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EVERYTHIN'N SPORTS

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By BENTON 3. STEPTOE
WILLIAMS. WANTS FIGHTS

dakseses Here is what Mike Scanlon, Cyclone Williams~ trainer says
in regards to the poor showing that Cyclone put up in his last
fight: ~He ~shouldn't have fought lats week. He had an infected tooth that later was extracted, and could not train properly. But if people think that Williams can~t fight, why doesn~t
he get the chance to. fight
some of our local boys in his
class? Namely: Sgt. Joe
Muscato (by the way he
whip Joe in the amateurs);
his brother, Phil Muscato or
Matisi. ~Williams is ready to
meet any of t~ cse boys. If
he does then see what happens.

SOLID JACKSON
Levi, the 20-year-old

son of a New Haven stew
hopes to be an_ engineer,
was really a one-man gang.
against Harvard in bidding
farewell to the gridiron for
this season, he left his name

ard, who in the near future|

BUFFALO, N.~ Y. ~APNS~
Well at last one of our boys
has gotten a real break, Henry
Brimm beirg given the chance
to meet Steve Belloise is -really a step forward for our sepia
pugilists. Brimm has quite a
record and a win over Belloise
will, most certainly, get him a
shot at some of the other top
notch middleweights.

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THE FLINT SPOKESMAN |

Meets Belloise, Dec.

| Brimm Gets Big Chance; Win
Over Belloise All That is Needed

Brimm has won 18 and lost
2 of his 20 fights, his most recent win being over Jimmy
Hayden. In meetirg Belloise he
is fighting one of the toughest
opponents -of his career.

We should really give Jack
Singer a big hand in making
it possible) for some of our
boys to get into the big money. He is giving them the chartce

and hn that they have to do
ds to go. in there and win, or
at least put up a good snowing
We, in turn, must turn out enmasse and help cheer our boys
to victory, and show that we
appreciate their efforts to keep

us tops in the fighting game.

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ringing in the ears of 57,000
fans -who attended the
game. He was a_ marked
man in the Irst quarter, and
didn~t break loose until the
second quarter but from
then until the whistle blew
for the end of the game, it
was all Jackson.

He served in the site
ers role for one touchdown
Coach Odell stated
later in the dressing room in regards to Jackson: ~~Jackson
played a swell, all-around football game today,~ he said enthusiastically. ~~He was driving beautifully and harder than
usual. He was also exceptionally good on defense. But what
helped 'us.most, was that Levi came through with some of our
mest crucial ~first and tens...1.d hes a evel! kid, too,~ he

added.
BISONS AVENGE LOSS TO TOLLEO

Buffalo Bisons Bas':c*bali t=::n scored a 50-45 triumph

over Toledo last Saturday.. As usual, Pop Gates was superb in
his handling of the ball; and making baskets.

Cyclone Williams

The Bisons meet the Rochester Royals tonight at the
Memorial Auditorium, the Royals who haven't lost a game in
the current campaign, and scored an impressive victory, 78 to
57 over the Herd in Rochester Nov. 26. The, Royals bring
~Dolly~ King, one of our basketball~é greats. It wiil really be a

treat to see him and our own great sepia star, Gates, in action.

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WHO SERVED UNDER
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THE SPORTING

By Webster Smith

eee Ohio~ (APNS)~
The city of Miami has been

the ~storm-center of a lot a

sports controversy. this sctason.
First it was the Jackie Robinson incident and now it involves the postponed gam: between Penn State and Miami
U., and/ also ike Cleveland
Browns-Miami Seahawks, garne.
This rebel city is beginning to
feel the folly of:its ways both
in prestige and cash. All this
comes from the fact that the

deity doesn't want whites and
Negroes to mx in sporls or
arything| else ror that matter.

Miami clings to its confederate
traditions despite the fact that
the city is made up of immigrants (Yanks to you). Many
Major League ball teams will
shun Miami as a spring training site | because of the Jackie
Robinson) cas2, whicn will also
put a crimp in touvisti- trade.
Many people vacation in Mizmi
they can watch the Major
Leaguers in spring training. Besides, the players themselves arc
a big source of revenue. When
Penn State canceliej its game
with Miami U. oeczause of
S.ate~s insistence in playing 2
Nexvoes, it canse some dissenin the Miami U. teaching
staff. Two professors turned
back their iickets in protest,
witle oMe wen. so far as to resy. from ts faculty.. Detroit
3. offered t~ {il in for Fenn
State on the cpen date, and ~it
Wee immediately charged with
berg undemoccatic by fans and
tie student bodv sifke. To add
furtner| discredit to ~heir alreidy |impos'nz offense, they

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BRINGS RESULTS
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aloes

won't allow the Cleveland
Browns to use Motley or Wil
~- on one of Robert E.
Lee~s descendants ~as he starts
kcal-ward to a T. D. jaunt,

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Bs toc sight of Bill Willis blockZ| ins a}/ grandson of Jeff Davis
t cicar a path for on: of the

B:.wn's ball carriers would be
too much for the natives. This
city that wants so badly to be
a sports capitol, has beer the
laughitig stock of the Sports

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SPOTLIGHT

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Annual Basket

Ball Tournament

PRAIRIE VIEW, ~Texas
ANP ~ Director of Athletics
G. L. Smith announced the
competition of all plans for
the arnual P. V. Open Basketball tournament Jan. 10 asd
Al.

The 1946 tournament brought
a dozen teams from six states.
Coach Henry A. Keene and his
Tennessee State lads invaded the
state and took horfors. They
snapped Coach Zip Gayles three
year winning streak at 59. Participants came from Ténnessee,

Arkansas,. Florida, ees,
Louisiana. and Texahe ce
AL bee ces

According to Mr. sci inquiriegs have beerr. received~ from
Kentucky, Alabama and~ Missouri. -
teams -wil} puarticipate. All
Southwest conference teams
have ~gommitted themselves to
participate, me bn FE;

FLORIDA ACCEPTS ANGEL
BOWL BID,

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ~ ANP
Florida A. and M. college
breaks her precedent to accept
a bid to play Wiley college in
the ~Angel Bowl~~ at Los Angeles, Dec. 28.

This. year the Orange Blossom classic, to be played at
Tampa~s- Phillips field Saturday,
will not close the season for
the Florida Rattlers, Coach
Gaither announced. Florida has
accepted the. usual bid to play
in the first Angel bowl game
on the west. coast. The invitation was. offered after close -examination of Florida~s nine year
SIAC record.

Lincoln U. rm"

Play Famcee

In Oranee Bowl

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa.
~ANP ~ Lincoln university

Florida A & M College for Ne
geod place for Bilbo % gu into
exile. Incidently, unless the.

Miami Seahawks find themse!-|

ves an ~Angel~~ (sucker in this,
case), they~ll have to abandon
their franchise ir the All-American conference. As Senator
Claghorn wouldn't say, -~That
ain't no joke, son.~

_Someone should tell the Mi-!
ami folk that the United States
exceeds the Mas0on-Dixorr line
and goes further west than Tex
GILLOM AND JACKSON
Now is the time of year for
the All-American teams if
come out. Such stars as Davis,
Blanchard, Trippi, Connors,
Agase, Foldberg etc. all will

be honored. Now what about;
Horace Gillom and Levi Jack-!

son, two stars and All-Americans if there ave any? Well,
Gillom made all coast end, atong >with Baldwin ~of UCLA,
but unfortunately Nevada. is not
a name school. As for Jackson,
he made all Ivy League honors,
but none of th: lvy Laegue;
schocls _ outside
Coinell, seem to be recognized
in Ail American ratings. Then

very stiff. However,

first-year stars. have two. or

~of Penn and'

the Yale sckedule wasn't;
these two!

groes to play in the Orange
Bowl classic on December 7 in
ampa, Fla., it was announced
here last Friday. Participation
~in this gridiron classic will be
| the first post- grid season con| test in which ithe Pennsylvania
Lions have engaged the Florida
a in past years.

Men Beware!

~Weaker Sex Now
Fighting Bulls;

News cumxs from Havana,
Cuba, thai as special attraction
for tour~sts, -women will participate ~in bull fights held in
[the Cuban city this winter.

Twenty-five girls from Mexico, herwlded as expert bullfighters will take part in the
15 fights to be held between
Dec. 15 ard Feb. 15.

When the women wio have
been afraid. of mice, now enter
ithe ring tc fight bulls, it is
{time for the men to sit up and
take notice.

more yéars left, and no matter
who they play, or haw much
prestige his school carries, they
will kave to be recognized.

Joe Louis Has Thanksgiving
Dinner with Marva and Jacqueline

CHICAGO ~ ANP ~ Enroute

Mexico, was enroute to New

from Los Angeles to New York, | York to play host at his new

~Louig stopped over here

Thanksgiving day to join his

Joe

oX-W fe Marva,

and their 3 year
old ~ daughter
Jacqueline in:
holiday dinrrer.
Louis who has
just | recently
concluded
exhibition

an

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| Harlem restaurant for the next
j two or three weeks.

His next start will be a 10 -
{| round exhibition in Mexico City

Dec. 26 or Jan. 1, against Kid
Hermosillo. As for the ~title defense if a suitable challenger
can be found, they will meet
in June, he said.

Commenting on his visit with
the family, Joe said it was an

anmual event and did not indicate a- reconciliation.

in Honolulu ahd

itis: predicted that 18]

has accepted an invitation from

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BEATING THE GUN

By ALVIN MOSES
ee KNOWN BILLIARD FACTS

NEW. YORK~(ANP)~A FEW DAYS AGO, the first
colored pocket-billiard.player to defeat Ralph Greenleaf, many-.
times world champion at the 14.1 game, died in a New York
hospital, almost lost in the busy work-a-day world we live in.

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~Chicago~ Foots. His friend and employer, Yank, exbaseball
player with the Bacharach Giants of many years ago, was in.
Florida and~'at~ press time... No complete arrangements had
been imdde for Féots~ burial i in a plot other than potter~ s field.

JAMES EVANS LOSES FRIEND

Today, George (Rotation Slim) Hairston, Williamston,
W.Va., and more recently Philadelphia, is the ranking pocket
billis; viet of color. The finest player i ever saw, a man. who
coulu have ~~passed~~ fora white player quite easily, was James.
Evans,; a Louisvilie produc From 1919-until 1935; no colored -
player compared. with ben in all-around excellence. He: pos- -
sessed a competitive spirit second to. none, and the outstanding::
white champions like Rudolph, Greenleaf, Ponzi, Mosconi, etc.,.
feared and. respected him as they did no other contemporary
opponent.. ye

During the past tho weeks, Evans~ lifelong friend kngwn
simply as ~Rooster,~ of Detroit, also passed away. It is: reputed that Rooster left several hundred thousand dollars, but
we do not know if he remembered | Eyans | in his last will, and
testament.

MAJOR HARRIS, _TABLE MARVEL

Seldom does one: faid a colored craftsman: able:to de the:

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amazing things around ~a pool or billiard table as does Major ~

Leigh Harris. Harris is a living example of what a,natural aptitude and hard work can:produce in any of us. Not only does:
the take a table apart doctoring its needs in expert fashion, one ~
has but to watch him cht an~ ~fit: a choth ~top fo fally siprdndate: |
his true artistry. ~ -

~ Dating back to the days when~ Ernest Hutchinson opertptedl
the finest. billiard and bowling academy Harlem has
~known, located at. 144th Street and Lenox Avenue, Harris has,serviced the best houses in this and other sections of New York
City.~ He was taught his art by Mike Cohen, well-known Harlemite, in 1923 and, has worked at it every single day (many
Sundays included) up to the present. Some of his clients and

__| friends were, Pope Deming;:.Joe. Tanner of Nocturne Lodge~
~743, AI Smith, Pete. Burney3, Henty, Winn and others.:

| COLORFUL SPORTS FIGURE

As a result of his work and employment in various promi
nent rooms in midtown New York, Harris grew to know many..

billiard immortals. -Among them were Arthur Church (deceased), Joe Cosgrove, later an important ~YMCA official; Champion Frank Taberski~ of Schnectady, N.Y., Bob Cannefax, the

three-cushion genius; Willie Hoppe, perrenial Balkline champ- ~

ion and also champion at three cushions; Detroit Slim, another colored player of great ~promise, and his lifelong friend. Georgie Hairston, the West Virginia sensation of the maize
andl. green.

ATTENDED A. and T. COLLEGE

Born. in Pia char Harris attended A. & T. College,
Greensboro, N.C.

He was a student there from 1921-23, his pee subjects being chemistry, psychology and mathematics. He was
popular with the student body, and was a rugged opponent |
with boxing gloves. After his elementary school days in Connecticut, Major learned how to play pool to the point where
he became a local champion in his town. He toured the west
playing pool for a year, returning east to run into. ~Boston
Kid,~ one of the good players of 20 odd years ago. ~

Boston Kid whipped Harris with ~the rasuit (that the;
table-repair industry pained a workman unsurpassed ~the.
best white. mechanics ~of the land<in his chosen field o work ~
He went into his own business repairing tables for owners of
his own race as well as wealthy room owners in and aroynd New ~
York proper. For 20 years he was gainfully employed by the
Krug Billiard Company, leaving to enter his own business with
the friendliest sort of relationships. He once worked for that
fabulous figure of the gambling world~Arnold Rothstein, and
here he again met and saw the men who made the newspaper
headlines for one reason or the other.

Yes, Major Leigh ~Hafris is an oddity in that he operates
almost exclusively in a field formerly reserved for white craftsmen. He tells me that he has~a revolutionary plan that make

~ | billiard tables more practical and expects to have the financial

backing for his idea during the early party of 1947.
Long John Woodruff May
Coach Jamaica Olympic Team

* KINGSTON, Jamaica ~ ANP! Jamaica if coached by an. exThe Internationally famous half} pert like Woodruff.

miler ahd ~800 meter runner,| The track star is the holder
Johnny Woodruff, may get ajof the National Collegiate. and
chance to coach the Jamaica} National Amateur Athletic. untrack artd field team for ~Bar-jion~s 800-metre TYecord the
ramquilla Olympic games, it was; world~s indoor, record for the
learned here last week. {half mile, and- the -winner. of

~ever ~

tactege

~According to G. M. DaCosta,~
president of the Jamaica Amateur Athletic association, during
an executive meeting of the
group recently, a letter had
been received from Woodruff
seeking the coaching position.
The letter stated that the suggestion came from Emil Vor
Elling New York university
track and field coach, who had
visited the island earlier. with

the American team, and thought

the world's 800 metre championship in the Berlin. Olympic
games in 1936. The 31 year old
6 feet, 4 inches athlete. was
born in Pennsylvania and educated at the University of Pittsburgh where,
ceived his B. A. degree. Fol
lowing the receipt of an M. A.degree from New York univer-'
sity in 40, Woodruff enlisted.

in the U.-S. army, amd was dis
charged this year. He is mar-.
prospects would be good for ried and has a young daughter. >

in 1939, he re
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