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23 ~Melancholy ~ ~Jones

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pa or Is a soniies LageO that, without the advice and
counsel of the canny old trainer, Jack Blackburn, the world

heavyweight champion, Joe Louis, could never have gained
the crown he wears ~today~tet alone have. held it..

The folk were right at one time. When Louis started
his rea] climb upward against Primo Cafnera back in 1935
in his first New York showing, Blackburn had to flash him
signals from his corner like a baseball coach~indicating
when to work on the head, midsection, and so forth. -.Joe
stood in danger of getting tagged on the button many times
as he looked quizzical about. to s~e what Blackburn~ s latest instructions were.

Louis has a good mind, though, and learned fast. Eventually, Blackburn could talk to him at the close of each round.
That would suffice.

~The first time Louis departed, to even the slightest degree from Blackburn~s teachings, he went into the ring
topheavy against Max Schmeling and got kayoed in 12 cantos, He swore it would never happen again.

Against Tony Galento, the cagey old Blackburn miscaleulated and chances are Joe would have been. kayoed
had he not done some emergency thinking for himself. Even
Blackburn admits this. Louis discloses as much in a feature
article written not so long ago for LIBERTY magazine.

Louis said he had heen caoched to move all the way in
on the beer barrel, storm him with continual body punishment, and then when Galento left. that chin open the Brown
Bomber. was to Jet him have ii 6n the button.

Most of us know what happened, Galento caught Louis |
coming in on two different occasions and_ blasted c
through space and ultimately in unconventiona] heaps
the canvas. Louis had underrated Two-Tony. He now wil
ed he was in danger. He was convinced to continue the |
style of attack he had tried to.execute would be suicide.
In a flash Louis~ thinker started buzzing. So he wrote

in LIBERTY. He got up jabbing, jabbing~till he could get.clean shots from long range. Time and again, he stopped
Galento in his tracks with devastating. rights to the chin,
killing lefts in the midriff~all punches of the long-range
variety.

Louis: estimated that he must have thrown a | nanidieea
rights ~and lefts before he felt that heavy, limp condition of
his adversary. He moved, levelled decisively, and blasted
away. Galento was a bleeding, stupefied hulk. Louis pounded him into bulbous insensibility.

In what has already beén written in the records an act
of mercy, Referee Arthur Donovan stepped between the two
men in the middle of the fourth stanza and called things
to a half. Galento war ~all in.~

That was Louis~ first test in trouble where he himself
was called upcn to map out the course of action. Blackburn~s
plan had backfired. But Louis had answered critics wha
styled him ~dumb and mechanical~ by taking care of him_self in grand style.

- But Louis was wise enough not to stop relying on
Blackburn~s strategy. He followed ouf the latter~s teachings
religiously. and the result has been that he has won and has
the world heavyweizht crown through a record list of challengers.

~ He deviated mildly from Blackburn~s instructions when
priming for the Billy Conn fight, however, and we al know
what happende~or, better still, what almost happened.
Blackburn saw Louis was trained ~too fine.~ He urged
him to lay off the gloves, rope-skipping, and shadow-boxing
for two or three days before his impending title bout. Joe
was heedless, declaring Conn was streamlined and fast and
that he (Joe) had to work for speed and agility.

Blackburn shook his head negatively but let the hard
headed yungster, usually modest and docile, have his way.
Hadn~t Joe been forced to take a beating from Schmeling
back in 1936 for a simple piece of advice to soak through
his skull?: Don~t get us wrong, though, Blackburn ek being
soft in the feeling that Louis would probably lose if the
~Brown Bomber didn~t listen to reason. He simply did not see |
how a ~phoney like that. Billy Conn could hanlde my Chappie even if Joe IS makknig a fool outta himself.

You may imagine Louis~ state of mind and Blackburn~s
own frustration when, after 12 rounds of fighting, Conn |
had a tremendous jump on the Detroit Destroyer in points |
and not but a single semblance of a. knockout had evidenced |
~jitself~that by Pittsburgh Billy in. the twelfth canto when
he had ae looking groggy and uncertain on his pins.

Barons Open Against |
Jacksonville Club

oesteee Fanee

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"~Relenge~ of ~the Sunday and holi-{ homa City, Okla... |
day first-half schedule of the | MAY 3. Jacksonville Red Caps at |
Black Baronsshow that the Haye-; Little Rock, Ark.
ne will open the season at Rick- | 10. Jacksonville Red Caps at} |

Birmingham, May 10,| -+Birmingham.
wath the Jacksonville Red Caps. 17, Chicago American Giants at |
Pive Sunday and one holiday! Birmingham.
game are scheduled to be played at} 24. Memphis Red Sox at St. |
Birmingham by the Black \Barons| Louis, Mo.
- during the first aalf of the split| 32-' Kamsas City Monarchs at,
~ @eason. Twilight and night games,| Kansas City,
oe included in this ere: will JUNE ys Kansas City Monarchs at |
be played. { Birmingham. |: 14, Cincinnati Euckeyes at Cin- |

Here is the schedule:: a cinnati.

APR. i Heros & 28. Memphis Red Sox at Ba- |

12. Chicago American Giants at mingham.; ny Tenn. - JULY 4th. Jacksonville Red Cans |
- 19, ~Kansas City Monarchs at Bir-| ~at Jackson, Tenn.:

~mingham. ~ 5. Kansas City Monarchs Bir# Gioiamat Buster at Oe peter ir dead. |

| ing around, So you just build up

~is used to play table-tennis, toss

| or feat in any sport during the 1941 -
|in one game was ranked the 47.7

JOE LOUIS, MINUS BL
OF WISDOM,

~OPENS Fl

"Joe Louis Says Army. Life
Has Made Him Stronger

FORT DIX, N. J.~(ANP)~Pvt.
Joe Louis Barrow, now stationed
at Fort Dix, where he is undergodng training for his. scheduled
match with Abe Simon on: Marek
27 at Madison Square Garden, New
York City, says that army life is
the thing ~which turned the trick
and changed him from a comparative ~weakling to the great big
strong man he~s suddenly become. }

~It~s not only the army work
and: stuff,~ said Joe, as he went
about his chores, in preparation for
his forthcoming defense of his
title, ~But when youre in the
army, you don~t get out as much.
There~s not so much time for fool
naturally.~

His program of training is pretty full. Up to six-in the morning
for a six-mile roadwork, he ~comes
back to take an hour's nap. After
baving preakfast. he goes through
his two-hour: daily dril) in basic
army training, to be followed by
his getting in shape for the Simon
encounter.

After dinner, and before bedcheck at 10 o~clock. his spare time

some darts, have a whirl at gin
rummy or checkers, or listen to
musie from the electrie phonograph someone sent him for Christ
mas.
~Tm. in much. better condition

right Now than T was. after the
same amount fo training for Buddy Baer in January,~ Joe declared.
~Pm five pounds less than what I
was then, and Ill probably come
in at 205 ~the night of the fight.~
Joe weighed 206. 3-4 for peeey.

Lem Franklin,
Harry Bobo To
Mix March 30.

(ANP). Lem
wien. véland - heavyweight,
and ~Halirry Bobo, Pittsburgh slugger, will meet here March 30 accotding to. Jake Mintz, matchmaker~ for the Reoney*McGinley Company, Pittsburgh Sports promoters:
He announced that the two fighters had spent signed for the 10
round bout.

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AUGUSTA, Ga.~(C)~Beau Jack,
new fistic promise, came home
from Harlem to have his tonsils
removed at the University~ Hospital
last week. Beau, who weighs 135
pounds, has made quite a mark, in
Eastern circles. Bowman Milligan,
who first saw Beau~s ring possi
bilities, is a constant visitor of his
recuperating protege. Bowman is

'} nasium,

in charge of the locker room at
the Augusta National Golf Club.

~Hyde,

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They're Ti alking About Louis

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Ken Overlin and ~Abe Simon eek

Former middleweight champion, - Ken Overlin,: ~Jett, whines: some
fighting advice into the ear of Abe Simon, the ponderous: New York

héavyweight who meets. Private Joe Louis,

the heavy king, in a title |,

bout in; New York, March 27. The picture was taken at Summit,
-_ 4d, where ~ is taining.

Va. bitin Bags CIAA Title;
Also Beats W. Va. 68 To 36

RICHMOND, Va. ~SNs)~
Codch + Henry B. ~Hucles~ ~fighting
Virginia Union ~Panthers~ moved
into the spotlight last Thursday
night~ when they toppled the crack
West Virginia State ~Hornets,~ 68
to! 36, at the Community Gymhere, to end their conference schedule currently ranked
unofficicly the C. I. A. A. champions. The Panthers roared
through C. I. A. A. warfare, taking
18 out of 14 contests in addition to
taking 8 out of 9 non- ~conference
tilts.

Unlashing a super-scoring offensive against the West Virginians
to offset any attempt of an upset, the ~Panthers~ piled up 11
points before the visitors tallied:
Mel Glover, opened the game~s
fireworks dropping in a sensationai mid-court field goal. Twice during the half he repeated. The
Panthers led~ 39-16 at the end of.
the half.

VA. UNION (68)

Ernest Marshall's 47.7 Quarter

> By ~MELANCHOLY~ JONES

ACTIVE SPORTS enjoying a lull,
an informal ~poll was conducted~
among various close followers of
athletics Thursday ~in an effort to
ferret. out what is generally regarded the outstanding individual play

*42 season.

The consensus, already, | seems to
be the shooting of 50 points in a
single game and 458 points in a
single basketball season by Henry
Mice) Holden, elongated South
Carolina State center from Toledo,
Ohio. The boy is a sophomore, but,
jast the same, seems to have all
the questions and know all the an| swers.

After a great season in which he
shot 15 or more points, as a regular
thing, in virtually every game played, Holden. climaxed his 1942 performance with 24 field goals and
two foul shots against Delaware
| State Teachers College, Dover, Delaware, last week where he and his
|S. C. State Bulldogs won 89-33. The
Carolinians also nosed out the N.
'C. State Eagles, 33-32 in the New
| York Renaissance Casino.on the
same trip.

Ranking next to Holden's all-time
individual scoring record of 50 points

| seconds 440 yard run by Ernest Marshall, Fort Valley State College flyer from Schenectady, N. Y.
Third rated was John (Big Train)
~ feat of vcbcamae 200 points in
for | Morris
Scant tations

pal th 109 in
1940 and 91 in 1941, ana

Basketball, as a sport, provided a
second candidate for.the outstanding performance of 1941-~42- when
William Ridley of Fisk got recognition in fourth spot for shooting
34 points twice and 29 points once
in three straight 1942 games for a
run of 97 and an average of 32,3

New Louis Site
Best Ever, Says
Mannie Seamon

FORT DIX N. J. (C)~According to Joe. Louis~ trainer, Mannie
Seamon, who also handled six
other boxing champions, the Louis
training quarters in the new Fort
Dix Sports Arena are the.best he
has ever sven.

Seamon thinks the $85,000
arena has no equal with its new
rubbing tables, calisthenics tables.
dummy and punching bag stands.
Ipuis~ training equipment. from
Chicago has already arrived so
that he could immediately, start
paige for his coming encounter with Abe Simon On March 27th

ab wth onda bowthcrnom
Blackburn is~ rapidly recov:
from. a of rheuetsn,

Mile Run Among Top Feats

Burton ~ 310 6 as P~O--
ev ink fs 358 OAs cee < * 2 4
ave tS a 3 3
Culberson, ~0.2...7.. =: 8 G36
Kelley; ~ oe ae ee 0 0 0
PAS, NE q 1.45
Waters, ~- cise. 0 ~ 0
Pittman, C1 00.4. bi ee. 1 0 2
Daughtry, gZ.....4.. ~ 5 Se 1 q
Grover, Bo oa a 4 1 9
Baw, ok AG 2 2 6
30 8 68
W. VA. (36)
G. F. TP.
Wells, ~ 2h cic 6 1 3
Saunders, f..........; 5 i i
DAViS, fo i eek 0~60 v
~Bowles, ~.) 6.3 ores os ss 3 0 6
Pleasants, @......-... iD Oo. 6
Mortis. 1s 0 0 0
Simmons, g.......-+:. 2 0 4
Sims, # 240056: 1 ay 2
1 =. 36
Officials: Robinson and Wil| liams.
points a game over that _ period.

(Note that Ridley~s average for the
three straight games mentioned
against LeMoyne, Morehouse ~ and
Alabama State in that order was
1:3 points better than the previous
SIAC record of 31 points set by Horace Dalton of Clark in 1927 and
equalled by the late Carlos Parker
of Alabama State in 1935).

Other outstanazng individual performances were noted in the sports
listed as well as in tennis, but they
were well down the list.

In tennis, Jimmie '~McDaniel of
Xavier went unbeaten in both singles and doubles, capturing the national singles crown for the third
straight year, and this performance
was good for fifth recognition. ~

Willard Is Winner
In Basketball:
League Event

CHAMPAIGN, Ill~(SNS)~

Willard school has won the grade
School basketball championship in
Champaign with ten victories and
no defeats, Hvgh Enochs, director
of the Ghampaign recreation department. announced recently. |

Col. Wolfe school took second
place honors with eight viciories
and two ~defeats.. The league is
sponsered by the recreation department ps! the physical education: Pryce conga of ws

| go with Abe Simon,
~| heavyweight monarch of ~all-the~) world: ~went all out~ last Monday

FT. DIX, N. J.~(SNS)~Hitting

|| the road for the first time in his

present tuneup session for his title
-.Joe. Louis,

jogging six miles with two of his

~| trainers, George Nicholson and Ed.

Blunt,
Nicholson, of Mount Vernon, N.

~1 Y~., and Blunt, of Corona, N. Y.,
~|two of his regular sparring mates,
~|arrived at Fort Dix Friday.
~| other two, George Fitch, New Ha
The

ven, Conn., and Jim Robinson of

~| Philadelphia, arrived Saturday.

The champion donning gloves for

'|the first time Sunday afternoon

held sparring session before a vast
appreciative audience of _ soldiers.
The general public was barred,

Following the four-round boxing
session the ring equipment was
pushed into a corner to make room
for an enlisted men~s dance held
in the evening after the dedication
of the Fort~s new $100,000 Spore
Arena.

The main attraction in the ceremonies was a tennis match between
Helen Jacobs, Madge (Bunnie) Vosters, Will Vogt, Richard Bender,
and Marion Z. |
ENTOURAGE KICKING

Louis is the early bird of the
training camp, rising 15 minutes
earlier than the bugler. His handlers
are complaining, Joe goes to bed
early at night and gets up at

anenanreeet B

Brown Bomber
-| Important Test Against Big

JOE LOUIS

while the first call isn~t sounded
until 15, minutes later.

He takes a~ personal delight in
waking up every member of this
entourage from trainer. Corporal
Mannié Seamon to his own private dietician and. cook, Bill Bottoms, including all the soldiers assigned. for his training period.
FINE QUARTERS

Louis~ training equipment arrived
from Chicago and was set up in
the arena immediately following the
tennis exhibition. His gym is
equipped with. new rubbing tables,
calisthentic tables, dummy and
punching bag stands.

Seamon, who has handled many

5:30 other boxing champions, said the

Mannie his ~trained calanintbts in
every class except featherweights. -

Prime. Carnera, ~ ~ Ertle,
bantam-weight. Benny Leonard,
lightweight; Ted Kid, & wel
terweight, and Johnnie Wilson,. a
middle-weight. z
Seamon: said. the Bomber: was the

-pgreat shape folowing his first workout. Mike Jacobs watched the work
out of four rounds~one each with
Amos,. Fitch, Blunt and Nicholson.
He staggered Amos several. timés
with solid: punches.

Louis~ also shauow-boxed; skipped
rope and did calisttientics, in addition to six miles of jogging on the
road. He ran another five miles
Monday, rested in the afternoon
aa resumed his sparring on Tues
a

The heavyweight king drew a full
round of applause from the 1900
soldiers of both races who gathered
in the new Sports Arena to
watch him train. Blunt, -who >
knocked out Buddy Baer also came
in for a share of acclaim for his
aggressiveness against Louis.

Louis weighing 215 pounds expects to. peal off around nine
pounds before the fight March 27.

Dolly King, Sonny Boswell, Bernie
- Price Named On All-Pro Tourney

Cage Squad In Chicago Meet ~

By FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS

CHICAGO~(A N P)~~for the
second straight year the two leading Duskymerican teams,-the New
York Rens and Harlem Globe Trotters, were shut out of the finals
in the five-day world~s professional basketball tournament annually sponsored by the Chicago
Herald American as the Oshkosh
(Wis.) All Stars grabbed the high.
est honor offered on the hardwood,

To win recognition as official
world champions before 10,000
spectators at the International
amphitheatre Wednesday night,
the Wisconsin team -. took the
measure of the three, preceding
titleholders on successive nights.
Monday they turned back the
Rens, 1939 kings, 44 to 38; beat the
Trotters, winners in 1940, 38 to
41, Tuesday, then came back to
nose out the Detroit Eagles, defending champions, 43 to 41.

SAME SCORE~

In the battle for third place,
Pop Gates led his mixed Grumman
Flying V~s from Long Island to a
victory over the Trotters by an
identical score, 43 to 41, jmmediately preceding. the DetroitOshkosh battie. | -

However, there was salve for the
bronze basket sharks. In the of
Simon Next

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-game was lost on the free

ficial All-Tournament squad of 10
men chosen from players on the
16 competting teams, three places

went to colored stars. Bernie Price
of the Trotters and Sonny Boswell of, the. Rens: were selected ag

forwards and Dolly King of the
Grumman was nameéd guard.

SHOT 32 POINTS

After eliminating the Northern
Indiana Steelers, 55 to 37, Sunday
afternoon when Boswell set a new
individual tournament scoring record of 32 points, the Rens engaged
in a battle of personal fouls Monday night with Oshkosh, champion
of ~the national league for ~.twe
and 1941 runner-up. This~ season
the Rens and Stars had previously
split four games.

The teams set 9 new mark,~ for
fouls, the Rens committing 27 and
Oshkosh just two less. But the
Stars flipped in 24, missing only
3, while the Rens could make only 16, missing 9, the same number
the failed on last year when Detroit beat them out. Zack Clayton
went out in the second period on
personals, with Willie Smith and
Boswell following early. in the
fourth. Boswell was high point
man, scoring 15 on 4 baskets and 7
gift shcts. The Rens made 11
baskets to 10 for the winners, further emphasizing the fact that the
throw
line. Throughout the tournament,
Oshkosh seldon failed to cash in
on point chances by the gift route.
BEAT MARYLANDERS

The Trotters, who took the
Hagerstown, Md., Oilers, 40 to 33,

~Saturday evening and the She
boygan, Wis., Redskins on Monday
night, 37 to 32, led Oshkosh for
three~ quarters in the semifinals,
once getting 10 points ahead,~ only to lose in the last period when
Eddie Riska ran wild, 13

points. Part of the collapse. was.

due to the prolonged absence of
Ted Strong, ace ball handler from
the lineup. When he was put back
in, it was too late~ to turn the
tide. Babe Pressley and Bill Ford
went out on fouls in the fourth.

Roosevelt Hudson and. price made

_ NIP AND TUCK

13, points each. The Trotters were
ahead at the end of each quarter,
11 to 8 first; hl mes half; and,
a3 to 30, third:;

Rens, added to are sued. nalted
the Indianapolis Kautskys, 54 to 42,

Sunday night. and the Chicago
Bruins, 48 to 38, Tuesday night before running afoul of the Detroit
Eagles in the~ semi-finals Tuesday
night, losing 43 to 44 in a five minute extra period game.

s

This was q battle from beginning
to end. In the fourth the Grummans enjoyed a 36 to 31 lead but
the Eagles went ahead with seconds to play, only to have the Long
Islands tie it up just before the gun
sounded. In the overtime, the
Eagies counted six free throws
and the Grummans aq basket and
three gift shots. Cooper went out
on fouls. Gates was high man
with 13 points by 5 goals and a
trio of one-pointers, King being;
held to three from the field and.
two charity tosses.

In the game for third place, the
Grummans ied the Trotters all the
way, being ahead, 15 to 8, at the
end of the first quarter: 24 to 16 at:
the half; and 34 to 32 at the third.
The Trotters felt the loss of Hudson, injured and shaken up when
his head struck the floor against
the floor against and the
absence of Strong who was jerked
in the third and remained out until the closing minutes of ~the
fourth when he went in, made
three free throws, and shot @
basket just as the
pistol sounded. He Brg Bane

with 11 points, scoring two poe
than Price.

getting six baskets from pivot shots
and four gift tallies for 16 points.
Cooper went out in the fourth on
fouls. This was the only game in
-which the Grummans had all three
colored players in action at the
same time. sonal."

Spelman Alumnae
Wins First Prize

In Nat'l Contest

NEW ORLEANS, La~(S N S)~

| Mrs. Bessie Clarke Singleton, stu- |

dent at the YMCA School of Com
for Negroes in the pm "Ws
present enrollment is two hundred
twenty persons, tive satens an

nine schools ~in five