Brownsville Weekly News

By LUCIUS JONES

White Weiter Says Negro Ball Players

Superior to Big Leaguer; Rates Buck |

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Leonard over York, Carlisle over Doerr::

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~(Editor~s Note: The following column in the Detroit
News ~was written by -H..G. Salsinger, sports editor and one
ef the leading sports authorities in the country, after he
had watched the double-header hetween the Homestea
Grays and Baltimore Elite Giants.).

Nearly 28,000 people (the actual! paid attendance.was
27,949) passed through the turnstiles of Briggs Stadium on
Sunday afternoon to watch two colored teams play a doubleheader. They paid the same admission prices. that are
charged for American League games but what they saw
surpassed in entertainment value any double-header ever

~ played here by the Tigers this year.

~ The two teams in competition yesterday were the Elite
Giants of Baltimore and the Homestead Grays of Homestead
Pa., members of the National League, and the result was
feven- Baltimore won the first game, 6 to 0, and Homestead

won the second, in the tenth inning, 8 to 7.:: ~ x * *

TALENT Sidead Lorne

Colored cultural organizations have been trying to beat
down the color line and gain admittance for colored ball players to major league rosters. ~The answer to all their campaigns has been -that the colored league lacked players
capable of making the big-league grade.

_' Here was a chance to compare the play of the colored
leaguers with that of the major leaguers and the comparisons, made after more than five hours of competition, was
in favor of the colored players.

The colored man has become predominant in track and
field athletics, particularly in the sprints, hurdles, broad
jump, high jump and one or two other events that have attracted members of his race.

The colored man has done exceptionally well in college
football where some of the ~best: linemen, ends and backs, belong to the Ethiopian race.

In baseball the colored man~s claims have always been
discounted, mainly because in baseball colored played against
colored and there was no chance for comparison except in
isolated cases, like that of the much publicized Leroy (Satchel) Paige, a tall right-handed pitcher who ties himself: into
knots while winding up and who, because of his personal eccentricities, has been eagerly sought by promoters and has
iad ~the opportunity of pitching against a large number of
major league players, a privilege denied his ~less spectacular
brethren.

Undoubtedly the Satchel is a first-class throwing man
but there are quite a number of other talented players on

the rosters of colored clubs.
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MATERIAL oe:

Press releases mentioned. Buck Leonard, first baseman
- of the Homestead nine, as the top player in the National Negro league, and so we paid particular attention to Leonard,
a man of the same build as Rudy. York and wearing the same.
number. but infinitely faster than York and more aggressive.
~~ In the seventh inning of the second game, Leonard made,
a play that we have never seen matched by an American
League first baseman. He ran almost to the extreme end of
the bullpen in rightfield foul territory and caught a fly ball

over his shoulder.:

The play was mechanically brilliant, but strategically
bad. There was a runner on third base at the time and
Leonard, after making the catch, could not pull up in time
to throw home and keep the runner from scoring.

~It was Leonard~s spectacular play that sent the game
into extra innings. Had he ignored the foul fly the game

would have been won by his Homestead team in nine innings.
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FORGOTTEN; 4;

One player that the advance publicity never mentioned
was Mathew Carlisle, second baseman of the Homestead
nine. There are a couple of brilliant second basemen in the
American League-~Boby Doerr of the Boston Red Sox and
Joe Gordon of the New York Yankees~-but with them ir
mind we still Jike Carlisle. He~s quite a ball player, at leasi

_ he was the other day. he

In the eighth inning of the second game Carlisle mad
a play that was the best delivered by a second baseman a!
Briggs Stadium this season., Biot hit a fly ball to dead right

~ Basterling, the rightfielder, was playing~ over and hac
no chance to reach the ball. Carlisle whirled with the crack
of the bat and streaked out on a straight line, the way Tris
Speaker used to do.:

~He never paused in his fligght but finally took a half look
and caught the ball over his,right shoulder while still travel
ihg at top speed toward the rightfield stands. As thing
turned out it was a game-saving play. ee

~GGRESSIVE _.. a
sce is one thing that distinguishes the National Negro
~League ball players from their major league brethren and
that is their whole-hearted enthusiasm, their genuine zest.
"They. baseball with a verve and flair lacking in the big
leagues. They like men who are getting a great deal
xf fun out of it but who want desperately to win, sometimes

| but. when they do they
* If there were one or two rowdy spots in the playing of
yo games. they were.excusable and,.in view of the kind
lethargic baseball that we have seen here all season, even
dable. It is a relief

inning pe fhene tno were yesterda

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intensely. They rarely kick on ~

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~pecting friend and brought forth

~nament that closed here Sunday.

kick with vigor and aban- |

to watch two teams qs intently,|
~crowd, it was beautifullv behaved. It.
crowd that has watched a
For once Briggs Stadium:

By AL MOSES

NEW YORK,~ (ANP) ~ Golfer,
horseman, country squire.... Joe
Louis, best 208 pounder sirice the
halcyon greatness of Dempsey and
Tunny. engages:the Yogi disciple of
physical culture in less than a
month from today. Joe has stated
that Billy Conn: easily tied him up
in the clinches, displaying a type
of strength rarely associated with
men of. the handsome Irishman~s
build. Louis is the fella who was
inside the ropes with ~Billy the
Kid~.... ~what we think this or
that condition is.~ After you~ve decided to cast your vote in the ballot box you choose, incline an ear
to this.

We béeliéve that Louis will find
Lou Nova both stronger and tougher than the inspired Conn who collapsed suddenly after Joe finally
connected with the payoff business..
Not possessing the cleverness of the
modern version of Philadelphia
Jack O~Brien, the giant California
will be far easier to tag on that
lantern jaw of his than Conn was.
It is:because of this element we
figure Louis will. batter Nova into submission somewhere. between
the 8th and 10th rounds. It must
be remembered that Nova demonstrated: he could take the cruelest
sort of whipping the night he played human giunea to Tony Galento.

In Conn~s major battles leading
up to the Louis fight, he was never forced to prove his ability to
sop up punishment as meted out
by a-Galento or Louis. In fact, on
the strength of his showing against
Gunnar Barlund, the slow thinking
Finlander Conn came close
to losing the Louis shot, which
served to skyrocket him into a ring
fortune, the acclaim of Hollywood,
and the-hand of bewitchingly pretty ~maiden.

Many of Louis~ race who talked
fight on each street corner of New
York~s Harlem have different views
on the coming scrap with Nova.
Said one well versed follower of
boxing: ~Should. Nova connect with,

Joe as Jimmy Braddock did, the~
golden boy.... I think that he
will finish his championship career right there and then.~ We
couldn~t quite agree with our ex
this line of chatter in support of
our views. ~For all of Louis~ eye
we said:.:.. ~the we admire

blinking when.hit on the button,~ |}

Himself Off the Floor and become
a cage full of wild leopards to the
man before him.~

We cited instances in the Braddock, Schmeling, Galento and Buddy, Baer contests to convince our
stubbord, but, firm word opponent.
As~ this writer sees it, Louis, once
angered, becomes~ the ~~ strongest,
roughest, cruelest fighter these eyes
have eyer looked upon inside the
ropes.#.: or out there in the....
street where biting, butting, kicking and such delicacies, are not
barred.

Before we dispense with Louis,
~we want to say a word on the overplayed subject of Joe~s retirement.

Some of the more prominent Negro newspapers have had a _ +tendency to dramatize comment on
this point of Louis quitting the
glove racket in a blaze of glory...... &~ la Gene Tunny. Few Negro
readers of sport columns are unfamiliar with the fact that outstanding sable-skinned scrappers
like Blackburn, Guns,. Walcott,
Johnson, Langford, Jeanette, McVey, Dixie Kid, Young Peter Jackson, Godfrey (the first), Peter
~warfares, retired still youthful with
all his faculties unimpared, to live
on the income _of a quarter of a
million dollars worth of real estate. The others gain a niche in
books written by Nat Fleischer, Jim
Tully, Ed Van Every, and company....and that just about sums up
their story.

Many of the thousands of fans
of Louis~ own race (not white fans)
who have written in scores of letters to this writer suggesting such,
explain their side thoughtfully and
intelligently. They fear that Louis
might sustain a lasting injury, a
more serious one than the~ undersized cauliflowered ear the lacestring of Billy Conn~s glove gave
him: Perhaps some eye injury,. or
soiled gloves. These fans would go
through a blood-transfusion for
the most gentlemanly Negro fighter of any age. To them he represents the same type of symbol as

Babe Ruth, Ty.;

Kraemer, Jack Dempsey,
~Budge and other Nordic champions, represent to the white race.
Seriously, we see nothing wrong
whatsoever in such an opinion. As
far as we are concerned personally.... Roxborough, Black and Jacobs can. keep: Louis fight: as
long as Johnson and Léangford: did

i thing
him most for is his ability to Pull

and~ that.was considerablly-over 20

NEW YORK (~ANP)~ Jimmie
McDaniel of Xavier university, New
Orleans, national champion, defeated his schoolmate and No. 2 ranking
player, Richard Cohen, in the man~s
singles event that featured the silver
jubilee celebration of the New York
State Tennis Asscciation Open tour
The tourney was held on the courts
of the Cosmopolitan club.

The two star players who have
battled in friendly rivalry in varfous parts of the country, held the
enthusiasm of 300 persons who saw
McDaniel win 8-6, 6-2, 2-6, 62. The
matches, which brought out many
of the ranking men and women
players, is the biggest of the state
association. tournaments and was
the last tune-up for ~the top notchers who will be seen in the national tournament in ~Fuskegee beginning next week.

Flora Lomax of Detroit retained
her standing in the women~s singles
by outpointing. Miss Margaret Peters of Tuskegee 6-3 and, 6-3. Powerfl driving force, indicated by
her facial grimnces, gave color to
the game of Mrs.. Lomax as her
hard shafts cut across the net
Miss Peters, also playing a brilliant game, somehow lacked the
power of her opponent. In both
sets, Mrs. Lomax took the last
four games in a row, and at no
time did the Tuskegeean threaten.

Jimmie McDaniel Bags
New York Open Title

In. three straight sets, McDaniel
and, Cohen handed their schoolmates, Joe King and Robert Ryland, a severe setback in the men's
doubles to the tune of 6-2, 6-3 gre
6-2. The sets were spotted With
several excellent exchanges in midcourt that had the _ spectators

Tn the women~s qpbubles Roumania Peters joined her sister
Margaret to take two straight sets
from Miss. Washington and Mrs.
Ajnita GRnt of Washington, 6-1
and 6-3.

In the;
opened the day, Mrs. Flora Lomax
of Detroit and W. E. (Babe) Jones
of Baltimore defeated the team of,
Ora Washington and Dr. Sylvester
B. Smith,.both of adelphia,
6-2, 4-6, 64. ~The match was a
stirring piece of playing and
showed Miss Washington to be in
fine form.

Raymond Jiackson of Brooklyn
defeated Quentin Vaughn, also of
Brooklyn, in the junior singles and
retained his New York State championship. Vaughn is number two
locally. f

Saturfiay Tuskegee~s National
veteran's champion, J. B. Garrett
beat Ted Hooks of Brooklyn, 6-4,
6-1 in the finals, and Miss Dorothy
Davis of Elizabeth, N. J.. lost to
Miss ~Thelma McDaniels, another
Tuskegeean, 7-5, 6-4, in the final

mixed doubles, which

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Clyde Martin

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Shoots 292

To Take Ist Place In Louis~

Tournament

~the Golden Gloves a few

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Brown Bomber Should Find |
Lou.Nova Tough--Moses

years in each instance. Should he
accumulate 10 million dollars from
his jousts inside of 24 foot enclosufe, that still won~t make us
angry. But to criticise well meaning black and white admirers with
absolutely no axes to grind for suggesting he retired to his 90 acre
ranch and to raising a family and
living like a king, worshipped every step of the way. he goes until
the day he dies.... strikes us as
rather a poor sort of argument.

TENNIS ~INVITES~ IN ORDER
KAY BURTON, who says she
comes from a line of ~Irish patriots,
favors us with a letter that. we
thought unique to say the fast.
This white tennis enthusiast who
has seen Dr. Reggie Weir play on
more than one occasion, writes us:

~Since it appears that colored ten-:

nis players are a long way from
winning their. fight to enter the
National tournament the country,
doesn~t this war hysteria suggest
something for. you to get started?

~Why don~t you lend your prolific_ pen ina letter to Thomas Dewey, Suggesting that he authorize a
series of tennis matches between
the seeded Negro players of national ranking men.and women, the
returns to go to the army fund
now announced at 10 million dollars. In many instances players of
your race. would be overmatched,
only because of ~superior coaching
advantages, etc., that I need. not
explain to one as well versed as
yourself.~;

We dispatched a nice letter of
thanks to Miss Burton whom we
happened to meet in the course of
our real job, and Mr. Dewey will
receive a prospectus of same that,
we trust, will be put into operation. Thanks a lot Miss Burton......4t is such friends from the other group as yourself that - cause
us to believe life can be truly beautiful if we~d all strive to make it
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Fo rmer Fighters
At Fort Riley ~
In Khaki

YT. RILEY, Kans, (ANP) When
~Albert Powell and Chuck Rhodes,
two Des Moines, Ia.,.boys entered
é years
back and met with success, they
didn~t think that they~ would lat-:
er spend a lot more time together.

Today, Powell ic an acting corpor
pl at the Cavalry rink Ea
Training center, Fort Riley, ~and
Rhodes is there right along with~
Powell. ~They afrived at this training center in July and. will take
their 13 weeks training there berr they are sent to permanent

8.

Powell made a big name for
himself in sports when he wen the
iowa State championship in the
Golden Glové tournament a few.
years back. Since that time he has
fought professionally for two years
and made the fine record of 12
wins, one draw and one loss. He
also was a star basketballer, playing both center and forwarg for
the famous Harlem. Globe Trotters and traveled on tour through
29 states in 1938-9.

Rhodes also won his district
honors in the Golden -Glove competition and then went to the box
professionally. In 1941,.up to the
time he joined the army, Rhodes
won 16 fights and lost two. -

~At Fort Riley~s training center,
which is the only camp teaching
éelectees military horsemanship,
Rhodes is riding in the Horse cavalry while Powell does his traveling in the mechanized cavalry.

SCHOOL BY 1942

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. ~
(ANP)~If a journalism school
is established at Lincoln university by Feb. 1, 1942, it will be a

~reasonable time,~ the attorney.

general decided Saturday.

- Miss Lucile Bluford, managing
ge
nas demanded entrances to the.
University of Missouri journalism school. supreme court
cf this state recently held that
she should be admitted if a similar school was-not established at
Lincoln within a reasonable time

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ATLANTA, be wg

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Marshall Arnold, Atlan avorite, who staged~.an up-set Friday
in defetaing Lloyd Scott, former~
national~ charapion, in the semifinals won the Georgia Open Men~s
singles championship ~from the defending champion, Louis Graves,
Xavier University in five hard
fought sets 6-2 1-6, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.
Celestine Hatchette, Tilloston
College, Austin, Texas, unknown,
staged the second upset of the tournament in defeatinf Mrs. Agnes
Lawson, national defending champion of the American Tennis Association, the second tournament
defeat by Miss Hatchette of Mrs.
Lawson this season, this time
straight ~Sets, 6-2;-6-3. é.Lawson,..Nat~l Chan
By Texas Co-Ed:

pectation T. R. Lawson and~ Lloyd
Scott defeating S. Lindsay and
Mafshall Arnold 6-3, 6-0, 6-2.

In the mixed doubles Katherine

Celestine Matchette and Walker
Austin of Southern University 7-6,
8-0.:

Miss Katherine Jones, Springfield, Mass., and Mrs. Agnes Lawson, Prairie View State College,
Texas, won the women~s doubles
championship by defeating Mrs.

both of Atlanta, 6-2, 6-1.
-In other finals played on Friday~

Jones and Lloyd Seott defeated),

"~Frophies %
| close to all the winners and r

Ella Bush.and Mrs. Lucia Bacote, |

Robert Scott, Atlanta, and Pee
Sibley, Atlanta, defeated TT.
Neal and E. B. Evans, Prairie View.
Texas, 1-6, 6-2, 6-2. In girls~ singles
~y~ Grisson. defeated Eliza
Glanton~ 6-4, 10-8. ky

Were awarded at \the
ners-up.. Presentation being msc
by Professor S. H. Archer, BooXer WA&shington High ogee

the following champions. were
~awarded trophies: in jut
T, ~. Neal defeated

~Yen's doubles ran true to ex
735, 6-4, 648;

tale cet on oy tem
~in junior ~ doubles| ~Joseph D. McGhee, reporter.

<peabane

_. By PETER DANA
NEW YORK~It was during the

Lew Jenkins fight in Philadelphia
when Robert Montgomery, the actor, returned to his dressing room
on the studio lot to hear the radio
announcer describing the ring prow
ess of one Bob Montgomery who
was giving lightweight champion
Lew Jenkins a severe shellacking
as thousands cheered that Mr. M.,
the actor, was first confused and
then cheered, according to Otis
Washington, Wardrobe-man for
the actor in his employ for the past
five years.,

~Yes see; Mr. Washington ~in
Film Star, Robert
Learns About His R
Montgomery Of Fistic Fame

> ery wasn~t exactly up to the minute

récent non-title Bob Montgomery.

f we sat at the bar of.
the Motel Theresa, ~Mr. ~Montgom-|

on his knowledge of the fighting
men in the lighter division and so

remember Robert Montgomery, the

the sound stages into
the dressing room to discover that
Bob Montgo
a hectic bit of fisticuffs, when he
knew he was right there in the
studio all the time, was a little bit
~too much even for, Mr.. Montgomery~s sense of humor. Said he.
~What is this? Is this some kind
of gag? Where did you get that
recording made?~
~Assured that it. wasn~t a pe but
a broadcast of an actual fight going on in Philadelphia between one

apparently hadn~t heard or didn~t | with
sensational boxer. Walking from)

tgomery was engaged in| %

st wit
Mrs. Montgomery. The is ne
tg ex a Srna
inte: in a
caree 00 ie Se Oe ee

~ he feels mus

a French ambtlance -
the the fall.of Prange.

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ATLANTA, Ga.~(SNS)~.

Idle the past Sunday afternoon
the Atlanta All-Stars, recognized
as the Gate City~s foremost combination, swings into action this
Sunday afterncon, August 24, at
the Booker T. Washington High
School Stadium, where the strong
Chattanooga Cubs will be met in
a doubleheader starting at 2:30
o~clock.

The Chattanooga Cubs are managed by James Cotton, service
-station operative of the Tennessee metropolis, and are champions of the city league there. The
Tennesseeans invaded the Gate
City the past Sunday and gave
the Swift Black Caps an artistic
preening on their East Point dia
iond.

PROMISE TROUBLE

The Chattanoogans swear they
will give the Atlanta All-Stars a
beating this Sunday and, in order
to do the job, are sending their
Southpaw ace, Willie Cassidy, to
the mound in the opener and are
starting their ton righthander,
W. E. (Dusty) Henderson, on
the slab in the nightcap. It was
Cassidy who handcuffed Manager ~Son~ Howell~s East Pointers the past Sabbath,

The other stars of the visiting
Chattanooga clup include. a
sweet fielding lefthanded first
baseman named*~Lecnard Byron,
Bryon who infield mates are his
brother, Edward Brown at third:
Minor Hill at second, Robert
Hester in short, and Vester
Moore. utility. Jimmy Turner,,
regular~ shortstop, missed the trio

lond base;

Janta All-Stars in the near fu
LASSY OUTFIT:

In the outfield; Chattanooga
thas a trio of excellent ballhawks;
and hitters in L. D. West in left,
Ulysses Lane in. center, and Ed-.
ward Window in right, The catch-.
ers are Robert (Baldy) | Atkins,
Marvin Cousin, and _ Willie
Huguley, while the other pitchers,
are Thomas Locke and Frazier
Benefield, both righthanders.,

The Atlanta All-Stars~ active
roster of 15 players, at this time
are Pitchers Sunny Jim Echols,
Lefty ~Gene Jones, Thomas.
Brooks, and Austell (Lefty)

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Reid; Catchers George Hill andj|

Marion (Doc- Wingo; Infielders,
James (Dec) Moore, first; Carlton (Snook) Sheppard and Othello (Moon Priest) Renfroe, secJames (Jetermam!
Spears, shortstop; and Emory
Long, third base; and Outfielders Judge (Dusty) Owens, Thomas (Monk) Favors, Sammy
Haynes, and Hubert (Buddy)
~Wade. _,
MANY GAMES >

Remaining games of the At
ture, aside from Chattanooga
Sunday at Harper~s Field, include the Swift Black Caps at
East Point Saturday, August 30;

the Northeast Georgia All-Stars | -

Sunday August 31, in a twin bill
at BTWHS; and the Scripto
Black Cats Monday, Labor Day,
September 1, at Ponce De Leon
Park, in-a dcubleheader.

The Northeast Georgia AllStars include 20 of the outstanding playérs~ of Mariétta, Carters
the past week, but will be there
in place of Hester this Sunday

ville, Clarksdale, Tate, ~Douglas
# Coe. ~&

Lew Jenkins, to be held Friday
o'clock p. m. EST.

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Louis-Nova Bout Headline

t ville, Canton,

| of Dallas, James

Atlanta All-Stars To Play
Chattanooga Pair $

against the crack All-Stars.

unday
Villa Rica,
mart, and Scotts Crossing me
Among the stars are Jim Stodgill, Hugh Grogans, Paul Garrett,
Herschel Kennedy, Andrew
oe and Corient Harris.of
arietta; A. W. Young, Arthur
Foots Young, Rufus Lester, ~~mer Alston, Howard Alston, and
~Sink Alston hed Crentie Little
Hall of Tate, He
Boy Hall o, ond
Verns Johnson of Scotts~ Crossing
fons - nd Grady Ba of Car
Gra, an T: L on
tetsviile, and R ~Bove of
Rockmart. Be 3 ie a,
~Lefty Jim Mitchell, the Scotts~

Rote

Crossing southpaw, come with 2
sensational reputation, while Lester, the Big Clarksdale - d

er, and Harris, the smokebell artist from Marietta, are also -spid
to be pitchers who represents no
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thing but disaster forthe home- ~

lings. a

Hundreds of fans are expected
from Chattanooga to see the Atlanta All-Stars. take the count
from their boys sc they say and
even more people are exp
from all over northeast
~to see their heroes try-to har
the tcuted Atlantans.. -

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