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Zeke Hartsfield, Good Bet In National
~Golf Meets In Detroit, Boston; Auburn
Avenue Characters Know Their Sports

CONFIDENCE is one of the chief factors in any competitive sport. it plays a big part in deciding winners in
major golf tournaments. That is the main asset by which
Zeke Hartsfield, the Colonial Bakery entry in the past Southern an spread-eagled all opposition,

__. Deep down in his heart, Hartsfield, who won the previous Southern Open in 1939 (there was no pro et 5 in
ito he was a cinch to win. The possibility of

g the tournament never di i
hued hoy's thinking. d creep into the tall chocolate.
_* The result was that he was not only low medalist, but
he played ~yery round in, around, or under par. His complete
card was 46-65-67-65 (262) to win the tournament and cop
first prize money of $100.

Twice during the tournament, Hartsfield: got good and

hot, despite. the rainy aspect of things, and blasted sub-par
golf. He had ~ 64, two under par, Saturday and a 65, one
under par, Sunday, the final day.
_ Hartsfield~s part 66 on Friday, the opening day, won
him medal honors and:his 67 on a later 18-hole round was
but a single stroke over par. The New Lincoln par is 33-33
(66) and not 68 as inadvertently stated by a contemporary
writer.:

However, iit remained for Calvin Searls, the uncanny
mite from New Orleans, to turn in the best single round of
the tournament on the final day when he blasted out a hot
63, three strokes under par.

Hartsfield~s 262 for 72 holes set a new tournament record, beating the former mark of 263 by Hugh Smith by a
single stroke.:

Zeke~s phenomenal golf in the past Southern Open fore
~bodes good things in the near future when he is scheduled

to compete in the Joe Louis. ~~Nationals~ at Detroit early
next month, after which he is booked to participate in the
annual U.G.A. meet in Boston a week later.

Hartsfield will be up against a strong field that will
include a flock of former national champions~Robert (Pat)
Ball, John B. Dendy, Edison Marshall, Hugh Smith, Solomon
Hugghes, Howard Wheeler, Clifford Strickland, and a host of
others~but his chances will be good.

Right now, Zeke is playing the best golf of his career.
If he can keep his present game at its lofty peak, he will be
a good bet to place extremely high in the money. He would
rate no worse than a ~dark horse~. He has never wan a
nationa} tourrament before and, of course, could not possibly rate any more respectably than a ~dark horse~. But. these who saw Hartsfield ~go to town~ in the recent South
ern Open know he belongs somewhere on the bookmaker~s
card.

Hartsfield is hitting ~em long and straight. His selection of clubs is superb. His ~short game~ is beautiful to
behold.. Anyway you take it, the boy~s an iron master. He
knows all the questions and all the answers when it comes
to using the niblick, mashie, and putter. Competitive spirit?
He~s long on that; too, and you won~t find anybody who will
make any more amazing recoveries than Zeke can effect
when in trouble.

The writer walked through a steady downpour of rain
back in 1935 in New York City to see Wheeler and Hartsfield try to bring home the bacon for Arthur L. Miller. But
only Wheeler placed in the money. Solomon Hughes was
the big winner that year.

Still, it was evident, eyen then, that Hartsfield was destined to make himself felt in the best golfing circles, The
column always felt that would come to pass.

Four years later, back in September 1939, the writer
ran into Hartsfield in Detroit. He:was on his way back from
the annuall. G. A. meet in Los Angeles, California. The column was ~covering~ the Joe, Louis-Bob Pastor return match,
having travelled up from Atlanta on the so-called Big Smitty~s Joe Louis Special:

Zeke was Jooking well and everything. But he didn~t.

have any too much dough; The boys had been mighty rough
out on the coast. That Clifford Strickland, a local lad, had
left all his rivals trailing by a flock of strokes. |

* But Hartsfield, atways a princely chap, insisted on the
writer~s taking dinner with him. Over his insistence the

pair of us strolled ieisurely past the Norwood Hotel to the

~ beat everything in sight.

Cafe annex at Club Plantation.

Our bicuspids and molars were buried in some delicious
fried chichen, French fried potatoes, English peas, macaroni
arid cheese,. yellow yam sweet potatoes, and hot buttered
rolls as the gondnatured Zeke told of the stiff doings out
on the coast. He talked at length of Howard Wheeler's
good fortune in being able to stay out yonder.:

Hartsfield, even then, had. the feeling it was in. him to
He had plenty of reason to believe that as far back as 1939, because he was fresh from
a sensational upset victory in the Southern Open, beating
out such erack performers as Wheeler, Dendy, Smith,

Hughes, and the rest,
Well, Zeke still belieyes he has what it takes. And he

~just about proved it in the recent Southern Open. From

now on till the year is out, Atlanta golfing people will be
expecting the most of him. Can he deliver with the ~chips
down~? That~s what we'll all see in the two ~Nationals
next month. '

~ Otis (Mouse) Cooper was up in New York in 1935 at that
edition of the annual U. G. A. meet and he and Bill Estes
had quite a personal feud that meant a neat little cash settiement to them. Bill won at that time, if the memory serves

~us right. But Bill couldn~t touch the sort of golf Mouse

turned in during the past Southern Amateur. i. Bob Freeman leans more to heavyweight prize fighting
and football than to golf, while his partner, Fred Williams,

- {8 a baseball and golf bug. Though he isn~t plying much golf,

Fred motoring down to Tuskegee this weekend to catch
the tail-end of the tournament there as a spectator. Bear
Perty is sfill ~solid~ on race horses.. ~@larence Chandler had a'great chance to win the Southern Amateur this year. But he had to divide his time 80
much on his businesses that he took the thing lightly. <A

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[Death Of Billy Conn~s Mother

Arouses Sympathies Of Harlem
Negroes; Buddy Moore, Enigma

By ALVIN MOSES FOR ANP

NEW YORK~THE PASSING of
41 year old~ Margaret McFarland
Conn., mother of Billy Conn, has
its sad side as noted by expressions
among Harlem~s sporting ~ fraternity. Everywhere we've travelled
and especially, among boxi fans,
sympathy for the Irish gamecock
has been liberal and sincere. Other
groups may set up gangster factions, manifest hatred that fails to
stop at the grave et al, but happily, Negroes do not imitate them
in this connection. We play hard..
more often than not..~tco hard~
for at times a ~switchblade ends
what all started out to be good
clean fun. Blame most of that upon maladjustment, insularity and
temperament. Fail not to give the
despised black youth the orchids
he so righly deserves for remem
~bering to sorrow genuinely regard
less of racial origin, color or relig.
ious beliefs.

POWERFUL BUDDY MOORE,

the talk of metropclitan New York
up until a year ago, should do one
of two things. Like Wallace Cross,
Jergev~s ex-Golden-Blover, Buddy
should find out definitely just how
good he ~is. Cro8s recently fought
such fellows as Al Delaney, conqueror of Terry Warrington, Canada~s powerful, Negro contender for
world right-heavy honors; and
Buddy Knox, who has faced most
all of the good_ heavyweights with
varying success. A lot of fclk are
starting a whispering. (rotten business) campaign against the former Salem Crescent power_hitter
avowing, as how..he fought among

the pros long ago throughout Jerse~y, and was whipped on more than
one occasion. Whether this is true
or not has little bearing on our
Suggestion to friend ~Bud.~ Either
make a success story out of the
business of twisted ears, or further
ycur schooling. Same thing goes
for Teddy Windt, who is some sort
of doctor or other, having studied
in the West Indies.

REPORTS CONTINUE TO come

in anent the speedball pitching of |

~Blue~ Barnhill, undersized pitcher for Pomnez~s crack Cuban Stars.
Many oldsters who saw Mendez, as
a grade schoolboy back in 191Y
when my late beloved father took
me out to Olympic field, 136th St.,
and Fifth avenue, home of virtually
every Negro. baseball immortal
from 1906 to 1928. The Mendez we
saw through unstrained youthful
eyes,~ struck ~us as being.. TWICE
AS GOOD AS BARNHILL IN EVERY REQUISITE THAT ESTAB
LISHED A TWIRLER, JUST THAT.

We mean not to distract from the
1$41 edition~ of the ~Pearl of the
Antilles,~ except to add, that he~s
just not a comparable pearl at this
stage of his career, thass all!

THE COMEBACK OF Barney
Ewell, troubled with tendon. trouble, would tend to point out that
modern day trainers are better
equipped to cope with this complaint bane of all track athletes,
thar the great coaches of yesteryear were. Ewell ranks with Tolan,
Metcalfe, Johnson, Peacock,
Thompson, East, and Tuskegee~s
wonder man. We refrain from. say.
ing Owens, for to us~he stands
alone.~

~ SPORTS

SCRAPS

| LUCIUS (Melancholy) JONES

Joe Louis~ Domestic Troubles Arouse

Sympathies of America; Brown Bomber Had

Two Strikes Against Him at Outset

THIRTEEN ON race-conscious American, people have been
disillusioned. t is, most of them
have. Idolizing Joe Louis almost to
a fault, these folk had come to
believe the old} fairy tale stuff,
~They married and lived happily
ever afterward~, applied to the
world champion and his charming
wife too. ae

But, asa matter of serious fact,
the odds have heen heavily against
the Louises~ marriage succeeding,
since they first walked the middle

~aisle together a few hours before

the Max Baer fight in New York
City September 24, 1935.

Several bizarre characteristics of
the strange romance convinced this
observer nothing short of a miracle
would make the marriage a success..Among these observations
were the following.

(1) As far back as October 1934
when the column was in Chicago
for the annual Tuskegee-Wilberforce classic at Soldiers Field, Marva appeared deeply in love with a
young taxicab driver. foe

(2) Joe Louis was hurried into
the decision to marry upon advice
of Co-Managers John -Roxborough
and Julian Black, who felt he needed protection against the heavy
fan-mail he was receiving _ daily
from admiring feminines with all
kinds of interests and ~proposals~.

(3) Joe Louis was so timid that
he proposed to Marva over~ the
telephone~and the amazing thing
is that she accepted. However, she
had shown no special sinterest in
Louis while he was in the ~ small
money class and it is a matter
for consideration that Joe had hecome a man of real financial
worth when she finally said ~yes~~.

(4) Joe Louis lacked the education and poise his charming wife
possessed, a fact that actually made
her somewhat uneasy with him in
public during their early married
life before the heavyweight champion developed the fine bearing he
boasts today.

(5) Marva has never relished the
isolation she has suffered during
Louis~ long training sieges and the
leisure and luxury she has had at
her disposal have been the source
of the personal criticism directed

(6) Marva has demanded the
right to dwell in Joe~s~ training

camps~against which she has been
advised since the first Schmeling

~fight.

(7) Marv& has always a:
to this observer, to want oe oe
uries and prominence that being
She wife of Jee Louis could bring
her, without wanting to make the
sacrifices that naturally have been

necessary during the boy's active
fighting career. a

(8) Marva deceived Joe about
approaching motherhood, more
than a year having elapsed since
the alleged ~secret~ was bared to
him.

(9) There have been continuous
rumors of moral misconduct on
the part of the champion~s mate,
to which charges Marva has ~pleaded absolute innocence, but she DID
allow a friend woman _ reporter,
Nell Dodson, to syndicate an article through the Associated. Negro
Press which DEFENDED her
character?

(10) Marva~s ~past~ still hovered
over her even after she married
Joe. In fact, ~under cover~ work
had to be done to prevent Louis~
being blackmailed to _ provide
money for her former boyfriend.
This young man later lost his
life on what many believe was a
~planned~ shooting fatality to remove him forever from the picture where he might untimately
gring scandal into the Louis household.

There are even more such observations, but the 10 above prove
at least ONE thing~Joe and Marva
Barrow were ~mismatched~ at the
very outset.

Naturally, the Negro race hates
the ugly fact. But it~s no fairy tale
stuff. Joe and Marva have never

got along well, because they are
East and. West~and never the
twain shall meet.

Joe may love Marva, but~ the

column seriously doubts her sincere affection for him.;

As for Joe~s alleged cruelty, to
the point of striking Marva, it may
actually be true, but most people
can~t seem to conceive of such a
monstrosity.

Natural human sympathy is
usually on the woman~s side in
matters of this kind, but it is our
opinion Marva made a_ mistake
with her eyes open nearly six years

(3)

If lack of Joe~s time is her: big
grievance, Marva has. waited a
terribly long time to complain. If
Joe has been~ repeatedly cruel,
striking her with his fists, it is a
new side of Louis altogether to
what all of us had come to know.

One Atlanta belle says Joe couldn~t have hit Marva, as she charges,
because, if that were the case,
she~d be dead. Maybe she~s got
something there. After all, if Joe
can~t knock out Marva, why should
people be amazed that he _ didn~t
knock out Billy Conn any. sooner?

It is not for this column to decide just what the fate of Joe and
Marva shall be. Still it is the

dreve of folk think he should haye won. Howard Lindley

tikes prize fighting, but finds it even
the Morris Brown Purple Wolverines in f

greater sport following
gotball. Eugene

{Curley} Harper has a world of interests~baseball, boxing,

golf, football, aud business. Arthur Miller has always been
a ~golf~ man. Golf is Eddie Roby~s main fancy too. Jesse
(Rags) Pledger is a balanced sport fan~and a mighty smart.
one, Ditto, S. J. Burney, Jesse Burney, Herbert (Foots) Roland, Eddie (Fats) Smith, and the rest. Auburn Avenue is
where you'll find all these boys~and, take it from the column, they know their sports.;

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JACK HANDS

Although unsung and not known
as widely as such good boys as Lem
Franklin, Eddie Blunt, Buddy
Walker, Harry Bobo, Buddy Moore,
Wallace Cross, and company, Jack
Hands, the Jacksonville, Florida,
heavyweight shown above, is certain to be heard from in the near
future beeause, like Joe Louis, he
~is a Brown Bomber.

Hands~ most recent conquest was
a July 4 kayo of Ray Henderson in
Jacksonville. It was a 10-round go,
but Henderson was stopped after
but 2:09 of the sixth stanza.

Sepia Golfers
Play On White
D.C. Course

WASHIINGTON ~ (ANP)~Accompanied by three park. policemen, a group. of Negro golfcrs
played 12 holes on the government owned East Potomac course
Sunday after being informed. that

here~,:

Jay A. Williams, George Williams
and Ceci) Shamwell, all members
of the Royal Golf? club who customarily play ~on a nine-hole jimcrow course, bought tickets to Dlay
cn the East Potomac course. They
were wreflsed admission by thé
ticket taker who said if they were
any other nationality he could admit them.

The men consulted with Edgar
Brown, president of the United
Government employes and director
ci the National Negro council, who
along with Miss Delores Brown,
Emmet Sullivan and Mrs. Pari, B.
Brown of the Wake Robin Golf
club, returned with them to Haines
Foint. Upon being refused admission the second.time the men
pressed on through, and after some.
delay were permitted to tee off.

While some comments were made
ky a few beljgerent spectators, the [
police who accompanied the party
dispersed those who seemed inclined to act as a gallery for the
colored players.

At the ninth hole which is near
the club house a few cat calls and
threats were made but the players
continued without molestatiqn.
When they reached the 12th hole
a wind storm came up which forcel them to sto pplaying. Mr.
Brown announced that he would
take the matter up with Secretary
Ickes of the department of the interior under whose jurisdiction the
golf course falls.

opinion. here that, as husband and
wife for more than five years, they
were entitled to parenthood. If
one has ~cheated~ the other of that
right a divorce is in order.

Chivalrous and manly to a fault,
Joe has cleverly ~covered up~ a
lot of ugly facts that would inevitably creep out in a contested divorce case by charging off Marva~s
dissatisfaction to the fact that her
insistance at frequenting his training camp.was. overridden. He firmly says he won~t contest her proceedings. Further, he denies her
charges of cruelty and of beating
her and élaims utter surprise. at
her action.

It is feasible indeed that Joe not
contest that divorce. For him, a di
Marva may have entered into
~successful and happy union.
But the way the pair got into
the serious proposition of matrimony was more of a é ~business
deal~ than anything else. It smacked of commercialism at the very |

Defends
Mrs, Roberta Holland of* Jacksonville ~ 4
Triumphs In Women~s Division of 1941
Tournament Over New Lincoln Course

By JOEL W. SMITH;

ATLANTA, Georgia~ (SNS) ~

Zeke Hartsfield, defending Southern Open champion
combined four rounds of 66, 64, 67 and 65 for a total of
262 to retain his coveted title in the tenth annua] Southern
Open tournament, completed yesterday over the New Lincoln.
Golf and Country Club course.

~Negroes are not allowed to play | Smith

CALVIN SEARLS THRILLS.
GALLERY WITH SUB-PAR 63
Calvin Searls, dapper little professional fromeNew Orleans gave
the large gallery a thrill-a-minute
with his brilliant five-under par 63
on the last 18 holes to cinch second
piece, with a total score of 269.

Searls toured the first nine holes
in a sensational 31, as he moved
from third into second place. In fact,
Searls was in sixth place after
the 18 holes, but from that point
started moving toward the top.

Not only did Searls pull-up into
second place, but threatened champion Hartsfield on the final nine
holes: After carding a birdie 2 on
the 4th hole, Searls topped his
drive on the long No, 6, yet came
thru with another birdie. te

EDISON MARSHALL
WINS THIRD MONEY

Edison Marshai:, veteran professional and supreme stylist from
Indianapolis, Ind., won the third
money prize by a_ single stroke,
over-taking Hugh Smith, national

a total of 276.

Hugh Smith, national champion,
finished with a total score of 277,
for fourth place, after running into
difficulty with his putter on the
final round. Stokes Stalmaker,
former club professional at New

Lincoln Club, took fifth place with '

a score of 279.

SUMMARY: Hartsfield,
Searls, 269; Marshall, 276;
271; Stalmaker, 279; Roby, 281;
Miller, 283; Copeland, 284; Neal,
286; Holmes, 287; John ~Honey~, 298; Asa Oliver, 304, M. P.
Rooks, 313. |

MONEY WINNERS: Zeke Hartsfield, $100; Calvin Searls, $50; Edi
262;
Smith,

champion on the last 18 hales, with J

Hartsfield led the field during the first round by a single stroke, and pulled five strokes ahead at the halfway. At
the end of the h4ith hole, Hartsfield had an amazing eight
stroke lead over the entire field, and toured the last 18 holes
in a sub-par 65 to win his second consecutive championship.

son Marshall, $25; Hugh Smith,
$15: Stokes Stalmaker, $10;Eddie
Roby, $5; Matthew Miller, $5;
Grant Copeland, $5; James Neal,
$5; ~Tup~ Holmes, (pro-amateur)
a prize of $5 in value.

MRS. ROBERTA HOLLAND
WINS LADIES CHAMPIONSHIP

Mrs. Roberta Holland, of the
Lincoln Golf Club, Jacksonville,
Fla., put together two rounds of 94
and 96 for a total of 190 to win the
southern ladies championship. Mrs.
Holland played consistently
throughout the tournament and
led the strong field of ladies during
the entire 36-hole medal play event.

Finishing in~ second place was
Mrs. Cleve Abbott of Tuskegee,
Ala., with a score of 200. Mrs. Abbott, the most powerful-driver in
the group played the first round in
98, and came thru with a 102 on the

~final round,

MRS. McTYRE WINS
THIRD PLACE

Mrs. Thelma McTyre, SIAC
ladies champion of Morris Brown
College finished a close third to
Mrs. Abbott, with a 201 for the 36
holes. Mrs. McTyre~s card. showed
a 99 and a 102. f

Mrs. J. J. Peters and Miss Sadie
Caldwell ended in a two-way tie
for fourth place, with scores of 210
and Mrs. Peters won the one-hole
play-off for fourth place honors.
Miss Mel Moye, defending champion posted a total score of 212 for
fifth place.

SUMMARY: Mrs. Holland, 190;
Mrs. Cleye Abbott, 200; Mrs, ~Thel
ma& McTyre, 201; Mrs. J. J: Peters, | ~face

210; Miss Sadie Caldwell, 210; Miss
Mel Moye, 212; Mrs. G. A. Howell,
215; Mrs. Wm. O~Shields, 222.

President Of
Alcorn Placed
On Committees

ALCON, Mississippi, June 28~
President Wm..H. Bell of Alcorn
A. and M. college was recently invited to. serve on two important
committies. The National Negro
Sponsoring _ Committee of the
Birth Control Federation of

Jack Troy~s discussion of the boy~s
income~proved a ringer. Marva
herself is authority for the fact that
Joe owns property in Detroit and
Chicago worth $400,000; possesses
insurance, bonds, and annuities
worth $400,000; and has a yearly income of $250,000 as heavyweight
champion of jthe world. That
amounts to more than $1,000,000 and
bears out the contention, here, that
the young fellow~s a millionaire.

America, Inc. and the Advisory
Committee of the Nationa] Asso
ciation of Negroes in American Industry.:

The purpose of the program of
the former committee is to demonstrate that the extension of
birth control service through
medical and public health agencies
could quickly reduce the death
rate of Negro mothers and babies,
and. promote the general welfare
of the Negro race.

The fatter is a _ non-profit
charitable and educational organ
ization which will be devoted to

economic and industrial research
as that field affects Negroes and
American business, Industry, the
disseminating of information
among Negroes to the end that
the Negro might better understand
the machinery of American business afid industry, and the maintenance of a general program de~signed to increase godd will between these two groups.

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Joe

- DETROIT~ (SNS).~ World
Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis
was quoted following an inter.
view Saturday as admitting thai
he doesn~t pack the wer he

| exhibited in former fight engage
ments, ot
Louis said he noticed that he
eouldn~t finish Conn after i
him all set up for the knockouc
in the third and fifth rounds. He
said he~d retire after the Lou
Nova fight in September if he
pags that he has slipped ~toc.
ar~

Reasons he gave for his ~slipping,~ the imterviewer quote:i
Louis, were that he trained too
hard~sinece November 13~having had oniy one little vacation
of two weeks between fights,

Lem Franklin,
Bob Montgomery
Win Bouts

WASHINGTON~(ANP) ~ Two
more promising (colored fighters
vindicated their followers faith in

Montgomery of Philadelphia, and
Alvin Franklin of Washington
won victories over their opponents in mixed matches at Griffith
stadium that had the fang cheering
wildly throughout the entite evening.

Montgomery,
Wishy Jones,

matched with
leading southern

~lightweight contender, was on the

receiving end for two rounds, but
efter the second, the conqueror of
Lew Jenkins found himself and
also Jones and made ithe latter
wish he were somewhere else. At
the end of the fourth round, the
Wishy one was unable to: answer
fhe Well for" the fifth round,
wise bruised, so the referee ~stopped the fight awarding the decision to Montgomery. oo 3%,
Al Franklin, known to New
Yorkerg for his magnificent showing in the Golden Gloves and Diamong Belt tourneys, fighting as a
welterweight, had as his opponent Phil Furr, one of Washington~s leading welters. They battled furiously for ten rounds with
Franklin winning the judges decision in a well earend fight.

Laud Negroes
For Work In -
A. A.U. Meet

Comments of praise are going the
rounds ahout the showing, made x
Dixie Colleges at the Na
NAAU meet.;;;
Leo Tarrant, celebrated sprinter
developed by Coach Dave Albritton, State Teachers College, Montgomery, who rehtrt an akle which
has given him trouble all the year,
had to withdraw from the Traces
after entering the 100 meter in the
junior division. I ite oclaee
Bill O~Shield, pf Port Valley,

ful quarter-miler; Ralph cal
with Eddie Culp, the record
breaker in the junior division 1,500
meter and placer in the senior division, nd Herbert. Douglass,
placer in the 100 meter, shareq im

the recognition. |
~| These successes rebound to the.

benefit of the SIAC, greatest,. on

~| comparison of records, among: Ne
sro conferences.

Boy, 13, Saves ~
Drowning Boy,6

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them here last week when Bob ~

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Chicago, (ANP) ~ Elmer Rus- ~

sell, 11, is @ hero. Passing the
_| Sunday aftengen, he eee