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SPORTS SPECIAL SPORTLINES -JESSE OWENS I took in a banquet with Ernie Banks the other night. Was I sur prised to hear he’s spending the winter going to school. He’s taking a psycnology course! Actually, that’s smart thinking, because Em isn’t just a ballplayer anymore. He’s a corporation, a property that scores of people depend on for their own living, and anything he can do to enlarge that property makes it worth that much more in the future. Joe Louis dropped in later, and the three of us chewed die fat for a while. Joe asked me if I thought Ernie would ever break Ruth’s record. I said that if anyone does it, it’ll be Em. But I have to admit that I think the Bambino’s 60 homer mark will stand up, even with a few extra games on the schedule (now that they’re going to a ten-team league). But I want to go on record right now and pre dict that this year will be Ernie’s best in baseball. He’s at his peak physically, and the fact that he DIDN’T win the Most Valuable Player Award last year takes a lot of pressure off him. While we’re jawing about the off-season exploits of our top stars— don’t be surprised if Wilt Chamberlain leads die Philly Warriors to a new won-loss record for pro basketball this season. They started by winning their first 9 games! Unless I miss my bet, the Boston Celtics are going to find them selves on the outside looking in for the first time in 1961. The spark behind it is Wilt’s determination to shut the mouths of some of his critics. He’s not going to do it with words. He’s going to do it with buckets. Wilt make some unwise statements earlier in the year after his bad decision to quit basketball. Now he sees he was wrong and intends to make amends in a big way. He told me that he spent the last two months of his off-season lifting weights every day so that he had that extra power behind his elbows in those fights for the ball. It’s one thing to be 7 foot 1 inch, buddy—but when those 85 inches are as powerpacked as Daddy Lipscomb’s or Rafer Johnson’s, man, that’s trouble. It was good to see the town of Gary, Indiana welcome Lee Calhoun back from his Olympic victory (and then two months of speaking dates around the U. S.) with a big job and a big $3,000 gift. Gary, you know, used to be a real anti-Negro town, but boys like Lee who realize that the world doesn’t owe them a living have changed all that. Cal houn went out and proved he had what it takes, becoming the first man in Olympic history to win a second gold medal in die low hurdles. Take it from me, that’s runnings I always kept in shape, but I doubt whether I could’ve repeated my wins in the 100 and 200 Meters in 1940. It’s an old axiom in sports that the faster you move, the faster time passes you by. That’s why the Buddy Youngs and Bobby Morrows hit the heights like comets and then drop out of sight while the Sam Sneads and Satchel Paiges just go on and on like old man river... Speaking of Buddy, the next great Negro running star in pro foot ball may be my young buddy, Ray Norton, who just joined up with die San Francisco 49’ers. Ray has only one thing going against him—small hands. But I talked to him last week, and I feel his gutsy determination to make up for his triple last place finishes in the Olympics is going to make the difference. Don’t ever count out that mental factor. I was in Ray’s room every evening after his races and those were hard hours. You get behind—so you press. That puts you farther behind and then you forget all the fine points and start using just plain brute force. I al most did the same thing in Berlin in '36. Hitler refused to see me because 1 was colored and I got hot under the collar and fouled twice in the broad jump trials. I had only one try left and I got hold of myself and made it. But I still shudder Mien 1 think of it. Buddy! Bill SMITH'S BAR B Q 1950 EAST BROADWAY RD. Op • n 7 days a *k. 11am to 2am doily - ELKS CLUB ™ 'THE FIVE BROTHERS’ EXCITING SOUNDS IN JAZZ Every Wed., Sat., & Son. nite +*** DANCING REFRESHMENTS BY RAMA FRIED CHICKEN - TACOS 1007 S. 7th. Avenue AL4 —0072 V \ 111 \ 1 J I I % I nn ,j JgJi Wg SCHOOLS STILL WAIT FOR MORE INTEGRATION Seven autumns and scores of lawsuits after the UjS. Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional, the Southern Education Reporting Service last week issued a mixed progress report. For the first time, in fall 1960, the South opened its public schools without a shred of violence—not a single riot or bombing disturbed the peace. But not one Negro child as yet at tends class with whites in Ala bama, Georgia, Mississippi, So. Carolina or Louisiana. Token integration for New Or leans' first grade pupils is sched uled for Nov. 14, but only 135 Negro children have applied. All "integrated” classes will be seg regated by sex. Even these min imal plans may yet by killed by Louisiana’s guitar-twang ing Governor Jimmie Davis, who insists that he will allow no in tegration at all. And out of 3,095,345 Negro pu pils in all Southern public schools only 183,104 attend integrated classes in 1960. Compared to last year, the gain is a slim 2,084. Arizona’s Busiest Liquor Store j I -Jl 50 PICKUPS *SO to ’6O Models Largest Selection in Ariz. PICKUPS PANELS SEDAN DELIVERIES STAKE TRUCKS *55 CHEV 1/2 ton $695 *53 CHEV.Carryall 4 spLike new *55 INTL.Travellall 4 speed $795 *6O FORD 1/2 ton $1395 10 Cheap Pickups From $195 •• FRANK CLIFTON** Truck City - AL 8-4282 1212 E. Van Buren SOUBLET’S BEAUTY SHOP 2014 E. 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