Bronze Reporter [Volume: 4, Issue: 48]

| New York last week. when he walked out on the Sept. 23 defense
of his mi Weight crown because. of a contractural dispute. -
Robinson was the go-ahead on a ~pay tel~vision deal

Flemming Named
Piston Sportcaster

The naming of veteran Bill Flemming to handle: the
play-by-play account of all the: Piston games was\made simultaneously by Radio. Station WJR and. a brewing com_ pany of Michigan, who are co-sponsors of the broadcasts.

Flemming is no. stranger~ to
the Midwest basketball fans.
For the past seven years he has
described. the University ~ of
Michigan cage. contests. Since
his arrival to Detroit in ~1953,
he also has handled the playby-play accounts~ of U of M
football gamés.

-Flemming, 31, ~ will continue
to cover the latter for WWJ.
He remains~6n/WW4J-TV ~News
and. Sports~ evening ~ telecast
and.covers special sports assignments for. that: station.

(1949). ~I have always been an
avid basketball fan,~ Flemming
_ ~says, ~and I am looking forward

experiente particularly in, han-, |son.~
Bi is a- gradu@te of U-M:

enthusiastically to describing |
the. activities of the finest basketball players in the country." if

Worth Kramer, exuctive vice
president of WJR, whose -sta
tion will serve as the Detroit | |
outlet for the Piston games, de-}

clared: with -Mr. Flemming~s

dling - basketball, both, ~collage }

and
ry minute of this nia ~ sea
The first ~of 72 regular season games will be broadcast on
October 23; when the Pistons
launch their season at Olympia

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BRONZE REPORTER, SATURDAY, AUG. 31, 1957

essional, listeners ate}.
assured of a vivid and accurate}
word picture. of the action ever}.

the past week-end,

McEvans dropped Jean
panies of Los Angeles, 7-6,

16-3 in the Women~s singles fi
nals and then downed Darnella
Everson _ of Hamtramck, 6-4,
6-4, for the junior title of The
American Tennis Association
Finals held at Central State college in~ Wilberforce,, Ohiio. ~
- The 5-foot 2-inich: Hamtramck
High School June graduate attributed her success to ~good
coachihng by Mrs. (Jean) Hoxie
won~ by me. She has taught

Sepia Lion
Caged For
~Skin Game

Because of. discriminatory
laws, prohibiting Negroes from
competing with whites in Birmingham, ~Alabama, the Detroit
Lions will be weakened without
the service of their no. 1 fullback, John Hénry Johnson, when
they meet the Washington Redskin there, Saturday night.

Johnson. will take the week.
end off as his teammates seek
revenge for the two losses to
the Skins last season, 19-17 in
~en exhibition game and 18-17
i nregular_season play,

Tom Tracy, Johnson~s no. 1
replacement also will |be hampered because of minor surgery
he underwent earlier this week.
Gene.Gedman or Leon Hart will
spell Tracy at the fullback slot.
~G, H. B.

~Detroit has its own version of All
17-year-old Gwen McEvans, of 1965 At

Six years ago.~

thing new to G
tourneys isn~t... has, this
summer, won open tourna
ments in Baltimore, New Yoork| _

and Philadelphia in addition to
copping' the ~junior girls~ sin
in Durham, N. Cc.

Mjss McEvans became. suc
cessor~to Wimbledon Champion
Althea Gibson, who: did not.defend after. 10 Successive bevee Bil

The petite daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas. McEvans |,
plans to enroll at Wayne Uni-|.
versity next month.

Detroit Signs High |
School Shortstop

~ DETROIT~A shortstop from
Cooley High school here in Detroit ~and~ an ~ outfielder from
Austin, Texas have signed minor
league contracts with::the ~Detroit Tigers for _the 1958 'season,

Thomas Weenie)~ an all-city
selection the.past two. years,
was sighed by Tiger scout Ray
Meyers after the~5-foot-10 right
hander batted.400 and;300 his
final two years in high school.

Heenan~ played*for: the Internal Revenue American -Legion
team in 1956, and hit.370, This
summer: he -has been, on the
Class: D Federation Arrowsmith

tevm. Heenan weighs 170, and is
17 year old..

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jup two titles iin the ATA National Tennis Tournamedt overt~

me ~ever since I donk up tennis to
Althougth being crowned the bat

new hational champ is some-| _
n; winning} ~

gles, doubles and mixed deu- |
bles in an ATA sectional meat 2

{match into~ a virtual rout.

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to victory over Shirley - -Bloomer,
6-4, 4-6, 6+2. as the.

~Cup tennis competion held. in
Sewickley, Pa. Iast. week.:

Miss Gibson and Darlene Hard]

then teamed fogeflier. to beat
Miss Bloomer and Shelia Armstrong in the doubles and. ~extended the United States team~s

lead to 3.0 when they scored: al \

smashing 6-3, 6-4:

Coming back ~ ffom intermission after her shaky Start, Miss
Gibson gave an overpowering
demonstration of the servicé
and volley game- that has made
her an outstanding competitor.

In the other six games sha|.~

dropped a mere total of three
points, and won three of the

games at love, two of these on|' |

Miss Bloomer~s service. She was

pressed only (in. - two losing |.

games,

The sender girl pa Harlem
unleased her ~big game~ power
in the final ~set-to~tur a close

Hold Old

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United} -
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