Bronze Reporter [Volume: 5, Issue: 53]

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By JiM BUTLER

" Sunday, Dec. 7, three days before ~the lightweight fight at
the Graystone Ballroom between

Gresham, state champion,

and. Bobby Rodgers, of Chicago,

~ve- ran into Art Hagen, who is
taking over the publicity work
for ailing Jim Hart, who while
on. vacation in: St. Louis last
month caught pneumonia and at
a time was on the critical list.

Jim~s condition has been much
better lately. We expect to see
him up and around soon. Gresham-finished his training. with a
stiff four-round workout with
yaung Tommy | Jackson. It was
top~.cold for Willie Coleman to
show up to work with Bill Pickett who is matched with Ringo
Bell on the same card. Dave
Mundy also failed to come in
Sanday to help condition Bell.

In the Motor City Gym we
were glad to see that Johnny
Powell has improved greatly with
his short right hand punches. He
is something to watch.

The Toledo matchmaker
signed Henry Hank and Ernie
Burford for a rematch there Friday, Dec. 12, on a ~Christmas
Fund show. The program will
feature three ten-rounders with. popular Leroy Jeffery scheduled

to.star in one of them. The card
will show forty-two rounds of
boxing for the children.
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TRIBUNE BASKETBALL

~Monday and Wednesday nights
we. will meet with the director
of the Northern Community and
representatives of nine _ basketball teams to plan a Sunday.league sponsored by the Detroit

Tribune Newspaper. Shelton
Johnson will be the league director and other officials will
bé selected after this week~s: meetings.

The first games have been
scheduled for December 14th.
arid will feature the city~s top
amateur cage circuit.

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OFF THE WIRE

~Satchell Paige, admitting he

can~t. keép pitching baseball for
Sic fays he likes the movies

we. Shay gh to make it a ~per.
* Paige is playing a
pag the forthcoming film,
Phe 2 hare Country,~ ~which
bert Mitchum and Julie
Landen. ~I like this business,~
Satchell said the other day, ~You
get to sit down a lot and the
money~s real good. Besides, it~s
fun learning something new every day. Take this horse I have
with me in the picture. They
gave it to me to ride and I never been on a horse in my life.
In two days I got control like I
control my fast one. Now they
tell me I~m a regular Wyatt
Erp.~
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The: photo-finish camera first
came into general use at Ameriean race horse tracks in 1938.
Shortly before they started making pictures at the finish line,
here were only two dead heats
~alled in a~whole year of racing.

Shortly after the introduction of
the camera, a total of 458 dead
heats (ties) were recorded in one
season.

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Johnny Unitas, the sparkling
quarterback of the equally sparkling Baltimore Colts, was twice
wounded in childhood gun accidents and that is why those broken ribs he suffered several
weeks ago didn~t keep Johnny
on the bedline as long as it was
feared he~d be ~idle.

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Ray Robinson~s performance
on Steve Allen~s Sunday night
program was some sad entertainment.

Don~t forget to attend the curtain-raiser of the Northern Recreation-Detroit Tribune Baskct
ball League Sunday, Dec 14, at
the Center.

MASCOT
~STOLEN~

GREENSBORO, N. C. ~ The
~raid~~ made on the A & T College campus two nights before
the big Thanksgiving Day football classic between the Aggiees
and North Carolina College may
have had ~reverse~ effects.

The opinion about the A & T
campus is that the visit by. students from North Carolina College or other avid fans of the
Durham College just ~fired up~
the Aggies to play their best
game to win the game and
clinch the.-CIAA _ conference
championship, the first for the
college since 195 and the third
in the history of the _ institution.

~Only slight damage to college
property was reported following
the raid. Signs, warning that the
Aggies were in for defeat were
scrawled in paint on the entryways and sidewalks leading to
several of the prominent buildings on the campus.. Several
college traffic signs were ~bent
and smeared with paint. College
officials estimated damage at
~around $25~ mostly labor required to remove the signs by
using solvents.

Students claimed that the disappearance of a sculptored, life
size, image of the bulldog, mascot for the Aggies, which was
constructed last spring and had
been mounted on a tree. stump
in a prominent place on the
College Quadrangle, was the
thing which did most to warn
the Aggies. The sculpture was
returned to A & T students during halftime at the game. It
was too late then for the Aggies
were ahead and no more scoring. was made in the second
half.

The moral might be ~If you
want to beat the Aggies don~t
tamper with their mascot.~

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BOSTON ~ Both Bill Russell
and Elgin Baylor, of the Nation-|
al Basketball Association, angrily blasted the segregated
treatment accorded | | them and
other colored members of the
Boston Celtics and Minneapolis
Lakers teams in Charlotte, N.C.,
Monday, and vowed never to play
in that city again. |

The Celtics and Lakers played
in Charlotte Monday |but colored
members of the teams were not
allowed to eat and sleep with
their white teammates.

Russell told reporters he was
unequivocally~ opposed to segregation and would not return
South under similar conditions.
(fronically, the State [Department
has asked Russell to go on a
foreign goodwill tour.)

Here in Boston, Walter Brown,
Celtics owner, backed up Russell. He said he did not care if
the Celtics ever played in Charlotte again, adding:.

~T~ll never do anything to embarrass any of my players.~

In Minneapolis, Baylor was
just as outspoken as Russell. The
high-scoring star of the Lakers
said::

~I was surprised that we were
treated that way. That hotel they
put us into was a-hole. It was
really decrepit.~

Robert Short, president of the
Lakers, supported Baylor.

Ernie Banks, the tall,

| shortstop of the Chicago 4 i
was named as the National Lea-| |

gue~s most valuable player fom
1958.

~the Cubs, scored 283: points ~in
the poll of the twenty-four man
committee of the Baseball Writers~ Association of America:

The Giants~. Willie Mays placed second with 185~ points and
the Braves~ Hank Aaron, the 1957
winner, was third with 166. Mays
won the award in 1954. It marked
the fifth straight year a Negro
has won the National~ League~s
MVP award.: Banks, of course, did not win
this year~s prize on his fielding,
though he ranks with the best
as a shortstop. He won because
of his hitting. In the past season
he established himself as one of
the most feared batsmen in baseball.

Home Run Leader

Banks led both leagues in homers with forty-seven and. also in
runs batted in with 120. His batting average was 313.

In his five full seasons with
the Cubs~he appeared in only
ten games in 1953, his first year
in organized baseball ~ Banks
has amassed 183 homers. His
forty-seven last season topped
the record of most homers by a
major league shortstop, which
Banks set in 1955 with forty-four.

Perhaps the most remarkable
feature of tremendous power is
that Banks, a right-handed batter
is what. they call strictly a ~wrist
hitter~ and uses one of~the lightest bats in the business, thirtyounces. He simply meets the ball

with a swish of his supple

* wrists.

DETROIT ~ The Detroit. Tigers will conduct a tryout school
again this year at Lakeland, Fla.,
Ed Katalinas, director of scouts,
announced this week.

Young men between the ages
of 18 and 24 will receive expert.
instruction from a staff of Tiger
coaches and scouts from Jan. 29
to Feb. 13. |

~students éuiebitirig in the instructional course are required
to: provide their own transportation to Lakeland and to pay a tuition fee of $98, coyering room
and board for the two weeks, with

HAMPTON *5~
WINS SEVENTH

HAMPTON, Va. ~ Fleet 156 -pound Pirate halfback John Caldwell from Durham, N. C., paced
the Hampton Institute fighting
Pirates to their seventh win of
their.best season in over 10
years with. three thrilling tallies
and two pass interceptions to

victory over the Virginia Union
University Panthers Nov.- 27.
Caldwell picked up 149 yards on
the ground in his first starting
assignment.

Playing in the annual Turkey
Day Classic, the Panthers rallied
in the third period following the
Pirate~s 9-0 half-time lead on the
passing ~of quarterback Milton

end Arthur Simpson via John
Martin on the fourth play and
passed again to Martin nine minutes to make the) final union
scoring effort. +

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Co-captains Clyd~ Clack and
Adrian Nelson. piaying their
last game on the ~college grid,
put up stalwart defensive efforts
to contain the Panthers~ drive,
forcing the CIAA second division visitors into their sixth defeat of the season.

Michigan ~
Win Opener

ANN ARBOR, Mich: ~ Off to
a flying start with a 75-55 victory over Pittsburgh to open
the 1958-59 season, the University of Michigan basketball squad
faces further testing against

~| strong Tennessee in the Mid
western Invitational tournament
at Kent, O., Friday night. Competing in the tournament _besides Michigan and Tennessee
are Wyoming and host Kent
State University.

The Wolverines flashed a surprising guard combination to
beat the Panth
sophomore gore

eight of them fr
while Miller

former Illinois all-state
school star, in the wakes

fast-breaking offense.

Tigers To Have
~Try-Out~ School

give the Peninsula team a 21-127

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fang tiene

the understanding that it will be
refunded in the event a contract
with any club in the Detroit system is tendered.

The tryout school was instituted last year with approximately
125. registrants, representing 26
states and the Province of.Ontario, nine of whom were signed
to contracts with Tiger minor

|| league affiliates.

Instruction will again be directed by Detroit coaches Willis
Iiudlin and Billy Hitchcock. Others on the faculty are Rick Ferrell, direetor of minor league
personnel; scouts Pat Mullin,
Bernie deViveiros and Wayne
Blackburn, and Katalinas.

While the course is in progress the enrollees will be quartered at Tigertown, recognized
as the finest of baseball training
camps with excellent eating and
living facilities, and the students
will have access to the four diamonds laid out there.

Ball players between the ages
of 18 and 24 interested in enrolling in the school can obtain
the necessary information by
writing to Katalinas, director of
scouts, ~Briggs. Stadium, Detroit
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Eye Mat Victory

ANN ARBOR, Mich. ~ Coach
Cliff Keen, who has been guiding Michigan~s wrestling destinies since 1925, ill place much
of his hones on sophomores as
he sends his charges to the mat
for the 1958-1958 season against
Cornell in an Eastern invasion
next week.

The Wolverines. will tackle
Cornell and Rutgers on successive nights, Dec. 12-13, and then}.
return here to prepare for a
meet with Pittsburgh, Jan. 3.

Keen, whose teams have won
174 dual meets, lost 75 and tied
nine at Michigan has only three
returning lettermen upon which
to build. Returnees from last
~year~s squa dwhich finished fifth
in the Big Ten include Capt.
Larry Murray, 130 pounds;Mike
Hoyles, 123, and Fred Olm,
heavyweight. Graduated are a
pair of Big Ten champions, Max
Pearson, former captain who
was. Conference 130-pound
champ for three seasons and
Jack Marchello, 167-pound tittlist twice and runner-up once.

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|~ The 27-year-old Texeei~com:!:
{ pleting his fifth full seasen- with}

lies Angeles:

s takes a left to the

K chin from challenger Don Jordon in the. ninth. Tound
of the 15-round- ti e hat at the Olympic~ ~Auditorium here.Dec. 5. Jordon won the welterweight
title from Akins in~ a sperkdowa bout. He was awarded the title by unanimous decision. biihied

Jaguars Lose
Season Closer

BATON ROUGE, La. ~ For
the' Southern. University grid
Jaguars, ~who. closed out the
season last Saturday. night in
Houston, Texas, -by. falling before. the: Prairie- View Panthers
20-14, no claim can. be filed for
conference or national honors,
but, ~with posting an 8-2 overall
segson~s record, the Jaguars
ean boast of their best football
season since 1954.

- Coach A. W: Mumford and
his assistants, with -most followers wondering ~just how did
they do it,~ guided the Jaguars
five straight wins, Texas Southern 30:6; Alcorn College 56-0;
Xavier University 50-0; Arkansas A M & N 30-0; and Jackson
College 30-6, and only two of
these, Xavier and Jackson, were

| played on the home field.

The Jaguars dropped a tearjerker to Texas College 13-6,
then roared back.with three big
consecutive wins ~ Tennessee
A & I 23-14; Wiley paleee 21-6;
and Florida A'& M 35-6.

Winning from the ~Big
Three~) ~on = straight weekends
landed theh Jaguars atop the national heap for one week, and
going -into the Prairie View
game, they were shooting for
a chunk - of ~the Southwestern
Athletic Conference crown, with
a possible natjonal champion#e. to boot... Es eis
JS. Sith Opens

By BILL JOHNSON

CHARLOTTE, N. C. ~ Riding
the senesational shooting of
sophomores Clarence, Barnes
and Joseph Crenshow, Johnson
C. Smith University~s young basketball team gunned down Howard University, 90-60, in a CIAA
contest here Monday night..

It was the opening game of
the young season~for both quintets. |

Barnes, an All-CIAA performer in his freshman season a
year ago, found the nets for 12
baskets and seven free throws
for a game-high total of 31
points, while Crenshaw, a native of Detroit, Mich., was- hitting with six field goals and
eight fouls for 20 points.

Manfred Slaughter, a highlytouted rookie from Elizabeth, N.
J., also shot in doffble figures
for the Golden Bulls, caging five
field goals and three fouls for
18.

Marty Tapscott had 17 and
James Thompson and Ernie Bell
~12 each for the losers.

Deadly accuratae in the closing périod, the Bulls caged 18
of 37 shots from the floor to
kayo Howard after the Bisons
had made it interesting in the
opening half.

Smith led, 35-24, at - halftime.
But Howard climbed to within
three points of a 48-45 spread
midway in the second chapter
before the Golden Bulls turned
on the steam.

The Bulls hit 30 of 80 floor
shots for a 37 per cent accuracy rating. Howard shot 39 per
cent from. the field, hitting with

25 of 64 attempts.

DETROIT~Western Reserve's
Presidents~ Athletic Conference
football. champions ~has placed
four players on the All-PAC
team selected a member-coaches of the leagu

The whole left side of the AllStar line is made up of ~Redeats. ~Dale. Evans, Reserve~s*@'2~
left ~efid ~cracked the Alld#@ague
lineup~ ~for the third straight
year. Oddly enough, despite a
fine. all-around performance Evans must be singled out.
as the man who lost the most |,| personal records during the sea-|

PAC List
Joh Vecchio, the Redcats~
200-pound standout left tackle
and Alton ~Buster~ Howard, Reserve~s hard-hitting left guard
nailed' down their respective
positions on the All-League

téam. Al Bohning of Reserve
tied with two other. men for a

~ slot.
Schweikert, one of three
players named to

C crew. was the
cia for quarterback.
piled up 547% yards

din 58 conference play
ee league record. 215 -Boaz tackle Clem

6 BRONZE REPORTER, SATURDAY, DEC. 13, 1958

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| By FRED HUBER

JAMES PRESLEY CORNELIUS
reminds one of a quarterback.

For the term ~restaurateur~,
which describes the profession
of the handsome, ~black-haired.
Kentuckian, covers triple-threaf-abilities,

The éxecution of these requires the same concentration,
dedication, singleness of purpose, and yet agile wit to veer
nimbly in any direction that you
find in.a Tobin Rote, a Y. A.
Tittle, se

Such | @ man is Cornelius.

Perhaps the comparison is
more: apparent because of his
cosy. association with the sports

~He. is;.0- is

skilled one, as many unwary
opponents have discovered.
Perhaps the comparison is obvious because: he is a spectator
at most all of the top events
in the Detroit area, and a surprising number of the major national contests.

Football Fan

Jim himself would never admit a preference, but down underneath you would find football first in his heart.

But from Cornelius the sports
fan to Cornelius the restaurateur
is a rather brief transition.

Self-educated in the business,

bus boy ina downtown Detroit -

hotel. He made the hotel circuit while rising to. the rank
of waiter,.

_ ~It-sounds ighwe: but | was
more interested~in seeing what
pleased the customer than seeing what my tip was. going to
be," he said receetty " retfor
spect.

His.notural ~ reportorial instinct served him in good stead.
For while Jim hada series of
practica) ~lessons in~ food. and
service, he. developed ~ an additional seventh sense: of hale
manship.,;

Jim started ~at the bottom as a

recently since he has directed
the fortunes of the Knife and
Fork Club, he has shown a
genius for discovering promising talent. Like a master coach,
he has molded the raw material
into finished performance. |
All of which makes Cornelius
sound like a paragon, He is
not, however.
He is human, extremely so.
His greatest fault is dedication to his own enterprise. He
lives with the club, seeking a
perfection which is probably
unattainable. However, -perhaps the fault is a virtue, for
this is the reason he has come
closer than has anyone else.

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