Bronze Reporter [Volume: 8, Issue: 13]

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There~s one runaway race going |
on in the majors and the man far |.
out in front of the pack is Roberto
Clemente, whe is headed for the|
National League batting title and |:
the distinction of being the first

By JIM BUTLER.

A couple of rookie managers,
directing major league clubs for
the first time. are in the midst
of the battle for manager-of-the
year honors.

They must contest with several
others, however for the honor and
the finish in the pennant race
~ may be the determing factor in
deciding which man most deserves the annual award.

Ralph Houk of the Yankees and
Alvin Dark of the Giants, both
first-year major league managers,
have done outstanding jobs with
their ball clubs ~ but so have
Bob Scheffing, piloting at Detroit:
for the first time in 1961, and
Fred Hutchinson, whose Cincinnati Reds have been the surprise
team of the year.

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Leo Cardenas and Elio Chacon,

finding it much easier to cope
with major league pitching than
the English language. Cardenas is
a spindle-legged Cuban who earned the nickname of Spider for
obvious reasons. At 150 pounds
he~s mostly arms and legs.

You might call him the ~stopper~ of a Cincinnati team that)
appears headed for the club~s
first pennant in 21 years.

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Unless Buzzie Bavasi has a vioJent change of heart between now |
and season~s end, Junior Gilliam~
will not Se one of the seven varsity players the Dodgers must

toss into the talent pool for selec
tion by the new Houston and
New York clubs of the National
League.

Airman Burns
Completes Basics

LACKLAND AFB, Tex. ~ Airman Kenneth O. Burns, son of
Mr. and Mrs. David Burns 4643
McDougall, Detroit, Michigan, has
completed his initial course of
Air Force basic military training
here. He has been selected to
attend the technical training
course for Radio and Radar Maintenance Training, at Keesler AFB,
Miss.

Airman Burns is a graduate of
St. Elizabeth High Sschool.

Basic: airmen at Lackland are
selected for specialized training
at technical schools on the basis
of their interests and aptitudes.
They are reassigned to the school
after five weeks of basic training. At the technical schools
they are given additional military
training along with the technical
instructions.

Upon completion of special
Technical Training Center, Airmen are assigned to operational
units of the USAF Aerospace
Force. According to Sgt. Johnson, the local Air Force Recruiter
loeated at 7863 Gratiot corner
Van Dyke.

honor.

/see the ball better. His averages

| check, San Francisco at
a couple of Latin Americans, are| Philadelphia.310.

ting erown, succeeding the.Pirates~

' Detroit Lions, holds the National

Cheeks of Cleveland, in the Shrine

this week agreed to postponement
{of his title fight~ with jan

|Loi from Sept. 7 to Oct. 15.

jean welterweight crown asked.his European title from Danish

Stadium.

week following a long _illiness.
A long time boxing associate of
Herman Taylor, Philadelphia promoter, -
world championship fights invoIving Walcott and Kid Gavilan.
The fights were the WalcottEzzard Charles,
Marciano and Kid Gavilan-Gil
Turner, in the 1950~s.
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lustre
championship fight between Floyd
Patterson and Tom McNeeley, the
challenger, originally set for Oct.

Puerto Rican to achieve that.

The fiery Pirate rightfielder
has repeatedly indicated*he hits
better in daylight that at night
for the simple reason that he can

back him up: he batted.420 in
sunlight and.303 at night in his
first 120 games.

Clemente has remained in the.360 class because of his bat
against the Dodgers and Cubs.
Les Angles pitching has yielded
a.472 average to Clemente and
the Cubs.450. The Giants and
Phil have held Clemente well in
314,

One of the amazing features of
Clemente~s red-hot bat is the way
he hits to all fields. Of his first
22 homers, six went to left field,
one to dead center (a grand-slam
at San Francisco) and 15 to right
field. At Forbes Field, where
Clemente tapped out ten of his
first 22 homers, seven landed in
the right field seats.

Clemente has hit homers in
every National League park. If
he continues his hitting, he~ll become the second successive Pirate
to bag the National League bat
| Dick Groat.

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Dick tions Train). Lane of the

Football League record for pass
interceptions with-a mark of 14,
set in 1952 as a rookie with the
Los Angles Rams.

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Douglas Brothers of Detroit,
Mich., walked off with the major
spoils in the Shriners bracket. at
the golf tournament highlighting
the annual Shrine convention in
Cincinnati last week.

Brothers captured the men~s
championship and tied for medalist honors with J. E. Hayes of
Cincy, whom he bested for the
title. In addition, Brothers finished first ahead of John W. Taylor
of Philadelphia, and Marvin A.

flight.

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Chicago~s Eddie ~Perkins~ early~

ior
welterweight chamhpion Duilio
Loi, who also holds the Europ
that the fight be deferred because
he was suffering from an injury
to his left arm, hurt August 5,
when he successfully defended

challenger Christian Christensen.
The bout will be held in Milan,
Italy~s 1000,000 seat Siro Soccer

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Peter Moran, veteran boxing
figure who was matchmaker of
two title fights for Jersey Joe
Walcott, ex-heavyweight champion, died in Philadelphia last

Moran helped ~ arrange

Walcott-Rocky |

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The much discussed but lackproposed heavyweight

ftion this fall.

GOLF. eps~ GOLF ~ As the golf season neared: its ~end, liarusieouth at Gary, Ind., Reading. Pa
and Cleveland, Ohio were among events which attracted Jarge numijers ef golfers from -all: sections of the country. In phote 1 are seen women ~championship division winners: of ~the Parmakers
Golf Glub at Gary, ind. Jim Guy left, sales manager, Coca-Cola Bottling,,Works of Gary, ~ Indiana,

stands in with winners Mrs. Blamche Adams, Chicago, 2nd place,.Mrs. Ann Gregory, Gary, champion
and Miss Allyne Nixon, Chicago, 3rd place, while looking on from right is Jim Brown, Coca-Cola
Bottling Company of Chicago: The Gary Coca-Ge'a~ operation contributed all trophies for the Parmakers~ turnament. In center, left to right, Max well Stanford, president, Eastern Golf Association,

and Mrs. Paris B. Brown, EGA tournament direct,Teceive frem~PRman Moss H. Kendrix trophies

donated by The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Ga., ft or Eastern youth championships along with huge

EGA téam trophy in memory of Herman Seott, late president of the EGA. The Fairview Golf

Club of Philadelphia won Herman Scott Trophy, which was held from 1960 by the Royal Golf
Club of Washington, D.C. In right photo, at Cleveland, flanked by Sixth-City Tournament Promoter
Williarh H. Seawright, left, and, right, Joe Williams, The Cleveland Coca-Cola Bottling Company
are, left fo right, Champion Renee Powell, Canton, Ohio, Miss~Nan Christopher, runner-up, and 3rd
place winner, Miss Mary Wilkerson,- Cleveland. This: was the 14th annual tournament of Mr. Seawright~s Sixth-City event. The yen Coca-Cola Bottling Company donated trophies for the

women championship flight.

Pistons Hope Rook ies

Will Strengthen Team ~

Led nce two of their most promising rookies in recent years,
the Detroit Pistons will bring
basketball back into the Michigan
sports picture next Friday.:

Coach Dick McGuire will count
heavily on Freshman Ray Scott, a
six-foot, nine-inch forward, and
six-foot guard Johnny Egan when
the Pistons assemble at their Port
Huron (Howard Johnson Motor
Lodge) headquarters to _ start
training for the fifth season as
Detroit's _representative in the
National Basketball Association.

23, has~ been moved up to Nov.
13, promoter Thomas A. Bolan
announced. Bolan have no reason
for the. postponement of the bout
that has been denounced, by the
National. aomng ee

An all-out: aT campaign
against: the Houston Oilers be
cause of. the, Am weal Football
League's. segtegat seating Ww
icy has been urged - Les

Wells, sports editor ~of me fea
ton Infermer newspaper.

According to Wells, who also
has.crusaded against segregation
in baseball in Texas, he urged
the picket action upon the
NAACP, CORE organization and
the local Progressive Youth Association,. after several weeks of
futile negotiation with (Officials
of the Oilers team.

Wells -urged the picketing of
Oilers games throughout the naIn addition, he
said the NAACP has assured the
informer that it will wire players
on teams Visiting Houston urging
them not to ~cross the picket lines
to play before local segregated
audiences.

The writer said he had taken
his complaint to AFL president
Joe Foss, but that Foss ~failed to
come up with a solution to the
problem in Houston.~ He said
Foss promised to discuss. the
matter with them in his office.

Describing the Oilers as the

only team in Pro- football that
its home audience; i}

segregates ~
Wells eail the team~s policy,

~deplorable.~ He pointed out that
the Oilers~ sister team, the Dallas
Texans, also of the AFL, has fully
integrated -seating arrangement.

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Scott and Egan will be among
17 players whom McGuire welcomes into camp. The roster includes ten holdovers from the
1960-61 team.

Heading the veterans will be
All Stars Bailey Howell, a 67
forward; Walter Dukes, sevenfoot center, and Gene Shue, a
6~4 guard who again will form.the. nucleus of the Pistons~ starting five.

Returning, too, will be forward
George Lee (63) and Guard Don
Ohl (6~4), impressive in their
rookie campaigns last winter;
Center Bob Ferry (68) who staged
a hot finish in 1960-61; forwards
Shellie McMillon (6'5) and Jackie
Moreland (6~7) and Guards Chuck
Noble (6~4) and Willie Jones (6~3).

Scott and Egan are expected
to fill the Pistons~ two critical
needs in their bid to improve on
their third-place finish of last
winter and to emerge as a threat
to the St. Louis Hawks for. Western Division~ laurels in the NBA.

Scott~s background indicates he
can plug the void which has existed at one corner spot in the
Pistons~ front line for the last
three years. Egan should deve
the Pistons have missed since
McGuire retired after the 1959-60.
season. In addition, Egan shapes
up as the flashiest player to wear
a Piston uniform in several sea-|
sons. |

Although the No. 1 choice of
the Pistons~ in last April~s NBA
collegiate draft, Scott is no stranger to the professional ranks. He
isted at one corner spot in the
played with the Allentown Jets
of the Eastern League for 2%
years after dropping out of Portland University in the middle of
his sophomore semester.

Scott led the Jets to the regular-season EBL titlé last season
with a sparkling 33.6 scoring
average. He had a.561 shooting
mark from the field, grabbed
rebounds on an 18-per-game aver
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Barbara Jones
Completes Basics

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Barbara Jean -Jones, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Mack R. Jones, of
80 Pingree, Detroit. 2, Michigan,
completed ten weeks of basic

and was graduated during a miliThe local WAVE, a former stu-|

a 14-day leave with her
before reporting to Great Lakes,
Ill, for Hospital Corps School.

Seaman Apprenti~o ~Jones re-|

lop into the standout playmaker |.

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| training at Recruit Training-wo-|
men, United States. Navel Training Center, Bainbridge, Maryland, |

tary review held on Aug. 25, 1961.)

ceived: instruction in Naval Ms

age and stood eighth in the circuit in the assists department to
rank as the circuit~s most valuable player.

~With Scott out there, we'll
have a~second big scorer to go.
along with Howell,~ McGuire said
Saturday. ~They won~t be able
to sag on Howell and Dukes. We~ll
be tougher on rebounding, too.~

Familiar to Detroiters.who
watched him on television as he
led Providence College to ~the
National Invitational title last
March, Egan is hailed by many
experts as the ~new Bob Cousy.~
The No. 2 draft pick of the Pistons, Egan goes in for razzledazzle ball handling and shooting
patterned after the famed Boston Celtic backcourt ace.

He set~ Providence~s one-season
mark of 502 points as a sophemore, then cracked his: own record by::tossing in 548: pgints-lastwinter.: Overall. hei seéred;1,434
points in his: ~ehree::yedrs of var-'
sity play.

$-U Optimistic

By BENNIE THOMAS

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana ~
That a lofty perch on some high
hanging gridiron cloud is the
ultimate aim of Southern University head coach A. W. Mumford
and his aides for the ~61 season,
becomes abundantly clear with
one phase ~ ~~We~re very optimistic.~

Optimism is that always available utterance used quite freely
by football coaches either enpassant, or as a serious appraisal
of stock for the coming campaign ~ for Mumford and his
Jaguars, the latter is thought.of
as being some what true.

The Jaguars survived a rugged
10-game ordeal last year, going
all the way down to the final
game of the season before how-.|ing to defeat ~ a 23-15 loss to).

Prairie View.
~Tn spite.of.the holocaust of the
final game, the Jaguars were
named National Intercollegiate
Champions, and ended up with a
slice of the SWAC Crown.
Little doubt was prevalent as
to the Jaguars choice as National
champions ~ they. romped over
Grambling College, Tennessee
A & I and Florida A and M in
the rugged march to prominence..

Queen Promoted

Another Negro star is making

ela rapid climb through the Detroit

Tiger farm club system. He is
Jackson (Jesse) Queen, a.24-yearold outfielder from Elizabeth,

Queen was promoted ~recently
to the Tiger~s top franchise at
Denver in the Class AAA American Association. He made the
jump from Knoxville in the Class
A Sally League.

DEATHS

Big Dipper To BeStar Attraction

ANN ARBOR ~ The Big Dipper, the oldest and the most
talked about constellation, will
be seen during September nights,
a University of ~ astronomer says.

{t is also the easiest of the)
| consteHations to find, according

to Associate Prof..Hazel M. Losh.

~dt may easily be traced in the
northwestern sky just after dark,
one of the first of the groups
to make its appearance. Seven
stars outline the dipper figure.
The two at the end of the bowl

1 are very important, for a line

through these two ~Pointers~ extended to about five times its
length ends close to Polaris or

| Phe North Star,~ Prof. Losh~says..:

~The Big Dipper, however, is
only a part of the time-honored
figure of the Big Bear. He is
really a huge bear with a long
tail {handle of the Dipper). There
are pairs of stars that mark three
of his four paws with a faint

semi-circle of stars ahead of the)

Pointer ~stars that outline: his
nose.

~The second star from. the
end and at the bend of the Dipper
handle is a naked eye double

star, the brighter, Mizar, the
fainter, Alcor. The Arabs referred to these two stars as the
~Horse and the Rider~ and used
them as a test for good eyessight,~ Prof. Losh explains.

Among the many stories and
legends about the Big Bear are:

~One legend is that someone
nailed -a bear skin to the sky
with seven nails, and later the
nail ~heads became stars, and
now they shine for us every night
to show us where the bear hangs.

~An Indian story is that the
three stars of the tail (handle of.~
the Dipper) are hunters seeking~:
to kill the Bear. The first hunter,
carries a bow, the second a kettle
to cook him in, the kettle being
represented by the little star,~
Alcor, and the third carries sticks
to light a fire when the Bear has ~
been killed. In the autumn, the.
first: hunters hits the: Bear, and.
the blood stains from the ~
colors the foliage red..

~The seven bright stars that,
form the Dipper are ~often re-,
ferred to as the
~Wain~, for to many this star pic
~ture looks like a plough or wa

gon,~~ Prof..Losh says.

Raiders~ Majo

rettes To

Perform At Rouge Game

The Ecorse. Senior Majorettes
are looking forward to their

first performance of the season

at the Ecorse High Stadium,
when. the Raiders meet,the
River Rouge Panthers on the

Ecorse Gris
Defeats Detroit
City~ Champs *~

* Led by the fine pitching of
Maylene McClesky and The
heavy hitting of Lottie Thomas,
the Ecorse Girls turned back
the Detroit City Champion, Wigle
Recreation Center, by a 7-5 score.

Maylene kept the _ usually
heavy hitting Detroit girls in
check by setting them down
with 6 hits as her Team-mates
~broke the game open in the
4th inning with 4 runs. Jackie
Weems, heavy hitting outfielder
led off the fourth with a booming triple; then Charlene Williams, Jeanette Bedo, Maybell
Page and Rita Johnson all laid
down perfect bunts to score a
run & load the bases for Lottie,
who promptly cleaned them with
a double.

Maxine McClesky continued
her fine hitting with 2. hits.
Jackie Weems also collected 2
hits as Lottie had a perfect day
with 3 hits.

~twirling is

football field. They have two.
newcomers, Lanora Jones, and -
Alfreda Kennedy,

~Plough~ or.

who. will be |

competing their~ first year, this /

season.

Lanora, who is a Junior, plans

to continue her education and
become a. social worker;, upon

graduation in 1963. Alfreda,, who:

is a very colorful performer,

wins many friends with her |

panic 97 See a tote id
-Betty..-Guanthgoiae lmajorette -

with three years ~of rexperience
~has contributed tremendously
to the success of the-squad.

Jennifer Jones, a ju
also been. a. great help: to the
squad. She and Betty have per
formed before many audiénces
together. Jennifer,

ior has.

participates ~

in many ~other activities outside:

of twirling.

She is also a fine first base-.
man on the Championship Ecorse.

Girl~s Softball Team,
her main hobby.
These four girls have worked
very hard to perform before the
Ecorse High sports fans. They

although ~

have also served to add beauty

and glamour to the sometimes

otherwise dull~ athletic contests
by marching with members of -

the Ecorse Band.

BE SURE
EARLY AND WATCH THE
Majorettes perform whenECORSE vs RIVER ROUGE

TO COME OUT -

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THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, -

1961.

Fishing the surf to its many adherents is a madness akin to
no other. If you have ever spent a day on a sandy beach, no
doubt you have seen that breed of angler who stands at the
water~s edge and with a great heave slings out over the white
plumed waves some three ounces of lead. Occasionally, you might
have even seen one eat a sandwich while his eyes scan the _~ |

zon for sight of a fin or splash

in the surf.

The fascination of surf
ing is, as yet, undefined, but
it may lie in the early morming
sun rise. or the- pictu jue

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