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Page 6 i ■ ~ - - ■—————^~———————— It happens every year about this time. March comes in like a lion and goes out like the beginning of a baseball sea son. This is the time of the year when Red Sox fans have bright little things to say, Yan kee aficionados are being help ful in picking ways to keep Berra. Howard, and Blanch ard in the same lineup, and the Giants are going to make it because Dark’s got the Wil lies. It’s the time when the af ternoon sun shines longer with a bright, familiar warmth. It’s the time of year when the stores are full of bright, new Lucy Phillips Unveiling HI PASTOR AND MASTERPIECE—Viewing his work is the Rev. Melvin Harrison, pastor, Lucy Phillips CME Church, 14th St. & E. Adams. He points to “The Resurrection,” a mural which was prominent in the unveiling ceremony at the church last Sunday evening. Rev. Harrison says, “This painting is the realization of a longtime ambition and took days to paint.” The technique suggests Walter J. 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BR 6-5568 it materials that wont wrinkle or muss, except that, who needs bright new materials to lie un der a tree, and who cares a bout being wrinkled or mussed if Berra, Howard and Blanch ard are in the same lineup and the Giants are going to make it because Dark has his talent ed Willies. It's the time of the year when the world is new and wonderful and a time to re member that the world has al ways been new and wonder ful and that there have been early spring days when what ever Mae West did or Doro thy Parker said was new and wonderful, and a kid named Bob Feller was as fast as time payments and as wild as a Brazilian Mardi Gras, and the , Dodgers were in Ebbets Field. Once again the melody of baseball news pours softly through that transistor radio on the desk. The prospect lies happily ahead for long, warm days and longer nights and red-eyed mornings after night games. It’s pleasant to pick up the continuity that paused last fall when Mazeroski of Pittsburgh hit that improbable and won drous home run in the ninth inning of the seventh game of a World Series and made the historic jumping, hopping, ca vorting, delirious, Frank Mer riwell trip around the bases with the season-ending run. But that’s another season, and no matter what your al madac says, the calendar is divided into two seasons, win ter and baseball, and the great est of these is baseball. A new season dawns with baseball on sandlots, in back yards, school yards, and city streets. In ma jor and minor league parks and in all the places where radio speaks and television reaches. Squeals, bellows, and groans of fans, squirming, glorious kids, a hot dog on a roll and dripping ice cream for the small fry. That’s baseball from April 10 to October 1, from coast to coast, border to border, and for export. Big league ball in 8 National League cities and 10 American League. A team out of Minneapolis - St. Paul called “Minnesota,” the only team named for a state. An American League team in Los Angeles with the unlikely baseball sobriquet of “Angels.” Durocher is back and New combe is trying. It’s a year of great promise. But somehow it doesn’t seem quite the same without Brook lyn, and the Dodgers keeping house in Ebbetts Field. The NAACP Needs Your Support SDCGRTEYT THE ARIZONA SUN AL DUCKETT’S [□ n ( JfTI.Ba. TT'IJ'L D o *-11 Harlem,lT SA | On a Sunday afternoon, in a church on the South Side of Chicago, twenty years ago, one of America’s most gifted ora tors went to the speakers stand to present Fighter Joe Louis to the large audience. Precisely one hour and twenty minutes later, the orator wound up his “introduction” this way: “Ladies and gentlemen,” he trumpeted, “I give you the heavyweight champion of the world—Joe Louis.” The audience offered ap plause of great proportions and the big brown boxer stepped to the microphone to make his speech. “Ladies and gentlemen,” Joe Louis declared. “That wonder ful man that just introduced me well, he said it all.” Then Joe sat down. Brevity which is almost bru tal, the capacity for economy of expression without unbal ancing the budget of thought has been a hallmark of Joe Louis and his colorful life. Louis never wastes a word. Word waste, to the point of reckless extravagance, pre dominated during World War II at one of those sickeningly maudlin patriotic rallies in Madison Square Garden. One speaker after another inflicted his own specifically distilled prose upon a heroically patient audience. When they summon ed Joe Louis to the rostrum, he prayed: “Ladies and gentle men, I think we’ll win this war because God is on our side.” God stayed on this beloved champion’s side or at least in his corner during most of his stunning career. When Joe faced an encounter with a pu gilist better, .known for his mil eage than for mayhem in the ring, a reporter asked Louis solicitously, “What are you go ing to do when Tony Pastor gets on his bicycle?” Joe was more than equal to the occasion. “In that ring,” —““ u “*— / ... .... V i he philosophized, “You can run but you can’t hide.” Another of Joe’s fistic foes got neither a chance to run nor hide. His name was Max Schmelling. After the humil iation of his initial defeat at the buccolic Nordic’s hands, Louis dispatched Schmelling with so much contempt and in so few seconds that an anger ed fan sued the promoters on the grounds he had not seen a fight. Immediately afterward, Joe rushed from his dressing room to keep an appointment in Chicago. The following day, newsmen asked Louis for an analysis of his swift triumph. “I had to catch a train,” he explained solemnly. It was true. Louis had boarded a Chicago-bound train to wed Marva Trotter. Among the bon mots Cham pion Louis has delivered, there is at least one he might wish he hadn’t made. Several times during his career political can didates or parties have placed hope in Joe’s endorsement as an aid to corralling the Negro vote. During Adlai Stevenson’s campaign for the presidency against Dwight D. Eisenhow er, Louis was prevailed upon to publicly back the former Illinois Governor. Orators and politicians were making windy speeches. Editorials were be ing written —and barbershops and street comer forums were being held, all pitched in the same tenor—that a military man in the Presidency might ignore the national desire to avoid war. Succinctly, if not prophetically, Joe Louis cap sulized this point of view. When asked why he would not support Eisenhower, Joe ut tered the simple reply, “Be cause I think he’d be warlike.” Louis himself once returned to the sports wars after hang ing up his illustrious gloves. Sadly, his well-wishers read the news that he had agreed to referee wrestling matches in order to relieve his tragic Popular Guest Speaker (SUN Photo—Cloves Campbell) THREE OF A KlND—This jovial trio was snapped at the Eastlake Athletic Banquet last Tuesday evening. They are (L-R) Ernie Banks star shortstop for the Chicago Cubs, Carolyn Warren, Percy Julian student and autograph seek er, and the Rev. George B. Brooks, pastor, Southminster Presbyterian Church who gave the invocation. personal financial situation. The ex-champ was asked why he had resorted to this. He in volved characteristic candor. “Because I needed the money,” he answered. For money, Joe Louis has done a number of interesting things other than fight. He has been involved with a night club, an insurance company and a dairy. He even risked the disdain of organiza tions like the WCTU when he bestowed the loan of his name upon some promoters who loosed upon the market great floods of bourbon hopefully named Joe Louis Whisky. Lou is might lease his name but he wouldn’t sell his honor. He proved this one evening in a night club in Cincinnati where he and Ezzard Charles were among a group of friends. One of those professional crash-the-party fans with built in gushes assailed him with large friendship. Louis listen ed patiently to the woman, val iant in his effort to refrain from asking her to go away. When she finally appeared to be winding down, the woman was inspired with yet another topic to prolong the conversa tion. She congratulated the champion on his newest ven ture and began asking ques tions about Joe Louis Whisky. Nervously toying with a glass of ice water in front of him, Joe delivered words which would not have been viewed kindly by his sponsors. “Lady,” Joe declared, “You just have to take my word for it how good that whisky is, because I don’t drink.” That’s another important thing about Joe beyond his ability with words—he believes in what seems these days a lost art—telling the truth. If you like the ARIZONA SUN We'd appreciate Your support Send $3 for 1-year subscription To ARIZONA SUN 4014 S. Central CONTRACTORS & Sub-Contractors CAMELBACK PAINTING & DECORATING (Drywall) 4433 N. 7th Ave. CONSOLIDATED METAL PRODUCTS (Sheetmetal) 2223 North 35th Ave. DANIEL’S SHOWER DOOR (Appliances) 6309 North 7th St. FULLVIEW CORP. (Windows & Glass Doors) 1519 N. Black Canyon Hwy. Homes Furnished BY T & S Furniture March 30,1961