Flint Spokesman [Volume: 2, Issue: 5]

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THE FLINT SPOKESMAN; eae

SATURDAY, APRIL: 19,::1947

PAGE SIX

In Non-Title
Match May 16

NEW: YORK. ~ (CNS) ~ Recently restored to good standing by the New York State Boxing Commission, Ray Sugar Robinson has signed the dotted line
to meet George Abrams, a prominent. middleweight, May 16 at |
Madison Square Garden. A ten |
round non-title match, it will '
mark the first fistic encounter in
the Garden, following the circus departure.

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Sugar Ray is making a et
concessitn of six pounds to the
bout. George, who distinguished
himself by losing in a close decision to the French champion

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Marcel Cerdan, will be making |

his first trip to New York since
December.

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SUGAR RAY DEFiATS
FINAZZO IN FOURTH
KANSAS CITY. ~ (ANP) ~
Ray Robinson, the world~s welterweight champion, kayoed Eddie Finazzo in the fourth round
of their bout held here April]
8. Weighing 155, Robinson scored
technical knockout over
Finazzo, 160, in two minutes and
thirty seconds of the fourth
round of their scheduled ten.

PROMOTER FLIES TO
LONDON SEEKING.

FOE FOR JOE

~NEW YORK. ~ (CNS) ~ Nat
Rogus, promoter for the Twentieth Sporting Club, boarded the
Clipper Great Republic for London to sign up a foe for Joe
Louis June 26. Rogers will attend the Bruce Woodcock-Joe
Baksi heavyweight bout April
15 and try and sign up the winner despite both Woodcock~ and
Baksi~s denials that they wanted
~to meet the champion in two
months. When asked if he
thought Baksi or Woodcock: had
a chance to beat Louis, Nat replied, ~If Woodcock defeats
Baksi in a decisive manner he
has a good ehance of disposing
of Louis and the same goes for
Baksi. Age is a~ great factor.
Both are young and strong and
remember, Joe is now 31 years
old.~

Sharp Eyes

Eyes of some eagles and nawks
have eight times the visual acuity
of normal human eyes.

CAPT. HUBERT H. BYRON,
native of Bermuda, B. W. L.,
who recently left Tuskegee.
where he was in charge of
Veteran's facility, after spending last week in. New York
City as the guest of Miss Mattie Jean Johnson of 462 Convent Avenue, departed for
Bermuda where he will be attached to the Bermuda~ Base
Command of the U. S. Army.

' June, 1944, he was called to

~
~Capt. Byron, a naturalized
citizen of the U. S., entered
the U. S. Army four years
~ago on the Reserve list. In

active duty in the Dental Corps
and sent to Fort Benning, Ga.

A singer of merit, Capt.
Byron is single, excels at tennis and golf and likes all
sports.

LOS ANGELES. ~ (ANP)
Charging fraud in connection
with the New Year~s football
game that suffered from a miscarriage, Joe Louis obtained a
bench warrant last weck-for the
arrest of Promoter Harry Hall

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the form of a vacuum leveling tank: recently.Plaged_on. the market as

an accessory. The tank helps keep
windshield wipets operating normally under all-driving conditions

by maintaining constant vacuum to
the wiper motor.

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Joe Louis Sues for Return
Of Money on Stillborn Game

~for the return of $6,300 which

he claims he advanced to arvange the all-star game.

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NEW YORK.~(ANP)~BOBBY DOYLE and the writer go out on that well known limb again as. ~holy week slips
into the limbo of forgotten things.

RAY ROBINSON. who kayoed an ~unknown~ named
Wilson a fortnight ago in tuneup primes for the GEORGIE
ABRAMS Madison Square Garden joust, is sharper than a

would ~go to pot~ because of his unfortunate gabfest with
a colored and white newspaperman of the N: Y. Post out for
the ageless ~scoop~ solely, are in for a surprise we feel. It
is our guess that Ray will whip ~~spoiler~ Abrams decisively
and might do better than did Frenchman Marcel Cedan, and. knock Abrams for the long count as he a tough Levine.
Robinson, the winnah.:

THE BLACK YANKEES

The ~~wise guys,~ those lads who profess to know the
hidden, say GOTTLIEB, rich Philly white man, is the titular
head of 50 percent of the Semler outfit.. We contend that
FRANK FORBES is a real partner, not a ~fronting one~
implied. Also, the Yanks will have a crowd pleaser in
CLYDE PARRiS whom we say will be~-the NNL~s best
third-sacker = 1947.

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BUDDY YOUNG is in the headlines again. Coach of
Chicago's famed OLD TYMERS club, is is currently report~ed as being signed by Dan Topping, millionaire owner of the
N. Y. Yankess Football club of the All-America Football
conference, later to be shifted to the CKicago Rockets. We
predict that Claude Young, Illinois phenom, will get a better
$$$. break for himself if... he SIGNS FiRST, and talks
about it... LATER.

JERSEY JOE WALCOTT, 37-year-old Camden, N. J.,
heavyweight, has the inside track for a JOE LOUIS bout
next June 26, say the: gentry along fabulous ~Jacobs~ beach,~~
40 to 44th Sts. on Broadway. Well, we are not so sure
about this: Many angles enter into the argument. WalcottElmer Ray ~drew $97,000. Here we had two ranking colored
belters in an elimination affair. John Henry Lewis and Joe
Louis didn~t draw peanuts compared to what the 1947 ver
Miles, said Hall ~agreed to refund, the money in the event}
that he was unsuccessful in signing up the touchdown twins
from West Point, Felix Blanchard and Glenn~ Davis. Buddy
Young also was included among
the stars of the game.

Louis had three; counts against
Hall~-the twins did not show
up, the game was not played,
and, the money was not refunded.

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sion of the Brown Bomber and a white sacrificial- lamb would
usher into the money~ bags.:. Se-o-o-0, unless sentiment gets
break,~ it will be some opponent of Nordic lineage, we think.
Wouldn't be surprised if at long last, the Louis camp decided
to take~MELIO BETTINA, ex-GI, who is a southpaw clout
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its seldom achieved

duced to the Negro press in 1927, has just mailed me a copy
of his picture story that,~tops anything | have seen in the
sports field... It contains 400 drawings by Ted and is well
written with a flowery foreword from the pen of Dan Parker,
sports editor, N. Y. Daily Mirror. ~We predict that Carroll,
ex-first- lieutenant in the U. S. Air force now located at a
Sixth Ave. office, will hit the big money with this and other
releases that we feel will follow.

UNTIMELY ACCIDENTS happen ~every day. Seldom
it is that a man sliding into first base: as did burley Bruce
Edwards, Brooklyn catcher, lifts another straight up in the
air and tosses him on his back as Edwards did ex-football

Gille:te blue-blade at this writing. Those who figured Robbie| is

~| regular position on the basebali

TED CARROLL, author and cartoonist whom | intro
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By Webster Smith |
Well, its spring again and here
~The Sporting Spotlight,~ back
to focus its: beams. In spring a
young man~s fancy turns towards
love. Baseball, track, golf, tennis
and for some spring football prac.
tice.

At McKinley High School, Herman Cox is making a bid for a

team. Several other Negro youths
who are in spring football training will be available when football training is over Back again
on the track Squad we have, J
V. Clifford, record-breaking
sprinter who has negotiated the
one hundred yard dash in 9.8
~Clifford is a junior and still has
another year of competition in
the scholastic ranks. He will bear
wetching and is almost a cinch
to break his own record. Wa also
have Don Winn, who because of}m
Clifford has really not been fully appreciated. Wirn has sprinted
the distance in 10.2 sec.. and: will
undoubtedly improve. He is a sophomore and his teaming with
Clifford should give McKinley the
greatest one-two punch ever enjoved by any High Sehool.in the
sprints. Roy Hamilton,. who is at
ereont in Spring Football practice will be ase to give the
school an expérienced hurdler,
Hamilton, who is very speedy,
could easily be classed as a dash.

have him again next year.
On the football front we find

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SPORTS
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SPORTING SPOTLIGHT

J.| city league. It will operate this}

man. He is a junior and we'll;

See apeaioatale:

Without a doubt Ray should be
the top backfield man this fall. He
was regular left half on last}
year~s team and now that All-}
Ohio Ralph Pucci and: Pete Spera~
are gone, he will have to should-:
er the. brunt of the attack. Ken-}
ny Spaulding: should find himself}
next fall and develop into a top- |)
flight performer, Eli Lipkiris.
Bill and Bob Warren should~ all}
win berths on the squads.

The big question coabeentiaas i
team for the coming season is the;

year with the Douglas club. spon~
soring the team. The fact that the
Douglas Club. and. Wyatt Apex
have gotten under.:one~. banner
should give the Negro fangs:a-first:
class representative in the league}
this year. Players listed so far are+|~
as follows: Eddie Jewell who. will

man?ge the team as well ~4s eaten;!Jimmie Smith: and: Jasper Bark.
ley, catchers; John Rushin, Mor-'}:
ris Dubose, Jura Lee. (Bama)
McIntyre,..,._Phelbert (popeorn):,
Lawson, and Bob Clayton; pitchs}
ers: infielders. Jap Harris, Salat
Moody, Bob. Seymour,~.:Austirt!
Dave, Roy Snell, and Walt''Tarpley; outfielders Jim Meachent;}
Otis Goodman, Bill Lamar,~ Felt!
Hall and Earnie Turner. Manager | ~
Jewell says there will be Some |
switches involved in the outfield
and infield and wishes. to an-;nounce that any candidate is wel-.
come to tryout as all positions~ are
wide open.

Ray Hamilton again, this time
performing ~ at right half.

Well here~s wishing them a suc~
cessful season.:

By HUBERT H. WHITE

HONOLULU. ~ (ANP) ~ The
best teams of basketball players
-have: been thrown into the attack against the Globetrotters in
four different Hawaiian islands,
and all have gone down to
stinging defeats. Now the Hawaiian Stars have no intention of
trying to beat the visitors and
have joined in with them: in
putting on ~clown shows.~

At last Thursday night~s game
and show at the Civic auditorium, in which the visitors beat
the Occidentals Life Blue Devils by a score of 52-27: the local
boys almost stole the show.

The Globetrotters are in the
habit of making all the points

sensation JACKiE ROBINSON at Havanna April 5. Two
weeks ago, this prophecy channel stated:

~Robinson had better look out for ~his legs when and if
he makes the ~47 dodgers no matter what bag he is assigned
to.~ Last year, an April Police Gazette stated, Robinson was
purposely ~dusted off~ at the instigation of a certain Inter- |
national league manager who promiscd a new suit of clothes
to any hurler knocking, the stout- hearted and even-tempered |
colored boy down...

In the recent Bruee' Edwards accident, Robbie merely
came up smiling as usual placing no importance whatsoever
to the collision. In this respect, he reminds us of the Joe
Louis of other seasons who after a mighty victory modestly
~chanted via the radio: ~i guess I was lucky again tonight.~
We predict Robinson will successfully hit big league pitching,
~~dust-off-balls~~ to the contrary notwithstanding, accidents
like the Bdieard Durocher and Rickey give
him the green 1

eine; ete.) Ess.
ight.

BINGA DISMOND of 1946 vintage, was the greatest
quarter miler anybody ever saw. The passing of 31 years
finds HERBERT McKENLEY, product of the West Indies
matriculating at ~Illinois, sort of a- ~Super Dismond."~ We
predict that McKenley should win the ~48 Olympic crown in
that event but warn him to stay away nom ELMORE HARRIS at 600 and 660 yards.

NO CHAMPION. has ever been as generous as Joe Louis
Barrow, of. Lexington, Ala. The proof for this seemingly rash
statement is found in Louis's match with ponderous Abe
Simon before 18,220 boxing lovers at Madison Square Garden on March 27, 1942. On that occasion, LOUIS DEFENDED HIS PRIZED TiTLE FOR NOTHING. His end of the
$132, ste gate was exactly $64,000. The Brown Bomber
gave his~ full-check to the Army Relief fund, Maj.
Phillipson grateiuily accepting for the U. S. armed forces.

Dempsey has given a~fortune away.to friends, the legend
runs, and Louis ~s a coft touch in that connection also it
mignt be added. But put them all together, from John L.
Sullivan down to Jack Blackburn's prize- protege, Joe stands
out above~ the field as a disciple of: ~It is more blessed to,
give than to receive.~ We predict that before Louis retires,
he will donate his services to some cause that will benefit
~Negro youths,~tab this one in your book for future (not too
distant) referencc. |:

HOMER (Goose) CURRY, tempestuous leader of the

Philadelphia Stars of the National Negro league, talks as if

Gen}

needed in the first half and in
the second put on their sensational show~dribbling, passing,
and hiding the ball from the
island stars, to their disgust. The
Blue Devils hit upon the idea
of using Ken Nakamura, a five
footer and star, as asure, shot
footer and star, as. a sure~ shot

could. make certain. that the
balls they got would be dropped
through the net! The 5,000, spectators almost brought the house
down by laughing. The Trotters
looked on with amazement as

Harlem Globe Trotters Take |~
Eight Straight in Hawaii ~

Hawaiian basket so that Ken]

Nakamura~ deposited~ at: least
three balls thrown by his teammates.

lemites gave the~ Hawaii, AuStars a dirty*licking; tina~

of 50-31. It will be recalled that
the All-Stars -played. the~ Globe-#~
trotters in Chicago before ~a
crowd of 11,000.

Abe Saperstein, who. is serving as general manager, coach,
public; relations. ~xpert. and.
towel boy, is very proud of the!
job the boys are doing out: here.
~TI am convinced that this is the;
greatest team of basketball play~
ers ever assembled;~ he said in.
a conversation with your re-}
porter;

Several new. he aed. spedint
ties have been added -by the
Globetrotters at every.game
and Hawaii is pleased with) the
attitude of the players.

Nevertheless, some. of _ the
Harlemites ane, pretty tired of
playing every. other night and
will: be happy to: get home,.

Quite a few colored boys: have
been, winning boxing matches}
and golf around the islands; so
many of the Hawaiians are asking~ this question: ~What is it in}

do?~

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No Challenger For
Joe Walcott Heads

PATERSON, N..J.~(ANP)~
There is no worthwhile. challenger for the neavyweight title
held by Joe Louts, was the
opinion given by tic National
Boxing association here..Thursday, as it release! its regular
quarterly ratings of boxers. in.
all weight diwisions, ~

cided absence of logical contend-'
ers for Joe~s crown was made
very clear by Abe J. Greene;
NBA's president, who said philosophically,. ~the category. of
logical contenders is stil] vacant:

However, NBA lists~ several
outstanding boxers in that
weight division, top man of
which is Jersey Joe Walcott of
Camden. Further down the line,
about third place, is Elmer Fay,
of Florida.

In the lightweight class, Bol~

Montgomery. of Pennsylvania

The fact that there is: a de
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lost out to deknnt Bratton OF
Chicago as the leadirigi Hi dst
contender for the NBA. title-hel

by Ike Williams of New York.
Montgomery, is ~the New YorkPennsylvania recognized champ
ers: Jersey ~Joe Walcott, New
Florida, third place.

Light Heavyweight: Ezzard
Charlés, Ohio, only logical contendér for Champion Gus Lesnevich, New Jersey. Outstanding

first place; Archie Moore, Missouri, third place.

Welterweight: Champion: Ray
Robinson, New York. Tommy
Bell, second place outstanding

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Joe Louis, Michigan. Logical con-: i
tenders: None. Outstanding box- |~

Jersey, first place;.. Elmer Ray, | |

~boxers: Billy Fox, Pennsylvania, Q

the Quakers have the gonfalon in their vest pocket right now.
Admitting that the. Stars are strong with Barney Brown, Hank
Miller, McHenry, Raymond Robinson, Wilmer Harris, ~Al
_ (Apple) Wilmore; pitchers, and with good men right down

the line, our odds register links the N. Y. Cubans and Abe |~

and Effie Manley~s champion Newark Eagles to finish ahead
of the Ed Bolden bossed crew whom Curry manages.

Canton. sport fans is the baseball.) ~

J. K. HAYNES, steel.
the Louisiana,Colored..Teach-.
ers association.and: (principal...
of Lincoln High school of Ras f

Fa) fight, of Negro. teachers. ~for. Salaries: and equal; odueatiamet co

al, facilities: in Louisiana, He:.
wasiameng thase who promot. ~
ed,a $10-per-plafe banquet in.,,

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Howard. Fast; whose enbationss

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al ~Freedom ~Read~ and equally

sensational ~Citizen Tom Paine,~

two of the~ most. widely. dis- ~.

cussed: ~recent publications, and
Herman Shumlin, théatrical. producer, who brouglit ~The Last
to. ~the stage,~ featuring
rnest. Whitman, outstanding

score 'eolored:.actor, have: been forted

to put up bail.on charges, that...
~their group was party to a con- ~
spiracy to defraud ges eatin

committees. i)

The group known as the Joint fe
Anti-Fascist committee has as~:
its purpose the rehabilitation~ of~ ~*
Americans who fought~ Fraiico

in ~the Spanish | Civil ~war.
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CUSTOM
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many ~ but it justifies none. *
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bibéd opinions, but genicrally **. -
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