SIAC FEATURES BIG TRIANGULAR TRACK MEET SATURDAY Jtlanii Jsii Middle Atlantic Basketball Queens Morehouse, Tuskegee, Ala
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PAGE SIX *he piioenix index, phoenix, Arizona SATURDAY. APRIL 20, 1940 SIAC FEATURES BIG TRIANGULAR TRACK MEET SATURDAY JTlanii jSII Middle Atlantic Basketball Queens Morehouse, Tuskegee, Ala. Prep For Triangular Meet Saturday ByLucius "Melandroh/"Jones By “MELANCHOLY” JONES go against Talladega that. was ATLANTA, Ga.—(SNS) booked for the Atlanta University They’re going to have a triangular meet ov£r at lus- athletic field the past Satiuday afternoon However, the Maroon kegee Institute, Alabama this week end that will be the real Column Answers Numerous Tigers should offer formidable Questions McCoy. Principals in the brilliant track and field carnival competition despite t/ne lost op- are Morehouse, Alabama State, and Tuskegee. portunity mentioned. Put to it Past Few Days; Is Joe Louis affair This particular edition of the annual three-way TEMPLE GRAD, NEW COACH between the said institutions is significant chiefly because Dodging Godoy Alabama has a brand new track Arturo Return Bout? the trio represents the outstanding challengers to the title coach in David Albritton, champions. co-hold- World Heavyweight Champion now held by Xavier University, 1938-1939 SIAC er of several major high Jump Q—What is the address of assumption Saturday’s meet Joe Louis? The will be that the winner of titles Including the world record threat to succeed the classy Catholics from of Street, Chicago. willbe the main 6 feet 91-4 inches Albritton, A—Joe Louis resides at 83 East 35th New Orleans. like Eulace Peacock, hails from Q —What was the date of the last appearance of Erskinc Temple University, Philadelphia, Hawkins’ band in Atlanta? SAYS ALABAMA IS CLASSY selves, at least at tliat stage of Pennsylvania. Emory Birmingham the superior to the Tus- A—Erskine Hawkins’ hand last played in Atlanta Novem- O. Jackson, season, Over in sports editor and regular kegee thinlies. Montgomery, they're ber WORLD grooming a phenomenal pair 11, 1938 at Sunset Casino. SNS staff correspondent, writes Morehouse would liave been of dash men in Leo —Are any colored fighters listed among the ten leading that Alabama State and Tuskegee ready for Alabama and Tuskegee Tarrant and Q Thomas Lundy. Both ran the 100. for the heavyweight engaged in a non -decision dual this week-end sure enough had challengers crown? 200 and the 440-vard relay. Tar- Buddy Walk- April 6 with the result that not extremely cold weather re- A—There are two listed. Roscoe Toles No. 9, met rant survived the preliminary is Detroiter, while Walker is the pride the ’Bama Hornets proved them- sulted in postponement of the dual er No. 10. Toles a heats and placed third in the Tus- of Cincinnati. (Walker’s picture has run in the Atlanta kegee Relays and second in the Daily WORLD and SNS pages in connection with his kayo of STAC carnival. Lundy didn't place Unknown Winston and coming bout against the winner of Ric in either of those jousts, hut won Simms-Unknown Winston encounter. [ ROBERTS] both the century and furlong in the Eddie triangular Q —Where is Johnny Pavchek’s home? a meet against More- hails from Des lowa as does Lee Sa* house and Morris Brown on the A—Paychek Moines, A. IT. athletic field last season void. Illljp Those Among Us Q—Who is the present world heavyweight WRESTLING ELLERBE, TUSKEGEE’S champion ? HOPE qUf Who Deliver When Tuskeo-ee has A—-Ray Steele won the title from Bronco Nagurski, ex-Big HARPERS FERRY, W. Va. (SNS)—The the inevitable stretch. Mozel Ellerbe from Hastings Fla., Ten football All-American, at Tom Pack's Auditorium in Storer College Golden Zephyrs, shown above, (he were In the 14 games of the 1940 season, Gold- who won 20 of 22 races abroad Louis recently? 1940 winners AllSeems Lost St. of the Middle Atlantic Athletic As- en Zephyrs tallied 449 points while allowing the summer before last; three-time colored ? Q—ls Mildred Bailey white or sociation women’s basketball championship with opposition hut 264 and, of Storer’s total, Captain winner of the 100-yard dash at, white. A—The gifted vocalist is 13 victories in 14 starts. The girls haven’t lost a Genevieve Bradford was responsible for 195 points Tuskegee: two-time NCAA cham- fighter once kayoed Jim- pion; 1938 Q—What is the name of the who game on their home court in two years and, all —over 40 percent. Coach of the Golden Zephyrs SIAC century and fur- / my one round? told, have won long champion; Kansas Invita- Braddock in 21 out of 25 games during that j is Leroy D. Johnson. RIGHT DOWN the years, in every walk of life, come A—His name is Corn Griffin. tional Relays record-breaker in legends and tales historic truth woven around exploits the Relays Q Joe Louis and Marva, his wife, at the end of the and 100: Penn and Drake —Are rise to the occasion when the going was champion; and centurv and fur- matrimonial trial as rumors state? of men who could toughest, when lives or fortunes or futures dangled dan- long champion fn the prairie View A—There is nothing the column knows of or has heard to College Relay Carnival. substantiate reports the couple is separated. Its personal Negroes ‘Hog’ Titles In Hot AAU gerously in the balance. recounting this aspect of life the other day opinion is that there’s nothing at all to these rumors and We were Ellerbe would have been the and discovered that heroes of every age were those who No 1 dash rrmn of the American that the frequency with which they are heard may be attrib- child! kind of could accept the old challenge of “fireman, save my team had the 1940 Olympiad rot uted simply to the fact that they make the best been cancelled due to the war sit- gossip or beauty salon talk. Finals At Boston, April 8-10 apd master it. These are the Cyrano de Bergeracs, the Napoleon Bonapartes uation. He has trifled with the Q—Who do you think is Louis’ most dangerous challenger? BOSTON—(By Mabe world record of 9 4 seconds held by Kountze second round took dome terrific final rival, Jimmy Reddick of St. the Abraham Lincolns, the Don Jaun s and the stardusted immortals A—Tony Galento, the beer barrel. Arluro Godoy can make ANP}—Five punches to couple Louis. belong Jesse Owens of Ohio State and for out of eight J 940 the wind, also a i Ail of the real Hawaiians of lore 'and fiction breathtaking, incredible persons who bad, but he’d never knock him out or decision of blasts off but greeted Frank WykofT of the University of Louis look National AAU boxing champion- the jam, stood Up had so their Negro rivals ages. to the . , Southern California on numerous him. ships and fought back sensationally with with a smile as they to of went to dusky fighters here did A Napoleon at the battle of Austerlltz destroying a horde occasions He lan the centurv In is your as Joe Louis’ next three bouts? the crowd in an uproar. They say whites Whether Reddick, a classy Q—What opinion to last week at the Boston Garden. forces almost triple his own in num- 9.5 in meet, Pastor in two colored won’t fight. These two light-heavy, resented this insult 1 Russian, German and Austrian .seconds the Kansas A—The column believes Louis will meet Bob Three Negro Americans: Frankie tile Tuskegee Relays, and 1938 almost slaughtered each other. don’t know, but Jimmy spring a bers. the June in Yankee Stadium with his next engagement being Robinson of Pittsburgh in the 126- SIAC meet Vicious lefts a fights were huge upset by beating against Arturo Godoy and Tony Galento that order, pro- lb. class; Henry Brimm of Buffa- nd Mr. Quintal. walls of history an epochal address in exploding all over the place. Cross The decision was Jim A Lincoln chisling into the lo in the 147-lb. class; and Wally unanimous. TWO CRACK SPECIALISTS vided the latter bout is conducted in 1940. If the Bomber staggered the Cyclone and the met a hairy puncher, Vic at Gettysburg. Cfross of East Orange, N. J., tough doesn’t take on Galento this year, the column feels assured crowd went crazy. Countering Hutton of the Indianapolis As for Morehouse, as has been heavyweight, respective team, parentage and superior family again. won their smartly, These performances corne roar- stated before, she was a well- no such bout will ever come off division titles. Cross won the third and | in the final and was outclassed for trees but it is singular that 90 in the the ing down the lanes of time des- balanced team with two outstand- RUNAROUND TACTICS are being charged tlie title. v title. Reddick, however, is now shape, per cent of the top heroes of his- Two Hawaiian Americans: john- 175-lb. runner-up. tined to influence and per- ing specialists in George (Bobber' present heavyweight circuit. Joe Louis’ handlers are ac- class un- tory came from nowhere. A great ny Manolo, 112-lb. class, and JONES VICTIMISED haps the lives of millions yet Mitchell. SIAC high point man of super-caution as regards a return bout with Artu- Paul talk of percentage of them rose from the cused of Matsuxoako, 131 -lb. class, won one LITTLE “ROBBED” TOO born. One hears much 1939, and Ulysses Amos, who was Bomber Milton Jones, gamester of the ancestry depths in face of decisive odds. ro Godoy on the score chat they think the Brown fourth of the AAU championships, There were originally 173 blue blooded and fine runner-up to St.