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byl LUCIUS. JONES.

- Negro Tuniiis Strictly. High | Grade But
Lacks Consistency, Power of White Brand;

~McDaniel, Cohen Shine at ~Nationals~ |

| ~THERE ARE NOT many opportunities to make a. direct
comparison of Negro tennis: with white tennis, due to the
widely known color~ ban in this country.. Years-ago, however, when the column was down at Nassau, Bahamas, British West Indies at an edition of the annual Florida State Tournament, the governor of the Negro
Paradise declared the famous Jackson brothers, Nathaniel
and Franklyn, of Laurinburg, N. C., and Tuskegee Institute;
the equal of the average Davis Cup player.

Henri Crochet and Jean Borotra of France, Fred Perry
and Bunny Austin of England, Jack Crawford and Adrian
Quist of Australia, Baron Von Cramm of Germany, Ellsworth H. Vines of America, and some other international
standouts were admitted by the Nassau executive to be vastly: Superior to the Jackson boys, but he ventured to say the
pair should, hold their own against the average performer.

Last year, the Cosmopolitan Tennis Club of New York

City, haven.of Harlem~s elite, fostered an exhibition match

between J. Donald Budge, kingpin of white tennis, and Jimmie McDaniel, sepia tennis~ ~No. 1 player, as a goodwill gesture and also as an insight~ into the manner in which the
best Negro tennis compares with the best white tennis.

Budge~s superior execution of strokes ~and _ all-round
consistency made McDaniel look like a novice until the California southpaw overcame the nervousness which marked
the earlier games of the match. After that, he made things
ee interesting for the red-headed Don Budge, also a eos

ornian.

The set scores were 6-2, 6-3, and McDaniel~s showing
was more than reassuring to the huge gallery of almost exclusively colored patrons. Budge paid Jimmie a glowing
tribute and went so far as to say travel, contacts, and participation in international tournaments of major classification
naturally gave him a distinct advantage over his opponent
but that McDaniel was a player of rare possibility~one he
felt sure could hold his own against many of the best white
players, as he stood, let alone after he had the same opportunity for professional tutorship, playing in daily competition against topnotch performers, and a like chance for making a round of the major tournaments yearly.

A similar exhibition featured the Twenty-Fifth Championships of the American Tennis Association at Tuskegee
Institute last week when Charles Hare, the celebrated British Davis Cup star, who boasts victories over Fred Perry,
Jack Crawford and a number of other international celebrities, supplemented a tennis clinic, personally conducted, with
a match against Harold (School Boy)) Mitchell, the sensational California youth who whipped McDaniel in 1939 shortly after the latter had won his first national singles crown.

The Englishman beat Mitchell 6-3 and had no chance to

coast.

De: A. B: (Pete) Harper, one of the veterans of ATA
Tennis and an immortal in the annals of Atlanta, Georgia,
_ tennis history, expresses the view that. the outstanding
quality of superiority white tennis shows over Negro tennfs
is explained in two words: CONSISTENCY and POWER.
Commented the medico:

~The topnotch white player. like Budge or Hare, usually doesn~t boast a smoking ~first ball~ service which is followed by a softer ~second ball~~as is virtually the national pattern of Negro tennis. |

~The topranking white plaver hits the second just as
the first and displays remarkable tendency not to doublefault. Controlled power.

~His whole game is wonderfully balanced that way. He
plays an entire match with uniform consistency and power,
of, that is to say, he puts ~something~ on every ball he hits~
and the result is. that the opponent is kept on the defensive
at all times.

~Oftentimes, you will see one of those players serve and
conclude that the service balls aren~t being hit hard. But
get in front of them~and you quickly discover your error.
Some of those innocent looking service balls have power
enough to knock an opponent's racquet from his hand.~

Laughing over a typographical error that resulted in
~the score by which L'oyd Scott and Ted: -Lawson, the. Prairie View twosome, beat. him and his brother, Prof. Lawrence R. Harper, in the Georgia Open appearing as ~6-0,
6-0,~ Dr. Harper haid:

~We. were not pretty to watch out. there, I'll admit, because, after. all, we were only playing for sport. But, at that,
we weren't as bad as that score. Ha, ha, we did play "em
6-4, 6-2.

~Funny thing, too, I hadn~t had a racquet in my hand
in a year, but Lawrence insisted that I play with him, Seeing that he could ~take~ it, there was nothing for me to do but
go on out and penalize him. I had to barrow a racquet to play
with; I swore after last year when I beat myself on lack
of practice that I wouldn~t lift another again~giving mine
away. I intended to keep that promise~but you know how
easy that is.~

McDaniel and Cohen proved their class in the recent national tournament. McDaniel, seeded number one, trimmed
two lesser lights to gain the round of*sixteen, then shattered
Dr. C. O. Hilton, Harold Mitchell, Robert Ryland, and Richard Cohen in that order.

Cohen, with two early victories to. gain the round of sixteen, then proceeded to spank Dr. Ellwood Downing, Joe
King, and Howard Minnis, before losing to McDanieF

Third seeded John Chandler.and fourth seeded Clifford
Russell lost in the quarterfinals to Ryland. and Minnis re
spectrin y.

countries. Long an authority on
ae Meare Semen Ye United. Frazier concerned him
aoe of the Negro family
~| im half dozen. South sate:

JOELL
|FORTI

NEW YORK~(By Cephus Jones
for ANP)~The sensational news
from.California, that. Henry Armstrong; one time. holder of three
world championship belts at the

same tinié, was heading east again
determined to hit five cancels
trail to his welterweight title,
tempered quite a bit with the po
nouncethent. here that the former
champ Was depending ofi an exerciser, product of the ingenuity of
&@ Harlem inventor, to help him on
his return to the ring.

~Feather Feet,~. the dream of
Langley A. Waller, the Harlem inventor, is an exerciser made to order for cases such. as Armstrong~s.
The little buzz-saw in his last battle in New York at the Garden
when Fritzie Zivic lifted his welterweight title, showed plainly the
lack of stamina in his formérly sturdy legs and a tiring of muscles in
the~ shoulders ana arms that hampéred him a lot trying to carry the
fight to the fresher Pittsburgh
puncher. Waller~s invention, pat
| ented only a few weeks ago by the

United States Patent office in
Washington, will correct. Armstrong~s condition in a short order,
once Hammering Hank pitches
camp to start training for an
eventful bout with the new world
welterweight champion, Red ~Cochrane of Elizabeth, N.J. 4

Waller lives. at 3231 9th

who
been approached by leading manutacturers of athletic goods who see
in ~Feather Feet~ a most revolutionary idea and one sure to enjoy instant favor with all athletes,
as well as with ordinary folk who
need- exercise at home, in the office, and elsewhere. Hehry Armstrong started using the device
shortly: after his retirement, from
the ring and has said ~Feather
Feet~ have been responsible for his
regaining of at least 90 per cent of
his old hitting power. In addition,
Hank~s timing has improved to such
an extent that his a trainer
Harry Armstrong, is sure no wel- |.
terweight in the ring foday can
stand before the:shuffling little
punch tossing demon from California via St. Louls.

~Feather. Feet~ is made up ol
leather bracelets with pockets inte
which are-inserted bars of lead. The
bracelets are made for either the
wrists or the ankles. By adding
weights up to six pounds, the person in training can build the muscles of the-lezgs or arms and chest

to almost unbelievable strength and
endurance while exercising with
~Feather Feet.~ In fact, an athlete
can build himself to any degree of
strength and power he wishes.

Waller, a former Chicagoan who

Satch Paige
To Hurl For
Charity

CHICAGO~ (ANP) ~All roads
will again lead to spacious Comiskey park here on Sunday, August
31, when the great Satchel Paige
will be brought here to pitch an
entire game. for the Kansas City
Monarchs in a big Negro Americarr
league double-header with the Chicago American Giants for the ben
_| efit of the Provident Hospital fund.

The great Satch only whetted the

f
appetite of the 50,000 fans present

for the East-West game for more
of his pitching cunning, and~ the
wonder: hurler has readily consented to try to go the entire distance~if the American Giants bats don~t
decree otherwise~for. the great | o
cause being aided.

The committee in charge com-.
prising many. of Chicago's outstanding. social and cultural lead~ers among the women, has. tackled
the job of selling thousands of tickets with a vim and it must be
said plow ag tert a Mors 4
of them. Everybody | 90

again,

American Giants who
playing great ball now, and _ help
the worthy Provident hospital
fund at the same time.

Mrs. Robert A. Cole heads the
arrangements committee and she
has been i all help she
wants ffom Joe~ 9 Aad
honk Chicago manager,

Caton Made

Gri ~oe

Avenue, Corona, L.~ [., has already ||.

'Ready For

~pack. King was the fastesp end in

~Henry:Armstrong. Definitely Set |
On Making An Early Comeback |

starred on: a Wendell Phillips high
school championsip basketball téam
in 1927-28,:is also a former.CYO
lightweight boxing champion and a
Golden Glover. He is the president
of Harlem~s only Negro owned engraving plant.and was - formerly
the only Negro in the powerful New
York local of the Engravers International union,

~Feather Feet~ has; already received the unqualified and enthusiastic endorsement of such prizefighters as Georgia Pace, former
National Boxing association bantam weight champion; the new and
sensational young lightweight. Beau
Jack; George Gainsford, trainer of

the Salem-Crescent A. C. Golden
Gloves champions; Ed Gordon, the
broad jump champion, and many
others. Although Waller has demonstrated his device to~ many, he
feels that there are. many others
who would: be glad to hear from all
such persons.

frmstrong will fight again under
the banner of Mike Jacobs, who is
not averse to his return to the
ring, providing. Armstrong can show
the same ability that made him the
greatest. drawing card since the
days of Benny Leonard and Lew
Tendler and the idol of the sporting fraternity throughout the
country, as well as in London.

Rochester~s
$239.60 On

DELMAR, Cal.~(ANP)~Highest price paid in the history of
Del Mar Turf club. was made to track fans Who bet on False Clue,
filly owned by Eddie ~Rochester~ Anderson, noted comedian of
films and radio.. The scene of False Clue~s victory was the third
race at Del Mar, when the horse won by a length and a half over
Lady Desmond, with War Briar third.

~Only $99 was wagered on the animal, who hodeighs back
$239.60, $92.40, and $26.60, for $2 mutual tickets, The previous
payoff record was set August 4 by Idle Hour, who paid $221. Appepate Billy Fiske handled the er filly.

Nag Pays
$2 Ticket.. By HERALD N
BOSTON, Mass.~Robert

cago, won the Sixteenth National United Golfers~ Association Open | Golf Tournament here Friday, winning a $500
cash prize with a score of egal Pacers:

~Clyde. Martin, Joe Louis~ pri- ~ ton.

vate golf tutor, who won first
place in the tournament sponsored last week by Champion
Louis himself, grabbed second
place honors and $250 cash with
a score of 154-73-76~308..

Atlanta~s own Zeke Hartsfield
stocd third with 2 score of 149 -79-79~307, His part, of the
$1,009 tourney was $100 cash.

Taking fourth placé honors
was Solomon Hughes, of Gadsden,
Alabama, who came through with
a tally of 154-80-75~309.

In. fifth place was James Clark,
of Hartford, Conn., with a score
of 157-73- 80~310. k

In the amateur division, Cliff ~ Open. is played each year in At

Taylor, of New York, defeated |
Claude Ross, of Washington, in
the 14th annual championship
fot colored golfers held at Ponkapoag Golf Club at meatey. Can
Dolly King

AllStar Go

WASHINGTON~ (ANP)~ Dolly
King, now in training camp with
the Eastern All Stars postcards
from Cornwall-on-the-Hudson:

~Here~s where we are training.
Plenty of work, but now I~m suppose i to be a football player,
working real hard. These guys are
real football players. They are real
swell not like a lot of people~no
success stuff. They~re just great.~

In going over his squad in the
early days of the workouts, Coach

wiley staged relay races, the, the guards, tackles and backs
be divided into their respective
groups. Ghecas, former Gé~orgetown. star, showed his heels to in
camp,

Pireag had. hampered the work
~gh 4 the squad for a few days
but athletic director at West
Point Military academy invited the
boys over to workout in the huge
drill shed. No colored athletes had
utilized these privileges before, al-:
though when King was a member
of the i squad, he had visited
West with the team to play
the

Hartsfield Third
In National Open

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peaeel

EWS BUREAU
Patrick (Pat) Ball, of Chi
In~ the semi-finals, Ross, down~ed Fred Lyles, of Washington,
5-4, and Cliff Taylor, of New
York, defeated Dive Strohman,
Washington. 3-2,

Ball~s victory in the professional rank marked his fifth time to
win the national open.

~Clyde Martin, who swept. to
second place, came through last
week with first place honors in
the tcurfiament sponsored by
Joe Louis in Detroit.

Hartsfield; who romped to
third place in the Boston tourney
was Southern: Open: champion~ in

YORK~ (SNS)--.World
Heavyweight Champicn Jute Louis
and his wife, back together and
happy after a stormy matrimoniai
rift which sent them Under separate roofs-for four months, arrived
here Saturday morning. After the
Brown Bomber witnesses the colorful Harlem Horse Show, m which
he has his famous thoroughbreds
entered, he will begin training at
Greenwood Lake, N. J.;
Most of the Brown Bomber~s
training for title fights has been at
Pompton Lakes, N. J.. where he
took advantage of Doc _. Bier~s
gymnasium and health _ facilities.
But Lou Nova, Louis~ opponent in
their fcrthcoming Monday, September 29, emcounter at Polo
Grounds, will train at that spot
this time. Billy Conn, kayoed by
Louis June 18 at the Polo Grounds,
whipped himself into shape at that
camp for his heavyweigftt title
shot.

CHANGED FOUR TIMES

Shift to the Louis-Nova contest
from September. 19 to September

29, at the request of the champion

~iat Lake This Week

und his handlers; marked the fourth
time it had been changed. Original--
ly, it had.been set for Chicago~s
Comiskey Stadium the night of/|of
September 24. Later, it was moved
to New York~s Yankee Stadium a
week earlier, September 17.

Shortly after that, it was moved
Lack two days to September 19 at
Yankee Stadium, Now, the ~ontest
is definitely set for Septetnber 29
Polo Grounds.

CHICAGO, DETROIT BID
HEAVILY

The Louis-Nova engagement has
proved OMe of the most-soughtafter affairs in the Brown Bcember~s
eareer as heavyweight champion.
Chicago, New York, and Detroit
all bid heavily for ~sponsorship of
the contest.

But in the end, Mike Jacobs, under heavy pressure from New
York~s moneyed business czars, was
left no alternative but to bring the
title scrap to Gotham.
POSTPONE MATCH

Meanwhile, the Twentieth Century Sporting Club announces in-~
definite postponement of the pro
posed Buddy Baer- -Abe Siinon: elimi
nation contest for 2 shot at the
world heavyweight crown. Necessity

a major operation on one of
Baer's ~hoxifig hands" caused. the
deferment..

Nova is way ahead of Louis,.in
the matter of an, * a
forthcoming title ma
gone up in the mbuntain é
of New England shortly acy th
Louis-Conn battle to harden himself for the major test he will have

the champion.
LOUIS, OFF FORM

| Louis, on the other sate, Vis bate:

things more or iess leisurely since~
the Conn fiasco, devoting most aga
his time to golf and answering di-~
vorce summons. In the end, Louis
realizec, for~ the first time, that he
had ar. important title defense
upon his hands: He realized, three
weeks would not be quite enough
tiie te reach peak form for Nova.

Louis asked an extension and got
it, bub many were inclined to ldok
upon it as a ~death-reprieve~ for
Nova, rather ge <a a timeven
for Joe.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala~(SNS)~
Stingy Black Baron pitchers held

the St. Louis Stars to six hits Sun
day as they shut out the invaders

lanta at Lincoln Golf Course.
Hartsfield tied for second place
last week in Joe Louis~ tournament.

To date this year in three major golf tournaments, Hartsfield
has won $662.50 in cash prizes.

Hartsfield was three strokes
ahead of the entire field at the
half-way mark of the Boston
tourney with a 149. In winning
the. event, Ball had to pick up
éight ~strokes to overcome Harts~
field~s three-stroke lead.

Hughes, of Alabama, is a former national champion, winning
the cup in 1935 in a driving rain
in New York. He has played
twice in the Southern Open.

Hugh Smith, of Thomaston.
who failed tv finish in the big
money, was. low. medalist. He
turned in a 73 for the first 18
holes. Smith was a member of the
Atlanta delegation entered in the
tourney.

Of interest is the fact that the }
firsts UGA tournament and the
meet just completed were--both

1939: and: 1941. The Souther:

played in Boston.

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twice, 2 to 0 and 4 to 0.

Dan Bankhead hurled two-hit
ball in the long game while ~Lefty~
McGinnis scattered four taps in
the 7-stanza affair.

Both teams played flawlessly in
the first~ game, but the Welchmen
turned in a bristling. exhibition of
incredibly brilliant fielding.

In the first game the homelings
touched Walter Calhoun for seven
cleanies. They scored in the first
inning when Lockett singled and
scooted home on. Bostork~s triple.
Their second score came in the
eighth. Douglass doubled. Lockett sacrificed to second, He scored

after Bostork~s short fly.
~They hung up a pair of scores in
the first and_ fourth of the second

game
A! Mrs. Larnie J. Wil
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Birmingham Black Barons Blank
St. Louis Stars 2to0 And 4 to 0

ed Manager W. S. Welch, who was
being honored, with~a gift. The
ceremony took place in. the pitch
er~s box.

The Welchmen play the Ethiopian Clowns a doubleleader Sun- ~
day at Rickwood. At this game
feris will vote on the most. valuable Black Baron player.
player winnng out will be given &
U. | bond as a prize.

rst Game

Score by tnntngs

St. Louis.
Birmingham 1 or fee 17

i ee eee |

McAllister and Taylor; McGinnis
| and if Haety, Marsellées, oi

%: halftime,
liams and Timothy Smith present-'

Umpires: Moore and Williams.

Mc Daniel

TUSKEGEE, Ala. ~ (SNS) ~

Percale afternoon here at Tus
kegee Institute. as the National

*| Tennis meet of the ATA came to

an end, Jimmie _McDaniéls again
retained his national crown by defedting nis doubles partner, Richard Cohen, 6-2. ~-3, 4-6, 6.4.
McDaniels has won the national
championship for three successive
years and will take home with hini
two 3-leg trophies, the ATA trophy
and the 800 dollar James H. Wil:
liams trophy." The ~ three-leg
trophies are the Bill Robinson
trophy and the J. W. Wiilis trophy
presented to the ATA in, 1936. The
Williams trophy is never won but
is helq for one year by the school
that the chamvion represents.

In the men~s double, McDaniels
and Cohen teamed to defeat H.
Minnis and C. Russell of Tuskegee Institute 8-6, 4.6, 8-6, 6-3.

Mrs. Lomax, former national
women~s champion from Detroit,
defeated Miss K. Jones of Tuskewe Institute 7-5, 6-1.

In the women~s doiibles,

{ the!) Spencer

once a week and stay with the

Defeats.

Cohen For 3rd Crown

Peters sisters of Tuskegee defeated
Doris Hatchett of Tillotson College and Mrs. F. Gittens of New
York, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, ee
The Junior single crowe. was
won by Raymcnd Jackson of New
~York, over Richard ager
6-3, 4.6, 7-5, 6-4. In the Ji
doubles Cunningham teamed -
Jack Points to defeat
Mag ra and Jackson, 3-6, 6-4 6-4
~Thelma McDaniels, last year's
runner-up, of Tuskegés Institut
~ Miss Gloria Downing ~64,
In the boys~ singles J: D. Rhodes,
of Orangeburg, S. C.,. defeated
George Bulls, of Tuskegee, 6-0, 6:
The veterén~s singles crown
won for the second straight year
by John *B. Garrett of Tiskegee
over C. W. Lewis of Prairie View,
Texas. Garrett won the first set
6-2 ang Lewis retired a the
third game of the second set.
Harold (School Boy) Mitchell
and B. Thornton of California,
4 defeated $3 Poe and Miss L. %

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