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VOL XIX NO. 40 DETROIT, MICHIGAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1941
ROSCOE GOING GOOD
ASk
Rn«rnr Tn|f«. tho Detroit lad who
irrm< t« always tiirht In had
Inrk. i« dolne quite well for him*
Through
The Sports Mirror
By Russ J. Cowans
By JESS HAUGABOOK
Pinch Hitting for Russ Cowans
Roll.* S. \ est, Michigan's only Negro boxing inspector,
Mjs "1 believe Joe Louis is making a very splendid ges
ture under the circumstances by being the first Negro ac-
tively engaged in trying to break down
racial barriers in the Navy!!” Vest
continued, “the Navy will he obligat
ed to Louis and the Negro race. I
feel that in the long run it will directly
or indirectly help Negro bovs in the
navy.”
Asked whether or not he thought
the bout would be a financial success,
Mr. Vest declared, “the fight should
really go over big with the fight fans,
not because they think that Baer has
a winning chance, but because of the
Rollo Vest
recent interest in the Navy's dilemma since the I’ear! Har
bor incident. I pick Louis to K.O. P»aer before the sixth
round."
• • • • •
V oung Kid McCoy and Fritiie Zivic battled it out
to see who would get a shot at Ray Robinson who re
cently beat Zivic. In turn, the winner was to meet
Red Cochrane for the welterweight title. But it just
so happened that at the end of the ten furious rounds
the decision was a draw. It was all Zivic up until the
sixth round when McCoy staged a remarkable come
back that swayed the official decision in favor of the
draw verdict.
Michael Strauss Jacobs will probably give McCoy a
chance at "Sugar” sometime the latter part of January.
Most everyone believes that Red Cochrane will prob
ably lose the title no matter who he contests—Robinson,
McCoy or Zivic.
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Omega, Kappa
Victories Will
Make 3-Way Tie
The trains of the Fraternity
Basketball league go into the final
play <>f the first round next Sat
u"lay. If the Omegas ran win from
the Naoiiema and the Kappas front
'.he Alphas, there will he a three
way tie fo' - first place honors.
J.ast Saturday the Fraternity!
Basketball league went into their
second r«uml of j;antes at the St
Xntoine YMJ A. The Lampados won
front the Spltinx 1* to lit. The
Nat irenta took the Kappas 29 to 211
and the Amcgas won from the A!
plias 2,', to 21- The Heelers heat the
1 Sc roller* hy one point in an over-
I time period in the preliminary
game. All tlie games were very
I • lose last Saturday as Indicated by
'the scores. Two new faces were
•seen on the floor playing for the
Beefcr.s in the persons of “Flush",
A. ( alloway ami his colleagU",
(«oorgo Taylor. The going was a lit
tie rough for Taylor so he left tin
boys to resume Ills pool g.inie.
Every man on the Reefers team'
broke into the scoring column. Thei
Sphinx ami Lampados had the low !
cst scoring game, each team ac-|
counting for In and 13 points tv
sportively. The N'acirema game w.i-'
Played under a protest hy Captain
Hewitt William*. Williams protest
ed against the N'acirema club play
ing men who did not belong to the
t lub. The N'aeidemas won only aft
er a hard fought game.
When the Omegas and Alphas ap
peared on the floor our prediction
of last week came through when'
"null" Moore appeared In uniform.'
I Although “Bull'' did not score, his |
inspiration and hnrd play spurred!
Ills team to a 23 to 21 victory over
the Alphas. Tom Briscoe took up
where Pete left off 1 a~t week to
I score eight of his team's points.
ALL-STATE PICK
Iflpß' ’ ■+ AltS
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linraee Smith, Jackson Hltrh
school halfliack who has lioen sc*
l.clcil on all throe Michigan nil*
»fiifc football teams of |»42 by
The Itetroit News, Times and
Free Press, Smith weighs |**n
|MHin<l«, is ti*e feet, ten Inches
high, |s yeurs of nice and Is a
Innl«r He trained tint yards dor*
the season, without a single turn
l»le, and Is Michigan's best hltrh
school ball carrier of the year.
Horace Is also an outstanding
trackman, holding several rec
ords.
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Lem Franklin, < lev eland's sift t<>
pugilism, recently hail the cast
removed from his broken ihuinii
mill U anxious to 1111*1*1 any 01
Max Jamb's top rank heavy
weights in a charity hout. Ills
manager. Jack Hurley Is clamor*
ilia from the house tops tor a
crack at Joe l.uiiis, I rank lin has
won l!l out of his last op tights
liy knockouts.
| Clatter 0( Hoofs
R> RAZZ BROUN
Well, boys, it will not lie long be
fort! the bells of Santa Anita will
b« ringing for the nags to go post
wanl, and when they do, it's going
to be a grand meeting. Yes, the best
of rat ing.
NVhirlaway, the star of the show
out that way is now tuning up for
a l"ti grand race. Now, rcmembei.
if you see where "Whiriie” ha
worked one mile In about ljoti
don't become overjoyed, as there t
<uie thing about this long-tailed red
boss he can work faster than ino
any boss can run in a regular race.
' hut once he faces the starting gat'
land the starter say* ’tlo." he al
i way- t ails a way back and note
| has bten able to tell why he has Do
| spet and in hi- races. Now, the air i
very light in California and a hos
usually comes to hand quickly anti
has a very quick hurst of speed. I
have never been able to tigure out
Sunbeau on the Coast, as his races
were very peculiar out then
Whirlavvay is a very hard boss to
gel ready for any race, which hi>
I trainer, Ren Jones, knows by now
and he will have ample time to
bring him to his best.
The Milky Way Farm stable Is
out fi t a big M ason tit Santa Anita,
so the dockers wired in. and they
the ground anil up In the wee hours
of the morning. Yes. yes!
Muse K. It. Bradley has parsed
the fell-mile post anti thinks he will
win the Kentucky Derby in '42.
Who would have ever thought that
Jockey Wayne Wright would ever
be talking about staging n come
back’ Os course. Santa Claus Is
only a myth, but Colonel K. U.
Bradley will be that to orphan
hoys, with the finest Christmas din
ner in the land waiting tor them.
Alsab is the promising It-ycar
old coming tip for the big event In
'42. in many years, but one can
never tell about ho.«s flesh. They
arc like primu donnas anything
can happen.
Florida is ready to open with the
cream of the crop and the dock
ers wig-wag me that the old host,
the Chief, st ems to lie in tine fettle.
That’s good news, a® this hoss was
a sweetheart a few years back and
maybe he i.« back to top formXXXX
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Sports Writers Select Champ
Joe Louis For ’4l Niel Award
NMV YORK -(C)—The Edward |
j Neil Memorial Plaque for having
il* in* the most for boxing (luring the !
11 year was awarded to Joe LouU I
at the Boxing Writers' association!
i annual meeting. He will get it on
••an. If at their annual dinner at
Ruppc rl'a Brewery.
Louis was unanimously selected
by the tight scribes at a luncheon
meeting Wednesday at Toots Shor n
Previous winners were Jack Lieuip*
feey. ::s; Billy Conn, '39. and Hen
ry Armstrong, 'lu.
Tin* writers also listed the chief
challengers to each champion, as
toliows; Heavyweight Champ Jot*
l/ouis—Billy Conn and Buddy Baer;
Lightweight Gu* Lesnevieh—Book
er Beckwith and Ken Overlin;
Middleweight Tony Zale —George
Abrams and Coley Welch; Welter
weight Freddie Cochrane Hay Rob
inson and Young Kid McCoy; Light
wctght Lew Jenkins—Boh Mont
, tin ry and Sammy Angott, Feath
erweight Chalky Wright Pit's
| burgh Jackie Wilson and Richie
Lemon Bantamweight Lou Salim
K'ii Kong Young and Rush Dal
j ma. The flyweight division, seldom
I active around these parts, was ig
i nored.
It is interesting to note that there
.. o two Negro champions. Louis,
heavyweight; Chalky Wright, feath
c weight; and three Negroes list
•'l as outstanding contenders in
j "heir respective divisions. They are
l I 'S'ker Beckwith, light heavy
weight; Ray Robinson, vvelter
weight, and Bob Montgomery, light- 1
weight.
Any one of these contenders
would prahahlv win the title if
c veil the opportunity to engage the '
champion. In the lightweight rtl
\ision Boh Montgomery of Philadel
phia has defeated former champ
s.immy Angott in a non-title hout.
In the featherweight da-s Chalks
Wright of I.oa Angeles gets the
nod over Pittsburgh’s Jackie Wil
-on, recognized as king of the feath
iis by the Natinnal Boxing us?o
--i iation.
HUNTERS - " ’
ARE WARNED
CEVEX cases of tularemia have
been reported in Detroit during
this year. Five of them were con
tracted by handling rabbits while
hunting; one was traced to a meat
market outside of Detroit and the
other was contracted in a Inbora -
• tory .
Dr. Bruce H Douglass, commis
sioner of health. States that there
,is an ordinance that requires that
' ill rabbits shipped Into Detroit shall
i ntain the viscera of the animal.
The viscera are Inspected by the
, Department of Health before the
I rabbit Is allowed to be sold. This ln-
I spectlon has been responsible for
I eliminating tularemia which may be
acquired from handling rabbits sold
for domestic use tn Detroit. Dr.
Douglas warns those who hunt rab
bits to use rubber gloves when
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All-American Kenny Washington,
graduate from the I Diversity of
Southern Cnllfornla. who Is now
assistant coach at bis alma muter.
The Boasting Beefers
Nose Out Scrollers
Tile Rattling "Reefers" made good
their boast o', last week w lien they
tame through with a victory over!
list years < hump ion-hip Scroller
team. The fast moving Scroller;
dub got away to a quick lead only
to have the determined ' Reefers"
forge ahead at the half-time. The
second half was a nip and tuck af
fair with the game ending in a dead
lock. In tiie over time period the
Roasting Reefers forged to the front
and finally won by one point—2o
-
Outstanding Reefers for the eve
ning were "Fla-sii” Calloway, for
mer "Flint Terror" who scored the
tying basket that forced the gam**
into an overtime nlair. The fine
floor play and basket sniping of
La.Marr and («resham pulled, the
Reefers through the rough spots,
(icorge tilorsei Taylor and Claude
Cooper’s parsing and ha-kef mak
ing ability helped push the Beefers
on to victory. Coach Frank Lett
played bis u*ual dean game.
What we (the Reefers) want to
know Is where do the Beefers stand
now If you remember last week
the Sphinx beat the beefers while
the Strollers wore lambasting the
l>ampados. Well, this last week
end the Beefers belittled the Scroll
ers and the Lampados spanked the
Because of his outstanding feats
during hi* college days, Kenny
has also Keen given several roles
in motion picture hits.
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Ihe “A'* \ J'ybi'i 1 team woo
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nesday by a forfeit whijp the ‘*4**
team «ir< i-fx*l j-amey »o Kl-h
--j er.
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The Inte rcetl -it*' Boys *nd Senior
lb \ > hadff f id dav a* Northeast*
ern "V" whin they won e,-> ?, jq
and M> tu 4. respertjvf'y. l.orc'.ro
; Wriclu of the I r»n i medtate fcr>ys'
I team scored I*', points f r hi»f» iion*
j oif. whit" H.n<kwc and/johnson
[each scored ]_ p* nn t- / Jvai- n,
I Shipp and Baldwin. i\/ ether m* tu
ber- of the team, also scored.
Senior Boys
J Gussman it.d lia\;* of »h’ Senior
Boys* taani < <»< id I ; points to
! sji.>p h’Sh point honor wftue Turn*
:u, Khyt and Han met n each s< ored
U po.irv. I.tad ay and B< 11. tha
other inetKlit; of the team ai-o
scored.
Sw I in mi m;
Tilt Sell or Boy immtr.r team
took eionil jo ;s Friday at
the anßu' it n. ' be* i*«fn West*
ern. Si* o r ..r.d St An* me- .in 'he
w. Me*.V’ p • Sa ii day _tl.«
Junior and 1 r:t• "•tod «*e -toys tray*
' eled to the NOr'! • rn t ' a me.'t
!»*<•«#. n Nortti. tti hi**i At
j '1 he Junior h' > • won and the fnter
! mediate hoys c >it' n • ond.
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