Brownsville Weekly News

'|SLANTS ON SPORTS

~. PAGE SLX;

By LUCIUS JONES

Joe Louis And Jesse Owens, Both Born
On Alabama Farms, Concrete Proof It~s
True What They Say About Dixie

IT IS much of a coincidence that the two greatest athletes in the history of the Negro race first saw the light
of day on Alabama soil. Evidently, it~s true what they say
~about dixie. What~s more, it must be a fact: stars fell on
Alabama. = eye

~How else may ofe account for that state~s incomparable

ield of both Joe Louis and Jesse Owens? 4: You may tie it, as in Georgia~s case, with your Tyrus

Faymond Cobb and Robert Tyre Jones, Jr., but you'll have}

a mighty tough time trying to beat Alabama~s unique record;

World Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis was born May
13, 1914 in Lafayette, while erstwhile World~s Fastest Human Jesse Owens~ birthplace was Danville, September 12,'

1913.;:
Stretching the parallel even wider, both Louis and
Owens were farms and grew up in the cotton fields before
later casting their lot in the great Northwest Michigan and
Ohio respectively.

Louis had only
the rest of his training has been private tutoring. Most of
his present véneer is acquired. Owens, on the other hand,
is well educated and a fluent speaker. He graduated from
Farmont Junior High School and later East -Tech High,
both in Cleveland. He graduates from Ohio State Universiyt this June, having resumed study there the past fall
after an absence of four years following his great triumphs
in the 1936 Olympics at Berlin.:

But most of you would sacrifice every iota of higher
education you possess~on the. spur of the moment~for
just a conservative portion of Joe~s long dough!:
"Like Louis. standing at the acme of the heavyweight
prize picture, Owens ascended the pinnacle of track and
field greatness.:

The Brown Bomber, with 16 successful defense of his
world crown, and 50 victories in his 51 fights as a pro, has
the phenomenal record of 44 knockouts, In but 2:05 of the
first round in a rematch, he kayoed the man~Max Schmeling~who gave him the only reverse of his career.

The Buckeye Bullet~s record is about as impressive.

In junior high school, Owens set up figures of 6 feet

in the high jump, 21.4 for the 220 dash, 10.6 for 100 me-|:

ters, and 7.4 for the 75 yard dash that still rank best in the
book.

At East Tech Owens competed in 47 races through his
sophomore year, winning 42 and placing in five he failed
to garner- He did not lose a race of any kind in his junior
and senior years.:

~As a senior prep, Owens hogged every record in_ the
k-from ~the 60 yard dash through the 220 yard ~dash.
These marks, still the existing world~s best for high school
athletes, were 5.2 in the 50, 9.4 in the 100, and 20.7 in the
220. Besides, he also placed the present world broad jump
record of 24 feet, 11 3-4 inches, in the ledger for other
cocky preps to shoot at. ue:
But nothing Owens did as a prep was to be mentioned

~in the same breath with his phenomenal collegiate performance the eventful afternoons of May 25-26, 1935, at Ann

_ Arbor, scene of the annual Big Ten Meet.

All Owens did was chalk up three new world records
and equal a fourth~in a single day!

The amazing performances were a 9.4 in the 100, 20.3
in the 220, 22-6 in the 220 low hurdles, and a leap of 26) feet,
8 3-4 inches, in the broad jump!

- Ranking with the above performances in importance.
even if the marks of 1935 did escape blemish, was Owens~
phenomenal exhibition genius in the 1936 Olympiad,

At Berlin, Owens won the 100 meters, 200 meters, and
broad jump, then proceeded to team with Foy Draper, white,
Ralph Metcalfe, and Frank Wykoff, white, to cop the 400
meter relay in the world record time of 39.7 seconds~only
time in history the quartermile relay has ever been run officially in less than 40.8 seconds. Owens ran the lead with
Praper and Metcalfe on the second and third legs and Wy-. koff at anchor. For Owens, it was the first. time any Olympic athlete had ever won four medals,

So, the column~s guess is that stars DID fall on Alabama and. that it~s plenty true what:they say about dixie.

To Feature Satchel Paige
In Chicago League Opener

CHICAGO, Ill.~Chicago baseball
fans are all excited, and with
plenty good reason, about the
home opening of the Negro American. League season on Sunday, May

the Monarchs!

catch.'this newspaper's. deadlines,
while negotiations are still under
Way between ol~ Satch and the: This is being~ written, in order to.

meagre grammar school education and:

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~State) Haines (Morehouse)

18th.

It~s not only because the American Giants have their greatest ball
team in years,with ~Candy Jim~
Taylor back as manager, Pepper
Bassett, Pilly Horne and Willie
Cor Cornelius once again in the
fold, along with such other ~stars
as Jimmy Crutchfield, Don Reeves

' amg Curtis Henderson.

It~s not only because the great
Bansas City Monarchs, champions
the last two years, will be furnishng the oppostion in the opener.
*Tt~s not only because _ the big
double-header that afternoon is to
be played in the big, beautiful

ris Perk, home of Chicago's
White Sox.
~The big news is the strong
Chance that the great Satchel
Paige will be on hand to pitch for

Monarchs~ management for the former to join the ciub,. By the time
you~re reading this, chances are
Saichel will have accepted terms,
- Paige is now in New York, having
returned from Puerto Rico. Pitching in the tropical climate ll
Winter, Satch is in great shape to
go to work immediately. He~s alWays been a great favorite in Chicago, where he has pitched some
@ his best games, and, shoulg -he
te in the lineup on May 18, there'll
be a mighty big crowd at the White
Sox park,

Like the American Giants, the
Monarchs are even stronger than
they were ast year. The doubleheader here Sunday, May 18,
should~ be between the two teams
figured to fight it out for the
league pennant. 1

~ TUSKEGEE RELAY
SUMMARIES ~

-) (New meet record). is
400 Meter Hordles ~ Frrow
(Xavier) Paxton Wier). House |
ton (Morehouse): (Tusegee) 58.0.. eee;

Seeking to regain his amateur status and to make a cinderpath
comeback, erstwhile World~s Fastest Human Jesse Owens, Ohio
Siate senior, was clocked in 9.9 seconds, running against time, Saturday, May 3, in Newark, Ohio.

What a half decade ago was acclaimed by the white press zenerally as ~The greatest day in the career of any American athlete~
was turned in by Owens the memorable afternoon of May 26, 1935,
at Ann Arbor, Michigan, scene of the Big Ten, Meet.

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) In Sensational Me

i. "| SBy LUCTUS JONES

| _(SNS Sports Editor) |
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala.~(SNS)~Four

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That day, Owens broad jumped 26 feet, 8 3-4 inches, topped the
220 yard low hurdles in 22.6 seconds, and toured the 220 yard dask
in 20.3-seconds for three solid world records, while also equalling
the world mark in the 100 yard dash when he clicked off the century in 9.4 seconds.

Read the stirring saga of Jesse Owens, the Buckeye Bullet, in,
SLANTS ON SPOP7S by SNS ports Editor Lucius ~Melancholy) Jones
|found on this page.

(Southern) Baker (Xavier 48.6,

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440 Yard Relay~ Xavier, dud}
bama, Morehouse, Tuskegee 42.3. |
|

280 Yard Relay~(Xavier, Ala
bama, Tuskegee, Ky. State 1:28.
Mile Run~Culp (Xavier) Baugh

(Alabama) Lawson )Morris Brown)

Chester (Southern) 4:275 (New The creaking chair is empty

meet record) ~ Age:

\ eae And all scarred in deface,
Mile Relay ~Tuskegee (Head, But none has been foun

~ Pretwell, Slade, Sams) Xavier, |: a:: d

Prarie View, Alabama 3:19.8,

Two Mile Relay ~ Tuskegee
(Head, Fretwell, Slade, Sams)
Xavier, Alabama, Morehouse 8:8.5.;

Four Mile Relay~Xajier, Ala
Where Mother Used To Sit

Through Age~s haze I'm gazing
Where the'cerner is dimly lit

With Love's bright halo burping

Where my mother ~used to sit: '

Toetill that blissful space! Beg
Here is a throne where absence
The unseen scepter swavs~

And one speaks through the shadows

Ethiopian
Clowns Win
| 6-5 and 8-7

LOUISVILLE, Ky~(S N S)~
Playing before 5,500 paid admissions, actually.1,500 more than wit~nessed the opening: day~s program: vf the American Association Lea-; ~| gue game, between.the~ Louisville
Colonels and Milwaukee. Brewers,
the: Miami -Ethiopian: Clowns and; heir barnstorming opponents; the

worthy

bama, Tuskegee 18:52.3. the record-breaking gathering at
A he Statler) Of innocent childhood days, Parkway Field,| Louisvilie with

Bh esp Os as: a And prayers reach up to heaven i et ee ON eee ay te
(Southern) Canson, (Tuskegee) And we hear the Holy writ Clowia volte aa Te iting
ae ere Long chgeh here. ~very bhai rally to score a 6 to 5 victory over
Javelin. _Williarhson (Xavier) Where mother used to sit. taeir rivals. ~

Taylor (Southern) Thurman ye
195:

((New meet record).

Shot Put~Direaux (Unattached)
Robert (Xavier) ~Scott (Alabama)
Thurman (Ky State) 47:91 1-4,
Summaries Two.

This simple shrine eternal

(Xavier) 130:6 3-4.

We twine today wwhite roses
Where the anxious brow
Gleams glad through the skylights
Where~ the children bow
And hallow in song~s liftings

lo where the. angels flit

~Thomas: Jefferson Flanagan.~ A,
(Mother~s Day, May 11, 1941).

Discus Thow ~ C. Williams nh.: f
(Xavier) M. Williams (Florida) Where mother useq to_sit.
Dereaux (Unattached) Robart

A hit to center field by Gerlogubi
of the Clowns in the last. half of
the ninth ~which scored ~Showboat~
~ihomus climaxed a four-run rally
that enableg the Etn upian Clowns
to win. The Clowns had previously
pcSeq up singie runs in the third
and six games while the Mahawks scored two runs in the sixth
and added three more in the eighth
for a 5 to 2 lead, which they held
until the fatal last inning, Score

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TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala~
(SNS)~Every prep reeord escaped
blemish here Saturday afternoon as
Xavier High School, New Orleans,
La., walked away with erp:
Koners in the interscholastic di.
vision of the Fifteenth Annual Tuskegee Relays. Pay

Xavier High copped four first
places in the Class A Division and

sued by Booker T. Wast | High
School of Atlanta, Ga., which tallied~ 16 points. Merrill High Schoo!
of Pine Bluff, Ark., was third.

In the Class B Division, Decatur
High of Decatur, Alg., was an easy
Kevigih -cehiey

| $80 Yard Relay ~ (Class

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ten first places,

Tuskegee scored two first
places, with Fort Valjey State
(Ga.), _ Alabmaa State, and
South (La.) ~chalking up one
apiece. In the first college event
of the 1941 earnival, Claude
Paxton of Xavier cutstepped his
teammate, Gilder Farrow, Ulys
liam Rainey, of Kentucky State,
to tour the 120 yard hurdles in
14.8 seconds, shattering the old
Tuskegee Relays mark of 15 seconds flat set by Farrow in 1938.

The other track mark to shattered~ was by Xavier~s Edward
Culp,.who copped the ~lassie Moton mile in 4:27.5 to. do* away
with the 1940 record of 4:30
himself set up. Saturday, Culp
cut distanced Thomas Baugh of
Alabama, John Lawson~ of Morris Brown. Leon Chester of
Scuthern, and eight other cra
rivals to turn the trick,
SENSATIONAL LEAP

Two field events were also put
inte the discard ~when Xavier~s
Walter Farmer, who set a pole
vault mark of. 12:6 in 1988 and
equalled it last year, chalked up
a sensational leap of 13:6 while
of George D.
Williams of Hampton Institute of
195 feet, 7 inches in the javelin
throw was completely eclipsed by
Joshua Wiliamson~s mighty heave
of 195:8. Williamson, a three-letter man at Xavier entered unattached.

Ernest Marshall, Cimderella
kid from Fort Valley and Horatie Alger winner of the same
event in the second annual Alabama State. Relays April~

8,000 track enthusiasts as he
sprinted to a brilliant ~victory in
the classic quarter mile run, His
~winning time of 48.6 seconds was
just three-teenths of ga second shy

New Orleans, Louisiana, again dominating the

ses Amos,.of Morehouse, and Wil-|

19, erally.
thrilled a gallery ~of more than}

equalling ~the. meeting record but

was four-tenths, of a second bet
ter than his, April performance.
Herbert Douglas, Xavier fresh
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Fall

records ~
were toppled in Historic Alumni Bowl here Saturday afternoon as the Fifteenth Annual Tuskegee Relays were run off _
with Coach Ralph Metcalfe~s Xavier University thinlies from

meet, with

with seven, and Lec rant.
Alabama State with six one half.
TARRANT RUNS TRUE it
TO FORM stirs

Tarrant, who picked second in
a 9.7 finals of the 100-yard dash
at the Drake Relays April 26,
ran true to form in bagging. the

eoveted century here Saturday in ~

9.8. The time was three-tenths of
a second under the~ Tuskegee Re-.
lays and SIAC record shared
jointly by himself and retired Mozel Ellerbe of Tuskegee at 9,5,
but it was a tenth of a second
faster than the Birmingham Bullet~s 1940 winning performance
at the Tuskegee meet.

Pursuing. Tarrant by a_ half
stride was Douglas of Xavier,
with. Bonds Henderson and James
Worthy, both of Alabama, coming
in third and fourth respectively.

In the feature mile college relay, for which three coveted team
trophies valued at $500 as well
as a costly rotation ~award are
given, Tuskegee~s Penn Relays
Teachers~ College

~

record when they clicked off the

distance in the phenomenal time

cf 3:19.8.
Tuskegee led virtually all the

way as Raymond Head, the Grif
fin, Georgia, youth, brought the ~
baton in with a slight margin to

Marvin Fretwell, who improyed
the lead as he gave the i
Louis (Red) Stade. Then, U

shaw Sams, running ane

iling Tu

Prairie View, and Alabama,

Tuskegee also figured in a
mighty upset when the touted
Xavier two mile relay combinas
tion was forced to look at her
heels as the Golden Tigers ran off.
with the event in 8:8.5 ahead of

ATLANTA, Ga~SNS)~;
The Cincinnati Volleyball Association is anxiously awaiting the
date of May 31, which marks the
time set for the staging of the
National Volleyball Tournament of
the American Volleyball ~Associa
tion. The tournament. this year
will mark the thirteenth that has
been ~held annually ~In ~the various
cities which has colored ~MCA~s. |. For the past four years, Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago and Columbus and ~St. Louls have held the
limelight in this favorite sport~ of
the YMCAs all over the country
but entries from everywhere have
been pouring into the ~Cincinnati
Association for participation and

tournament will be ~the largest in
the history of the American Volleyball Association.
Elaborate plans haye been made
to ~determine an adequate program
of pleasure and fellowship for the
visitors that will accompany the
many ms as well as for the
players themselves. No effort has
ed and all ~people who
are interested in this sport will
find a hearty we e awaits them
in Cincinnati. a

Mountain, N. C., fourth.
PREP SUMMARIES

100 Yard Dash~Rogers (Xavier),
Deterville (Xavier), Aldridge (Decatur), Lee (Lincoln). 103.

440 Yard Relay~(Class A)~Xavier, BTWHS (Atlanta), Tuskegee
44.9,; 4 i

440 Yard Relay~(Class B) De--
catur, Brooks High, Lincoln Academy. 46.0, exh)

A)
| BTWHS (Atlanta), Tuskegee, MerTH 1:36.5.
B) De
8:80 Yard Relay~(Class
| eatur, Brooks High, Lingcln Acadlemy. 1:36.1.:
| Mile Relay ~ Xavier, BTWHS.
Merrill, Lincoln. 3:37.5.

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been

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| Medley Relay ~Xavier, BTWHS, | ot

hee ret
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| i ~Two
wi

~bard, former~ Olympic

Xavier, Alabama, and Morehouse;

The Tournament this year will
be sponsored by- the Cincinnati
Volleyball. Association of the Ninth
Street Branch YMCA.. This Association is composed of the leading
professional men of Cincitinatl and
some fifty-five individuals are eae
ing forward to the renewing of
old friendships gs well ag thé
making of new. Such well known
men as Dr. R. E. Clark, national='
ly known as a le }
Secretary-Treasurer of the An
can Volleyball Association; will be
on hand as a génial host as we
as player. Other men stich as OC:

the Supreme Liberty Life
surance Company; Dr. C. E,~1
lard, Dr. E. B. Gray,

and

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executive secretary of the Divisic
cf Negro Welfare of the Commun

ity Chest; Atty. T. M. Berry, St.

leading undertakers; R. P. Me
Clain, M.D.; Attorney Jose
ton, Dr. R. E. Beamon, &
M. Rambo, principal of D
School; Hannibal Hull, Dr. Lee
Jeading all time athlete, a
cf others. =.

Champions |
barely missed shading an ancient ~

Butler St. YMCA May Vie
In U. S. Volleyball Meet

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