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SATURDAY, JULY A. 1941
Rain Plays Biggest Inning In Local Baseball Games
I son, "Preached" Henry. Newt Al- ;
’ lcn, Rainey Bibbs, Ted Strong, \
Jimmy Crutchfield. Billy Horne. ,
. Parnell Woods. Buck ONeil, Joe
| Green?, among others.
1 "The East team is being selected I
from the New York Black Yankees.
. jCew - Cuban*. Pittsburgh l
Gw-ys, Newark Eagles.!
Baltimore Elite Giants and Phila-
League; the West from the Kansas
i City Monarchs, Chicago Giants, New
, Orleans-St. Louis Stars, Memphis
| Red Sox, Jacksonville, Fla., Red
Caps and Birmingham Black Barons
Manager Earl Preyear certainly
1 thinks a lot of his softball team. I
This week he boasts: "The Hi-lite
A. C. are still playing good ball and
• are hoping to have one of the best
! records of r” time. Herman Yancy.
• one of the new players, is very j
dangerous at the plate and also a
i good pitcher."
I William Thompson, Hilite, and j
Charlie Justice, Pontiac, had a
pitcher's duel Sunday night at |
j Pontiac stadium The Hi-lites
scored two runs in the second in
ning and the Pontiac Merchants..
who played as the “Big Six" team
I las; season, scored two runs in the
j fourth. The Hi-Lite* lost the game
I in the last inning by the score of
I 3 to 2.
So come* a note from Chicago |
Eist versus West Negro baseball
classic in Chicago's Com.-key Park
on Sjnday afternoon. July 27. is
■gi.ng to be bigger and better than
• ver before, unless all signs miss. 1
• The voting by the fans to de- j
greqT dream squads is heaY.er tfrarr
ever before at this stage. Wednes
day. Ju:y !fi, at midnight is tfiei
deadline for the ballots and the two
teams of 18 players, a manager and
two coaches, will be announced im- ,
mediately afterward.
"Interest is so high with all of the |
•lari o' Negro baseball back on the
league teams eligible for participa
tion. and the f act that the series is .
tied up at four vicories apiece after
eight years of sensational games. I
that the record,crowd of 42,000 is :
•xpcctcd to be eclipsed.
“As was to be expected, early
loaders in the polling were Satchel j
Paige. Kansas City Monarchs' pitch* j
er an<Y Buck Leonard. Pittsburgh
Homestead Gray’s great first base
man and Bizz Mac.key. veteran
Philadelphia Star catcher, for the i
• Many others were tallying plenty
of votes, including, among the
Easterners. Pat Patterson, Sam j
Byrd. Leon Day. Red Parnell, Bill j
Whatley, Felton Snow. Vic Harris.
Jerry Benjamin. Martinez, Vagras, I
*‘lmpo" Barnshill, and Ray Brown,
end in the West, Hilton Sm.li. Neal
Robinson. Willard _ Brow n, Willie
Cornelius. Pepper Bassett, Tommy
Sampson. "Jelly” Taylor, Dan Wil-
Brewster Boxers Chalk
Up Victory In Home Gym
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The Brewster mltuteri chalked,
tip another sensational victory in
their home gym last Friday evening J
June 27.
Mrs. Lillie Brooks, mother of Joe I
Louis, worla's heavyweight cham- ■
pion and the building fund commit- i
tee of Calvary Baptist church were i
j sponsors.
‘—-■Joe Louie.—Detroit's—Brown .
I Bomber, refereed one of the pre- '
! liminary contests. He executed a
fine job and received quite an ova
tion after the bout was over,
James Palmer, clever Brewster
135-pounder, outpointed Ralph
Chartoff, 138 pounds in a fast box
ing setto that the Brown Bomber
refereed.
Joe Green. Brewster midget
bomber at 118 pounds, blasted little
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EAGLES NINE
SET TO PLAY
TURPIN TEAM
Double-Header Will Be
Seen At Eight Mile
Road Park
Manager Buck of the
Detroit Eagles, but this weekly
Sunday rain got h.m singing he
well known elementary school ditty:
Rain, rain, go away, come again
The reason that LaGrande is tak
ing the Sunday cloud-bursts so
dues.Junr ball duties on the first
day of the week. Every time the
Eng:ca htn* sttmcteq a t3rge~
crowd of baseball fans to see them
display their weekly double-feature:
;hen comes the rain right in the
niddle of a double header.
Mr Buck tearing his hair or say
ing some oad things that couldn •
oe printed, for he doesn’t do that
He quietly sits down and tells the
newspaper reporters the rest of his ’
schedule. The team that will play .
the next week and how good the;
Now 'f rain doesn't catch up with
the Eagles baseball team this week.
Owner George LaGrande. brother
of Buciv. stated that they have !
planned to play the much publicized j
Turpin Athletic club, at Eagles !
park on July 4th. Ben Turpi
-team who have made every game
with the Eagles group a grudge
contest is boasting that it will be no
job at all to beat the Eagles Mr
Buck LaGrande isn't saying any
thing. only he hopes it doesn't rain.
HHR
Dr. .1. R. Martin. Jr., examining
James Palmer, one of the contest
ants in the benefit boxing show
sponsored by Mrs. I.illie Brooks,
mother of Detroit's Brown Bomb-
VOTES POUR
IN CLASSIC
SELECTIONS
CHICAGO. Ill—By tern, hun
dred* and thousand* the votes are
pouring in from the fan* backing
their favorite player* whom they
J want to see in the big “dream
j game"—the ninth annual Negro
East v*. West All-Star baseball
classic in Chicago’s Comiskey park
on Sunday afternoon, July 27.
' The votes are coming in so heav-
I ily that it's a cinch they'll set a new
i record for the nine years of the
I classic. And. by the same token,
| the attendance mark of 42.000 set
- m-HmL a-lso- seems certain of being
j shattered when the afternoon of
i the gala event rolls around.
| All of the great stars eligible' for
1 ing heavy backing from their ad
mirers. but the fellow get! {the
i most at the pre.-rnt time is none'
other than Satchel Paige The great *
pitcher of the Kansas City Mon
archs. who’ll be in action for the
West tope the wV.ng with 99485
followed by Buck Leonard, the
East s gieat flrst-sacker ■ of the
Pittsburgh Homestead Grays, with
89.690
■ Joe Thayer. 118 pounds of Holy Re
deemer in the opening round. Nate j
Huskey, Brewster 118-pounder. j
chalked up the other first round
I knockout by putting Buddy Flyner.
Dearborn boys club to sleep in their '
| slugfest.
i Francis O'Hara, white middle- ,
I weight from Dearborn A.C , stopped ]
j the white>washing Uic.. invaders.
I were receiving by oiltpunchmg
Jesse Ray. Brewster novice belt ;
champion. Luther Myers and Dave |
West. Brewster 175-pounders, put
on a real battle. Myers won on a
knockout decision after a down hill •
battle most of the way. Eddie
Owens. Brewster Golden Gloves
Novice champion, defeated Tom.
Flynn in another heated contest.
There was little doubt to whom was
the winner for little Eddie piled
up point after point with smashing
left hooks to his opponent's head
1 Others up 'with the leaders are
East. James West Philadelphia first
baseman. 78.402; “Papa ’ Ruiz. Cu
bans. pitcher. -69.582; Buck Easter
ling. Homestead Grays’ third sacker
66 782; Leon Day. Newark pitcher
65 429. Dick Seay. Black Yankees
second baseman. 64.892: Kimbro.
j Black Yankees’ outfielder. 60.236;
| Clarence Williams. Grays' shortstop.
59 835 Bizz" Mackey of Newark
heads the catchers with 40 469.
| The balloting will end at mid
j night on Wednesday. July 16. after
I players will be named The East
players come from the teams of the
; Negro Naljonal league, the West
from the teams of the Negro A'meri- '
can league
The score in victories now stands
at four for each section with this
year's big battle set to break the
deadlock.
Art Price, winner of three major
titles this year gloves, bell. CYO
championship*, scored a clean-cu
knockout over Herman Demarco o
Ann Arbor This fight was fll'eri
with action, with the sensational
Price pulling a tough one out of
In the final bout little Cedric
Flournev looked like a minute copy
of ‘Hammerin' Hank Armstrong in
blasting out a clean victory over the ,
I clever Dick Tamplin of Holy Re- I
j deemer A C
Grays And Phillie
Stars Divide Pair
PHILADELPHIA -The Phiiiitfel
phia St r- and the Homestead
Grays divided a twin bill here on
Saturday, June 28 The Stars
dropped the first game 2 to 6. and
;
the winning hprler n) the second
contest.
RESULTS
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BREWSTER'S BOMBER NIGHT
er. Joe Louis, for the building
fund of Calvary Baptist church
The boxing show was held in the
Brewster Community tenter gym
before over 900 fight fans. Also
Flint Golfers Come To
Try Luck At Rackham
Rackham golf course. Ten Mile 1
road and Woodward, was the scene
two foursomes of Fltpljtolfcrs came
["to try their luck on the difficult
! JR-ho!e course.
| First, there was Frank More. golf
, pro, then J. D. Shook, the number
i one pick and pride of Flint to
win the second annual Amateur
Golfers’ championship and Pearl
No-Hit And
No-Run Tilt
By Peberry
j The Detroit Turpin Baseball team
won a no-hit and no-run game
Sunday afternoon at Goldberg field.
Hastings .and Ferry streets, by beat
ing the Kelly A C by scores of 9
‘to 0 Pitcher Deberry pitched the
| best game of hi* life
The Kelly AC is a good team and
hit the ball hard; but wasp t strong
enough to cope with the terrific at
tack of the Detroit aggregaion All
of the TAC. boys played "heads
up" ball First Baseman .Inhume
Washington was hurt in the fourth
mn ng and was replaced at fir.-t by
Willie Malone
I. neup for TAC Smith. If: Me-
Kenny. *>; Doitch. 3b. "Bad News"
Hale, rs; Thomas. 2b. William Bali
of Washington, lb. replaced by Wil
lie Malone; Tuffy, *c. Deberry
§ tehcr.
1 neup for Kelly A C : Stoll, cf
K Hotchkiss. 2b: N Hotchkiss. -•>
R Green cf: E Ch.co-ky. If: C
Green, pitcher. Aben. lb; Boucher
rs: S Chico*ky. catcher
After the first inning Tom Dr
-1 berry pitched, he told some of the
boys that he felt good and tha’
Lite was trying shut-out. Nut
only did he get his shutout but he
got a no-hit game The second ,
no-hittcr for the Turpins since they j
have been organized The first
came back in 1938. pitched by Dimp 1
Milter who was pitching for the
The T A C. nine will play at Eight
Mile Road and Bethlawn. on the
Fourth of July, a doublehrader
game. They are expecting a large
; crowd. They will play a: Goldberg
field next Sunday July 6
Withers, Boxer,
At Fort Custer
PORT d'STKR. Mich -Interest- ■
mg personalities arriving at the
Fort Custer reception center re
cently have included John Henry
Wh te;.. No 6 ranking ft .-vy weight
in the n tion. Whiter.* is from
Pontiac. Mich., and has been at
tached to Com . iny D of tne !609th
Recruit Reception Center j
“Private White: says that he hope- '
"to do a little fighting and a lot of
nsf t ng ,n ‘he Army H:- record
’••• ->.« i !• -on over Lee savoid
wm m.r v term ‘.’or l).id;i«: a
you!i'-' till o Nevni pum n. i o 1 a
Cooper in 'he ?err -final of the
Madisuh Sqj.ie Ga.atn. ,
JOE LOUIS WILL TRY FOR
ANN! AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
By JEANETTE WORLDS
Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis
expressed his intentions to add an
-1 other championship title to his
crown when he stated recently that
he would participate in the second
annual tournament of the Amateur
Golfers' association, to be held at
River Rouge golf course, Detroit.
August 6. 7. and 8.
"I don't know how I’ll come out."
he said, "but I'm going in there
fighting." And when the champ
' goes in there" anything might hap
| Coming in off 18. Joe Louis' card
showed a very “neat" 78. so that
J means that the boy is really hitting
them out there. Rackham, scene
■jof thr* ehamp-'y -tournament Sl'hed- -
uled for August 12. 13 and 14 and
; week after the Amateur Golfer?'
■ a'socintior event, was a real havoc
1 *o many of the intended contestants
but proved to be little difficult to
our boy. Joe
Under- the expert instruction of
his pro. Clyde Martin, the champ
game since la.-t season. Many golf
has taken at least 14 stroke* off hi*
1 ers witnessed Joe’s drives Sunday
•iiid saw him out-drive both Mn
| Martin and his tournament director,
i Bernard Odell, number one ranking
I amateur
Detroit will be the
'how n in the group are Ruddv
llynra. br. Chester Ames, chief
examiner, and Doc Brady, chief
inspector of (he State Boxing
Golfers To
Qualify For
The Publinx
Dr Remus Robinson, president of I
the Detroit Amateur Golf club. !
and Terry Is*ac Hood, youthful
tournament chairman, will attempt
to qualifv for the annual "Pub
'.■nx" championship, on Monday
morning, June 30. at Plumbrook
Golf i ir.se Detroit
Dr K binson, nit onal amateur
champion, has been shooting “par’
golf since the season began.
Jerry Issac Hood, a player in
the very low 70's expresses little
j doubt as to his qualifying for the
tournament
i Hood, winner of the first flight
j in the Midwestern open in Toledo,
j Ohio, last year, has proved to be
quite promising with his perfect
i game on the putting green.
There will be 112 contestants in
the qualifying rounds, out of which
: 36 men will bo chosen to represent
Detroit at the "Publinx" tourna
| inent when it meets in Washington.
D C. July 17.
I If either of the men is successful.
1 he will be the first Negro to make
I his debut to this affair.
JONES IN RECITAL
RICHMOND. Va -The music de
] partment of Virginia Union univer
sity presented the second in the
.series of summe rtwilight concert.-
Wednesday. July 2. when Willie ;
Thomas Jones appeared in Coburn
nail. Jones, a baritone, has attracted
considerable notice for his £olo ,
work in the Virginia Union univer
sity choral club.
1 Warren. Mr. and Mi.- Roquemore.
and Dr Wil-on. top-notch golfers.
Tne Flinter.- .-eemed quite satis- 1
tied with the scores obtained on
prrs-ed tlieli (f.uibts as to w hether ‘
August 6. 7. and 8 at River Rouge
| Golf course.
i Mr. Shook, a low 70 golfer, frank
-1 Iv .staled that he had little affec- j
lion for rivers, since he had never i
been able to par Swabs Creek,
the swanky layout in Flint; and j
doubted whether or not he would
I appreciate River Rouge, the mecca
| George I. W.lliams. host to the
Flint golfers, played his usual game |
1 coming in on the 18th with a few
■ « P«
Other'' interesting foursomes on 1
the links .minded Dr J. N"Wills
and 'he mighty Dave Morris-,- vs I
Eddie Jack.-on and Dr W. G. j
Morrison. Jackson and Morris. De
: troll's loading pro*, were battling it
out for the big money bet involved '
but everybody looked plenty tired j
I in coming in on number 18
Also to be seen in heal d play
were: Dr Ramus Robinson, national
amateur champion; Benny Davis,
favorite Detroit Amateur Golf club
pro. and Jerry Issac Hood, club
tourliament chairman There were
Such foursomes as Dr Tate Carey
and -on Spencer. v« Prosecuting
Attorney Jones and Raymond Gil- :
1) T,i . f i U r and H H
fl ckham s party ate not to be for-
R kh*m f iva?
Both iri • ■ n ttea* the
Joe IjOui« open and the Amateur
Golfers' a-- . on championship
expre s great hopes for the greatest
n ever in Negro golf It i«
*af< !> . • mat< d that over 800 golf
er* will visit Detroit to play and
witness one of the bigge.-t sports ac-
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PAGE ELEVEN
' center of Negro golf activity this
season with the two major tourna
ments planned
Both tournament committees have
been earnestly working to make the
coming season an outstanding one
to Negro golf.
The Joe Louis Open, first of Its
kind among Negroes, will offer SSOO
and trophy to the pro. and a prize
equivalent to that amount to the
top-ranking amateur.
The tournament, which bars wom
en golfers, will be run itrictly
according to U S. G. A. rules, and
will be a three-day medal play.
The Amateur Golfers' second an
nual will be open "ONLY" to ama
ini"-' and w;.i contii-it—of -march
play. The coveted prize will be
the A G. A trophy for men and
' also be prizes for the Scotch four-
I some winners and low medalists in
the qualifying rounds
Without a doubt, Detroit will be
the home of unusual golf activity
i this season.
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