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&146 St. Antoine. Cor, Columbia—Phone RAndolph 2704 D. A. A. CUBS WIN A. A. U. TITLE mmmrnmmtm tmmttmmtmm tiuxmtmttunxut mmmmmmnm Local Owners Drop Base Ball Franchise UIBS RALLY TO DIWN OLYMPICS IN TITLE MATCH * Champions Have Won 44 t ames and Lost Bit 3 In Season . The DeVoit Athletic Associa tion Cubs,pinners of the House League chitoipioivship at Central Community Center and runn rs up in the CW D section of the Recreation „(ague, established themselves as the first colored team to /ww a\ Amateur Athletic Union championship by downing the Oympics, white, in the final frame vt the Naval Ar mory Sunday evening. The score vv*ns 16-14. /' It was the seesnd recent vic j /cry the Cubs ha'c scored over ‘vihe Olympics. The teams tied for the runner-up positpn in the Re creation League aid the Cubs won the play-off »y a 17-14 score. Game Hard Ffught Olympics entered \he final by defeating St. C’air Cubs, Recreation champion), 20-16 Sunday afternoon. D. A. A. enme by virtue of a bye in t h e vemi-final round. The gaiYte war hotly contested at all stages with the Olympics forging to the front to load at the halfway mark 7-5. Tho Cubs spurted in the third period and tied the score at 12 all when Nunley plug ged the wicker with a long torn. Copper then received a pass and dribbLcd through the entire Olym pic team to sink the Cubs final points. McCall paced the winners with two baskets and a free throw for high honors of the frame. Pierce, his running mate at the forward scored two baskets. I »t Only Three Game* The Cubs have played 44 frames during the season, losing three. Bach frame was lost by the mar gin of one jH)int.' The oldest play er on the team is 17 years of age. They arc high school student*. James Haynes, member of the I). A. A. big team, is coach of the champions. Dorsey Rodgers, an other member of the D. A. A., is assistant coach. James Bray is manager and Joe Duplesuis, re creation worker at Central Com munity Center, is sponsor. 0 .THIRD CHAMPIONSHIP WON BY STAR TEAM Downs Hamtramck Five In Hot Struggle “Central Recreation," formerly the D. A. A., added its third championship of the season, Sat urday, April 1, when they defeat ed the strong Hamtramck team to take the Inter-City Crown. Central, representing Detroit, was forced to win three victories over Highland .Park, Dearborn, and Hamtramck. The team had' 4 already won the Championship and the •‘'ate A. A. U. Championship. The r kord for the season is 29 won 11 n* 6 lost, which is a One record, Cf) Addering the fact that five re »ful*>«, left the team and played i*e Paul Quinn College Team whicl incidentally won the South ern College Championship. Wheeler announces that the awards will be made to the followiwj members of the 1933 ChampiCfnhip Team: Soloman, f’apt.; Ebrsey, Asst. Capt.; Buck man, ItVynes Smith, Malorte, I rater, Irjtchins, Williams, and Brown. \ . 1— RANDAI*. BREAKS RECORDS AT U. of Si. (Continued from Pag* 3) •lames Randall, who Is a fiish- m «n at U. of M.* has riot only Wf »n honors in 'the realm of scholarship, but also smashed V*o track records during the ftlfst months of hb college activi ties. ? n vailing Detroit daring Che vacation, he placed into mother s hands two new re for the Half Mile and the K Mile. Re was n mvmler of the relay team of (ror n'*n-Vandail, EHerby, and Pat sma*fi6d the old Plaid Bott?««pcord by three afccond*. A.H twee of theee broken track monh mreie <rf foahmen at the kh» erst® of Wichlgfh. \ Thru The SPORT MIRROR By RUSSELL J. COWANS Eugene Beatty, Michigan State Normal’s stellar hurdler, will be trying for a record when he com petes in the University of Penn sylvania Relay Games at Phil- adelfphia on April 28. Beatty will be trying to win the 400-mel tr hurdle race and if he does he will be the first timber topper to win the event three consecu tive times. Beatty won the race in 1931, his so-’ phomore year l : at he Y psi lanti school. 1 FIB Bis - v ‘aPi 1 V ■ ■r a By** v'jjgK He came back last year and not only won the event, but skimmed over the sticks in record breaking time to best the national quarter mile champion, Victor Burke, Georgetown university. The new American record is 53.3 seconds. Lor:! David Burghley of Eng land won the event in 1925 and 1927. Beaty is the only entry to win the race two consecutive years. , • a e e Back in 1923 Loren Murchin son, former Eastern High sprint er, set anew record for the 60- yard dash when he ran the dis tance in 0G.2 seconds. DeHart Hubbard, former world’s record holder in the run ning broad jump, equaled Mur chinson’s record March 28, 1925, at Ann Arbor. Hubbard at the •time ’wax a student at the* Uni versity of Michigan and a mem ber of the Maize and Blue track squad. Incidentally Hubbard was one of the fastest men in the world at the short distance races. He romped over the 60-yard dash in 05.2 seconds and ran 65-yards in 06.8. On March 11, 1933, Ralph Metcalfe, Marquette university’s great sprinter, broke all existing records for the 60-yard dash when he scampered over the boards in 06.1 seconds at the Central Intercollegiate champion ships held at South Bend. The Marquette bullet was off his mark at the bark of the gun, and at the 30-yard mark was two yards ahead of his nearest op ponent. He spurted across the fin ishing mark with plently to spare to shatter a record of ten years duration. To prove that he has overcome his fault of past years—a slow start —Metcalfe has scored three wins in four starts against Em met Toppino, one of the fastest men in the country indoors. • * • • James Nelson, one of the keen est students of baseball in De troit, sends in the following let ter about an all-star team compos ed of players who have played the game since the beginning of the present century. The letter reads as follows:, "I don’t remember having seen an all-time, all-star Negro team picked since 1900, the beginning of modern baseball. So I am tak ing it upon myself to give the boys one to shoot at. The men are named in the order in which they would 1 bat. "Bruce Petway (C), arr excel lent man to get oh could bat from either side, hit at very few bad balls, looking them over careful ly and made the pitchers work. He could bunt and was able to streak down to first base in about 03.2 seconds when batting from the left side. Arid his throwing to bases was surpassed by no big leaguer. He was one of the best handlers of pitchers ever to work behind the p{ate. ‘‘Bingo DcMoss (2h), with his Center To Close Week-Ends With the opening of the play grounds by the Department of Recreation, the Central Communi* ty Cenlor, 637 Brewster Street, wiH bo ■closed on Saturday and Sundays for the summer months. This is nfecesafiry in order to free the Workers for taking care of the hundreds of children who use GUARANTEE WELDING H. Bumtide, Prep. Welding and Brazing—Scored Cylinder* Repaired f Expert Atfte Repairing 877 E. Verror Highway crouching stand at the plate, worrying a pitcher for u pas?, a wonderful sacrifice man, laying the ball down the third base line, could beat out bunt's or puM one over third or first base. He could run bases to perfection, going into the bag with a hook or fade away slide. His fielding was won derful. He could go to his left or right with equal ease. Good on handling pop up flies in back of second base. He was smart and a good inside bull player with no weakness. No one was more skill ful in touching a man at second, DeMo.»s getting many decisions at second by cleverly touching the runner and hurrying the ball away without the slightest hesita tion. “John Henry Lloyd (ss), n triant, with hands dangling around his shoe tops, jure hitter, hard to strike out and heady. He could sro to his right or left with <<me and fret hot grounders, going be hind third base or second base, to knock down grounders and throw out runners. He was u wonderful man to receive throws at second base when a left-hander was at bat. In fact, he was a finished ball plnycr. “Pete Mill (ctl , a rence-buster, he could carry any kind of pitch ing over the garden wall. Liable to break up anybody’s ball frame with nny pitcher in the box. He roamed all over the outfield and could nip the fastest runner at the plate from deep outfield. A na tural hitter and the best Negro batter of all time. “Oscar Charleston (rs), consid ered by many the best all-round fielder that we have had. Batting from the blind side he could drive the ball high and far. He could circle the bases like Man O’War, drive in oodles of runs and a na tural 300 hitter against u flock of Walter Johnsons or his equals. “Cristobe! Torrientti (If), the fleet-footed Cuban, would moke any pitcher’s henrt flutter when ho stalked to the plate waving his heavy bludgeon. He kept the fielders with their backs against the fence, a sure hitter and liable to cripple an infielder at any t ine with one of his grounders. Could almost hold down the three fields alone. “Ben Taylor (11*). left handed, par excellent fielder on ground balls, digging bad throws out of the ground long reach, always in the game fighting smart insidt ball player and could bat very good. “Frank Marcello (3b), worth two admissions to see him playing up on the grass, knocking down those fast drives and heaving the ball to first base with a whip to get the runner by a step, grabbing bunts up with one hand and shooting the ball to first with one motion. A third baseman that any big league manager would pay a top notch salary. “Rube Foster (p), weighing about 240 in playing condition, with a world of speed, equal to Mathew-on in control, deep curv es of all kind could pitch nine innings against a team of Babe Ruths like a newsboy eating o piece of apple pie. Many tirrr's have I seen Petway make him waste three halls with a man on first and then the big Texan would curve throe over the plate for strikes. Rube pitched about 20 year's in fast company without be ing knocked out of the box. Very foxy, had a quick return delivery that struck out the best of them. I am using him a- a manager and Joe Mendez to tako his turn on the mound. “I venture to say these boys could play season after season in the big league without being shut out and would win three pen nants out of five and tho world championship. It may be neces sary to throw these birds down and take a few games away from them.” Tho above team selected by Mr. Nelson, would have made a fa vorable impression in any league. We saw every man on the Nel son all-star team in action. -We might have made a few changes. Wfcat do you think about the team as the beat group of men in their respective positions since the beginning of the currertt cen tury? R. Cowans Issue Base Ball Call A cell for baoelfell candidates for the .senior taMn was issued by the coach ol the St. Antoine ‘Y’ >«*«t week. Twenty-nine men bad responded to the call Saturday, including the following veterans front the 1932 team: Curtis Miles, William Murray, Jamea Johnson, Beckman, and Oft Murray. THE DETROIT TRIBUNE SLIPPING c BABY JOE CANS Baby Joe (lans at one time considered one of the hint wel terweights in the country, Recms to have hit the toboggan in the last six months. The Californian has been beaten by several medi o< re fight<*rf. ST. MATTHEWS LOSES CHAMPIONSHIP TILT Jaglowicz Guard Paces Mates In Deciding Battle Because they were unable to stop Al Milankov, Jaglowicz guard St. Mathews lo t the third and de ciding game for the Detroit Class riding game for the Dctoit Class A Ba ketbull championship at the Light Guard Annoy Sunday even •g by the score of .‘l7-10. Milankov, os in the other win cored over St. Matthcrws, went on n scoring spree against the ! church players, ringing up IK points for his labors during the evening. The Jaiplowicz guard ac counted for seven baskets ami four fouls. It was a big evening for Al. The game started off to be a hotly contested affair with both teams showing fine offenses. Af ter a nip and tuck struggle, Jag lowicz led at the halfway mark by IK-14 count. The losers’ defense cracked wide open in the second half and JaglcwtcJs players began to run i away from their rivals, with their faultle-s play. The ultimate result tells the story. Another factor in the downfall of the St. Matthews team was the inability of Buddy Stevens to find the basket. The St. Matthews for ward, who is one of the best in the association, was held to three points, a field goal and a free throw. COMRADES! KEEP OUR PENSIONS and WIN FULL PAY MENT OF THE BONUS Colonel Charles Young's Post No. 77 JOIN OUK POST! By Uniting Every Veteran! Commander, Tony Smith; Past Commander, Claude Andcrmn Club House on Forest Aft. Near Smith’s Case Meetings—lst and 3rd Wed nesday Nights at Cen tral Community Center Donated by Comrade Powell Johnson, D. D. 3. Columbia 1197 . DAVIS & WEBSTER UNDERTAKERS 52S Benton St. Dotroit BEATTY, WARD ENTERED IN BIG RELAY CARNIVAL Beatty To Philly and Ward To The Drake Relays Although tho Drake and Penn Relays will not be held until April 28 and 29, two Michigan athletes have their eyes focused on these national events. Willis Ward, who is recognized as one of the three best high jumpers in the country—George Spitz and Howard Spencer arc the other two—will be one of the high jump competitors at the Drake Relays. The Univirsity of Michigan star win ulso compete in the dashes. Eugene Beat-' ty, acknowledg ed by experts to be the best 440- yard hurdler in the country, will represent Michi gan State Nor-, mal College at the Penn Relays. For Ward it will he his first] opportunity to compete at one of the big Re lays, as a repre-1 I*. * ■ tentative of tho University of E. BEATTY Michigan varsity Track team. Ward won the running high jump at the National Collegiate meet in Chicago lust June, but not as a member of the Michigan team. He also was a competitor at the final tryouts for the United States Olympia team at Palo Alto last summer, missing a berth by a small margin. With Beatty it is different. This will be his third trip to the Penn Relays. For two years he has won the 440-yard hurdlle race. Asa .■■ephomorc at Michigan State Nox mnl College in 1931, Beatty won ! hiR first championship at the big meet at the University of Penn sylvania Games. He was back last year to score another win, de- feting the then national quarter mile hurdle champion, Victor Burke, of Georgetown university by four yards to set anew Ameri can record of 53.3 seconds. There is the possibility that Beatty will have the chance to settle an old score with Glenn Hardin, Louisiana State universi ty hurdler, who won the final hur dle race of the Olympia trials when Beatty, who was leading by n substantial margin, stumbled ami fell over the final hurde, Hardin, who was running second, winnig the race. Hardin was beaten in the final of the Olympic 440-meter run by Robert Tindall, of Ireland. Ward will meet stiff competi tion in the running high jump, hut rules the favorite. He is a consistent jumper and should be in the neighborhood of 0 feet 7 inches when the winner is declar ed. In the dash Ward will meet first • lass competition in Don Bennett, the Ohio State fin h. The former Libby high sprinter defeated Ward in the Western Conference indoor meet and is the favorite to cop the Drake title. ST. ANTOINE JUNIORS DEFEATED FOR TITLE _ Ann Arbor Rallies To Over come Big Lead Rt. Antoine Y. M. C. A. basket ball five lost a hard game to Ann Arbor to miss the State Junior Y. M. C. A. championship at Fisher gymnasium, Saturday afternoon by the wore of 31-.'12. St. Antoine entered the finals by defeating the afternoon'. Ann Arbor trounc ed Fisher, the defending cham pion, 30-15 in the other afternoon encounter. Walter Bailey pneed his team mate!* with 11 points, four bask ets and three fouls, in the cham pionwhip tussle. Bailey’s fine shooting enabled the St. Antoine players to hold n 32-15 lead at the halfway mark. Peter Pegan proved the strong link in the Ann Arbor offense in the final half, the forwnrrd com ing through with 15 points as Ann Arbor tied the score with a Con centrated rally. Peran pushed the visitors to the front with another banket a few'feconds b**fore the fittrl whistle. . Compliments of IROQUOIS RECREATION Clifford 1431 1908 St. Aatoiao St. Detroit Simpson Bros. Friday, April!4, 1933. CHANGES SEPARATE FRIENDS * _ yg _ / $ 1 J f & m. MM ED. RILE AND TURKEY STEARNES Changes along the baseball I front in the past two years have separated friendship of long duration. Among these was that between big Ed. Rile and Norman +- Physical . Education ... By BILL LOVING MODERN PHYSICAL EDUCATION Civilized society has a.Twnys felt the need for physical education such as existed in the ‘Middle’ Ages, when asceticism in the early Christian Church, set a premium upon physical weakness in order to attain spiritual excellence. The people of Persia, Egypt, India and China had methods of body training, even before the Greeks had them, but the latter are to be regarded as the first people to establish and mainta ; n ! n national system of physical ] education based upon high ideals and through training. The festi | vals held at Olympia, Corinth, Nemea, and Pythea witnessed the acme of excellence in dcvclop ' ment of the body of man, Later, in Rome, physical educa tion directed to military ends be icamo an essential part of the training of the boys of all citi zens. After the break-up of the Roman Umpire there came upon the world a pall of darkness, gloom and even despair. Asceticism and scholasticism hold the minds of men in ecclias tieal bonds that prevented a ra tional approach to the question of education in any of its aspects. The Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries broke the bonds of ecclesiastical tyran ny and rebelled at the conception of schooling as pure discipline. For a while, the manuscripts of Greek life and education served as the only guide and led to such extremes that the followers of the movement endeavored to express their thought only in the classical language. Today, in the effort so get away from formal discipline m the gymnasium, to escape the ar tificial. traditional, formal calis thenics, physical educators are wont to declare that the Greek idea in athletics and gymnastics is the only solution to the prob lem. In proof, they cite the fact that the gavr.es nnd contests among the Greeks were not indulged m haphazardly as they are today,-nor were they partici pated in by tin© few for the en tertainment of the many. Success with the Greeks was the perfect performance with re ference to form, grace, skill and control of temper—not the win ning at nil costa which charac terize so much of our amateur sport n America and Europe. Between the Greek and modern nhvsical education is a great gulf fixed in part by the various sys tems of gymnastics that have de veloped to serve the needs of nations and peoples. Ling in Sweden, and Jahn in Germany, stand out aa two bodies who achieved for their respective! countries, national forma of phy sical education. Later, their sys* flr 'j'- ‘Turkey’ Stearnes. Stearnes has cast his lot w r ith tho Chicago American Giants for the coming season while Rile is reported on the way back to Detroit. I terns, ideas and principles were carried to America by political I refuses and enthusiastic propa gandists. It is important to note that in the period from the Renaissance to the Nineteenth Century, the systems of physical educatior were developed by patriotic j teachers without scientific guides and principles. They failed fco make a study of the child. They knew no psychology and the little physiology that they had was largely incorrect. With Jahn, the development of gymnastics was not .connected with educational aims and pur poses. It was an outgrowth of the political situation in Franca and Germany. The Swedish system is common ly known as a scientific system, founded on anatomy and physiol ogy, and therefore it is claimed, substantially correct. Ling, the founder of this sys tem. died in 1839. It was not until thirty years after his death that the *evertl discoveries in physi ology were coordinated into a body of scientific knowledge. The system was not baaed on scientific principles at all. over, it is important to remember'’ it was bom under the same cumstanccs as the German sys tem. Next Week—Medical Gymnas tics. o CENTRAL DRAMATIC CLUB TO PRESENT MINSTREL On last Friday evening, the public was delightfully entertain ed by the minstrel show held at. Central Community Center on Brewster Street. The show was a success in every way, and was well attended. The Center de serves much credit for the splen did work it is doing for the edm rmmity. McINTOSH made CAPTAIN James Mclntosh, Northern high sohol basketball center. has been selected by Coach Powers as captain of the baseball team. Mc rntonh is a catcher and noted in high achool circles as a hard and timely hitter. _ a • * a ANOTHER METCALfE Chicago-—Jimmy Johnson, Illi nois State Normal aprr ter who just missed (he Tertth Olympiad by a small margin, out footed his field to win the 76-yard dash in 7.1 second* at the fifth annual Armour Tech Relays Saturday. The mark was a tenth of a second fastar than the old mark, which was sat by Bell McCormick, cap tain of the I»3S Notre Dame teem. j PAGE FIVE PRESIDENT SAYS DETROIT WILL DE IN THELEAGUE DeMoss Has Strong Team To Represent Motor City Just when the local fans had settled back to wait for the open ing of the Ncurro National Lea gue baseball season in less than a month, the tranquillity of the situation was suddenly turned in to a muddle with the anounce ment by Levy Tindle, Pontiac semi-pro baseball operator, that he could not arrive at an amica ble agreement with owners of the perk, and would not finance a team in the league. Mr. Tindle, who had announced at the b:«eball meeting held here last month that he, with the co operation of Walter Norwood, would place a team in the league under the management of Bingo DeMoss, telephoned DeMoss in Chicago last Thursday night that the deal had fallen through. Ho also wired president Gus Green lee in Pittsburgh to the same ef fect. President Comes To Detroit Greenlee and DeMoss arrived in Detroit Sunday and immediate ly went into a coference with Tindle, Most* John Hoe wink and Everett Watson. The conference lasted until early Monday morning with no defi nite results. Monday morning Greenlee and Demoss confcred with Rufus Peak, associated with/ Watson in the Detroit Stars in 1931. The president tried to persuade Peak to finance the team. After a con ference with Watson, Peak decid ed that the time was too short to rir-k piaiing a team in the league. Tindle declared that he had l been informed that the park wai* owned by the Detroit Lumbu) Compao*'. 110 tried to a li>«m from the lumber company for thf use of the park, but the oAMm demanded an exorbitant price—* $1,500 a month. At the conference Sundujf evening Roesink stated that ha | was still owner of the perk and I that no lease could be issued with lout his consent. He further de clared that he wad willing to rent the park to ?omc one with a team at the same •price he had received m past years, a' •rrmAL percentugo of the gross receipt*. V Notwithstanding the outlook, Greenlee declared, be fore he left for Pittsburgh Mon day afternoon, that Detroit would have a team in the league when the flag dropped for the begin ning of the league raw- on April 29. He will return to the city the latter part of the week. DcMom Collect* Hi* Player* In the meantime, manager Bin go DeMoss has surrounded him self with some of the best taleql in the league. He has sprinkyed a fine group of youngsters with some mellowed veterans—men well known for their ability to perform creditably against high diet competition. He has signed Big Ed. Rile, former first baseman for the De troit Stars; Newt Allen, Kansas City Monarch second sacker; Jake Dunn, the promising young short stop who was with Detroit in 1931 and Robby Robinson, Detroit ttrtrd sacker in 1931, for his in field. Chet Brewer, Kansas CHy Monarch*; Andy Cooper, old De troit Star r.nd Kansas City Mon arch southpaw; Ncl on Dean, tho leading hurler of t-he Stars in 1931; Theodore ‘Double Duty* RadtHffe, Crawford Giant's aar fllnger and catcher last year, and a youngster from the east, for his hurling irtaff. Leslie Palm* and Radcliffe will do the receiving. Diala will be ona of the outfiedor*. Palma and Radcliffc are al ready on the scene, waiting for the order to start practicing. Tho. other players will arrive as soon' as word is sent out that every-, thing is jakc for baseball in the, Motor City. "■ "0 —' PING PONG TEAM LOSES TO ADAMS St. Antoine Ping Pong team was defeated Friday even-' ing by the Adam) team, 20-5. « Walter Simpaon, 1932 city champion, was no match fog E.'J Hurtamdo, the young Filipino* from Adam*. Arthur Parker, a • newly acquired member -of the St, Antoine team, gave the loaere . their only point by defeating* Hitrlando in the final rounder. The othar member* of bha SL: Antoine team are W„- Bailey,! Capt., Edward Tyler and Allen * Jdattbawt. H. Dowing, G. Temple-; man. and A. Tam pieman were. —» A * tw ornfT iDfrarerß ox xcw Aurai t«4m. ♦