Flint Spokesman [Volume: 1, Issue: 46]

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1947,

DON KINDRED, Tees~
Heavyweight Wrestling champion of the World, meets the
Canadian champion, Pat Flanagan, Monday night, Feb. 3,

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ONeil Wins
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~Eddie O~Neil, colorful welterweight encountered quite a bit

of trouble on disposing of New

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dens last Tuesday night by finally putting him down for the
final count in the fading ~seconds of the final round.

OQ: Y Neil, who hails from Arkansas, got his start at boxing while

serving in the army in North
Africa, A great future is predicted for this. new find of
Scotty Montieth and Al DeNapoli.

Other fight results:: Talmadge

Bussey kayoed Nathan Bridges;
Jackie Thompson decisioned Ray
Richard; Paul Darby decisioned Bobby Dawn; Joe La Scala
drew with The Cuban Flash;
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~WAYNE UNIVERSITY. Among the. Midwest Collegiate stars who will compete in
the Michigan AAU indoor track
championship at Ann | Arbor
Saturday will be a representative team from Wayne University., Lorenzo Wright, Adam
Houghton, Cleo Caldwetl and
Bob Wingo are see thos2
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Stellar Buddy Young, versatile Illinois track and football
man, who intended toa turn pro
in an All-Star game, found the
whole affair was cancelled.

The reason for this cancellation of the All-Star game was
due to the players demanding
a higher salary. As a result of
this turn about in affairs Young
~along with the rest of the
hopefvi football stars have been
seriously disappointed. _

It has been rumored that
Young will return to Chieago
in search of work.

Veteran Boxer

Wins Draw With

Lee Savold

ST, LOUIS ~ ANP ~ Jim
Richie, veterar local light heavy

weight, held Lee Savold, Paterson,...N. J... to: a dtaw ina
10-rond bout there last - week

at the Auditorium.
Both fighters were active for
the first round, Richie, who

weighed 16 1-2 pounds less than:

Savold, utilized his lighter
weight to get advantage by moving. his greater. weight and
strength to tie up Jim ir clinches. Richie~s right eye. was
badly damaged by one of Lée~s
left hooks early in the fight.

After the fifth rownd, the
action slowed considerably, Savold appeared to have an edge
in each of the last fgur rounds.
He rocked Richie with a left
to the head, then brought up a
powerful right uppercut to Jim's
body that seemed to lift the local fighter off the floor. Savold
failed to follow up this advanrrtage apparently thinking he had
a suffiently safe mangin to win
the fight,

Lee express his displeasure
with the draw verdict by saying
he thought he had eight of the
10 rounds won. ~~But that guy
can rur taster than Conn,~~ he
added. Gene Farrell, one ~judge,
voted 53 to 47 for Savold; the
other, Al Graff, marked 53 to
47 for Richie, and the referee,
Ray Palmer, called it 90-50.

Savold, who wéighed 193 1-2
to Richie's 177, experienced
Jim~s feeling when he fought
Joe Maxim here recently. Jim
and ringsiders thought Maxim
had lost, but the judges and referee thought the match was.a
Crew,

Ask New
Coach Free

From Bias

BERKLEY, Cal. ~ANI
A request that freedom from
racial bias be one of the qualifications required of the new
footkall coach at the University
of California has been forwarded to th eexecutive committee
andDein Brutus Hamilton by
the student cabinet of the University YMCA, It was also urg
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that {he university~s <- athletic
schedule include 1. ins~ tution
|v hose racial poses might
orave Cetrimental o> embarrassing to ~sy indiv.dual connected |
Wala ccompei:ng California
teams.

~Tler High
_oasts to
~are Victories

Miller High basketball quintet, captained by Samm Gee,
racked up its sixth straight win
in basketball recamtly, There
sceirs little doubt that tne MilTrojans who were runnerup um the city basketball finals
Inst vear will again get a play
af~ berth, and with Coach Robinson~s newly-deviseil strate3y7
aitnex the title they lost by two
poats and closing minutes of
the game.

MILLER STAR IN SHTPUT

Charles Fortville, former city
shotput champion while at Miller High School who made history and the Shotput while a
Freshman at the University of
Michigan will be counted on for
2 ncw record.. Fonville has already bettered
the mark of Bill Watson, natiovally known shotput ace of
Michigan.

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Detroit for Non-Title Bout

PHILADELPHia ~ ANP ~
With a 6 round TKO over Eddie
Giosa under his belt, lightweight champ Bob Montgomery
prepared to shove off this week
for Detroit wher2 he will go
into training for a 19 round nontitle bout with Tory Pellore
1~xt Friday sight. oe

Making his last ~ppearanc?
b<fore his, home town fans, tlre
Eobcat after losing the first
and second rounds to.Giosa firally started warming up in the
third and opened a cut over his
cpponent~s left. eye. The next
iwo saw him going to work.n
earnest and wher the bell rang
for the sixth round ~= Giosa~s
handlers and the athletic commission~s physician refused io
let him answer it and the Bobcat had supressed another threat
to his crowm before 8,000 spectators at the Indoor arena here.

Backing in his old maulihg,
bruising and bobbing and weaving style, Montgomery will be
meeting Pellone for the second
time as he already holds a 10
round decision over him. Last
March in Madison Square Garden Montgomery administered
such a body beating to the faststepping puncher that Pellone
took almost three months to recover from it.

After Detroit he moves on to
Los Angeles fo ra February 25
meeting with Joey Barnum;
Jesse Flores at San Francisco
on March 14 and then a probable match. with Frank Fernandez in Honolulu, Already Joe
Gramby, his pilot, is working
on a championship match for
sometime in July ir Shibe park
here with Ike Williams, who is
NBA crown holder, when Montgomery returns. east in May.

Dixie Walker, Dodger Outfielder,
Evasive About Jackie Robinson:

~NEW YORK~ ANP ~ Dixie
Walker, the Dodgers~ slugging
outfielder ~rom Alabama is still
hedgirrg on the questioh about
hew he feels toward Jackie Robinson. When the question - was
put to him last week, Dixie replied ~*~Everybody asks~me what
what about Robinson. I don~t

{know why, After all, Duracher
picks the ball club. I'm just one
of the guys taking orders from
him,~

Walker was one of those who
objected originally to the presence of' a Negro player on the
Brooklyn team.

Phil Muscato To Meet Bill

Peterson, Feb. 4th,

Next Tuesday Phil Muscato,
fresh from his recent win over
Lee Oma, will fight Bill Peterson, sensational Chicago heavy.
weight. In meeting Peterson,
Phil will be trying to stretch
his winning streak so that ~in
the near future he will be in
line for some fights with the

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top ranking hqavyweightse in
the country.

Jack Singer is also séeking
opponents for
iman, and Cyclone Williams.
As usual there will be some all
star preliminary bouts. Muscato is in top shape and hopes to

add Peterson to his KO list. ~'

BUSINESS FACTS

SALES TRAINING
FOR PROGRESSS

Every business man. or woman strives to so-conduct his or
her business as to insure continuous progress,

Foremost in such am undertaking is the proper training of
employes, Responsible sales
forces paramount in the progress of a business cannot be developed through a hit or miss
program. Their development
must be based uport a well defined plan.

Such a plan divided into five
points is herewith given: 1. Selection of personnel; 2. Stere
policy; 3. Stere system; 4. Salesmanship; 5. Specialized trainimg.

Selection of Personnel: When
filling a new position, as many
applicants as possible should, be
interviewed. The qualifications
of each should be carefully evaluated and sometimes~ there
should be two or more interviews with each applicant before a choice is made.

Stere policy and operation:
Authorities agree that the most
important time in developing a
new employe is the first~ day.
They all have the same ambitions and desires; that being to
make good. Therefore, or the
first day you should provide
them with inspiration. This can
best be done by giving them.a
personal word history of the
business including your early
experience and success.

You. should tell them also, im
detail, about the entire store
policy and operations, impressing upon the employe that the
fundamental policy
iness -has remained the same
since its inceptior and that it
is his responsibility to: continue
this policy. It should be further
pointed out to him that his op
~| portunity and security of em
ployment will increase steadily as
he demonstrates his ability to
presertt intelligently the store or

office policy to old ~~ new

customers alike. |

It is. further sccibiaee that
in the first day of training you
give the employe a_ thorough
explanation and demonstration
of the operation~ of your store
system, For ar example, you

High Schools will assist U. of M.
in victory.

of the bus- }:

should devote a minimum of
one hour demonstrating customer approach, efficient, intelligent, and tactful serving of the
customer, summarization of the
transaction, recording the sales,
wrapping the package, returning to the customer and expressing appreciation. Sach a~ procedure is vital in the building of a
loyal, courteous. and aggressive
employe. ~

Upon the completiom of the
above demonstration it is advisable that you next have the employe completely handle a similar transaction. This may sound
elementary, but if you are to
have a system that works successfully, you must ~start with
the basic elements of a sound
system.

Training never ceases: A part
of a sales training, there should
be conducted evenings sales
meetings at regular intervals
featuring new merchandise ard
new sales programs. ~Give actual demonstration of the best
methods of presenting and selling the merchardise, Advantage
should be taken if factory and
specialty salesman, through inviting them to. present short
sales talks to your salés force.
Items of. educational sales interest should be made available to
aid the employes in their selftraining. programs,

ploye will show some. qualifications which should give you the
lead for. specialized training
such as store management, department mariagement, advertising, sales. promotion, ete.
The time amd. effort ~devoted
to such a training program will
be returned.a hundred fold as
y'o ur. employes develop
and become able to handle with
complete satisfaction the hundreds of detailed matters that
make up a successful business.

Poultry Warning. When feed- consumption in the
poultry flock. drops, a drop in egg
production soon follows. Starting
counter measures to keep feed consumption high as soon as intake begins to drop may ward off a drop in
production. Use of lights and feeding wet mash or pellets have been
found to be effective in maintaining
high feed consumption and good production.. | PRORNOUNCED OKAY TO BOX

Johnny Chat-|
-ARNOLD SUGGESTION ACTED UPON

NEW YORK ~ ANP ~ In a special editorial last week,
we suggested that state boxing officials order an eye examination of Billy Arnold, Philadelphia fighter, to quiet ugly rumors
about his eyes.

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The hard punching youngster who Riles Danny Rosati, local Italian, one day after our press déandline in the ~Madison
Square Garden ring, was sent to the Manhattan Eye ~and Ea:
hospital on Monday, for a complete eye examination by the 20
Century Boxing club bigwigs. This we consider ~a smart and
timely move and it will be recalled that we have suggested this
right along following the Daily Mirror expose by Dan Parker,
sports editor of the New York tabloid.

This:is.what Dr. F.C. Keil of that hospitél told newsmen:
~The fighter has 20-20 plus vision in the right eye and 20-20
minu? in the left. There is a central posterior cataract incipient
in cha-acter, in the left eye, probably congential in origin.

~In view of the fact that no retinal damage is seen, it is not
felt that engaging in professional boxing should ~ be of any
gre's ler risk to his eyes than to those of any other normal individual.~

The Wills hospital, Philadelphia, had reported we year
ago that Arnold had a:traumatic catatact and had called there.

complaining of failing vision. Fear to Dn Parker, ~" Ar~ os this to sdy =: den~ t get ~hit much in the eyes anywiay. Ali my family
has cetaracts.;~ So; readers, suppose you ~ the facts yourselves.,:

BRANCH RICKEY SPEAKS: STRANGELY -, teste i chineun continues. to push all other, apont news~ to

ihe: sidelines these days. Breaking his long silence with, respect -
to Robinson~s racial origin being any. bar to becoming a Brook
~lyn Dodger, he chatted with Daily News writer Joseph Trimble
| at great.length on Monday:4an.. ~3...

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Admitting there would be some ticklish moments connect-ed with~ the~recial question, ~dang ~ further defertding ~ himself.
against any bias Because the Negro infielder was not a4dvanced
to the Dodger roster after withing ~the [NT batting crown last
season, Rickey was~ quite vocal, to put it mildly. Said the Mahatma: ~I want the boy to have ~a fair chance to make good, ~On
thé matter of Montreal-Brooklyn spring season training plané~
Robinsén~s~ presence~ determining the plans to some bas a

Rickey said:

~Y want him to play sane the Dodgers as dune ae as ~oe.
sible. Fact is | don~t want to force him on Dodger players~and I
would prefer to ~allow the situation~ to proceed along a natural
course. By that | mean if the Brooklyn ball players see Jackie is
good enough to make the team and that the manager lalso thinks
he is, then they will come to accept him~of heir own accord."

FUTURE, UP TO BROOKLYN PLAYERS

Joe Trimble is known to the craft as a ~right guy~ which
out of the siangy vernacular means an American who believes
all of us ~should have equal rights under the constitution regardless of color or religious beliefs.~So' the matter of Clay Hopper. $
attitude came up on the agenda. Contrary to general and popular belief, Hopper, Montreal Manager, did not care for Jackie
at the outset. According to Trimble~s report Robinson's presen- ~

ce was born by Hopper like a case of mumps.:

As the training finished arid the league race got underway,

the Mississippi-born Hopper grew quite fond of the colored: infielder. Late in the season, when the Royals had a tough game
in Baltimore, Robinson went out of the lineup ~_ an injury
which was expected to take a week to heal.

Speaking of this incident in his powwow with Rickey,
Trimble related this little known tale: ~The other players ask- _
ed Hopper if he was going to return ~Robbie to the linep in this |
crucical game. Hopper agreed to if the player was willigg, to
take the chance. Jackie was, land plexed seven innings before
being forced to quit. es

DIXIE WALKER, DUROCHER, PUZZLING ~

Harlem baseball fans read every line about their idol.Robin- |
son with becoming fairness 4nd interest. They know what it~
means to carry around on broad; or slumped shoulders that notso-mythical ~ ~~black man~s burden.~~ Many of them talk to:me ~..
clay after day firing away at me with questions concerning the:
bias or non-bias of Dodgers like Dixie Walker, Pistol Pete Reis-:,
er, and the hot-tempered manager, Leo (The Lip) Durocher.;

i unfailingly tell them that their guess is as gaod as mine
any diay. We all remember, after a bit of research, what Brook- *
lyn's most idolized player, Dixie Walker, had to say upon~
hearing that Jackie had been signed to a Montreal contract over~
a year'ago. We quote Walker verbatim here again: 6s.

_~~ It's all right with me as long as he isn't on my team. 5
native of Birmingham. the city that produced the crack Birminzham Black Barons of the Negro baseball leagues, Dixie has~ fail
~With such a program the em~4

ed to change his attitude towards Negro players after a dozen
years of ball on big time. So im the words of Branch Rickey! the
men responsible for giving: star colored players like Robinson,
Campanella, Wright, Donald Newcombe, etc., the chance~ organized baseball denied them since George Stovey~s rise ~back
in the gaslight 80's says the players will determine his final statu

POT ROURRI ees kid

all sincerity want'to dk baseball fans this in- light ~of
at.I have discussed tabove. Do you still think that trail blazers
like Jackie Robinson in any field, sports, clergy, politics, labor,
etc., have a bed ~of roses? Well, I do not. A fine looking boy,
identical in color as was threeply-champion Henry Armstro

is the new world~s bantamweight king, Harold Dade, product~ of
Chicago's CYO. club setup, who recently scored a fistic upset by
whipping classey Manuel Ortiz, coast Mexican, in a sensational
15 round title fray.: ~.
Nat Holman offered to punch in the nose of Everett Shelton, University of Wyoming basketball coach, for the latter's
Jewith-Negro utterances from the sidelines in a recent Madison
Square Garden cage tilt in which CCNY, an interracial quintet,
figured. The shame of it all-is that Wyoming U. has seen fit to -
clear Shelton of all charges, now requesting that, Holman he
disciplined for the counter-abusive language he uttered,

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Teddy Randolph, the lad who made such nice showi
against Joe Louis when the Bomber trained for the, late
Conn fiasco, failed to punch-often enough in his bout against
the colorful Cuban heavy, Omelio Agramonte, in a 1 0-rounder
at the St. Nicholas ~arena Monday evening. Rev. John es Lge
St. Martin's Episcopal church, is the new prexy of the Nati
Negro Baseball league; few of the men in the street like the.appointment: I first heard of Rev. Johnson when he whs capiain
of the Columbia university basketball team many years ago;
later, in the "30's I served for four years on the New York Board
of education as did Ald. Moore and Johnson. I still call him
Cheol and he answers ~Hya-Alvin.~