Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 38]

EAST LANSING, Mich.~The big rebuilding job ahead

of Michigan State~s varsity football forces this fall was

dramatically underscored in
Chicago.

_ Four of last season~s Spartan
seniors~more than presented
any other school ~ ed with

the Stars in their amazing 35-19/- End

throttling of the pro champion
Detroit Lions.

Quarterback Jim Ninowski put
on the greatest aerial display in
the 25-year history of the All-Star

Classic and was named, along
with Bob Mitchell, of Illinois, as
co-winner of ~Most Valuable
Player~ layrels. He tossed 20
passes and completed 14 of them
for 245 yards net and two touchdowns. His pin-point passing also
set up most of the other Star
scores.

Center and Linebacker Dan
Currie called defensive signals
for the Stars and did a tremendous job. He was all over the

the College All-Star game in

with an earth. -jarring tackle, and

Ninowski pass for 17 yards gained
and played well generally.,

Halfback Walt Kowalczyk, who
was installed at, fullback: in the
Stars~ first string backfield, actually saw the least service of any
due to-the fact the game turned
into an aerial show whereas
Walt~s forte is bruising running.
But his first team ranking showed
how he rated with All-Star Coach
Otto Graham.

These four, ~plus 18 sitiee veterans of three highly successful
Spartan campaigns (net record~
24 wins, four losses) must be replaced physically and qualitative
-field stopping -Lion runners,
~ at least one Lion fumble

ly. The first ~part is easy. bees
second won't be.

Fair: Opens F riday;
Programs For Family

DETROIT, Mich. (Special) ~
The longest, largest and
~pen a Michigan State.Fair.

Meanwhilé, State Fair officials confidently predict this
year~s event will be the best
ever and General Manager
Donald L. Swanson announces
there will be more free entertainment, programs and ex
hibits than ever before.

Every one of the 10 days will
offer something new and interesting and work already is nearing completion on the hundred
of unusual exhibits from auto
manufacturers, farm equipment
companies, appliance. makers
and most any other type of article that. one can name that
goes with today~s modern living
in the city and on the farm.

Veterans will have their day
on Saturday, August 30 when
various musical and drill units
will participate in a mammoth
program in the Music Shell.
Highspot of the day will be the
selection of ~Michigan State
Fair Veteran of the Year.~ All
veterans will be admitted free
on Veterans Day.

Sunday, August 31, has been
designated as Religion Day and
will-open at 8 a.m. with the tra_ ditional Sunrise Service, Dr. Edwin T. Dahlberg of St, Louis,|a
president of the National Council of Churches, will give the
sermon.

To add to the zest of the daily
menus for the Labor Day weekend, Tennessee Ernie Ford: and
this troupe will take over the}
stage of the Coliseum for twicea-day performances. on Saturday
and Monday, Labor Day and
- three on Sunday.

Tuesday, September 2, will be
Children~s Day with special
events and contests listed on
the day long program.

The climax of Governor~s Day,
Wednesday, September 3, comes
in the evening when Governor
Williams will crown Miss Michigan State Fair of 1958 after the
more than 30 candidates are
big moments on_ Thursday, Sepcommittee.

The Oldtimers will have their
judged by the beauty contest

most colorful parade ~ ever to

gram which will include square
dancing, contests for the oldest
man and woman, and various
other competitions.

A: free show ~Farm Fun Frolics~ will be presented Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday nights
in the Coliseum featuring champion livestock and various entertainment including the Detroit Mounted Police Drill Team.

Ricky Nelson, who has become
the idol of the teeners, will
move into the Coliseum on Friday, September 5.

Michigan~s Teachers will have
their chance to visit the Fair on
Saturday, September 6 and 25
of their members will be honored and received awards at
the annual Teachers Day luncheon at noon.,

The closing Sunday, September 7 has been designated as International Day and representatives of all nationalities and all
foreign. countries are expected
to appear in native dress and
put: on native dances in a huge
afternoon and evening programs
in the Music Shell.

The final day will also feature

250-mile auto race on the mile
racing strip.

And going daily throughout
the 10-days will be free concerts by the 70-piece United

States Navy band, rated as one
of the top musical group of its
kind in the world.

And that~s why members of
the State Fair Commission helieve the 1958 State Fair will be
the most interesting ever. It has
the most exhibits and more animals have been entered in the
various judging than ever before. Everything is bigger and
better and they know the 1958
State Fair will have to be 0g
same.

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drews Athletic Field jin Saginaw
and the next day Pontiac

School~s Athletic Field in Pon'tiac.

- The Saginaw show was the 6th
Annual All-Breed Show, spon
~sored by the Saginaw Valley Ken
nel Club. A grand total of 404
dogs were entered out of. which
X was the

a German Shepherd
ty, Class
This was a. naw dog and

winner of the Utili
he obeyed his commands given

by the trainer simply by giving
signs.
The next day we traveled to

Pontiac where a much larger
field of 578 dogs were entered.

The winner of the Utility Class
was a beautiful Golden Retriever
owned by John Eicher of Pontiac.

A smooth Dachshund owned
by Earl J. Mills of Birch Runn
was the best dog in the show..Many rare dogs around the
Flint area entering the show
were Schipperkes, Keeshorder,
Chow Chows, Maltese, Semoger
Newfoundlands, Schnauzer, W.%pets, Basenjis,, Afganhound pie
many others.

Dogs came from. as| far away
as Ontario,, Canada; Akron, Ohio;
Louisville, Kentucky; Little Falls,
New ~York; Dora, Florida; Chicago, Illinois; Madison, Wisconsin
and all partss of Michigan.

If you are interested in the
training of dogs and ~ats,, read
Pets and Harriet eaeh week in
the B. R.

2nd Tan Usabire

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SACRAMENTO, ee ~ The
Pacific Coast League introduced
its second Negro umpire, August
7, when Les Lollis made his debut
here as a partner of Al Mutart
and Earl Lennon on a \substitute
basis.

Lollis, 36,. has donk one of
northern California~s outstanding
sandlot arbiters. A eat of
Stillwater (Okla.) High chool, he
came to Sacramento in| 1942 and
began umpiring in the Sacramento Winter League in 1947.

SEASON TICKETS
HIT HIGH SALES

EAST LANSING, Mich.~Michigan State~s football season ticket
sale has hit a record high of
19,400 books with nearly four
weeks of the announced sales
period remaining.

The old record of approximately 18,000 books was set last
year. The season ticket deadline
date this year is Friday, Sept: 12.

A ceiling on season) sales of
21,000 books was announced by
Athletic Director Biggie Munn
last spring with the explanation
that ticket obligations for the
Michigan-Michigan State game on
Saturday, Oct. 4, made |necessary
the limitation.

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Should this 21,000) maximum
not be reached, any ticket left
over will be offered for sale on
the ~per game~ basis.

Spartans Score Most

EAST LANSING, Mich.~Michigan State~s. football team dis
| plays its offensive best in the

fourth quarter of play, while it
shows the worst defensively in

the third periods of games.

At least that is what an analysis of quarter-by-quarter scoring
in 1957.discloses. The Spartans
tallied 93 points in the final stanza in nine games,~ compared. to
68 in the first, 63 in the second
and 40 in the third. They gave
up 40 points in the t period,

264-75.

compared to a total of two in
the first, "21 in the second, and

12 in the fourth.
nine starts,
Opposition,

-In winning eight of
State -outscored the

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JAZZ... Midwest |

Collectors of Duke Ellington
records and Ella _ Fitzgerald~s
singing will be happy to know
that Verve Records, the company
headed by ~Norman. Granz, has
just released aa monumental -album entitled, ~Ella Fitzgerald
Sings Duke Ellington.~

This is the first recording that
Ella and Duke have done together
and it contains thirty-eight of the
most popular, from among the
many, songs written by Ellington.
These include: ~Sophisticated
Lady,~ ~A-Train,~ ~In a Sentimental Mood,~ ~Solitude,~ ~Lucky
So-and-So,~ ~Mood Indigo,~ and
~Prelude to a Kiss.~

With such a range of material
to work with, Ella is, by turns,

Spartan
Sport News

back Jim Ninowski in the 1958
College All-Star game earned him
a share of the ~most valuable
player~ award with Bob Mitchell
of Illinois.
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Michigan State~s cross country
squad, will defend Big Ten and
1C4A team championships during the 1958 season.
* * *

Michigan State~s soccer squad
will carry into the 1958 season
an unbeaten ~string of 14 games
and a record of never having lost
a varsity contest.

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Mike Panitch, Michigan State~s
No..1 quarterback prospect. for.
1958, was }named~ the top. performer in hicago~s Public School
league while playing for Austin
High in- 1953.

Michigan State~s cumulative
won-lost football record since entering Big Ten play in 1953 is
20-10 ~ topped onlly by Ohio
State and Michigan in the same
period.

Summerlin Decides
To Quit As Boxer

DETROIT~Heavyweight Johnny Summerlin, once a contender
for the heavyweight title, has decided to retire from the ring after
a check-up at Ford Hospital. Doctors advised the Detroit athlete
to quit boxing.

Summerlin: was knocked out
in the fifth round of his May
24 bout.with Nino Valdes. It
was reveadted after the fight
that Summerlin had little sense
of feeling on the left sidé of
his body due to a series of
brain: hemorrhages..

Summerlin knew of the illness
prior to the fight but later said
he didn~t want to disappoint his
followers and not go through with
the bout.

week end of the fight and was

_| kept there nearly two weeks.

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cool, relaxed,. and mellow, and

then she swings, ~Scatting~ as:
only a lady named Ella can.
The ~Duke~s~ warm, vibrant,

piano accents can be heard
throughout the album, except. on
those selections where long-time
Ellington sideman, tenorman Ben
Webster takes~ over the backing,
with a small combo, and composer- arranger Billy. Strayhorn
sits in on piano.

The records. number, on the
Verve Records label, is MGV
4010-4; also. available in two
halves, MGV 4008-2 and MGV
4009-2. Of special interest is a
song composed by Ellington and
Strayhorn, especially for this album entitled ~Portrait of Ella.~
JUST NOTED

Jesse Davis, left for a Las
Vegas audition two weeks ago
and is now on his,.way to audition
in Hollywood. Jess recently finished an extended engagement at
the Manhattan Club in Lansing,
and before that at the now-closed
Baby Grand, just around the
corner. He has, for some time
now, been rated a ~comer~ and
it may be that the time is now
here. Luck te ~_ san

The Doug Cuet "sales which
formerly | played at the Manhattan, is scheduled to open soon in
Flint, at the increasingly popular
Bamboo Bar, located on North
Saginaw.

~But Not For Me~.as done up
by hold-your-style, but-changeyour name ~newcomer~ Ahmad
Jamal (Argo 628) is still way up
there on the Jazz best-seller lists.
And that~s the truth. been
playing for years and _ nobody
ever heard of him, then he got

a. ~new~ religion, and changed his | i

name and has been going great
ever since.

Also, give a listen to Stan Getz
and J. J. Johnson, ~At the Opera
House,~ Verve V-8265. Together
with this really formidable duo,
there~s Oscar Peterson, piano,
Herb. Ellis, guitar, Ray Brown,
bass, and Connie Kay, on drums.
You can~t get much more than
that on one record. Hear it, by
all means,

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The Midwest Jazz Scene: Chicago~Lionel Hampton and his
glass-shattering brass section and
band are at the Blue Note; MJQ
and singer Chris Conner are at
the London House; the Preview
Lounge is, this Labor Day week
end, making it with ~Diz,~ the
Gillespie, one.

Detroit ~ Baker's Keyboard
Lounge is offering Marian McPartland... at the newly opened
Bohemian. ~Club of Woodward,
just up from the Roxy, the Australian Jazz Quintet comes in.
and at the Club Cliche it~s Stan
Kenton and his assemblage.

Jackson~If you'll look behind
the bass at that 2-to-5 a.m. dancetype-thing at the Country Club,
you find.... (G. M. H.)

CORNER

By RAYMOND L. DAVIS

THE FOOTBALL ~PICTURE
FROM: FLINT. FLINT ~ In this city of our~s
there has come many an outStanding. football player. In the
past there have been fellows
like Lloyd Brazil, Flint~s first
All-American, Lynn Chadnois
was next to gain the converted
honor and the last to gain this
honor from the motor city.
Names like George Gueree,
Pete.Fusi, Dewey Stephens,
Hank Minarik, Dom Tomasi and
lips of thousands of fans
many others have graced the
throughout the nation.

Let~s see what other Negroes
other than Coleman have done
to put this city on the map of
the football world. Let~s begin
with Jésse Thomas, who gained
all-state honors while performing at Flint Central High
~School. Jesse went on to gain
acclaim as one of the best defensive backs ever to perform
for the Michigan Stats~yartans.
At_ present, he is performing
for. the Colts of Baltimore in
the National Football League.

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Well, it sometimes seems that way
to me~but I aways comfort myself by thinking that, as life
gets too complex for me,
there are specialists who
j can take care
of things I~m
not quite capable of handling.

My. automobile, for example. Time was when
~@ man could lift the hood of any
car, tinker with it, kick it and coax
it, and have it run perfectly. But.
the modern auto is complicated ~
and requires a specialist to take
care of it.

How many people would even
attempt to correct the kinks in an
automatic: transmission, or reline
the power brakes? Or take up the
excessive play in the power steer
~ing mechanism?

Not many, I'll bet. But the comforting thought is that, as your
car has become more complex, your
auto mechanic has become a real
professional ~a kind of a ~doctor~ of autos.

He can not only correct your automobile~s faults, he can prevent
trouble from happening. This takes
real training and study on his
part. There~s more to what he does
than just aptitude; what.he has to ~
learn is every bit as complicated
as your automobile.

Give him credit; he~s a specialist...a true ~pro~, And you can
rely on him to take care of your
car just. ag you rely on your doctor to soothe the kinks in your

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Leon Burton of Ari State.
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~A few years later the high
point of the Flint football picture was reached. A little feltow who left no doubt in the
minds of fans, coaches and opposing players that he was one
of the greatest linemen to ever
don a football uniform. Down
at East Lansing they thought
so much of him that he became the only man in the his- j
tory of the school to have his |
jersey retired at the-end of |

his college career. His name, |
Don_ Coleman.;
Following Coleman, came |

Leroy Bolden, who. no later |
than last week end thrilled ~
Michigan fans with his dazzling~ performance for the
Cleveland Browns against the
Detroit Lions. Bolden was a
pre-season~ pick of many experts to. make the All-American teams of his senior season but due to injuries he ~
never reached the high expectations~ of football followers. Boldy is back now after
a two-year stine as an Air
Force jet pilot. We can look
for great things from him in ~
the National Football League.
After Bolden came a_ fellow
by the name of Clarence Peaks,
who is now playing for the
Philadelphia Eagles. The injury
jinx also hit Clarence after he
had.all but wrapped up AllAmerican honors. Of Peaks,
Coach Duffy Daughtery, proclaimed that he would not trade
Peaks for any other football
player in the ~nation.

Our next chapter will be written this season in the persons
of Art Johnson~ of MSU and

tin, Jo ~ will. bes. carrying
the load of being State~s. chief
threat: on the ground. Burton,
the nation~s. leading ground
gainer and scorer, will be in his
last season. Burton runs - the
hundred and 9~5 and, like his
cousin, Bolden is small. The
only chance we will get to see
Burton perform will be at the
University of Detroit stadium
on October 25.~

The football fortunes of this
city are growing all the time
and with the Mott~ Foundation
program we can expect many
more great things from our
boys. The next one to watch
will be John Sharp.

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