Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 25]

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Ast Fresh To Qualify For

A 44 F.T.A. Tournament

In the National A.T.A. Interscholastic U.S:L.T.A. Quali
- fying Tournament held in Durham, May 16-17, Ashe went

to the semi-finals with out losing a game, and became the

first freshman to qualify for the U.S.L.T,A. Tournament to
be held at the University of Virginia,~June 16.

Along with Ashe Bill Neilson
of, Hampton, Joe Williams of
Durham, Rebon Daniels of Atlanta, Ga. qualified to play in the
U.S.L.T.A. Nationals,
feam will be selected by the
committee of Mr. John Wheeler,
president of Mechanic & Farmers
Bank, treaasurer of the committee Mr. W. L. Book, District superintendent of North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Co., both
of Durham, and Dr. R. Walter
Johnson to play in A.T.A. and
U.S.L.T.A. Tournaments. The
number of. players. and tournaments played in will be determined by donations received by
the committee. All players qualifying except Daniels are players

Wayne Athletes

Awarded Letters

With competition ended for
the year: and final exams almost
here, Wayne State~s athletes took

- time off: Monday ~for the annual
All-Sports Recognition Dinner.

The festivities was held at the
Warren Valley Golf Club with
~dinner at 6 p.m.

Included ~in the: day~s activities
was competition in golf, softball,

_ volley ball and hurse shoes.
* Toastmaster for the event will
be Tom Adams, former ~V/ayne
feotball player aand presently
president of Campbell-Ewald ad
~ vertising firm. Walter Hass, ath
letic director at the University

of Chicago, wi!l also speak.

The athletes received their let-. ters for competition this year
and also special awards which
were presented for multiple letters.

The busiest atnlete at the cvent was junior Dick Ladson, who
collected varsity awards for cross
country, sw.mming, wrestling
and track ~ the first man to
win four letters in a single school
year at Wayne State.

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developed by the commitee. Ashe
has been ~Whirlwind~s~ tennis
~guinea pig.~ He has spent four
summers in. Lynchburg, and although only 1 years 96 Ibs, he
has developed deadly accuracy
and perfect court strategy. Ashe
teamed with Neilson to win the
doubles.
GIRLS

Carmen Alexander of Atlanta,
Ga. won the girls singles championship by defeating Rudell
Bell. Also teamed with Carolyn
Long to win the girls doubles
from Rudell Bell and Mamie Colden of Norfolk, Va.

The Atlanta Team of nine players were strong contenders - all
the~ way in both girls and boys
events. Addison Hi~s strong team
not entering was the only d.sappointment,

|Wilt ~The Stilt~

Turns Pro
Quits College

New ~York C:ty~ (CNS) =Feeling the brand of basketball he
was playing at Kansas University
was ~hurting my chances of ever
developing into a successful professional player,~ Wilt Chamberlain, lanky basketball star, quit
college in~ favor of a lucrative
tour which. will pay him well ~
perhaps a substancial part of an
expected $250,000.

Making his plans well, the 7
footer stated he will organize two
squads~Negro team and a white

wants only the best players and
those who never. got a chance. to
play in college.

~We'll play 160 games, beginning in South America, and end

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the tour in the U. S. This will
give me the competition I need
to get ready for the pro league.~
News came through an exclusive
article in Look Magazine..

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from the outstretched glove of Boston shortstop. Don Buddin and is out during~;
base steal in the Sth inning of Indians- Red Sox game here May 21. Catenee: 2
throw down for Boston. (United| Press pi

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University as guest speaker.

Breaux in his speech to the
honored athletes stressed the
honored athletes stressed the importance of scholarship, challenging the thletes to become as consciehtous about it as the students
who are non-thletes. The speaker
averred that, ~if athletes are able
to learn and perform the intricate details of a'series of options

areas with maximum scholarship
productivity.~ _:
Six football~ and basketha?!
players were cited and recieved
certificates indicative of their
having been chosen to South
of a particular play, so, also is he |
t| abble to perform in the academic

Named.to Alk-SWAC football
berths were George McGee, Gary
MaGee,' Grover Perkins aand
Richard Williams. All-conference
basketball honors were to Roosevelt Hill and Ego Hayes.

G. Leon Notterville, Southern:

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By Bonnie Thomas

Sixteen athletes from seven Southérn University. varsity
competitive sports came in for individual honors at the Annual~ Athletic Banquet honoring Jaguar athletic teams for
the 1957-58 season. The banquet was held in the -Parker
Dining Hall~with Inman Breaux, vice president of Langston

Most Valuable Player awards were presented to players
from each of the,varsity sporis. Receiving awards were:
John Thomas, Southern University Quarterback Club Award
in football; Roosevelt Hill, Wilmon L. Richardson Award in
basketball; David ~Tincan~ Roberson, N. L. Denova Award
in track; William Rowan, F. G. Rieger Award in baseball;
Albert Silvan, Public Contacts Award in. Swimming; Jerry
Brooks, All-American Sporting Goods Award in golf; and
Clarence Bruno, Most Improved Player Award. Kormit
Courville was named as recipient of the W. S. Finister
~Award in track with the presentation to be made June 3,

University *~ idibeds Manager
sérved~ as Toastmaster with op
~ening remarks by Dr, E. C. Harrisén, Coordinator of Instruction
~and ~chairman of the thletic Com
mittee.~

vay W. Mumford, Hear Foctbull
Codth ' and - Athletic Director of
Souttiern University intruduced

Honored At Bonqual

defeat or tie. It ~was the first~ un
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heard from Dr. F, & Clark, President of the University.

Miss Kosa.:Davis, Director. of
Food Services, Southern Univer.
sity was selected as Honor Guest
by t bere. of the various
athle -ams.

Wins 3 of 4
Sports Titles

TALLAHASSE~Florida A and
M had another great year in athletics with the:teams taking three
of four major sports titles during
the 1957-58 school Py ome |

~The football team had a clea
slate of ning victcries without a

defeated and: ~season Coach
& oe ~Jake~ Gaitl has*had in

s a head epach.
With te ie dear ron racer, wed the
National~ Negro~ Collegiate ~Football Chaampionship,- and the
f.fth straight Southern~ Intercol:

+ ~overwhelmed~

Cite a, cons which

sional District
has more ~automobile workers
~than: any~ other. District in the

nation, believe. labor ~unions
should file financial ~ reports;
ae: are Sei for union

0 poResT ED FREQUENTING
~SAMBLING JOINT

Police conducted a raid last
jaturday at 810 E. York and ar~ested ten persons for frequent
~ing; a gambling joint. Andrew

Phillips, 26, was also booked- for
maintaining and _ operating a
pepling pee

Campy ToBe
(Ring Deputy

NEW YORK~Roy Campanella,
by an offer to
serve as a deputy state boxing
~ommissioner, will start training
~or his new~ job immediately.

The. former Los Angeles Dodfers~ catcher will be -allowed
to sit up in a wheelchair for the
~irst time since he suffered par~ial paralysis in an auto accident
ast Jan. 28.

Gov. Averill Harriman visited
Sampanella yesterday at the Intitute for Physical Medicine and
tehabilitation at the NYU-Belevue Medical Center and offered
Zampy the deputy commission2r~s job.

Harriman reported the 36-yearid, former all-star catching ~was
ywerwhelmed~ by tie job offer
ind replied, ~I would very much
ike to take it.~ ~

~he job ~would be great~ for
Sampanella~s rehabilitation, but
tave no indication when he would
xe able to assume his new.duties.

Campanella began using a
wheel-chair this. week for the
first time in order to train
himself for the job.

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had a good season t20. The Ratter ~5~ ran away with the pre
ni the loop invitational tourney
neld at Tuskegee Institute

Season record of. 21-6..

The track team took the South

Carolina State College Track and
Field meet, dominated the Tuskegee Institute Carnival and Relays, and ran away with the

legiate Athletic Conference~ title.

the speaker, and remarks ~were _ Basketball coach sons ~Oglesby '

SFAC meet for the second straight
~Pete Griffin~s thinclads

year.

DOCTORS at the Institute said

union mepers,
Those and- Si ehiee pee Be
national significance, with respeq
to labor*problems and
lationship to the recession, arg
revealed in the results of th
return from the first 500 hourl
wage employees responding
the labor questionnaire maile
on May 19,-from Lansing, Mich
to the residents of Michigan~
Sixth Congressional District.

In a-etter sent. with the~ que
tionfaire, Congressman Chambe
lain wrote. his constituents, ~
recession, ~its causes and %

is now our major pinbigsh ae
as. a former factory worker 4 ~
Fisher Body myself, Tam vitall b
*linterested in the welfare ~of 01
working people. I know the ing
portance of.labor unions ang.
favor their general purposes. Fc
this reason, I particulj vt
the views of the
employee.~ F
Congressman Cham
cifically noted that~ om
sults show that wor
favor wage increases at this timé,
but place greater emphasis 0j
getting back to work.

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