Beating The Gun
By Alvin Moses
A DREAM—COMES TO ROOST
Like some monstrous steam-shovel
prejudice and dangerous differences
that lead to small deceptions and
bad half-truths. Sports, has woven
a healthy tapestry throut ’4B for all
to view with becoming pride. It is
slowly, but nevertheless surely,
leveling off the ground and throw*
ing off the “incubas-of-tradition”
until the shades of John Brown,
Tubman, Wheatley and Douglass
must certainly say Amen Amen!
NOW COMES—DIVIDED TIME
Glance back at rampaging Sandy
Saddler, all arms plus a broomstick
body and what do you focus upon?
A 22-year-old throwback to a boxing
immortal named . . . George Dixon
of Nova Scotia. Saddler, .darling of
the late Jimmy Johnson and his liv*
ing brother Charlie Johnson, went
30,000 miles to gain a reputation
while trying to get featherweight
champ Willie Pep in the ring for
two years. The “Thin Champ” bor
rowed thunder from Vulcan’s forge
batter Pep to the canvas and cap
ture his worlds featherweight title
on Oct. 29, 1948, before 14,000 doubt
ing fans in Madison Square Garden
here. Magnificent Harrison Dillard,
spearheaded the U S A’s London
Olympic gains, sprinting as did Ed
die Tolan, Jess Owens and Ralph
Metcalfe, in other world-games of
yesteryear.
Sgt. Mai Whitfield, a super-Wood
ruff; Barney (hard luck) Ewell,
Steele, the peerless broadjumper,
lovely Alice Coachman, Olympic
wonder-girl, Stewart, one of the
most promising tennis players on
the American scene, Joe (with-you
-always) Louis, Ezzard Charles, Ray
Robinson, Kid (the Hawk) Gavilan,
Ike Williams, Jersey Joe Walcott,
Smuggy Hersey, Marion Motley,
Tom (Hop-along) Cgsey, Buddy
{whizzbank Young, Michigtau
versity’s ailing Gene Derricotte, a
master footballer; Illionis' Paul Pat
terson, Yale’s colorful Levi Jack
son, Dan Bankhead, Roy
nella, Larry Doby, “Satch” Paige,
gammy Jethroe, Golfer Ted Rhodes,
Donald Newcombe, Ulysses (crtupy
legs) Curtis, Bill Willis, an all-time
Ohio State guard who became All
-81 AC (All America Football confer
ence) guard for the second time,
playing with Paul Brown’s Cleve
land squad; Bob Rorssey, Ohio
State’s fast defensive left end who
became the first colored student to
be elected to Tau Beta Pi, national
honorary mechanical-enineering fra
ternity; Charman Howard and Alva
Tabor, University of Nevada grid
men, against whom Tulsa U., re
fused to play; white men every
where, who realize that sports has
been a vital factor in building for
better understanding and interrac
ial harmony, played the policy of
using such incidents as a sort of
backdrop for un-American propa
ganda— The Falcon Soccer Club,
Dr. Reginald Weir’s break-thru in
the heretofore “Lilly white" Ameri
can Tennis setup; the rise and sad
physical handicaps) Os Chuck Fon
ville, finest shotputter (World record
holder) in American track and field
history; Footballers George Talia
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African City
Members of the Accra Town
ferro, Indiana; Glen Pullens, Minne
sota; Calvin Vernon and Bob Teague,
Wisconsin; Jim Holland, North
western; “Howie” Thomas, Lincoln
U., Jimmy Robinson, Pittsburgh;
Wally Triplett and Denny Hogard,
Penn State; Syracuse’s Bernie Cus
tis, Jim Clark, Ohio State, Bucky
Hatchett, Harvey Grimsley and Bil
ly Pryor, Rutgers, Howard Univer
sity’s Gordon . . . Then, there was
16-year-old Mae Faggs, Bayside H.
S., L. I. sprinter, who came within
a hairbreath margin of licking the
reat Stella Walsh in the 220 yd.
dash in the women’s champion
ships at Grand Rhpids last July.
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