Unbeaten A&M Rattlers Cinch For SI AC Crown
By CHARLES J. SMITH, 111
TALLAHASSEE Folk
around here are telling the story
that the sale of pocket adding
machines has increased since the
Florida A and M College basket
ball team has gone on the scoring
rampage. They point out that in
three contests played last week,
the Rattlers beat Turner Air Force
base 95-25, Xavier University
76-67 and Tuskegee Institute 98-
45 to win their 20th, 21st and
22nd consecutive victories with
out suffering a single defeat.
The Rattlers increased their
season point total to 1765 and an
average of 80.2 per game, second
only jto Kentuck’s Wildcats who
are leading the country with an
84.7 average. Defensively, the
Rattlers rank eighth nationally
having yielded 1091 points for an
average of 49.5 points per game.
With an 80.2 point average, the
Rattlers are within striking dis
tance of the 82. plus average hung
up by Rhode Island State in
1947, with three more regular
season contests left, one against
Xavier, and two with Bethune-
Cookman College.
Team balance in offensive scor
ing power was the difference as
the Orange and Green beat the
tough Gold Rush five for victory
number 21, Milton Murrap soph
omore whiz from Philadelphia,
dumped in 22 points, with “Big
Willie“ Irvin getting 17, in the
important SIAC victory.
The game started as if it might
be a personal scoring duel be
tween Famcee’s Samuel “Red
Hot”’Hearns and William Robin
zine, the high scoring Xavier ace.
The latter scored the first two
points of the game when he
dropped in a 20-foot push shot.
Then Hearns hit with a hook
Beating The Gun
CHAT WITH JOE LOUIS
NE WYORK (ANP) The
night Billy Graham, welter con
tender, did a brush-job on game
Jimmy Herring, we chatted away
with Joe Louis, all time great
heavyweight boxing celebrity, in
the lobby of the Theresa hotel on
West 125th st.
Joe had seen our story on his
“move show” with which he will
tour the distant hinterlands. He
liked it, passing well.
What did the champ think
about Clarei.ce Henry, that anvil
fisted Ohiornian who aside from
being a “lazy slugger” until an
gered is a ajman buzzsaw?
“I feel ihat Henry will lick any
of the fighters in my old division.
He seems a sure shot to become
champion if he’s not bypassed.
While few take these “thru with
the ring” announcements other
than v/ith tonerue in cheek, Louis
sounded as u ne had learned his
lesson following the Rocky Mar
ciano debacle. From here on in
he will cash in on his towering
popularity.
We are happy to see Joe shoot
occasional golf rounds of 69 even
if the next round zooms to 85 or
thereabouts. ! T a is a fine man;
honest forthright to a point
that offends a “phony.” and
the beautiful lil dolls love the guy
with a devotion that is strangely
similar to idolatry.
OPERATIONS TRACK
Verm Dixon, a kid of but 19,
looks like the surest sort of bet
for an Olympic berth in the 400
meters or as a member of the 1600
meter relay team. All he did in
the recent 24th running of the
AAU National (indoor) champs
at Madison Square Garden, was:
race the fastest relay leg (440
yds.) in track history; overtake
George Rhoden and Herb McKen
ley (both world’s record holders)
and pace his team (Manhattan
College) to victory whew,
what a flashy runner this kid is.
Harrison Dillard, “the unbeat
able Olympian” at hurdles this
year, appeared to be holding him
self in as I saw it when high
schoolboy Milt Campbell, Plain
field, N.J., breathed en “Mr.
Bones” neck in a heat of the
senior 60-yard high hurdles, an
event Dillard won.
The White daily press wrote
rave notices about this youngster,
who lost by inches, but Dillard
or Attesley, can name the victory
margin at th« time. A year from
from the same distance to tally
Famcee’s first two points. How
ever the two had to take a “back
seat” to Murray and the Gold
Rush’s Fred Jones who scored 23
points to take individual scoring
honors for the evening.
Xavier outacored Famcee in the
third period, getting 20 points to
A and M’s 16 as the quarter end
ed with the Rattlers leading 64-
44. The Gold Rush again
outscored Famcee in the final
quarter 23-12 but it wa6 not
enough to overcome the 48-24
halftime lead held by the home*
town five.
With shouts of “we want a
hundred, we want one hundred,”
resounding in the Florida A and
M College gym last Saturday
night, the Rattlers were content
to win the game numbering 22 of
the season as they blasted Tus
kegee’s once great Tigers 98-45.
Folk down here are beginning
to call the Tigers Famcee’s cou
sins and they have reason to
seven of the 22 wins recorded this
season have been at the expense
of Tuskegee, five during a barn
storming tour of the state during
the Christmas holidays, and two
regular season defeats.
Coach Ed Oglesby cleaned the
bench in the one sided victory but
even with the subs in, the high
scoring Rattler attack failed to
falter although sputtering a wee
bit a times. Famcee led 27-7 at
the end of the first period; 46-15
at the half; 78-30 at the end of
the third period; and 98-45 at the
end of the contest.
Tuskegee was without the ser
vices of “Radio Red” Porter who
in the league. High point man for
is rateo one of the top pivot men
the Tigers was C. Merkerson with
eight.
By JULIUS J. ADAMS
now their enthusiasm should be
fully justified but, not just now.
Bob Carty, Manhattan college,
races a smart 300 yards but I feel
that he might develop into a sen
sation at the distance if he would
seek out the old Shore Athletic
Club phenom, Archie Harris and
take some “corrective breathing”
lessons as well as pace-wisdom
from him.
John Borican, though dead,
still lives in memory, especially
if you were so fortunate as to be
one of those who saw Don Gehr
mann race 1000 yards in the new
record time of 2:08.2, a fortnight
ago. Borican was a chap who
laughed at every correct training
rule in the book; he literally
thumbed his nose at the right
thing to do, then went out and
raced wondermen like Glenn
Cunningham and others into the
track bears.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 1,1962
DAVIS WHIPS
PLUMMER IN
PANAMA
PANAMA CITY, R. P.—(ANP)
Teddy (Red Top) Davis, North
American featherweight, worn a
decision over Panama’s champion,
Federico Plummer, over a 10
round route, last week in Olym
pic Stadium.
A comparatively poor gate took
in less than $3,000 from fans of
the principal cities to see the
American take a split decision
over the champion m a nontitle
bout.
One judge voted in favor of
Plummer at the end of the fight
and the other judge, supported by
Referee Rogelio Pinzon, named
Davis the winner. The split de
cision in favor of the visitor was
unpopular with rabid Plummer
fans. 4
Davis with his powder-puff
punch carried the fight to the
lanky Panamian for the 10
rounds, and took all the home
town lad could offer. It was the
second time that Davis has
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New York, he won a unanimous
victory.
Davis weighed in at 127% lbs.
and Plummer, 128% lbs.
A. & M. GRIDDERS
OPEN SPRING
TRAINING
*
TALLAHASSEE All-Amer
ican linebacker William Kenchon
of Miami was among the 50 grid
ders to greet Rattler Coach A. S.
“Jake” Gaither when spring drills
opened at Florida A and M Col
lege last week.
The first week was spent in
conditioning and from there stress
was placed on fundamentals. Fol
lowing the latter, Coach Gaither
and his staff are to concentrate
on finding and trying out candi
dates for positions left vacant by
Rattlers who finished their ca
reers at the end of the 1951 cam
paign.
Spring drills will continue until
March 15.
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