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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!
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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.
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