Flint Spokesman [Volume: 2, Issue: 2]

5 eae SIX

JACKIE. ROBINSON

LOOKS GOOD

AGAINST BROOKLYN

DODGERS

BALBOA, Canal Zone ~ ANP!

is
so it

~That man Jackie Robinson
just a natural athlete, or
looks.

The Montreal Riyal met their
parent club, the Brooklyn Dodgers, in a spring training camp
game here last week, and Jackie

was in the lineup as first sacker..:

That would be all of it, but Jackie proved to be a real standout
in his first appearance of the

spring against the club h~ hopes.

to make,

Whether it was a fluke o1
whether the Dodgers were not in
tip-top shape, still Robinson
showed up in good in the meeting. During the practice game,
he slammed out two effective hits
_ and performed excellent infield
_ work around first base.

Best defensive work was a
knotty situation perpetrated by
Royals~ teammate Chet Kehn.
Carl Furillo slammed a liner thru
the pitcher~s box which glanced
off Kehn~s gtove. Chet chased

|

it and delivered a throw while |

off balance. The ball was low and
to Jackie~s left ~-a difficult play
~but he eal it in to put out
the runner.

At bat, he demonstrated a capacity for putting the ball just
out of reach for Dodgers outfielders. In the first, he took the best
which Pitsher Hal Gregg had to
offer and sent Outfielder Furillo
backing up against the fence to
retrieve a long drive which resulted. In the fourth, a solid single to center registered another
hit for the rookie, followed by a
powerful rifle shot to left in the
fifth. Gregg, the Dodgers~ hurler,
is said to be nearing top form and
having a tremendous sackful of
stuff for big-league batters.

The Dodgers own first sacker,

Ed Stevens, seemingly could not!
show better stuff than his oppo- |

sition. Struck out in the~ first
frame, he went on to four out in
the fourth to Robinson, and miss
a Royals~ curve in the sixth. Of
course, he was no worse than
any of his teammates,

Bankers Fire
Insurance Co.
Elects New Prexv

DURHAM, N.C.~ (ANP)~W.
J. Kennedy, Jr., was elected to
succeed 89-year -old W. G. Pear
Capital Building
Has One Negro

Elevator Operator

WASHINGTON~(ANP)-~John
Sherman is the only Negro ele
THE FLINT SPOKESMAN

Negroes.

~Believes Dodgers
Will Sign
Jackie Robinson~

NEW YORK.~ (ANP; ~- The
Brcoklyn Dodgers nay upen the
dccr to Negroes in major league
baseball this year, according to
Dan Burley, leading sports writer for the New York Amsterdam
News and other Negro * papers.
Speaking ati the weekly TeaForum of the Catholic Interracial council, Mr. Burley outlined
the prospects of Jackie Robinson
for playing with the Dodgers
this season and predicted that
the New York Giants, Chicago
Cubs and other ciubs will follow Brooklyn~s lead in signing
Playing second base
with the Montreal Royals,
Brooklyn~s farm team last year,
Robinson led the league in hit
ting.

~Robinson~s ability as a ball
player is one reason I think he
will be given a tryout with the

Dodgers,~ Mr. Burley explained.
~The other is the stand of

PAU

Branch Rickey, Dodger president, on fair play and his desire
to ope:: baseball to everyone
who can play the game, regardless of coior. It isn~t necessary
to become involved with the
racial question to build a successful club. His only reasons
for trying to set a precedent in
this field is his feeling that it
is (Christian to. do. so.~

Characterizing Robinson as an
aggressive, smart, dependable
ball player who makes up whatever he lacks in knowledge in

Suit

sno teninaeetntniosiitaliel

BEATING THE GU

yes

y ALVIN MOSES ~

BROOKS BLASTS JACKS HANDLERS

NEW YORK. ~(ANP)~"~SATISFACTION~ | BROOKS
is a neme well known to boxing fans and race-track follow: -
ers. Some years ago he was a fighter around New York clubs,
later turning out to be a smart ring second and trainer of
topnotch battlers. Last week we received a blistering letter
from our friend of many years. standing. Brooks is, sore, as
hades at the crowd who manages: (mismanages) little Sidney
Walke:, known also as s BEAU, ex-lightweight boss, ~out of Ae

lanta.

MURDER~MURDER--MURDER a aa

h

Says Satisfaction: It was nothing short of pure- Denki
to send Beau Jack in there against Tony Janiro. [ was angry
enough to have written the D. A., asking him to: throw. the
guys in jail responsible for ruining the career: of one of:the
greatest Madison Square Garden ~box-office attractions in the

cap operation against such a

long history of New York. ching. an a ~

3

~Why was he sent ititd the ring~ $0 *so6n iL his aS

37.4

topnotch~ fighter, one~ ~whom

they knew would MOVE AROUND | and create - terrific
strain upon his. already injured knee?. J know, of no. morte
brutal case of absolute disregard. of.a: fighter's future ~or: his
physical condition than what~ Jack's management - is Builty: of.
They not only killed the ~golden goose~ ~who: laid~ fat-noneyeggs for all of them, they broke~ the heart of 7 a. ' dead-game
kid, one of the finest and, most pleasing the. ring |has ever
known. Let them. know how~ i feel, Alvin, you knownie, ~J
never pulled a punch in my entire hfe and I~m not~ pulliig

vator cp2rator in the Canitol sheer playing ability, the speak~son as president of the Bankers}, ||. ie dow besdasie oF: er also emphasized his deport-| any in this Beau Jack instance d. Ty bught~ to be ~jailed~ for
Fire Insurance. company last} 21) ~/2S- eee ~ ment both on and off the field.| what they did.~
week during the company~s an-| Kentucky State college and ~Few of us could stand the es _

nual meeting here. Kennedy had
served as vice president of the

firm since 1933, while Pearson |~

had headed Bankers Fire. Insurance company for the past 27
years.

New board of directors el dicted

the;
idea oi furthering his education
at Howard university. Sherman
is a native of Somerset, Ky., and
a war veteran. He was recently
appointed to this post by Senator

comes to Washington with

I; ATIVE BASIS:

ed unions, have

| AFRICANS FARM ON COOPER-,
Among the,
rmers of the Gold Coast, Brit. | ~*
sh West Africa, cooperative so-| +.
cieties and groups of them, calldeveloped great
speedy delivery for marketing.
'He attends monthly meetings
ee helps solve the society~s proms, and has a v in the election~ of a managing committee, to
handle the financial and business
side of his society. He also elects

~

te

port, At the end of last year it
had handled 6,419 tons of cocoa,
its iarmers had substituted $94,644 in share capital and its refsorv2 funds: totalled. $20,512. It
also acts as a branch of the Gold
Coast Cooperative bank, loaning

mental strain Robinson was subjected to last year,~ he declared. ~As the first Negro to play
in organized baseball, -he had to
carry -his race on his shoulders.
He put up with all kinds of

GHARLES~THE GREAT

510

-EZZARD CHARLES is the: fer Sones im reat ites
these spring. afternoons. On many ~sidés we are being éalled
a prophet of some sort of other,~ because of our recent piece,
that took Gus Lesrievich ~to task for. ~refusing to | fight the

BRINGS RESULTS
It PAYS to Advertise in This Paper. - oeeoes

oegs

ae se te ee

three game series. Highest score
for the Bamboola~s was Atkins
with twelve points and runner
up was Meyers with ten points.
Johnson of Paramount paced, his
team with eight points.

Sugar Rav Robinson has taken over the management of
Gene Burton, Negro lightweight
boxer who had made _ several

rite]. Applicants, will be s+lected an the. basis of education,
must be at least 18 years of age,
and must pass a written general
test, Those selected will receive
a total stipend of $752 for three
years, plus receiving quarters,
subsistence, laundry and medical
attention. Closing date for re
~physicists and engineers, in
grade P-1 at a salary of $2,644
a year. Written test plus education or experience is requi-ed.
First examination is scheduled
for April 23. Applications must
be received by the executive secretary of the examiners board,

convicted of murder last week
in connection with the fatal beating of Andy Turner, 13, Life imprisonment was ordered~ by
Judge J. L. Renfroe, who presided over the trial.

Young Turner~s bo0dy was
found nude and. bearing marks
from beating on the morning cf

a wy Ge) Pues, ss, | sake Sherman Cooper, Repvbli-! ly during the last few years. members to attend gene ral meet- | last year $18,724 to its farmers. aaa ar pe yetntapsinee: hae Cincinnati belter in preference to hard: hitting, Billy. Fox. We
ee Aes Balas aca | can from Kentucky, larmer-members- of the unions, | ings of the union and make de- |on short-term credit. his head. When he played in the| 2% not much on the envy side of life. However, we wish!~ ~thalt, & ~now numbering nine, produce | cisions on his behalf. The above photo shows top)_.: F 4: Luisine ld h tted | bei t the "Tied Bi

Loan association; J.. J. Hender- Dee cocoa,~ bananas, kopra,| The government of the British | left: Grading cocoa beans ready Little World cacases tops Louis- mains ate verti? = ~ Jimmy- ivins

son, of the North Carolina Mut- Use Feed for Heat itrus,: coffee, and other food,colony has a cooperative _ staff, |for export at Kumasi union. Top ville, the question arose of put-| Charles ringside as were Amsterdam News's Joe, Bostic, ~Pitss
0 ~on ainsi aoe J ceiigedoeg ae cold weather.and i crops, The largest union is in| but its duties an2 advisory. The | right:.A monthly general mceet- ting him in a jim crow park nd burgh Courier~s Ches (crack reporter) Washinton and. other.

Mack Seer ane nS pees, feed to keep waroe much of their | Kumasi, with a membership of | African farmer himself runs hi |ing of the union. All are farm- he hoes faced with complaints Of! fourth-estaters well known to me...; ie Laat
ec anics and Farmers bank, ~ over 2,000 farmers and 42 affili-| farm, his society and its union. |ers, representing themselves and Negroes who couldn't go to the 4 aM
Company insurance increased ated societies. Each farmer-| The Kumasi Cooperative union |their fellow farmers, Centre: The game. Through it all he conduct- REMINDS OLDSTERS OF~LANGFORD
36.4 per cent last year, a bulletin (1, member shares the benefits and| owns & modern ~building and |Kumasi stores and office build-|~2 himself as a gentleman and. revealed on March 3, but fire Give to the losses of his society and is re-;store.and serves as a centre to|ing. Bottom: Cocoa crops from continued to play ghampionship Despite Charles~ startling knockout of the cagey; Bivins,
_ losses increased 23.3 per cent sponsible individually for the! which the societies send their | smaller societies are unloaded for, baseball.~ the finest sneak puncher these es,.have.. la,
over 1945 éazm| RED CROSS NOW!. ee 7 ade ey Ps
er ~ 4eeB) be quality of his crops, and their | cocea beans tor weighing, check- | handling at the Kumasi union.~ Working against Robinson~s decades and a whale tof a fighter to boot, we oth:
eoctpa ease speengegnctpegeoc epee pepe tetpegec pte taeteceeneteteepetetotuoetet moti enaceeouasospobiossesn: ing, | grading, and packing for ex- | ANP. chances for the Brooklyn tryout,| ~good big man will whip a. good Jlittle man:~ ~!: ~ according to Mr. Burley, is ae urally, is not a little man so the argument lacks tall contes- i:
Cc. Bi EVERYTHING N SPORTS pressure on Rickey from other! Vergial highlights a N. Y. daily writer injected into~ his col-. ~. club owners who oppose break- aint pites anent iia de thi Z
si 4 By DOC FRAZIER | Jaekie Robinson will become a| iNg precedent and mixing. Op- Mites. rc puhwran i,;
oa $| Ezzard Charles, who-recently | Brooklyn Dodger regular. this | Position may also come pre ni While I staged (wit! 75 ~ others} a giant benefit for ~the
| fattened Jimmy Bivins in four*coming season. ~At this issue | Players, who may be unwilling|. S;:: ~. 1:.| immortal SAM LANGFORD I was f '
| rounds, has. been booked for a| Robinson is in training with to have this experiment tried in he N ie ge Rae Be have seen
+ | match with Archie- Moore in| Montreal in Havana, Cuba,| their midst. As another adverse Ja Nova Scotian fight when he ene Ae his best around 1910 -P R I WR T | RY GS > Cincinnati on April 28; this will] which also-is the spring train- factor, he mentioned the people~s| 1+. isangford at {70 pounds was a hit:e: of er and
+ be the second match between| ing camp of the Dodgers. There] Teversion to pre-war thought} joe louis propertions, Hard to swallow iha? lin a E
pe: ~ the two fighters, with Charles|is no doubting the hitting and| Patterns. but the boxing::world has fed it to~ us for the?) a:
e *, having won the first bout ~at | fielding ability of Robinson, who] | The - tecling of emit ana Be
Is Our Business! ~| Forbes Field. Charles -is the|led the International League equality develowed by a war more years and it ~ have real basis i in fact, an
+ ~number one contender for the] with a batting average of 349) had~ something to do with~ Rob- wonder it is that Ezzard Charles, ~the modern Jackth
WE PRINT ANYTHING ~| light heavyweight title held by|and has a defensive record of| inson~s getting a break in. 1946,~| killer~~ of fistiana, is dreaded by light-heavies as Wwéll-as ~ 5
= | Gus Lesnevich. only 11 errors. If Robinson he explained. ~The decline of i; Pie oe~ anes aie
~ Sugar Ray Robinson, welter-| should. play for~ ~Brooklyn the l'tnie unity since the wer ended ke MELIO BETTINA and others who constantly for

% MAGAZINES: weight champ, has been sched- area of ee i a may militate against his oppor-| 2 chance to be... ~atomized~ by the one and -onlySJOE

2 he sia Ae exer on Actey, Vauehn eee oe Me Sole tunity in 1947. I hope, though,| LOUIS BARROW, of Lafaycite, Ala. __Sir!

4 LETTERHEADS ~| May 26 in Cleve and against the y Vaush that he have made permanent eon y> 9 '

< ~ winner of Jimmy Doyle and} to play third and ~Pee Wee} gains that the lesson we learn- Charles will do well to ~clean up Lesnevich (President

~ ENVELOPES *| Danny Kapilon bout to be held| Reese~ at shortstop and Eddie} oq that people are not funda- + ~Hl

| on March 24. Robinson will re-| Stanky at Robinson's normal po-| mentally different will be not Truman, wi have to order Gus. to fignt him else the~ 175

& BUSINESS CARDS $ ceive a guarantee of $25,000 or ae ~ base, ~ se he lost. 1 base tay hopes. for the ~pound boss will not) and then on to the rest of Louis~ tor
~| an option of 40 percent of the|/!ind 1 ough going to step into millenium on an increase of
' oy aa: pit ies mentors. 4

z REASONABLE PRICES! | gate. the shoes of any one of these | tolerance in youngsters who are

3 ~ Frankie Palermo, manager of} ~Tack infielders. As to his} interested: in fair play first and, MELTIN~ POT DRIPPINGS

a $| Billy Fox, said ~Fox ~was over-| Chances of becoming a Dodger | paseball second.

a %| trained for his Lesnevich fight regular they appear to be good HERBIE McKENLEY, crack [llinois U. spaidatat abel

= $| and Fox almost broke his right} 1" theeopinion of this column. the man { called the fastest 300 and 440 aud racer-in track:

4 > hand in the third round. They ara ramergon 2.8 1 Th L k R:

* | are lining up bouts with. Johnny oe e OC er Jom history, came up with a second sterling~ performance over ~the,
* 'Colan. Fritzie Fitzpatrick, Tom-j F By TED EVANS past two weeks. The Jamaica, B: W. I|., athlete creat:. 4; ~ a

$ a esi ek a ya S a rs Pico ree ni prarriarts rind world~s (indoor) quarter mile record on Mar. 15, at ~the~ ili~

$l title; 1. ervice Exams Orr ce tate aa es | ee Chi he double-furl.

< title.::. Vikings. won ~thelr. first<~two s lech: relays in cago, negotiating t ie daouble- ~urlang,: Harold Dade, sepa voxer re- | Ar d games by scores of 34-25 and| in 47.9. A few nights earlier Herb had tied his own indoor
oe " cenily~ lost his bantamweight hnnounce 33-27. They lost their 3rd by a| mark of 48 flat: Then in the: 300 yd~ évent~ thé érack West.: 4 title to Manual Ortiz in Los WASHINGTON~(ANP)~ An-|score of 48-39; this game was y a

% | Angeles, by the smallest margin.| noynceme ing lost to the Buhl Center boys. In indian star burned up the boards with a 30:3 performance,;. uncements of the opening of

%| Referee awarded the bout to! four cxaminations for civil serv-| the Senior division the Juanto~s; fastest in Chicago histony. i i - bY eset er

- Artiz by one point, the two! ice appointments in Washington,| and the Westminister college _ fs ~_~

$ Ton sgt ae: bool Maryland and Virginia, were an- boys sat proved that they wi'l Way A a ich

~ in, Maceh, 19; ie Salhoorn | nounsed onitty (nies oe Cie t | Probably Rave ty vie ee Wor c d a-fracture, whith was" ditectly; Bs Social. Club winner of,the~ Alle- Pcartyice commission and the first game to Sewickly by a oman onvict résporisible for deatti: ~Exposure.: a ~ ghany Mountain AAU basket-| Board of U.S. Civil service ex-| Score of 23-21. It was a tough s and lacerations ~~were | ~onfribu-;: 5 ball championship extended] aniners~ for scientific and tech-| one to lose. Well that is the In Murder f tory causes, ore to~ ~testi| ee * their winning streak to 26/ nical personnel ~of the Potomac only thing of importance for mony. ||! ~. - straight games by defeating the) Riyor Naval command here last | this week. ges Of Youth Withessés said~ Mr Brown con- -

3.. nae &. es a of pa agg ae week: te e owt optantty whipped ce ~beat her
es; ' gjthe. Jatters ~home oor.: ~ ATLANTA ~ (ANP) ~ Mrs.| foster son. One ~witness said ~the: me. LO j 2S. S tT 2 by 3 2 r r 7
AN AD IN THIS PAPER. f Bamboo Scored a 38.20 vie emis Tor he pection wt aus-| _ y Geromize Our~ | 14a Mae Brown, of the rear of| woman wold beat, Kim with: $| tory to take the lead in their -,; ~, Ks dent nurse in St. Elizabeth hos- A DVER rISERS 343 Markham street, S.W., was] strap, Stick or ~anything ~ she,

could get her hands on, and ~that.
she just about starved him to
death. Another described one
beating where the victim~s hands
were tied above his. head to the
ceiling, An. object..resemblingsa
cue-stick, was used in the: wae
ing, it,-wag,stated,; jaoic: ~aud 2
The woman denied that the

~ ring appearances here. ceipt of applications is April 29.| Naval Research laboratory, February 4. An examinating pliy-} boy. was at. home. the. nightvhe. _
The question on the minds of| The U.S. Civil Service exam-| Washington; not later than} Siclan said an ~ ~ aa po to have reckinnaey
ere ee:: Ere. OTHE *; in OWse en 1~ 0 Yee
as e baseball fans today is whether| iners has.openings for chemuists,| April 4. * a wound at the base of the skull, fata it
arr. ~, 9 Ms sMestectestocton~ Be aeatoesoatod tele sloe oelee lee losios, ostealveteaeeteey aed ies;!
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