis, heavy weight boxing
champion of the world, who ~is also a native of Alabama, last year
~gave a beautiful trophy for the
half-mile relay: championship of
America. This wag also ~won~ by
Xavier University.

~ The officials for the meet will be |

the. same experienced men. who
have worked for years in this great
~Relay Carnival. They will also
handle the Junior and Senior Women~s Championships. Among the
outstanding names will be B. T.
Harvey.of Morehouse College, who
has been the referee in 13 relays;
Frank: A. Young, veteran sports
commentator will again act as chie@
judge of track events. The ~starter
will be Frank Forbes of Morehouse College;.~. assistant starters,
Ralph Metcalfe of Xavier and C.
Randolph Taylor of Tillotson College. Chief judge of field events,
S. B. Taylor; Prairie View State
College; chief clerk of course, J.
Julius Flood; Capt. R. S. Darnaby,
chief of timers, and Capt. Charles
Ecton, chief of inspectors.

GOLF TOURNEYS LISTED

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.~
The Fourth Annual Intercollegiate
Golf Tournament will be held at
Tuskegee Institute May 8 and 9.
United States Golf Association
rules will prevail.

Eighteen holes. will be
Thursday morning, tink 8
18 holes will be played Fay
morning, May 9. Each high school
or prep school will be allowed to
erter six girls and six boys in the
competition. Any four may be
chosen out of the six entries in
computing the score of the final
team. This same rule will prevail
for the intercollegiate competition,

The tournament as in former
years, will be played on Tuskegee's
3400 yard par 35, sand green goif
course. This course has plenty of
natural hazards. The fairway of
each hole~is crossed by a small.stream making accurate shooting
necessary.

Entry fees will not be charged for
the tournament. The eligbility for
each entrant must be certified by
a qualified officer of the institution, and in the high school section,
high school rules will strictly prevail. In the college section the
rules of the Southern Conference

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.~
The crack Tuskegee Institute relay
team will leave the eampus this
weekt for Y1e Penn Relays which
will take place at: Franklin Field,
the University of Pennsylvania,
Friday and Saturday, April 25 and
26. The Tuskegee foursome will
again endeavor to capture first
vlace in the Teachers~ College OneMile Relay Championship of America and the college mile relay. In
the ten years that Tuskegee has
been sending teams to America~s
No. } classic, the Institute representatives have never been able to
win a chanfpionship, but they have
never placéd lower than fourth in
any race. Last year the team lost
by a margin of a full breadth.
Mozelle Ellerbe, who has won the
One Hundred Yard Dash Championship of America for the past
three years, will not compete this

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Penn Relays Eyed By
Tuskegee Athletes

Alumnj Bowl at the Institute on
May 10.

CASH REGISTER IS
REPORTED MISSING
W. P. Adams, of 31 Chestnut
Street, S.W., reported that a c2sh
register valued at $40 was stolen
from him indirectly recently.
Adams said he lent the machine to
another man and that the latter,

reported. it stolen.

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~will: prevail. It is hoped. that. this
tournament. will be largely supported and that it may be the fe
ping stone for colored players to
enter the great. national tournaments held in Sie country each
yeas, bey

WORK ON OVAL.

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala~
Army engineers measured the,track
in the Alumnj Bowl here today for
correct metrical distance. The two
engineers motored to the institute
from a nearby army post at the request of Cleve L. Abbott, manager

of the Relays. The track is being

put in readiness for the 15th An
nual Tuskegee Relay Carnival,

~which will be held in the Bowl on
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Atlanta. Tigers
Bag East Point
Outfit 10-6

~ATLANTA, Ga~(SNS)~

The Atlanta Tigers won a hardfought: game from. East Point,
Georgia, the past Saturday afternoon a-10-6 victory was clicked off:
with -Manager Crenshaw used three
hurlers, James (Baby Face) Benefield, Early (Shadow) King, and
J; C. hake Eye) Byrd.~

Benefield yielded two hits, three
walks, two runs, and fanned two in
three innings; King gave up tw
hits, one walk, three runs, and
whiffed three in three frames; and
Byrd. was touched for one hit, two
bases on balls, one run, and struck
out two in three stanzas.

- Big Elder, 215 pound catcher, hit
a 420 foot drive over the fence but
it was foul by inches. However, he
had a double in one official trip for
a perfect day, Other batting stars

_ Harper,
W. P.

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that looked good for a ~ane a two.
bagger saved the day for the
Tigers,

C. Kin led the losers~ attack with
two hits in four trips. All told) the
winners smacked out 20 hits to the
East Pointers~ five.

Games with the Atlanta Tigers
maybe ~secured through Lamar
Bivins, Main 2335.

Atlanta Black
Cats Conquer
Covington 8-5

ATLANTA, Ga~(SNS)

The Black Cats won their opening
1941. battle the past week end when
they teat the Aces 8-5 before 400
fans at their home park in Covington, Ga. Twirling for the Atlantans

| was Okland Eberhardt, with George

Humphrey catching. Eberhardt
ed only eight hits.

For Covington, Robert Smith
gave up 12 hits. The Aces~ catcher
was Johnny Davis.

Austell (Lefty) Reid was ouitstand
ing hitter for the winners, banging
out three hits in four tries. while
Manager Sammy Haynes and Humphrey followed with two hits each.

The Cats drew first blood when
Jake Phillips, hard-hitting leftfielder, who playéd a whale of a game,
hit a~double in the second inning
yielded only eight hits.

All teams iiiterested in a game
with the Atlanta Black Cats may
write George S, Linder, business

matiager, 16 bin S N. _E
Memphis Red Sox Win,
Tie Cubans 7- 4-4

MEMPHIS, Tenn ~(SNS)~The
Memphis Red Sox defeated the
Cubans last Sunday by the score
of 7 to 2 in the firts game and put
on a three-run rally in the second

in the seventh inning to tle

ea

were H. (Gabby) Harper, David T. ~