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NEGRO TAKES PLACE ON COLLEGE BOABD
Last Event-
KOTE: Th'i eloct'.on of O. J. Sutton to the board of tru tee of **n
tonlo union Junior college district, h.i , a« would tw expected,
spread newspaper editorial comment thnnil!h"Ut the nation. The ^Itonal
reprinted below, flm' .ppeared In the Palla. News. wlU. IU being re '^'l
in the Lavaca Coanty Tribune, a white eeml-weekly newspaper published
at Hallettavllle, Texaa.—Editor)
CIVIL rights get on to recognition and observance by what
happens at elections, on school hoards, in courts and jn
buses, elevators and on the sidewalks of everyday life. I res-
ident Truman or some other gentleman whose thinking is f'*fd
on the voting next November makes a big noise about civil
rights, and he gets a big headline. But the city of San Antonio
installs Q. J. Sutton on the board of directors of the San
Antonio union junior college—and nobody hears much about it.
The circumstances that G. J. Sutton is a Negro, that he
campaigned for the post in an election, that he got more votes
than his white predecessor on the board—and that white men
counted the votes, verified them and installed Director Sutton
in office—all this is the sort of happening which marks the
real progress of the Negro in the South.
Negroes are in the minority in San Antonio. G. J. Sutton |
never could have been chosen with Negro votes juune. lie j
simply had to be the sort of man, deep within his Negro skin,
that earned the respect of his fellow citizens. Evidently, too,
he is the sort of man who can contribute something to the
conduct of the junior college system of San Antonio
Negroes are entitled to a share in the direction of public
schools—not because they are Negroes, but because they are
taxpayers, because they are citizens and because they are
school patrons. That is "a proposition which a white man can
be brought to consider and accept without uproar, and a little I ;^rt'6o™n? w^Vn^'i^nw.
less compulsion will help a great deal in the adjustments which o"d.
whites have to make in their habits, in their thinking—and in ! ,n
their failure, sometimes, to think sympathetically and honestly
about the Negro's side of life and citizenship.
—Dallas News
(Continued from Page I.)
Saturday, automatically be cane
meet records, Lincoln of Oallaa hot-
footed Uie 440-yard relay In 46.1
seconds, and In the medley relay,
run for the flnsc lime over • half-
mile conrae (220. 110. 110, 4401.
Wheatley of Snn Antonio turned In
a bllsterlnE 1 minute, 41.1 necondi.
Anslinlte Upsets Oavls
Although Wendell Oavls, great
popular sprinter of Kemp high,
Bryan, hnd his revenge over Tom-
my Brady of Wheatley of Houston,
for a double upset defeat Davla
lmd suffered a week before. In
Houston, the Bryan flash was upset
the third time In his last fonr races,
when. In the '220. D. Henry of An-
derson high school of Austin, beat
him to the tape In 23 aeeonds flat.
Davis not only won the 100-yard
! event, but he set a record of 10
seconds flat running Into a very
high wind. Had conditions been
normal, he probably would have
done no worse thnn 0.7. Tommy
Brady. Wheatley, Houston, was sec-
ond; Erlck Kuykendall, Wheatley,
San Antonio, third, and Charles
Hull, Washington, Dallas, fourth.
In the 220, Henry was first,
Davis, second; Edwards, third, and
Kuykendall, fourth.
Summary
SHOT Pl'T— Itobert Kellev, Wheat-
lev, San Antonio, first, 45 feet, 5
inchrv Carl Krvln. Cole a. Corpus
Chrl*tl, aecond, 41 feet, 6 Inchea; Le-
r. \ M irrhnll, Wheatley, Houston,
third, 38 feet. Inches: J. D. Smith,
Washington, Dallas, fourth, J8 feet,
5 % Inch. „ ,
POLE V A U L T—C.eorjre Speed,
Wheat'ey, San Antonio, first, 10 feet,
4 Inches; J. Harrison, Washington,
Dallas, second. 10 feet. 1 Inch; Percy
Richmond. Wheatley, Houston, third,
10 feet: William Shelton. Corpus Chrls-
tl foMrt'i. 9 fwt. 11 Inches.
i DISCUS THRO W—Robert Kelley.
Wheatley, San Antonio, first. 138 feet,
2 Inches; Leroy Marshall, Wheatley,
Houston, second, 129 feet. 5 Inches;
^arl Frvln. Coir*. Corpus Chrlstl,
third. 123 feet. 7 Inches; J. D. Smith,
Washington. Dallas, fourth. 111 feet,
1 Inch. New record.
HIGH JI'MP—Albert Freeman,
Wheitley. San Antonio, first, 5 feet.
7 Inches: Don Nelson. Wheatlev, Hous-
ton, second. 5 feet. 4 inches: Joe Ker-
vin. Washington, Dallas, third. 5 feet,
3 inches: Leon Hayes. Lincoln, Dal-
las. fourth. f fret. 1 Inch.
120-HIC.H HURDLES—-Thoma# Ed
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B. W. Btrtfleld, 808 North Ms*
Rraonfei* •venue, (ompUlaaf to po-
lice that, Friday night, obi at Ms
plate glana window* wa
by KlUha Davla, 21. 117
•trtet, who hurled a bottle
It
Dnvls'a mother la aaM I
•greed to pay the damage*.
WOMAN BEATEN
Mrs. Agnes Simmons. 28,
narrlson street, waa severely
en, Sunday night, la aa ai—
at her home, allegedly with I
band, Isaac Simmons, a laldlt
wlioso Rddreu was listed aa tor.
Potomac.
Canada Lee on
Bill Stern •
Program, Tonight
Poor Foal
Shooting Costs
Rens' Title
P. V. Cops
(Continued from Page 3.)
W:iy the back utrrteh, on tho anchor
lap, it was Texas, Prairie View,
L: ngston an<l Gramblinz all clonely
l nnch*d. As this quartet rounded
the last turn and straightened out
for home, the Grambling nmaer
had moved np to second place close
on the heels of Texas' Shepherd,
but this was all she wrote. The
smooth gliding Texas meteor had
the pole position and the well
known difference, and turned on a
Wet bit more pressure with effort-
less ease to wtn by two yard*
"Miss P. V." Reipns
Winners of the various events
wore awarded trophies and a vivac-
ious smile by Misa Joyce Wilson.
onrvaceons peach-skin lovely who
occupied the honor scat on the an-
nouncer s slant! during the after-
noon finals. Miss Prairie View Is
u senior and Kngli&h major, and the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Char'es
Wilson of Somerville, Texas.
Lions Favored-
(Continued from Pag* 8.)
Hardlman, San Antonio, 1JV47.
Pole vault, 10 feet, 2 Inches, Web
ber, Bryan. 1947.
Discus throw, 112 feet, 6 Inches,
Kelley, San Antonio, 1947.
Shot pat, 40 feet, 6 inches, Golns,
San Antonio, 1947.
Mile relay, 3 minutes, 47 seconds,
Wheatley, San Antonio, 1947.
Sprint medJey, 4 minutes, 6 sec-
onds, WbemUey, Ban Antonio, 1947.
<!«a*rsnce RanrtJe, Wheatley,
Antonio. (Unqualified for Jump-
ing run.) Tlm# . lfl.5 seconds.
loo-YARD DASH—Wendell Davla,
Kemp, Bryan. flrnt; Thomas Rratly,
Wh.-;itlpv, Houston, second; K r I •• k
Kuykendall. Wheatlev. P.tti Antonio,
third: Ch;ir!es Hell, Washington, Dal-
las, fourth. Time, 10 seconds. New
record.
Ml LI? TTTN—Frneet Scott, Cole*,
Corpus Chrlstl, first: Venerable, Wnsh-
Inirton, D:«Ha , second: Carroll, Kemp.
Bryan, third: Aaron Walker, Wheat-
ley, San Antonio, fourth. Time. 4 min-
ute 49 1 seconds. New record.
BROAD JUMP—Samuel Moore,
Wheatley, San Antonio, first, 21 feet;
James Kalton, Wheatley Houston, sec-
ond, 1* feet, m Inches: Arterher. ,
I/ncoln, Dallas, third lfi feet. 2 Inches;
Wade. Coles. Corpus Christl, fourth,
18 feet. New record.
44ft-YARD DASH—Thaddlus John-
son, Wheatley. Houston, first; T^eon-
ard Moore. WheAtley, Ran Antonio,
second; Brown, Anderson, Austin,
third: Calloway, Lincoln. Dallas,
fourth. Time, 53.9 seconds.
200-YARD LOW HURDLES—'Thom-
m Edward®, Wheatley, Houston, first;
Dunn. Lincoln. Dallas, second; Govan,
Washington, Dallas, third; H. Payne,
Anderson, Austin, founh. Time, 27.1
seconds.
440-YARD RELAY—Lincoln. Dal-
las. first; Washlnirton, Dallas, sec-
ond; Anderson, Austin, thtrd; Wheat-
ley. San Antonio, fourth. Times, 41.1
Heconda. Nmw event; time mutcrmmtlcml-
By The Associated Negro
rillCAGO. III.—Canada La^
nolnl star of sUu?p and ureta,
will be eim«( artist aa Bill
Mern's "Sports NfwWeeJ," it
•u announred here laat weak.
The proKram. beuaed mr tha
NBC networh at 9:M a.mH
(ST. will tell of the varied and'
talented rareer of Lea.
It will tell of a violin eaneart
given by the artor in New
York's famous Aeolian hall, baw
Canada Lee beeame a Jidtejr
and rode a winner in the- Amer-
iran derby, and of his prixe-
fiebting career, in whieh he
foucht for the world's arelter-
wriglit eliampionship.
ly becomes record.
MEDLEY RELAY— WhesCey,
8a
By Ths Associated Negro
CniCAOO. 11L—Failure at tha
free throw line caused tho New
York Krmiissance eager* to lose
the title gntne of the world cham-
pionship basketball tournament at
thp cIiIcsko NtaiWum, Sunday night,
April 11 before 16.892 fans.
Ooorge Mlkan scored 40 points
as lil* Mlnnonpolla Inkers defeated
the liens, 75 to 71. Nsthanlei Cllf-
ton, former DuSahle blgb school
slur, scored 24 points to lose In his
dull with Mlknn for game scoring
honors and tournament point-mak-
ing leadership.
Agnlust Minneapolis, the Bens
could connect in only 15 out of 31
free shots. The Lakers mode IB out
of 22, the four point margin of vl«-
tory.
Corpus Principal-
(Contlnued from Pag. I.)
tlon of our "most rfntKtandlng citi-
zen." Our north, east, and western
Brothers practice this misnomer as
«ell as the south. But "the bronze
mayor" lilca should be discontinued.
Just as should the Itlnck Tigers
and Iiear.1. Just cull blm the "most
outstanding citizen" of the com-
munity. If It's going to be an animal
symbol for your team, get yonr
zoology if your animal vocabulary
is limited.
Well, here It Is again following
! the "white Jolks." Two or three
|months ago the big white city
schools met and organized a trlple-
A "big city league." True to oar
practice, tha three or four big high
schools among Ntfroea mat and
organised a black AAA big city
league. They dida't dare do It boa
tho alia of tho city stands rd, be-
cause there were thoae loft oat that
are larger and J oat as financially
able to support aay clasa of athlet-
ics that the Big "Black AAA'' are
capable of eupportlng.
Some of tbe left-oat cttlea1 facil-
ities compare Just aa favorable, and
In many casea, better than thoae of
the trlple-A.
Well, they will answer that "We
selected these schools with enroll-
ments of GOO or more.'* What has
this to do with it, if the leftoot
schools qualify.
lan't It wonderful that the great
Pepai-Cola company scholarship did
not say we will give these tests only
in the big trlple-A schools. If It
had, then Laurence C. Dally of
Temple, Texas, whose scholarship
waa the highest of all taking the
teat, would hare been deprived of
thla four-year scholarship. Our
athletics program has been con-
sistent, and well balanced and not
at tbe expense of odr literary and
technical training. During the war
period, when football teams were
bard hit and few ia,■amber, tbe
Houston high ochoola found It rath-
er difficult to get competition.
Therefore, to aid them la their phy-
alcal program, wa played each of
the three Houatoa high schools
yearly. Hive them check their earn*
records and you will find that at
least two of tbe triple A big city
schools with whom they are bow
organised failed to play them one
single game. That la cbaracterlatle
of aome people I know—use you do-
ing hard tlmea and la a period of
prosperity forget about those slen-
der days.
les, some of the finest city tea ma
In tbe state are left out—Port
Arthur, Corpua Chrlstl, Temple, j
Bryan, Wichita rails, Coralcana,
and possibly others.
The other argument against aome
of the smaller schools will be, "The
crowds are not large enough." Have
the schools turned commercial?
What happened to the chairmen of
the official districts? Do they bsve
a vote aa to whether the districts
should be so broken? If tkey are
finally divided, I shall be content
to mstch games only with teams
in my division. After all, the pro-
gram ia only for tbe development
of the youth and sot to fatten
pocket books.
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Antonio, first; Lincoln, Dallas! s«
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becomes mwt record.
220-YARD DASH—Henrjr, Andc
son, Austin, first; Wendell Dav
Kemp, Dryan, second; Thomas E<!
wards. Wheatley, Houston, thlr<l
Erick Kuvkenflall, Wheatley, San An-
tonio. fourth. Time, 21 seconds.
MILE RELAY—^Wheatley, Houstri.
first; Lincoln, Dallas, second; Was
Inptnn, Houston, third; Coles, Corr ^
Chrlstl, fourth. Time, S minutes, 416
seconds.
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