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tttlllAI, JULY 23, 1948
BAN ANTONIO flfSTEB
TAGE hike*
Nine Negro Lassies on :
11 - Woman Olympic T earn
By Tht AmliM Necro I'rua
DHOVIDENCE, R. 1—Thre® records wer« overshadowed In
* the course of the women's Olympic tryonts and Negro com-
petitors gained nine of the 11 places on the squad selected to
represent the United States in the Olympic games in England.
Selected on the squad were: Audrey Patterson, Tennessee
State college; Nell Jackson, Tuskegee institute; Bernice Rob-
inson, Chicago (Washington park); Theresa Manuel, Tuskegee;
Muhle Walker, Tuskpgco; Alice lilgh jump tllllat, drew the atten-
Coacliinan, Albany Slate college,
On.; Emma Read, Tennessee Slate;
Lillian YoUllf, Korrestville play-
ground, Chicago; Mae 1'nKKs, Po-
lice Athletic league, New York City.
The other two places were taken by
the two matrons who were ont-
(tamllng In the Milwaukee meet,
Frances Kaszuhskl of Cleveland and
Dorothy Hudson of Mundeleln, I1L
Easily the favorite of (lie crowd
In the meet was Tennessee State's
Audrey Patterson who won the IStO-
meter dash and placed second in
the 100 meters. Miss Patterson ran
beautiful races despite a poor start
In the 100. After her first victory,
which came In the -'00-meter trials,
the popular miss drew a round of
applause from the spectators each
time she passed the stands follow-
Inn a half dozen trial and final ef-
forts.
Second only to Miss Patterson In
rrowd appeal was Mable Walker
of Tuskegee, who won the 100 meters
with a tremendous driving effort
then was so overcome with hap-
piness at her win that she broke
down and cried right In the middle
of the track.
These two ran with such power,
atich determination, that the crowd
•osned to Join In the race with
them. Miss Walker Is holder of the
national 50-meter dash title by vir-
tue of a win last week In Milwaukee.
Alice Coachman, Albany State's
Hon of every spectator in the gather-
ing darkness as she surpassed the
American high Jump record and was
about to attempt to break the Olym-
pic record.
She decided not to try the mark
when the officials had to light
matches in order to set the bar In
place. Evidently the risk of Injury
from any miscalculation was too
great for the Albany star with the
Ulymplcs yet to come.
Ilcartbreaker of the day was the
failure of Tuskegee's Lillian Ptlrl-
foy in the 80-mcter hurdles. Miss
I'urlfoy broke on top In the first
trial heat and was going away at
the first hurdle, then she cleared
the third hurdle widening tier lead
call at every step and fell . . .
hard. Miss I'urlfoy came to her feet,
tried the fourth hurdle and gave
up. There was an audible groan
from the crowd as the hurdler fell,
eieiupliying the disappointment of
lsith the spectators and the competi-
tor.
The Tuskegee team, which won
the national title in Milwaukee,
proved Its superiority |jy gaining
three of the 11 places on the team.
Their only bit of team participation
for this meet was a medley relay
event, run against the New York
PAL. The Tuskcgeeans broke the
record set In 1929 fur the half-mile
distance with an official time of
1.54. (Records were not recognized
because this was not an AAU meet.)
Legion
Takes
Fighters
By D. JAY
Again. Monday night, American
litglon had to come from behind,
to keep their Alamo Athletic asso-
ciation Softball league record clear,
the legionnaires whipping Kelly
Field Fighters, 4-3. as the Fighters
attempted to stall nut a victory,
instead of playing for It
The night's other fracas saw Kel-
ly Field Bombers plastering a 14-0
■hutout on 8L Philip's junior col-
The Fighters had a big second ta-
ming, getting three runs on their
only hit of the game, two base en
twills, and two Tery. very costly
Leclon errors. That gave Ihe Kelly-
men a J-l advantngc, the Legion-
naires having tallied once in the
opening frnme.
The Fighters then tried to stall
their way to a win, but. In the third
inning, the legionnaires combined
two hits with an error and a hit
batsman to send three mcu luto the
promised land.
"Twig" Moore started for the
Legion, pitched two full Innings,
going out of the game with the score
against lilm, 1-3 although he had
given only one hit, liad walked
three, and strrKk out two. Sickle
Brown replaced lilm, retired six
men In order, in the two innings he
hurled, and gut credit for the vic-
JN Jackson, who started for the
Fighters, was waved to the show-
ers in the third Inning after A.
Thomas, first up, had singled, and
Jackson had lilt the next batter.
"Gotchy" White, with a pitched
ball. He gave three lilts, struck out
two. and walked three.
Snears, who relieved .Tackson,
walked one, gave one bit. The le-
gion's winning run was scored oft
Bitears, and the defeat Is given to
•%„p" Williams got two for two,
and half of the Legionnaires' four
ll't Bombrrs-St. Philip's
The Boinliers Just had too much
power for St. Philip's, although the
collegians' spotty defense helped
the llomlicr's cause considerably.
The Kelly men got three runs In
the first, one in the second, eight
in the third, and two in the fourth.
Fran Brady got a home run and
a double in four trips. Twice Ieroy
Cubit got triples, but, in trying to
■tretch them into homers, was
thrown out at the l'\"t0-"e
for three. Kelly colleetcd 10 M*-
Tennell, Kelly pitcher, allowed
three hits, walked two, struck out
nine, in four Innings.
in one-third of an Inning. Bul>-
bn" Mills. St. Philip's tosser, was
touched for two hits—a tr ple aud a
bo;jer—walked none, struck out
none. H. Smith relieved lilm, and,
Jn three and two-thirds Innings gave
right hits, lie walked two, struck
out three. Mills was the losing
liltclier. .
Bombers, Refug'o
Id Retain Game
With the San Antonio Bombers
hnv lug outscorcd the Refugio Oilers,
15-12, in a frce-liitting, free-scoring,
but nonetheless interesting, affray
at Itefuglo, the two teams are sched-
uled to meet In a return game, Sun-
day, at Brooksdale park.
With both teams boasting fast
fielding, spectacular aggregations,
packed with power, another Inter-
esting atruggle ^anticipated.
A roblc foot of solid bituminous
ieaCl, weighing about 81.25 pounds,
|f JJ tlmos as heavy as water.
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S. A. Offieitls Ass'a
To Meet Sunday
The San Antonio Officials as-
sociation will meet Sunday
afternoon, July 2,">. at 3 o'clock,
at the Alamo branch YMCA, at
3 o'clock, according to an an-
nouncement made this week.
Top matter on the agenda
will be relative to the August
meeting of the Southwest Of-
ficials association.
All officials, and those inter-
ested in officiating, are urged
to attend Sunday's meeting.
AM Softball
MSUX.TS
Friday Night
Kelly Field Fighters B, St. Philip's
Junior college 2.
American legion 4, Lackland
Warhawks 2.
Monday Night
American Legion 4, Kelly Field
Fighters 3.
Kelly Held Bombers 14, St. Phil-
ip's Junior college 0.
STANDINGS
Tram «• W. I. Pel.
American legion .... 8 8 0 1 -1100
Kelly Field BomtMra 9
]~u-klnmi Warhawks . 8
Kelly Flold Fighters .
Boys club 8
st. rhillp's lo
Walker's Business Ser. 12
SCHEDULE
Tonight—Friday, .Inly 23—8 P.M.
1 ju l.laiui Warhawks vs. Boys
club.
9:15 P.M.
I.ackland Warhawks vs. Kelly
Fillers.
Monday, July 2G— 8 P.M.
Boys club vs. St. Philip's.
9:15 P.M.
Kelly Bombers vs. Amcrlran Le-
gion.
Friday. July 30-8 P.M.
Ijiriiland Warhawks vs. Kelly
Fighters.
9:15 P.M.
Boys club vs. American legion.
Monday, August 2—8 P.M.
Boys club vs. American legion.
9:15 P.M.
Kelly Bombers vs. Lackland War-
hawks. _
Friday, August 6—8 P.M.
Kelly Bombers vs. Kelly Fighters.
9:15 P.M.
American Legion vs. St. Philip's.
$1100 MINUS $100
According to police, a one hun-
dred dollar bill was taken from a
wallet containing $1100 belonging
to Len Flowers, 225 ilobart, Mon-
day, July 12. Flowers said that he
| had left the wallet on n dresser for
several hours. A suspect was named.
SUIT STOLEN
During a few minutes that flcn-
derson Glass, proprietor of Real
tallora, 807 East Commerce Btrect,
wns out of the establishment, Fri-
day morning, about 8 o'clock, some-
one entered and stole a suit.
RADIO STOLEN
Robert Dorn, 1815 Burnett, com-
plained to police that sometime
Monday, July 12, someone entered
his home by use of a pass key and
took a portable radio.
Cincy Crescents, Frisco
Sea Lions to Play Here
TIE Cincinnati Crescents and the 8an Francisco Sea Lioni
will meet at Mission stadium, July 27, 28, at 8:15, in a Ne-
gro "big time" baseball series, according to Lorenza S. N. Cobb,
San Antonio promoter of Negro major league baseball.
An added attraction will be the appearance of "Little Sam-
my, the wonder boy," armless and legless youth who has been
taking the country by storm, touring with the Sea Lions, His
sulierb hitting and throwing of a
NBA Still
Rates Joe
Champion
Br Tht MnoelaUd Nasro Proa
WASHINGTON, D. C.—In Its
latest ratings of fighters, the Na-
tional Boxing association listed Joe
Louts all alone as heavyweight
champion with no loglcnl contenders
and only two outstanding boxers.
Nine other fighters received honor-
able mention.
According to these ratings, Joe
Lotils lias not yet made his retire-
ment official. When lie docs make
this announcement, the scramble
among this 11 for the crown will
begin.
Jersey Joe Walcott was listed as
the first of the two outstanding
boxers. The other was Lee Harold.
Among the fighters receiving hon-
orable mention in tills division were
Klmer Bay, J 1111 m y Blvlns and
Turkey Thompson.
Ezzard Charles was left out of
this division. He was listed as the
logical contender for the 175-pound
crown of Gus Lesnevlch who was
also left out of the heavyweight
rankings. Honorable mention in the
light heavy division wns given to
Archie Moore, Billy Smith, Billy
Fox, Lloyd Marshall, Bob Foxwortli
and Bob Satterfleld.
Kay Robinson stood all alone. s
champion of the welterweight class
with no logical contender. Bernard
Docuscn headed the list of outstand-
ing boxers. Kid Gavilan and Sugar
Costlier were rated fourth and sixth
among outstanding boxers.
Robinson, who would like a shot
at the middleweight crown, was left
out of the 100-pound list Bert Lytell
was rated one of the two logical
baseball Is amnzing, and topping
off his performance is some reckless
sliding Into bases.
The Crescents, runnersup in the
Denver Post national baseball
tournament, last year, are at the
peak of their game, as evidenced
by their recent double win, at Cros-
ley field In Cincinnati, Ohio, over
the San Juan champtous of the
Puerto Itlco league.
Harold "Yellow norse" Morris*
one of the finest Negro all-around
athletes, and formerly a star play-
er with the Kansas City Monarchs,
is the mnn behind the Sea Lions
Manager of the club Is Bnldy Ben-
son, formerly of the Chicago Amer-
ican Giants.
The Crescents-Sea Lion series here
will play a part In deciding the
milking of the nation's top tour-
ing baseball clubs. The current top
ten Includes these two clubs, along
with the Harlem Globe Trotters,
Birmingham Stars. Detroit Senators,
and the Kansas City Stars.
Here Next Week
Legionnaires Nip Lackland, 4-2,
Fighters Down St. Philip's 5-2
By U. JAY
IN & furiously contested Alamo Athletic association Softball
league fracas, Friday night, at Lincoln park, American Le
gisn, trailing Lackland Warhawks, 2-1, going into the sixth
inning, rallied, in that frame, to push three markers across
home plate, to down the Warhawks, 4-2, with "Sickle" Brown
winning his own game with a two-run smash with the score.
tied. 2 2. The Legion thus kept its AA record unmarred, and : *tr'"'k °'Jt u st'vc" ,"'w"
' ° * on Hill*.
thrown out at the plate. K l!y FWd Fin liters
lil* glove. Kefon* If could Ik? re-
covered, both WUiie uml l'rict had
scored.
Brown, In AAA play
this year, limited the Lncklnndeni
to two hi in, jtruek out 10, and
walked two.
Lai'kland's Laniard Tucker,
"BIZZ" M ACK FA
catcher of Frisco Sea LIous
continued to lead the race for the
league bunting.
In the Bight's other game, a
vastly Improved St. Philip's junior
College played Its best game of the
year, but bowed to the fourth place
Kelly Field Fighters. 5-2.
Leglonnaires-Wnrhauks
The Warhawks raihed an un-
earned run across the plate in the
3 .'first Inning, as Farley walked, ad-
vanced to second as Itosser was
Biased Olympic
Coach Again
Draws Fire
By The Associated Negro Press
NEW YORK.—Dean Cromwell,
head conch of the Olympic track
team unpopulnrly named to this
I tost over protests which claimed the
l'8C coach was not on the liberal
side, again left himself open to
criticism last week, according to
New York Times sports writer Art
Daley.
Cromwell's latest offense follow-
ed Barney Ewell's win over Mel
Patton. Instead of congratulating
—1 ill •* *
aseigii«iiyunap
_. -.-..a, . A/1 \*rttl* VT
Top star of the San Frnnclsco
Sea Lions, who will meet the Cin-
cinnati Crescents In a baseball series
here. July 27, 28, at Mission sta-
dium. Is Blzz Maekey, the great
catcher who managed and played
will) Newark Eagles of the Ne-
gro National league over a period
of 'frcars.
City Baseball
Playoff to Get
Under Way Aug. 1
It was announced, this week, Chat
the San Antonio Athletic associa-
tion organized in March, and sj on-
soring the city's four-team baseball
loop, will launch its city playoff
Mffc'S Sunday, Aug. 1, at Brooks-
dale ;ark, with the first game of
the series matching the San An-
tonio Indians and the Sun Antonio
BoijiI-ts.
Another treat is In store for the
fan4-, as attendance prizes will be
given. The fans will also vote for
the most valuable player of the
yea; San Antonio business estab-
lish^'nts are giving a variety of
▼ainuble prizes.
Area of the sun's surfaced* 12,*
000 iinies greater than that of the
earth, and Its volume Is 1 ,'100,000
time* greater.
Leonard Tucker, was in rare form
for the Lacklanders, and, through
three innings, the Legionnaires got
neither a hit nor a run. In the
fourth, "Ootch" White singled, hut
was thrown out at second.
The Legionnaires squeezed a run
across in the fifth. Paul Price walk-
ed. stole second and third, while [ J'j*
both "Froggy" Gordon and "Sickle"
being thrown out, and scored aft Brown were striking out.
third baseman "Gotch" White threw
high to first, trying to get Gilmer.
They tallied their second, and final,
run in the third. Rosser got life
when Summers erred on the throw
from short. lie made second on a
pnssed ball, and scored on Leonard
Tucker's solid double.
The next three innings saw the
Warbirds getting neither n run
nor a hit. as ' Sickle" Brown blazed
Then, on a beautifully executed
squeeze play, with "Lotie'' White
laying the ball down. Price roared
in safely. That made the acore 2-1,
Lackland, and, the way Tucker had
been pitching, the one-run looked
mighty big.
The Legionnaires hit the Jack pot
iu the sixth, however.
Ed Summers singled, made It to
third on passed balls. "Chip" Wil-
the ball In, iu rare form. In the | Hams fanned. Then, with "Datty
seventh. Macon, first mnn up. tripled, | White at bat, a Warhawk mental
but made the mistake of trying to lapse of a second was all that Sum-
stretch It Into a homer, and was ' mers needed, and he made a frantic
dash to successfully steal home,
I tying up the game, 2-2.
| White eventually drew a walk,
stole second, and ' was singled to
third by Paul Price. Price stole
i second. Froggy Gordon struck out
Then Sickle Brown won his own
game. He sent a fierce smash down
tldrd base way. The Warhnwks In-
fielder just couldn't handle It, the
terrifically hit ball caroming off
Clippers
Clip L. & S.
Household
BQUnd are aware of what they are
prol'iil.ly being called upon to con-
tend with. Cromwell, before leaving
the S., already wns following the
Hitler proceedure of iguorlng color-
ed "itinera.
Pe -isively settling an Issue that
hns hung fire since early In the
season when the two played a 10-
Innlng stalemate, the Kelly Meld
air force base Clii*pers trounced
L. and S. Householders, 11-4, iu a
game played at Brooksdale field
before a capacity crowd. Sunday.
Itig Conway Waddy made his first
start on the mound, for the Clip-
pers, after having been put on the
sMellues by an arm injury, suffer-
ed in the spring, with his scatter-
ing eight hits, and striking out 10,
while Issuing only one bn*e on balls.
Uitfh-lighting the defensive play
of the winners was the work of
Odio Brown at second, and Jaiues
"Babbit" Ilaywood at short, the
pair clicking to turn in two lightning
double plays.
C. B. Brooks, hard hitting Clipper
third sacker,.connected for two home
runs—his twenty-first and twenty-
second of the season—and drove in
six runs.
had to go
nil out to overpower St. i'hliiii'a.
Two hits and two costly errors gave
the Fighters tw- runs in the first
inning. St. Philip* tallied one in the
bottom hnlf
The Kellymen td It d tv in the
third, when K. Washington homer-
ed with Odoms ori base by virtue
of an error. They racked up another
sixth, when .siH'arw walked,
stole second, w^nr to third on Wil-
son's single, ami then stole home.
St. Philip's had seven men to come
to bat in the finsl inning, but, uw-
able to get a jingle hit, could tally
but one run, with three bases on
balls, one hl« baUman, and on error
being exploited to rack up the
counter. Thre. ni^n were left ob
base. Tyson grounding out. short
to first, with the *acks loaded, for
the final putont
Spears went the route for tbe
Fighters, giving three hits, wafk
ing thr**e, hitting on«* batter. aw<
striking out six
In five innings, FT Smith of
Philip's, allowed seven Fighter hits,
walked thr^e, md struck out t vo.
1 Mckson, who hurled I h< fl • a 1 in-
ning wns touched for one hit, one
run, one base >n balls, ami ttruck
out one.
First steel plows in general use
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Jack will rnt«Ioneoftwoont«iand
infc contenders for Ike Williams
title. Freddie Dawson wns fourth
In Ihe list of outstanding boxers.
Harold Dade, former hantam-
welsht king, is seventh In the
featherweight division behind cham-
pion Willie Pep, and Cliaric lliley la
eighth.
♦
STRUCK WITH ROCK
I>ee Doren was accused of strik-
ing Mrs. Alice Doren, 2'.00 East
Commerce, in the abdomen with a
rock late Tuesday night, July 13.
Doren had left the scene when po-
lice arrived.
a plow Jinf*-".'' Which" prompt^
ed New Tork Post Leouurd
to write, "If I'atton ran like a pl"W
horse, then Cromwell, his coach,
must lie n farmer."
Protests over Cromwell's appoint-
ment to the post of head coach were
ignored by the AAU in making the
selection, although Cromwell's at-
titude was well known and the
AAU advised that the choice was
not a popular one.
This latest outburst by the South-
ern California track coach is the
type Cif thing previously attributed
'to him and were the foundations
upon which th protests'were regis-
tered.
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