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PAGE TEN
Bar Brewster Boxing Team From Pontiac Tournament
CITY IMPORTS
WHITE; TURNS
DOWN COLORED
Owens Is The Only Open (
Fighter Allowed
To Enter
By JIM Bl TI.ER
It vu a A retched I ght for me
local boxers as over 20 members of j
the club heard ;:-o m . erabie news
hoys reading-room of Brewster
Community Cent, r wa> a sorrowful
acene of disappointment as the |
youngsters banged their bags j
against the floor ard threw their
hats at the I- out the
true feelings of emo: ons.
~trf the veterans: b-_: to the -novire -
hoys this sort of thing was new.
They had learned their lessons too
well and the only major tourna
ment the little warriors would be
able to enter had closed the door
jn their faces, as they stood on
the threshold with the r invitations
jn their hands. Their company was
mt welcome for two ur.-portsman
good; second, they were colored.
Futch Hurt
Directors of the City Champion
shlp Ben Turpin baseball tram
are issuing contracts to the men
on their team this week. So far
the ball players who beat George'
luiGrande's Detroit Eagles for the
Fraternity Finals To Be
Played February 7 At ‘Y’
Even Quiet Trainer Eddie Futch
who had worked hard from the first
lads to obey the rules like little!
hand was the letter he hod jus*
finished reading to the Brewster
Boxing club. The letter from Guy
H. Moats, sports editor of the Pon
tiac Daily Piess. the newspaoer
sponsoring the Golden Gloves, com
-itlimentir.g the local sepia soekers
in calling them t ie strongest squad
ing d:dn; take the edge off the lads'
feelmg when it i.latfcd.itat. the, near J
policy was to el.minate out-of-town.
First Defenders
Names of the champions on the |
tournament s history books show j
that the team alleged to have pro
t'-e tournament, has been importing ]
j4fr-'y-ie boys from Deir-u? to do their
* ghtir.g for .years. In fact each of I
the teams lx Golden
Gloves has been br-nging in outside
Protest
Those who protected aga : nst the
Detroit champions entering the
competition are gi. by of the same
crime they accuved 1/ .1 Garner of.
Mr. Garner, director of the Pont ac
Boxers and Hurtns club, invited
the Brewster 12.11 .rat on to repre
sent his club ir. the tournament and
to give his organ ?a* on an oppor
tunity to win a -championship.
Mr. Garner wasn't breaking any
Os the c stoms of the teams repre
sented in the Pontiac Golden
Gloves. Sow the Yellow Coats have
Jimmy Powers r.g them
Under the Wire
In the novice class Futch has
these boxers entered: John Rou-
Selle, 112 pounds, of Charles who
dropped a close decision to Art
Lansky, who won the most prom
ising novice trophy last season:
147-pound Charles was injured
while playing football for North
eastern high school and was unable
Harvey Matthews, 118-pounder;
James Brooks, 126-pounder; Sam
Hughey 135-pour,dor. and Charles
McFall. 147-pi'ui ri.-r
Jim Owens, the onlv open boy
ertered in the f "vi-sr.; c sss was
allowed to f:gh; because *hfre are
few boys ha
Uawauan plant*- on* v* tr than
Tt looks as if the Alphas didn't
like the slogan in la.it week's article,
"Beat the'Alphas.” It a so looks as
if the Scrollers didn t like the way
the Beefers have been bragging
about themselves. In the Beefer-
Scroller game the Scrollers took the
game in charge from the very first
and fina'ly defeated the Beefers
27 to 11. The Sphinx and Lampodas
game was not played because the
S hinx did not show up in time.
This game will be played during
the w eek. In the Alpha-Omega game
it was a question of who was going
to make the most points. Tom Bris
coe or Hughes Peterson. The game
I ended by each of them scoring 19
I points apiece. Both of the men were
hurt and they were putting them
in from all angles. The Omegas
put up a gallant fight but there was
no stopp-ng the Alpha aggregation.
They showed some of their last
year's fighting spirit for the first
j tune in this game. The final score
was 48-22.
We felt sure the Kappas-Naci-
I rema game was going to be an up
! set for the Nacirema team by the
J way the game progressed in the
first quarter. The score was 4-5 in
I favor of the Nacirema team. In the
T. Dickerson
Is Not Dead
As Rumored
j Voices buzzed last week and in
a few hours the town was hung in
crepe weeping over a rumor. Ted
Dickerson, one of the young found
ers of amateur boxing in Detroit,
somebody had said, was dead. How?
a ked a close friend. "Killed in one
of the defense factories,' was the
reply.
But Ted Dickerson, the popular
Detroit middleweight, is not dead
and is very much alive. If not—then
I talked with a ghost. Dickerson,
called by his many friends "Dicky
boy," hurried back to Detroit from
Ypsilanti, Tuesday as soon as he
j heard the rumor to let his friends
I know' that the angels hadn't claimed
! And Ted was in very good health
. o be dead. He and I had a few
j beers together- and discussed the
war. Dickerson is working in one
1 of the Ypsilanti defense plants,
j That was only one of the rum >rs
that was being circulated last week.
In the other Geoq?e Peaks was
' benched from the TiVjans’ basket
jba l team's l.neup because of a
bad heart. As the common talk of
! the "curbslone** critics told it
Peaks was deferred from the army
1 because of a bad "ticker" and doc
tors had warned him against play
-1 ing any basketball.
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Motor City title haven't been, to
Rail, selected as the most valu
able player last season, sits beside
Ben Turpin figuring out plans for
the coming season.
second quarter the Nacirema team
gained needed points to put their
team on a more competent basis. In
the second half the Ka-ppas came
back to stage a real comeback that
was too spasmodic to be effective.
It was a great game for both teams.
The game ended 45 to 25.
There will be no game next Sat
urday. The final game will be played
Saturday. Feb. 7. Two all-star teams
are being selected from the Fra
ternity League and Two all-star,
tennis from the Pledge clubs This
all-star game will be staged for
February 14. The Nacirema has al
ready put in their challenge to the
team winning this all-star game
which will be played February 21.
| tennTs
\ By LENA E. WALDEN
Hello folks:
Central Motor City Tennis club
held its regular meeting at Brewster
Center. This was social meeting
and bridge was the most popular
pastime of the evening. We are
more than sorry to lose Dan Web
] ster to the army. They tell me that
, according to the physical disabili
i ties Dan put in his questionaire.
‘they should have sent him to the
• hospital, but Uncle Sam didn’t be
lieve him.
I Our president’s wife. Mrs. Lil
lian Hunter, who is a member but
not very active, was present this
week along with Dick Love, Her
man -Malone, Ecee Richardson. Min
nie Williams, Clarence Hunter. Cal
and Flora Lomax, Dan Webster,
Bertha and Emerson Craig and
Lena Walden.
We have anew member in the
person of William Henley who
usually plays at Belle Isle.
There is a party in the offing at
the Mason House on February 7.
On Thursday in our badminton
class things went along very
smoothly accept for a few broken
strings—Vans’ and John Oatis’.
Jn singles, Alta Oatis defeated
Willa Mae Malone, then Willa Mae
Malone defeated Lillian Van Buren.
In doubles Ann and Raleigh Jones
defeated Alta and John Oatis and
Ann Jones and Alta Oatis defeated
Viola Wright and Raleigh Jones.
Sorry folks, but due to circum
stances beyond our control, the
questions and answers will have to
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J but it is doubtfu l Tt is difficult to
I see how Ray will leave the eastern
shores and Jacobs' setup to try to
plunge a needle into the arm of
Michigan s half-dead business.
Mr. Brown stated that all.of the
good fighters of the city will be
colored! He wants to use Tom
Glaspy. James Edgar. Indian Benny
Deathpaine. James Major. Bobby
Creed. Westly Davis, Odell Rilej
and many more.
It is wondered how the new pro
competition of Scotty Monteiths
shows. Mr. Monteith has a show
coming up on February 3.
Brown should do a'l r ; ght a.;
matchmaker. He has had plenty of
experience in the fight gamp, hav
ing spent most of his life inside the
I ropes of the "squared-circle." His
I first cousin Ls the sensational Kid
Chocolate.
More news about the pro boys
j of the city: James "Tee" Edgar was
one of the stale's good welter
weights, is in the United States
Army. F.ddie Scott, lightweight.
Tommy Glaspy, welterweight, and
Bobby Creed, lightweight. are
booked to fight on the next Mon
teith boxing show.
It is said around the gyms: You
can't find Benny Deathpaine and
Joe Cooke since the Indian sensa
tion lost.
j Andy "Kid" Brown a fine gentle- j
| man who has done much for boxing
jin Michigan has been selected to
[Sonny Wilson who has planned to
[ hold weekly programs at the Forest
[club. The announcement came this
week as Brown wrote for his license.
There has been much said dv
three or four different groups of
sportsmen about securing the popu
lar sports palace fo,p weekly shows,
but until now nothing definite has
come from it. Atler ‘Duke" Ellis,
discoverer of World's Heavyweight
Champion Joe Louis, had once de
signed an arrangement, but his
backer decided that it would oS
better that he kept in the loan busi
ness and let the boxers go their
A professional basketball team I
laid out their plans for Friday and j
Saturday night court contests, but
after figuring out the net on their
first take, decided that they had
better catch “a train' and display j
their skill in various neighboring
This week Brown was selected as
the matchmaker of what promises
to be anew period in local boxing
history. Andy was busy the first
part of the week lining up fighters
he would like to start the first night.
There has been some talk about
Wilson getting "Sugar” Ray Robin
son to headline one of the cards,
has done to the colored people bv
attempting to do something back to
the navy: they might haVe attacked
what is wrong by something else
that would have been wrong. But
Joe Louis, and his advisers, had
commonsense, wilh all h;s uncom
mon English; he decided to show
the navy and the world the better
possibilities in the relationship be
tween this country as a whole and
its colored citizens as a part. What
he did will always have more good
sand abusive editorials.
"And for almost 10 years Joe
Louis has been called up to the
microphone for a brief impromptu
broadcast to the nation—and he has
always said the right thing, albeit
in wrong English. His English is al
ways wrong; and what he says is
always right. With many of the
schooled people it would have been
almost the opposite, if they had
been so often called to the micro
phone, without preparation, their
■•" See SPORTS, Paye 11 <
Through the mail the other day I
came one of the best defense for |
arguments on the subject, “Why ]
Joe Louis, World’s Heavyweight
Champion, gave his last title-fight
purse to the navy," that I have been
able to find.
The address was originally given
by William Pickens, principal de
fense securities, promotion special
ist, US. Treasury Department, in
Institute Chapel, Tuskegee Insti
tute, Alabama.
Mr. Pickens in part as follows:
"President Patterson, teachers and
students of Tuskegee Institute and
citizens of the community:
"For anyone to bring a discussion
in commerce to Tuskegee Institute,
is like carrying coals to New
castle: for Tuskegee was founded
by Booker T. Washington, furthered
by Robert Russa Moton, and is now
fostered and fathered by F. D. Pat
terson, all masters in the world s
master of science of common sense
"But I mean to talk to you both
as Americans and as Negroes, and
about the common sense of rela
tionship of American Negroes and
their problems to America as a
whole and its problems.
"Just at this moment it occurs to
me that Joe Louis Barrow, known
in pugilism as "Joe Ijouis" showed
more good sense in his gift to his
country through the navy than
many Ph.D.'s would have shown;
some of our Doctors of Philosophy
would have opposed the undoubted
wrongs which the American navy
be omitted this week, but will be
resumed next week.
By all means, don't forget tennis
on Wednesdays and badminton on
Thursdays at Brewster.
fjiy§i
Marian Abernathy
LOUISE WALKER
Weekly News
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Sport Teams
VOLLEYBALL
| The "A" vo ley ball team who de
seated a'! the other branch teams
! in the first round of play, star’.ed [
j the second round defeating the
j Northern Y..M.C A. The "B" Volley- j
ball team also marked up a win in
their first g me of Ihe second round |
|by Nm-the.-stem *’Y"
[three sto/giit games.
YiasKHtball
I The men's basketball team played
the Adams "Y" last Thursday in a j
dose scoring game. Both teams w ere ,
tied at the half 27 to 27. During I
tne second half Sanford of the St. |
Antoine team was able to hold ;
J< nek a of tin* \ ■ . tt am d-ow n to '
two • points. He had previously
[ scored fourteen points in the first
I half which was causing the St. An- j
I toine team a good deal of trouble.
| Foreman and Miles of the St. An
toine team found the basket more j
often in the -econd half and helped I
to push the St. Antone team ahead. |
In the last few minutes of play the !
teams were still t.ed. However,
Foreman. Miles and Sanford each
.scared before the final gun which
put their team ahead 57 to 47. Both
teams p ayed hard basketball.
The*senior and intermediate boys |
continued their string of -victories !
by defeating Utf Northern "Y” j
The intermediate buys, after they
| their new bine and gold suits that |
they bought themselves, began to
play bang-up ball to win 49 to 22.
! Harold Blackwell was high point !
boys continued iheir stellar play to
I roll up a score of 55 to 33. Harring
[ ton and "Gasman tie! for high point
honors scoring 12 points each.
SWIMMING
The junior and intermediate boys’
[swimming teams tied the Western
in a dual meet at the St
j-An tome-—p0.,l Individual, honors
! went to Fred Butler who won three
[first places.
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I Although they have shown much
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