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SPORTS and the THE STAGE
FOOTBALL SEASON COMING.
As the baseball season will soon
come to a close, next comes the hard
game season called football. Mr.
Tyndall Graves will manage the R.
M. A. C. football team and much will
be expected of him and his team.
Guy Cocker will also manage a team,
the name is not yet known. And
the Y. M. C. B.’s will have their team
which will probably he managed by
Wayman Ward or Clarence Langston.
The several colored baseball teams
made a rank failure this season. It
is hoped that the football teams will
be altogether different. Give us the
play and we will see it.
HARRISON STEWART AND MATT
MARSHALL.
Have you all seen Stewart & Mar
shall at the Orpheum this week Well,
if you haven’t seen them, don't miss,
as they are what you would call the
original Negro comedians. Their act
is different from what most comedi
ans put on. They do a singing and
talking act that is certainly scoring a
big hit. Harrison Stewart was for
merly the leading man in the Pekin
Stock Co. of Chicago, and he and his
partner. Marshall, have written some j
of the greatest coon songs in the late j
history of colored sond writers. They [
will close tomorrow night at the Or
pheum, so don’t miss seeing them.
INDIAN CLUB SWINGING AT THE
R. M. A. CLUB.
Mr. Tyndall Graves and Mike Bud
Thomas will give a club swinging ex-1
- hibition at the R. M. A. Club this |
coming Wednesday night, Sept. 14th.
in the gym. Everybody invited, 8:30
p. m.
A NEW ARRIVAL.
The name "Whirlw'ind Jack,” so fa
miliarly known in New York, will
soon become one of our passwords in
the pugilistic order of the West, as
we have among us Mr. Jack Morris,,
who intends remaining here for some j
time and hopes to pull off some bouts
before returning East, with some of
the crack lightweights of this part of,
the country.
We understand that this fighter has
a pretty successful ring career up to
the present, and since his arrival (of
about three months ago! has given a
few sparring exhibitions privately,
and impressed his spectators very
much. We therefore wish him every
success and hope within a very short
time to be able to insert in our col
umns his challenge to our western
stars.
AMATEUR BASEBALL.
Howard McGinnis, manager of the
boys’ Zion Athletic Baseball Team, is
a very proud young man these days.
Why? Because he brought his team
to the front last Sunday by defeating
the Ohio Congregational baseball
team, playing ten innings, score 5 to
4. This is the only colored team that
has played the whole season through.
And the team can boast of having
a fine set of uniforms. Young Mc-
Ginnis will soon organize a football
team for boys under 18 years.
SPECIAL TO THIS PAGE.
(By Stewart & Marshall.)
Dear People of Denver:
What are you all thinking of? Here
you have one of the grandest cities In
the world, a city of wealth and pur-
THE STATESMAN, DENVER, COLORADO.
By LEON PRYOR
ity. Here, I might judge, is a city
-with ten thousand Negro population,
1 and no place for what the world likes.
That is pleasure, a nice ten and twen
■ ty-cent theatre in this city conducted
■ and owned by Negroes, would be the
L greatest kind of an advancement to
■ the people and the home talent.
■ Every city in the East and South of
• any size has a colored theatre. So,
[ people of Denver, it would be the
great and only thing for the amateur
• performers of Denver to have a place
| where they could show their ability.
: So why not have a place of your own.
such as they have in all the other
cities. In away it is a fine chance
to help educate the amateur. So all
of you that want to see the race ad
• vance in this one profession, help to
have a Negro theatre and then watch
the new aspiring young Negroes for
■ the stage. That’s how we started.
THE TWO JOHNSONS.
M
t The Johnsons who played at the
■ Pantages last week were quite a hit,
[ j singing and dancing their latest song
i 1 hits, “If He Comes in” <ind “Listen
-. to the Crowd.”
i;
BERT WILLIAMS IN FOLLIES 1910-
! 11.
Bert Williams, the peer of all Ne
gro comedians, is another colored
man whose salary is larger than that
of the president of the United States.
I He is starring in the Follies 1910-11
lig white company. They play 52
weeks without a stop and only play
I six cities, New York, Boston, Phila
. delphia, Washington. Chicago and St.
< Louis. Bert is getting the salary of
; SI,OOO per week. Does it pay to be
! an actor?
KID ORGAN VS. LAURY JACKSON.
These two likely boys will give a
sparring exhibition tonight at the R.
M. A. club. Kid Organ is a coming
light heavyweight under the manage
ment of Laury Jackson of this city.
GEORGE WALKER INSANE.
; George Walker the late and only
. partner to Bert Williams, has gone
completely insane and was placed in
the asylum of Kansas week before
’ last. His condition is a critical one
, and the doctors say there is no hope
for him.
i
MISS JENNETTE TRIPPLET.
The fair entertainer of Chicago has
. joined the Chicago Jubilee Co. and is
i making quite a hit with her singing
and playing. She was a visitor to
Denver last summer and made many
friends.
BOBIE KEMP, AVERY & HART.
These people have two different
[ acts that will come over the Orpheum
r circuit th.s season. Bobie Kemp will
I have a company of four, while Avery
> & Hart will do a big team act.
SAM LANGFORD AND JOE JEN
NETTE.
Sam Langford, the Negro light
I heavyweight of Boston, known as the
Tar Baby, defeated Joe Jennette in
the- fifteenth round last Tuesday
night in Boston. It was the longest
and hardest battle that has been held
!in Boston for years. Jennette is a
good man, hut was just outclassed by
■ Sam Langford. Now Langford will
start once more after Jack Johnson,
whom he thinks he can beat. My ad
vice to Sam is to sidestep Johnson for
a while and take on A1 Kaufman and
Tommy Burns. They are more in his
class.
Klondike wants to fight John
Haynes, the old time colored heavy
weight known as Klondike has cer
tainly got his hair up. He is just
crazy to fight Con O’Kelly, Tommy
Ryan’s giant heavy, or any of the rest
of them. Klondike says that he is the
only man who ever knocked Jack
Johnson out and thinks that he should
be taken into consideration.
DR. WASHINGTON LIKES
BERT WILLIAMS' WORK.
Says Comedian la a Tremendous Asset
to the Negro Rao*
When I go to the theater, which !«
not often. 1 generally go to hear the
colored comedian Bert Williams, says
Dr. Booker T. Washington In the Sep
tember American Magazine.
I go to hear him. however, as often
as I have opportunity, and 1 am sel
dom In the same city with him that I
do not find myself. If 1 happen to have
an hour of In the direc
tion of the theater io which he is play
ing.
If I were a dramatic critic 1 suppose
I might give some sound logical rea
sons for liking Bert Williams’ style
and methods. But I am not a critic,
and vaudeville performances, us a rule,
strike me as tiresome.
There is so much that seems to me
strained and artificial and lacking In
the flavor of ordinary wholesome hu
man nature But Bert Williams' hu
mor strikes me as the real thing.
There is nothing secondhand or second
rate about it
His fun seems to flow spontaneously
and without effort, as if It came from
some deep natural source In the man
himself. Besides, there are a quality
and a flavor about Bert Williams' hu
mor which Indicate that It is the nat
ural expression of a thoughtful and
observing mind.
Bert Williams is a tremendous asset
of the Negro race. He Is an asset be
cause be has succeeded In actually do
ing something, and because he has suc
ceeded the fact of his success helps
the Negro many times more than he
could help the Negro by merely con
tenting himself to whine and complain
about racial difficulties and racial dls
criminations.
The fact Is that the American people
are ready to honor and to reward any
man who does something that Is worth
while, no matter whether he is black
or white, and Bert Williams' career is
simply another illustration of that fact
DENVER PERSONALS.
Mrs. T. C. Butler who has been for
the past year with her mother. Mrs. E.
Harris, left Wednesday to join son in
Seattle.
Miss M. E. Harding and sister, Gus
sie, of Junction City. Kans., are visit
ing the families of Mrs. J. Brown and
Mrs. E. Harris.
Mrs. J. J. Brown is ill.
This office is prepared to do all
kinds of job printing. Estimates fur
nished. It is the only race enterprise
of its kind operating, and If you de
sire Its service call phone Main 7905.
There is a difference between merely
soliciting printing and actually doing
the work. Get our prices and you
will see that difference.
KNOX SOUNDS WARNING.
Time For Negro Voters to Break Camp,
He Says.
Under the caption “Put Thought Into
It” Editor E. C. Knox of the Indian
apolis (Ind.) Freeman says:
“The Negro voters for years have
Shown a devotion to the one party
Republican—which for faithfulness Is
really pathetic. As long as old condi
tions maintained, when all the good
came through one party, as It was
thought, to community, to country, to
race, these voters were doing the prop
er thing, since it should be the purpose
to bring about the best possible condi
tion to all. \
“But parties change, as men change,
as the fashions change. The good thing
of yesterday Is a bad thing for today.
Politics Is as variable as the waters.
“If clinging blindly to the past
means present perturbment. then It Is
the plain duty to swing out Into the
clear, get a better bearing on things.
Pick and choose your change and then
anchor alongside.
“We hold that something of the thing
hoped for will be gained If the Negro
voters break camp, scatter ns the ne
cessity calls. Into such parties and
groups as answer their political views,
such views being Influenced by the
happenings and circumstances that
change other men.
“This Is the political Intelligence that
must be exerted In order to avoid the
grooves where men stagnate and de
cay. Neither party at this day wishes
the blind nlleginnce of a class based on
servlrps tendered In a past that is no
part of the present”
CAPABLE MAN ON THE JOB.
R. L. Powell, Who Hai Mastered Art
of Manufacturing Ice Cream.
Manifestations of the fact that our
people are succeeding along most all
lines of business and in the professions
are almost daily occurrences. The
manufacturing of ice cream, however.
Is a field to which the race bus not
given much serious thought from m
business standpoint.
True, there nre among us a number of
capable men who have made good us
caterers or confectioners, but the fine
art of the business as a money making
venture, wo fear, has only U»en lightly
entered Into
One of the best quullfled men in the
art of manufacturing this toothsome
product of whom we know in Greater
New York Is Robert Lincoln Powell.
Mr Powell has held the [>ositlon of
foreman In the manufacturing depart
ment of the Reid Ice (Team company
at Its summer plant in Anbury I’urk.
N J.. for a number of years and has
given entire satisfaction.
In the winter season .Mr. Powell is
employed by another concern in Brook
lyn. He knows the business In all of
its complex parts and Is thoroughly re
liable. It might be the key to Ills fu
ture success If he would go Into the
business for himself.
Christianity Should Begin at Horn#
From the number of horrible mur
ders of helpless women and lynching
of equally defenseless Negroes ih
white man seems to Ik? falling from hi*
vaunted high degree and to be return
Ing to his former savagery.
Could not much of the wealth and
energy si>ent in foreign missionary
work flud greater opportunities In
America? Charity should begin at
borne.—l/os Angeles (Cal.) New Age