Bronze Reporter [Volume: 9, Issue: 35]

&

By WALTER B.

world -

HOVE

Recently peceitiiars throughout the country were
asked to nominate candidates for All-American for the
1962-63 basketball season and it~s going to, be pretty tough
to name many who are not: Negroes..

_ Take a look at the nation~s imber one rated team,
the University of Cincinnati. The Bearcats-have guard, Tom
Thacker, forward-guard, George Wilson, 'and guard Tony
Yates. North Texas State Eagles have John Savage, a 6-5
junior forward. St. Louis.has 6-4, Donnell Reid, another to

consider. Loyola University
Jerry Harkness, captain and
a forward.

The University of Michigan Wolverines are going with
Bill Buntin, a center, and John Harris. The Broncos of
Western Michigan University offer guard, Manny Newsome
and center-forward Bill Street from Detroit~s Northwestern
High. Detroit Institute: of Technology Dynamics have high
hopes for Joe Johnson, a guard from Detroit~s Northern

High.

Senior Thomas W. Gywn of the University of Wiscon- |
sin is. the Badgers best bet. Andy Hankin, 6-foot guard on |
the State University of Iowa Hawkeyes~ squad can~t be
overlooked. The University of Wichita Shockers have for- }:
ward-guard- Dave ~The Rave~ Stallworth and guard Ernie
Moore. From the- University of Detroit, Titan co-captain

Harrison Munson, a forward
can honors.

On the west coast there

from the UCLA Bruins, a very hot prospect. From the |
south land comes Robert Love, a ~center at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Hershell West of the
Grambling University Ramblers is in the race, too. Back
in the Midwest there is Spartan, Marcus Sanders of Michi~gan State University, along with Bill Berry.

Bradley University Braves present Mack ~The Knife~

Herndon for consideration.

Florida, there is Ted Allen, center-forward; James Betterson, forward; and Herb Graham, a guard all going big for
the Florida A & M University Rattlers, plus Waite Bellamy

also of FAMU.

) These are just a few to keep the writers~ busy for
a- while: Naturally they won~t select all Negroes for the

All-American team, but thev
would be. It would be as fine
nated.

~_

of Chicago Ramblers features
forward, and Vic Rouse, also

heads the list for All-Ameri
is Walt ~The Wizard~ Hazzard

From winter~s vacation land

could and what a team that
as any.team rT ever nomi
John Savage.DENTON, Tex. (HAP) ~ North.Texas State University, a school
that has produced outstanding
~football players (Abner Haynes,
Ray Renfro) and golfers (Billy
~Maxwell, Don ~January), -is suddenly flexing its muscles in the
world of. basketball.

And the surprisingly potent
Texas boys are making progress
in the toughest collegiate. basketball conference,. the Missouri
Valley. Cellar. occupants since
they joined the Valley in 1955,
the Eagles have been pressing for
a first division finish since early
February.

Their amazing climb began
Jan. 25 when tacy cacied a vu.3
MVC record to Wichita, home of
the: nation~s eighth-ranked team
at the time. North Texas shocked
the Shockers 69-67 and has been
a tough club ever since.

The Texans then added victories in a row over Tulsa, Drake
and St. Louis to pull into a tie
for third place. To prove they~re
no fluke, recent defeats have
been narrow and could have gone
either way~Bradley by a 75-72

\

count and Drake by a 65-64 margin.:

+

Cin Detroit Beconie the
Jazz Capital of the World?
4 28 2 +

There Are Those Who Believe So!

Monday night, at the Minor Key,
a'small body of jazz fans~including playwright Ron Milner, exTrappist monk Thomas Glover,
and journalist Joy Tunstall~came
together for the. second official
meeting of Jazz Arts International, the functioning assemblage
of The International Institute of
Jazz Arts whose major objective
is that of realizing Detroit, Mich.,
as the jazz capital of the world.

~The scope and potential of
such an undertaking is fantastic,~
said Marc Crawford, youthful
head of a. local public ~relations
firm and. president of the Institute of Jazz Arts. ~Unity,~ he
stressed; ~changes things. We
are living ina supermarket country while jazz~our only original
cultural art form~plays out of
a General Store bag. Gi

What, briefly, is Jazz Arts International?

*JAI is conceived firstly as an
education and research institute

' of international scope having its

headquarters in Detroit. It membership is envisioned as a nonexclusive world-wide ~fellowship~
composed of individuals, business
organizations, commercial concerns, educational and cultural
institutions dedicated to the preservation and furtherance gof the
jazz arts.

JAI would be the world~s first
~Public Relations Counselate for
Jazz~ bringing the layman and
the artist, the commercial and
artistic communities of jazz into

_cleser harmony.
~We envision Detroit as a.

~United Nations~ of jazz,~ continued Marc, ~with a first-rate communications system linked. with
all~ parts of the world~Cairo,
~Moscow, Bangkok. First of all,~
he cautioned, ~we need a firm
nucleus.~

The proposal for selling Detroit to the world: A New Image,
is impressive as is the prospectus
for Jazz Arts International.

Pilot projects which will form |.

the operative eq - JAI include:

*g jazz ~press club, to

jaz
be | the eter iy for:
al Jess Press a headqoar

cal jazz interest; and a host of
other projects of broad scope.

~The program won~t fail where
you would expect it to fail,~
said Crawford. ~Money will never
be a problem with the interest
already created by this vast project.;Our biggest headache will be
people~large: numbers of members to form the basic platform
from which we must rise. There
is no jazz ~capital, as such, anywhere else in the ork way not
Detroit?

~Educating Detroit and the
United States will be our biggest
task, but it can: be done with
unity,~ he said.

Although Crawford foresees the
time when members of Jazz Arts
International will be afforded
lower jazz album cost and reduced
admission fees to jazz rooms in4
and around Detroit, he paraphras-/
ed the words of John F. Kenneay
when he said: ~Ask not what the
organization can do for you, but
rather what you can do for the
organization. There will be jobs
for everyone ~ skilled and unskilled.~

The next meeting of the International Institute of Jazz Arts
will be Sunday, March 10, at the
Minor Key, Dexter at Burlingame,
at 3 p.m. On hand ~will.be the
finest. musicans in Detroit plus
Sonny Rollins, currently appearing at that club. Admission is
free and open to the public

Wisconsin
Kills MSU
In Overtime

By Walt Hoye. EAST LANSING, Mich.~( ~
| Michigan State bidded to

It is expected that committee
breakdown will be a major portion of the meeting agenda.:

Bearcat Wright
Pins Stevens Ic
Cobo Hall Mai

The most spectacular attraction
in the history of Cobo -Arena
wrestling is the way the recent
acticn program in downtown. Detroit was described.

Three were four main events un
the 10-bout program, any one of
which have attracted a throng on.ts own. There was te return
match between Dick The Bruiser
and Wilbur Snyder with Dick taking 2 out of the 3 falls; a clash
between Bearcat Wright and Ray
Stevens ended with Wright on

Antonino (Argentina) Rocca and
Dr. Big Bill Miller with Rocca
showing Miller his bare foot~ winaing form.

The fourth feature was a match
between world champion Lou
Thesz,and Mark Lewin had been
added earlier by Promoter John
J. Doyle. before he took off on
a two, weeks trip to Brussels,

'|Zurich,.and Paris to look over

new-found European stars. Jim
Barnett, Doyle~s partner, was in
charge of* the card. Thesz took
Lewin.

for Rough Richard to hold Snyder
io the~ mat for a five count for
each fall in -keeping with the |
3ruiser~s.boast that he could,

she he did.

~Roland Kirk Cops Downhea

Award on Grand Bar St tage

Before. a packed house Sitar:

day night, Bob Archer, Detroit
represepitative of Downbeat -Magazine, presented Third Place
Miscellaneous. ent, plaque
to. Roland Kirk, multi- faceted
one-man woodi gang, on the
stage of the Grand Bar, hep ~Joy
Road.

~You placed third in a highly-competitive race,~ Archer. told
Roland, at the end of one of his
rollicking, foot- stomping sets.
~ | ~Only John Coltrane, soprano sax,
and Jimmy Smith, Organ, placed
higher than you did, added Arch. |

jer, ~and there was only 5 percent |

~tl

A. ee

Incidentally, we forgot to mention that Roland Kirk is blind.
It is a natural oversight because
to see him in action one would
find it difficult to. believe a
he can~t see.

Aided and abetted in on conspiracy to wipe out -all traces of
sympathy for himself because of
blindness by Charles ~Cottontail~
Wilson, piano; Hank Duncan,
drums; and Rafik Abdullah, bass,
Roland never ie up for | a mo
top. There was a battle between |.

The Bruiser-Snyder affair called |

} ligh

}-the other a social affair.
After the Invocation by the;

| ~collegiate phenomenon.~ a plaud|.t well-deserved because it was
} earned. Foots also stated that rej cently the group gave $4,000.00 to

| of the banquet comittee, suggest
ets Baston Cl

The wortd champion, Boston
Ce!tics were honored on Jan.
31, 1963, when President John_
F, Kennety received them at

a

the White House. Left fo right:
John Havlicek, Trainer Buddy
LeRoux, Clyde Lovellette, K. C.
Jones, Capt. Bob Cousy, Coach

Red Auerbach, Jim Loscutoff,
President Kennedy, Sam Jones,
Frank Ramsey, Tom Heinsohn
and Tom Sanders.

Seated left to ~right: Roger
Brown, Detroit ~Lions; Jackie.
Vaughan Ill, candidate for De
~By Walt Hoye
The Varsity Ciub, Inc. an organization of incorporated college
lettermen formed about 1952, had
their Annual Award~ Banquet at
McGregor Memorial Conference

pus. ihcy honored Atl-American
i Willie, Richardson of Jackson
| State Co:lege, in Jackson, Missis- |

sep and All-Pro defensive tac
ly-wed, Roger Brown who they
gave a cervifieate of merit.

A taste bud tantaiizing cuisine
befitting this auspicious occasion

fine men. In a. warm atmosphere
of congeniality that seemed to
low over and engulf the honored -
guests and members of the Varsity Club a sincere corhradeship ~
was had by~all.

This program by The Varsity
Club, whose current president is

| their yearly affairs to honor and
| senefit deserving athletes. Their
zreed is; If an athlete finishes
sthovul ~Ihe Varsity Club,
ine. desires to help make him
ihe co-ner~s loss; the college~s
gain, and the country~s leader.
zvhey also sponsor two other annual events one a bout ride and

Reverend Larry F. Gotts, of the
Grace Lutheran Chureh, Forrest
Green gave the'-welcome. In his
remarks he called Richardson a

the Board of Education to aid in
state competition. ~

An example of this fine organ- |
ization~s civic-mindness was shown

the Board of Education) chairman

ed taking a deserving Cass Tech.
athlete to see one of his school

ambulance to chauffeur him from |
the hospital to the game and
back. This may sound like a rare
incident but it is an ordinary oceurrence in The~ Varsity Club's
epee They donate all their

Center on the Wayne State cain-.

kle of the Detro-t Lions and new- |

was served in honor of these two.

orrest ~i oots~. Green, is one of |,

in a case where Tom Briscoe, (of |
basketball games. The club sent an/

Wiiliam Richardson, Baltimore
Colts.

Standing: Tom Briscoe, Bord

Left to right: Roger Brown,
Detroit Lions; John Hazely, Detroit Public Schools; Charies
void in our g?owing scciety. On
Willie Richardsen, he combined
the bowl Richardson played in
to come up with this phrase. ~a
valuable Ali-American who crusaded in the Nerth-South game.~
a very appropriated definition.

The Honorable Judge Charles
Farmer, in an appraisal of his
athletic prowess, said, ~all my
life.1 have been on the bench, in
baseball, footoail and basketball.
1 am still on the bench and please

troit Common Council, and

of Education; Otis M. Smith,

Varsity Cubs Annual Award Banquet

Supreme Court Justice; Forrest Green, president, Varsity

Club Inc., and Michigan State
Civil Service Commissioner,

ti. mer, Common Pleas Court
Judge and Wiiliam Richardson,
Baltimore Co-ts.

seep me there.~

the fcLowship that ebbed
though the banquet audience.
e.riied out inte DVetroit~s arctic
like weather. Al} left with a per- ~
sonal; sense of~ accomplishment,
a feeling that this ~help thy
neighbor spirit~ should be a daily
event; especially when the fruit
of it turns out gems like Willie
Richardson and Roger ~ Brown.
They have a point wouldn~t you
say?

around the

Cowm..-.

~. with Lee Ivory.

~ sdantionaed Prem Page 4)

jazz world.~ We need and must
haye our own. critics, our own
jazz. ~writers~everything because
I'm tired of having ~so-called~

his prospectus and proposal or

the new. organization. Also;

he states, very few people ine
Detroit know the wealth~ of

tin talent that. ~~ come from the

ee |

automotive capital of the world.
This is the chance all true
jazz lovers have been waiting for. ~
You will all have an opportunity
to ~do~ something instead of. talk
pre what should be done.
For a more comprehensive

Gate a Th Are tect
goals of Jazz Arts~ tatlcs

*|~and a FREE Sonny Rollins gig
ceome on Get We Gig wee te
~|Sunday, March 19, at 3 p.m.
Some of the~ finest Detroit jazz
musicians will be on- lina

~See ya Around a toe

_ SATURDAY, maar e, 1963