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| SPORTS SLANTS;
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_ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1941 _

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| By ~Melancholy* Jones

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~Morris Brown, Morgan, Southern, Ky. State
| Rated ~Tops~ Ahead Of Florida, Alabama,
A. &T.,, Lincoln, "Force, Langston, P. View|. JUST ABOUT THIS TIME last. campaign. Morris -
wn, Morgan. Prairie View and Wilberforce were named
the pacesetters in a stirring national football derby.

Vright, New Featherweight Champ

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In the breakdown, Morgar was picked te vop the CIAA

} Tels. In a revaluation, Lane was given the inside rail in the
| Prairie View named to spread-eagle the Southwest.

+ The national picturc ran:lmost unerringly-truc.ty pre# diction. Morris Brown, Morgan and Wilberforce hogged

} three of the first four positions nationally, but Florida nos| ed in instead of Prairie View.:. Sectionally, Morgan and Wilberforce came through with
# flying colors. Morris Brown came in first instead of second,
f With Alabama and Fiorida holding two of the other three
pesitions as selected. Lane was a major disappointment, The
Dragons inished atop the second division, behind Xavier,
Tuskegee and Clark, all three of which rounded out the
first division.

\ Prairie View was not quite as big a disappointment in
the Southwest, though Sam Taylor did fall short of exxpec| tations. The Texans finished as runner-up tc Southern and
_ Langston, which divided honors for the Southwest pennant.

- This year, the nationai derby should be paced by Morris
Brown and Florida of the SIAC, Morgan and J. C. Smith
of the CIAA, Ky. State and Wilberforce of the Midwestern
t loop, Southern and Texas of the Southwestern circuit,

Sectionally, it looks like Morris Brown, Florida, Alabama
and Lane in the SIAC, with Le Moyne a potential ~sleeper.~
In the CIAA, your stack showd be wagered on Morgan, J.
C. Smith, A, and T., and Lincoln, with Virginia State a strong
*darkhorse~; out: in the Southwest, the blue chips should be
played on Southern, Texas, Langston and Prairie View,
with Bishon ever dangerous. As for the Midwest, it looks
like a reversal of last year~s sequence which brought Wilberforce~s Green Wave under the wire ahead of Kentucky
State~s spirited Thorobreds. Another way of picking Kentucky State and Wilberforce one-two..: Most damaging losses to the respective 1941 conten
_ ders probably. stack up as follows:;

(1) Morris Brown~Gerald Brown end; Wilbur Durham, quarterback; Charles Williams, tackle.

(2) Florida~-William Horton and Thomas Sutotn. ends;
Oswald. Glymph, tailback.

(3) ~Morgan~William Cain, center;

Re. tackle: Horace Kee, quarterback..
(4) J. C. Smith~No irreparable loss; ~loaded for bear.

~ > State~Chauncey Reams, tackle; Hoy

5) Kentucky é
~ Thurman, quarterback; Eugene White, guard;

Kenneth Brown,

<4) Wilberforce~Shelton Bell, end; Captain Lorenzo

~"~" Garer, guard; Thomas Fuller, center;~ Bernard
' quarterback; John Castleman and Wrex Weaver,: tailbacks; Clifton Brown, fullback.

(7) Southern~Ulysses Jones, center; Herman Billes,
ae end; Raymond (Pelican) Hili,. fullback; Elvin Mont
gomery, blocking back.
(8) Texas~L. G. Griffin, center;

end.
Maior assets of the respective contenders may be enum
ted as follows, restricting references to either All-Ameri-: ean i near All-Americans on the basis of last year~s balmnt 1) Morris Brown~Jchn Moody, fullback; William Wysinger, tackle; Joe Jenkins. halfback; Willis Griffin and
~Alexander Sheppard, guards; Haywood (Mule) Settles, tac
am (2) Florida~Roy Gant, guard; Macon Williams, halfack;? Gentry, tackle.:

BPs teeegnn Wallace Moshy, fullback; Oscar Givens,
Stan Burdnell and Unk Campbell, halfbacks; Joh

hed Tc. Smith~Jack Brayboy, end; Howard Tolliver,

Woodson Anderson,

rd; Kenny Powell and Cornelius
es: Eddie Mc Girt, fullback.:
(5) Kentucky State~Herbert Traw
Edwards, tackle; Freddy Banks, halfback;
ack,
0 ot) Wilherforce~Jimmy Price and Jack Hart,
packs; Herschel Schvebly. tackle: Preston Carter, | guard.
(7) Southern~Senrab Barnes, halfback, and Joe Gor
dor, fullback.
( 8) Texas~Clarence Nix, halfback; Ralph Allen, quar
terback; George Boone, guard; Luther ~Turkey~ Johnson,

fullback,
Other outstanding teams~aside from Morris Brown,
Florida,.Morgan. J C. Smith, Kentucky State, Wilberforce |
Southern and Texas~should he Alabama, Lane, Le Moyne,
Tuskegee, A. and T.. Lincoln. Pa., Va. State, Langston, Prairie View, Xavier, Bishop, and Hampton~in the four mafor
circuits. | |
Allen University looks best in the South Atlantic area,
~Alcorn in the South Central, Tillotson and Louisiana Normal in the Louisiana-Texas loop, and Alabama A. and M. |
among the independent outfits. In the Florida State environs,
~Florida Norma! looms as ~whipping boss.~ |

scanitiaial

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~Sold On Sepia Sam Pierce;
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on what the fistic world agrees w,
a palpable fake fight. i,::: |;
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berforce university~s ~bronzed
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ning two surprising (?) 100 y
dashes a fortnight: ago in W
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for to do.

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Sterling Hathcock and James Mc Cullen, tailbacks. | th

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ceive his purse during the day following the boxing exhibition~; af
SPRIGHTLY JEAN LANE, Wil
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~Chalky~ Wright, battling Negro

e West Coast, is raised in victory after his KO

The. arm of
comtender from | out Archibald in

fight Sept: 11 to

of Joe Archibald of Providence. Wright knocked

the 11th round of | their title
win the featherweight crown,

~TUSKEGEE INST., Ala~(SNS)
~More than 35 candidates for the
1941 Golden Tiger football team
revorted for practice Monday. The
customary lecture by. the head
coach, introducticn of the coaching
staff and the mew candidates for
the team, took less than 30 minutes,
Following these preliminafies the
members of the squad began the
serioug business of learning someing about football. Equipment
was Issued Saturday.

| Among. the candidates reporting
Were Dennis Stewart, captain, 210
pound guard; Joshua Brown, Richard Lewis, William Fuller, Daniel
James, James Rowser, tackles, RayInond Head, William Shaw, quarterbacks; Upshaw Sams, Arthur
Sawyer, Clemenceau Maultshy,
lialfbacks; Carter Bowman, Samuel
Vincent, centers; Jacob Ross, guard,

[George Robinson, fwlback; Eugene

Porter, Robert Ivy, and Archie Mc~
Clinton, tackle and center.
| Lonnie Fyles, Thomas~ Hornburger, Shelton Moran, the battling
boy from the Blue Grass, and
Marian Smiley have wired thar

Squad this week.

IMOORE~S LOSS STUNNING
BLOW

they may be expected to join the;

Cleve Abbott Gloomy Over
Loss Of No. 1 Handy Man

Missing fram the team this year
are Leonard Hollins, capable center
and captain, who sparked the team
to several magnificent victories last
year, lost because of graduation;
Robert. Moore, No. 1-punter, passer
and pass receiver, inducted into the
service; Louis Slade and Marvin
Fretwell, ends, who have graduated.
Herman Jones, who substituted for
Slade last year, enlisted for,the 99th
Pursuit Squadron and is being
trained as an airplane technician.
He was an excellent prospect and
wag Slated for a regular berth of
the team.

When Moore eritered the service,
the Robert Moore and Robert Ivy
(known ns the Louisiana twins) one
of the best. passing ccmbinations in
collegiate circles was broken up.
~Losing Moore is just like losing
my right arm,~ Coach Abbott said
when asked who would succeed
Moore in the punting and passing
role. Several candidates are being
groomed for the spot which Moore
filled exceptionally well.
SUPPORTERS OPTIMISTIC

Many of the campus experts who
have seen the candidates going
through their paces during the
week believe the team has possibilities; and that the Tigers will be

@ prominent factor in Southern
Conference football this season.

Much will have to be done to
condition the men for the, opening
game with Xavier University whieh
will be played in the Bowl on Friday afternoon, September 15. If
the elements necessary for a passing game are produced it wouid
seem that the Tigers will gamble
on an. overhead attack with the
team from the ~ Crescent ~ City.
Hornburger and Ivy may be the
wingmen with either Smiley or
Head doing the heaving. Candidates with strong right arms are
being paged daily by the coaching
staff. The 1941 schedule: j

Sept 26~Xavier at Tuskegee
Oct. 4~Morris Brown at Atlanta
Oct. 10~Wilberforce at Chicago

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By LUCIUS (MELANCHULY) JONES

(SNS Sports Editor)

NO FOOTBALL COACH. in the Southern Intercollegiate
Athletic Conference has taken his 1941 duties with a twinkle
in his eves and the suggestion of a smile on his lips. Gloom

| Chanute Field, Rantoul, Tlinois.

Graduation has taken its toll,

the selective draft was the route
many prospective stars of ~41 traveled, while others (uncalled for
military training) have gone into
defense industries for the tempting
pay offered. Still more volunteered
for the United States Army Air
Corps and are in training at

GRIM REAPER TAKES TWO

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In a few other cases, inadequacy
of summer employment has left
~good boys~ short of funds with
which to re-enter college.

Most tragic, however, of all the
blows that have been dealt members of the coaching profession
were those dealt by the Grim Reap
-er himself.

Just a fortnight ago, Clark College~s grid hopes took a definite
tumble in the lay mind when news
of the untimely death of John Earl
White, stellar guard and _ tackle,
reached the Gate City. White, who
set precedent by winning the captaincy of the Panther footbail- team
his freshman year and repeating
the honor last season, was killed in
an automobile accident in his
home, Aliquippa; Penn.

Following closely in the wake of
the White death was the passing
of Thomas (Bunny) Greene, Troy,
Ohio, traceable to fatal injuries
received in a similar automobile
smash-up.

in the memorial fraternity of the SIAC is so thick it re| sembles early morning fog around the Klondikes.

~siders that Bunny. was used largely

Hurt in the mishap that cost
Greene his life were Delbert Roberts, stellar end, and Paul (Hips):
Mason, brilliant tackle, who, like
Bunny, had all sparked.the Alabama State Teachers College Hornets at Montgomery, -Alabama, to
a conference grid title in 1939 and
a runner-up berth in last year~s
heated race, in which, for the second straight campaign, no eleven
was good enough to escape at least
one setback.~ In winning the SIAC
crown back in 1937 and 1938, Plorida had turned in unbeaten teams.

The fatal accident: that ended
prematurely. the career of- the
greatest running back in Alabama
State history occurred in Piqua,
Ohio, where the trio of athletes
was returning from a social affair.

ENDED GLORIOUS CAREER

Greene had a sensational freshman season in 1939, running 60 ot
more yards against every college
faced in his first five games and
winding up the season with a total
of seven touchdowns for the year
and almost 800 yards gained personally from scrimmage.That was a
phenomenal exploit when one con
as a ~spot~ man that campaign,
usually being rushed upon the scene
after the Hornets dug deeply into
enemy territory or else when it was
felt the enemy defense had been
thoroughly softened.

the Hornet eleven. Mason, if he
gets over his minor injuries all
right, is still expected back at
"Bama for his tackle services opposite Holman Sawyer, the AllAmerican.

OTHER COLLEGES HIT

Foremost among other absentees
at the various football camps of
the conference, for reasons other

American guard,
Glymph, triple-threat tailback, at
Florida; Robert Moore, passer de
luxe and No. 1 triple threat, at
Tuskegee; Ernest (Hunky) White,
All-American. back and
quadruple threat, at Clark; Quar-.
terback, Don Hollowell and, according to an unconfirmed _ report,
Jack Gilmore, All-American halfback, at Lane; as well as Gerald
Brown, All-SIAC end, and Lionel
Grimes, No. 2 tailback, both of
Morris Brown.

Hardest hit by graduation were
Xavier, which yield 15 lettermen,
and Lane which peeled off eight.
Second to Xavier in total losses,
according to an academic publicity agent~s recapitulation, is Alabama State.:

EVERYBODY FEELS AXE

But as it was philosophically put
by Bill Bell, Florida head eg i

~None of us coaches can cry too
much, because, judging from appearance to date, all of us are
equally hard hit.~

That~s about the story, too. A
coach may bemoan his bad luck
and lash the boys in the writing
fraternity for giving him his usual
headline billing. But he should be
fair to himself and admit that, after all, the other fellow is hit hard
7

Roberts graduated from ~Bama

PAIR INJURED

last June after twice

~captaining

er, if anything, than he.

POMPTON LAKES, N. J.-<GNS)
~A marr who has~ lednine: fighters:
into the ring against Joe Louis, ana
who has carried th from the
scene of the accident after the
lightning struck~thinks that his
tenth charge, Lou Nova, may break
Joe~s jinx and snap the champion~s
winning streak.

= (Night)

' Oct. 18~Benedict at Tuskegee
Oct. 24~Morehouse at Columbus,
Georgia (Night)

Nov. 1~- S. Carolina at Orangeburg

Nov. 8~Knoxville at ~Tuskegee

Nev. 15~Lincolm (Pa.) at Tuskegee (Homecoming)

Nov. 20~Ala. State at Mcntgom
ery.

Backfield

FRANKFORT, Ky.~(SNS)~With
hut nine lettermen back for the
1941 football season, Coach H. A.
Kean and his assistants haye besun to experience many headaches
15 they prepare for a touch eight
game schedule. This is the first
time in his ten years at Kentucky
state that Coach Kean nas had
such @ scarcity of experienced men,
especially. in the backfield. From
the present crop, there is but one
letterman in the backfield, that being Tolbert. Walker, a blocking
back, Ollie Edwards, Major General
Hardin, and Eugene Hill failed to

a

{return. McCullen, Thurman, Bent-:
~\lev, Hathcock, have played their

time out. Dewitt Corbett, Fred
Banks, Joe Taylor are back, but
neither has been able to win letters

In 1941

So far. Perhaps, this may, be their
year.

Teaming up with Waiker, Corbett and Banks this year will be a
host of newcomers, practically all
first year Men. Those who have
shown promise in practice so far
ate George Young, trivle threat
back from Pittsburgh; Tom Taylor,
blocking back from Brownsville.
Pa.; William Bass from Monongahela, Pa.; Roman Wade from Clairten, Pa.; Perry Hackley from
Ridgeville, Pa.; Reid Johnson from
Chicago; Luther Wade from Lynch,
Ky.; and Anglin, 220 lb. fullback
from Louisville. Perhaps Coach
Kean will be able to fashion a
creditable backfield from this group.
LINE LOOKS OKEH

~Red~ Stewart is much more for
while the local release from Wilberforce university~s publicity department claims she raced a hundred (Saturday) in 11.2; and on
Monday in 10.5. At any rate, when
a slim, streamlined girl, can run 100
yards faster than the most men of
20 years were able to.....; YOU
CAN SAFELY BET THAT GENERATION PRODUCES SUPERIOR
ARTISANS~EH WHAT????
COACH SNAVELY, OF COR
pe state football picture figures
that Pierce will revive memories of
Jerome Holland, for each of the
seasons he plays.

IN A CHAT WITH ~BOTS~
NEKOLA, former big leaguer now
playing, with the semi-professional
Bushwicks of New York; he told us
this: ~If this silly business of

penalizing

because they happen to be born
dark. were thrown in the ash pile, I~d
be.willing to bet all I possess that
Buck Leonard, Josh Gibson and
Satchel Paige would~ be the most
talked of ball players for 50 years
to-come~...

cd

NELL, New York~s classy entrant in

@ man or woman sums |

name suggests, is an Italian.)

JOE LOUIS IN HIS CAMP worked out for rounds and said: ~Why
anyone would waste time over the
radio saying that I have been out
of condition for ANY OF MY
FIGHTS (amateur or professional);
is more than I can understand.~.Turning to say something to an admirer, Jack Blackburn chimed in
with.... ~If Joe were fighting...:
TOM THUMB.... I~d have him in
the same shape he was.the night he

the best known (white) writers in
the country, turned out a grand
ey (Saturday, September 6)~ in

e New York Evening Sun anent,...JACK DEMPSEY verses JOE
LOUIS. We thought the cardinal

for

bewitched and Seat
while.... certain types of fight
one

by
ers. But he always caught up with
or beat

-N. B. (Nekola, as his them and either flattened

mA

Slaughtered Max Schmeling.~
(augh,)
FRANK GRAHAM - One of|
Race

tunate in his role~ as line coach.
Known ~as a builder of great lines,
Stewart has eight lettermen to~ assist him this year. Those include
Warren George and Lutrell Everett,
centers; All American Herbert Trawick, George Wilson, Mack Saunders, guards; Big George Edwards
and R. B. Redd, tackles; Warren
Cyrus, end. John. Love and Samue] Corley, two great ends, have
been lost to the army. Promising
newcomers are Billi Hewitt, Walter
Parton and Ira Wilson. ends; Harold Amderson, Sam Miller, Emile
Drumgoe, James Hammonds, tackles: and Edward Johnson, center.
From the present crop, it would |
seem that the greatest problem is
the backfield. It will no doubt.be
green with so many newcomers,
but it will comprise a group of
youngsters with great promise.
Kentucky State should mot be expected to go very far this year; yet
these youngsters might surprise
everyone, The line seems to be as
representative ag ever, with the
greatest weakness, perhaps at the
ends. The backfield is a question
mazk. But from the forty odd candidates, Coach Kean and his able
assistants hope to get two teams,
capable of going through a schedule that reads like this: ~
Oct, mn at Langston
Oct, 11~Morehouse at Frankfort
Oct. 18~Florida at Tallahassee
Oct. 25~Lincoln (Mo.) at Frank
Fort (Homecoming)

Oct. 30~Benedict at Columbia,
S. C. (night) \

Nov. 8~Wilberforce at Wilberforce

Nov. 15~West Virginia at Frankfort

~Nov, 27~Texas at Tyler, Texas
(tentative).

them so badly, there was no doubt
who won the fight.

A. slender, sallow, soft-spoken
chap who has been in boxing for

Serious Stu

80 or his 45 years, Ray Arcel of
the Bronx, the fight game~s out-~
standing trainer and second, is
called the Meat Wagon because of
the Brown Bomber~s victims. he has
dragged from the wreckage and
carried off to fistic oblivion.
Arcel has been going around
picking up after Louis for years.
Almost every time Joe looks across

a ting he finds Ray peering at him

By BOB GONZALES
MARSHALL, Tex.~(SNS~Thitty

| candidates for~ the 1941 edition ot

the Wiley Wildcats are working under Coaches Fred and Harry Long
opener against the strong Jarvis
eleven Saturday, September 27, at
Hawkins. Head Coach Fred Long
is trying to get his early practice
advanced as far as possible before
Harry leaves for a year~s study at
the University of Michigan. The
younger Long will leave here about
the 20th for Ann Arbor in quest of
the very desirable and much sought
after Ph. D. degree.

Nine lettermen are left fram
the 1941 Wildcat squad, including
~Coot~ Stewart, end, Gene Mills,
and Alex Richmond, tackles, Ike
Frances, guard, ~Whitey~ Sprott,
center, ~Pops Gaines, ~Bebe~ Cummings, Luther Paylk and Bob Riley,
backs. Mel Payne, husky guard from
Houston, has returned to school and
is in line for one of the starting
guard positions. George Allen, Jim
Welburne, Ben Calhoun, Alfred
Frances, reserves from last year
are much improved players and
are expected to be in there somewhere when the season gets underWay. i
FROSH STEAL SHOW

While the letter men and reserves

Wiley Wildcats~ Freshmen~
Thrill Campus Railbirds

have been looking very good in

practice, it is the freshmen on hand
that have made the rail~birds
elate with much anticipation as to
the Wildcats chances to move up
the ladder of the Southwest Conference standing this fall. There is no
question but what this year~s crop
of freshmen back is the best the
purple and white has had a decade.
Jimmie Valentine, Austin triple
threater, Ben
back from
from East Chicago, Shelley Ross, a
tough blocking back from Houston
and Lloyd Fuller of San Antonio
have all looked good in sc e,

In the line ~Greasy~ Neale, giant
center from Gladwater, ~Satch~
Turner, Jefferson, George Riddle,
San Antonio, and Johnnie Jones of
Oklahoma City are the Wildcats
best prospects. Coach Fred ~Long
refused to stick his neck out on
any predictions on the coming season, his only comment being, ~Wé
will be lighter than ever before,
but we might be faster. If we can
be fortunate enough to develop a
fair line, we might ~tie or even win
a@ conference game. This is a tough
loop, but to me it looks like Southern and Texas College for the championship, with Langston, Bishop,
Prairie View and Arkansas finishing in that order. Just forget Wiley
is in the league, we don~t have a
thing.~~;

_~ By GENE McANULTY -
MEMPHIS, ~Fenn.~(SNS)~
According to indications receiv
the LeMoyne

if!

LeMoyne Develops
A Passing Attack ~

| Austin Slate, Willie Smith, Edward
| Benbow, Eddie Patrick, and
| Kincaide.

jand William Pickett, halfback, have

Veterans who answered the first
call were Captain William Hall,
William Paschall, Elmo Ctawford,
Lawrence LaValle, Wardell Spencer, James Carey, Jo Jdhnson,
Shannon Little, James Breadon,
Paris
Isom

Among the newcomers are

a ee

Declares Challenger Has Made
Of Champion

from. behind. the shoulder of arother opponent.

~Ray hes salvaged enough of
Louis~ prostrate foes to start a
saseball team~and that, they
could probably beat the Giants.

These include Jim Braddock,
Jack Sharkey, George _ Brescia,
Paolino Uzcudun, Natie Mann, John
Henry Lewis, Johnny Paychek, Al
McCoy and, last but not least,
dy Maer. If Arcel overlooked anybody else on Joe~s list it was because he was ill, out-of-town or
wasn~t asked. But Ray has practicaly made a career out of Louis,
and he has not only seen most of
the champion~s fights for nothing
but has been paid for attending~
them~anqd the losers.

Arcel, who knew all the time he
would gutlast Louis, is certain that
in his No. 10 man, Nova, he will
realize the wish of a life-time~
well, anyway, the last five or six

picking up his fighter~s
hand, instead of the fighter himself when Lou and Joe joust in
the Polo Grounds on September 28,
which proves that everything cometh to~him who waits~provided he
knoweth where tc waiteth.

~Nova will beat Louis because he
has made a, serious: study of him,~
predicts Arcel. ~He has watched
Joe~s fights, he has examined the
movies, Lou knows Joe~s weaknesses.
I am thoroughly familiar with Louis

ter long hours of observation. I
have told Lou everything I know.
Joe is slipping. He is- mentally upset, he has financial worries, he has
ween drafted, he is fed up with
fighting and he has gotten soft.
Hie~s not the old Louis and Lou is
the new Nova. At last I~m going
to handle the winner against Louis,
and brother, it is about time!~;

Heavy Schedule
For Bethune's

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. ~(SNS)
Wildeats are

| William Harrison Rogers | dy, Evanston, Indiana
\ Knight of Birmingham, Alabama;

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