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SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1940 THE PHOENIX INDEX, PHOENIX, ARIZONA PAGE FOUR AMERICAN ASSOCIATION 1940 NET RATINGS ISSUED I 'Slant/ Alabama State Relays At Montgomery Sat. on /flfl ington, D. C. Way 9—Clarence J. Grinnell, Gettys- 3PCK¥% IA How World's Fastest Hu man' Cot That burg, Penna. 10 Colleges Entered ifc/Lucius !'Melancholy 'Jones JUNIOR SINGLES 1—Robert Ryland, Chicago, 111'. 2Joseph King, Mclntosh, Ga. 3 Roland McDaniels, Richmond, Jesse Owens’ Track Greatness Proves Virginia. In Classic Carnival Ashfdrd, Columbia, Real Stars Are Born, Not Made; Ohio 4 Robert MONTGOMERY, Ala.—(SNS)— gala social occasions on Friday and S. C. The Alabama State Relays are to Saturday night when the graduate 5 Raymond Jackson, Jr., Brook- Saturday, April 27 chapters of Al- Ace Picked Cotton As Youth , be initiated on and undergraduate lyn, N. Y. when the Alabama State Teachers pha rhi Alpha fraternity respec- FROM COTOTON PICKER to Olympic winner of four 6 Marshall Arnold, Atlanta, Ga. College will be host to a number of tively stage their annual dances to first places and unanimous acclaim as “world’s fastest hu- 7 Weldon Collins, Durham, N.C. visiting track representatives of which the visiting representatives man”. That is the saga of James Cleveland Owens —more 8— Louis Graves, New Orleans, Southern colleges for the first of will be invited . any Horatio Alger tale the column ever read, La. what promises to be an annual oc- fictional than 9 George Oliver, Institute, W casion on the track calendar of There will be plenty of coml*etl- ever read. Southeast and of the college. tion. The Hornet track aggrega- Va. the capable the way, is correct name of the young 10— Ellis, Brooklyn, N.Y. The Alabama State Teachers tion under the direction of James, by the Donald James, David Al- 11— Evans, Durham, N.C. College offer a very attractive Coaches Elisha man we’re all hailing as Jesse Owens. Erroneously called Edward will Brown 12—Peter Detroit, setting for this event. The track britton and John H. will be by a persistent teacher during his boyhood days, Whittaker, tough competitive hosts- as evi- “Jesse” Michigan. has just been built within the past being contentious in the least, goodnaturedly denced by their showing in a dual Owens, not 13—Eiwood Smith, New Orleans, two years and has a very fast permitted the wrong designation and, to this day, has been footing which has been built with- meet at Tuskegee. in the prairie La. years View Relays and in the triangular identified as “Jesse” Owens rather than Jimmy Owens. GIRL’S SINGLES in the past two and has a very footing has given meet with Tuskegee and More- The story of Owens’ rise is similar to that of Joe I—Vivian Murphy, Buffalo, N.Y. which been further treatment during the past house today. Plenty of competi- The is especially striking in that both were 2—Helen Hutchinson, Tuskegee Morehouse, Louis’. parallel three weeks under the personal di- tion will come from born in Alabama and picked cotton during days. institute, Ala. Tuskegee, Talladega, Knoxville, childhood La- rection of the world-renowned heavyweight boxing champion hails from 6 Thelma McDanielfc;, Rich- of Ohio State Florida, Xavier, Kentucky State, The world mond, David Albritton fayette. The “world’sfastest human” was born in Danville, Va. fame who is a member of the Lincoln University of Missouri Audrey Jersey. children. and Mrs. Henry C. 4 Daviis, New Hornet Track Coaching Staff for and Southern University who are one of eight His parents, Mr. 5Lyda Greene, Columbia, Ohio, in 1922. Bell this season. The Hornet Stadium possibly to be represented with Owens, moved to Cleveland, S. C. colleges the entry list for entered Fairmont Junior High in is an attractive setting in which to other in In 1926, Jesse Owens s—Gloria Downing, Rbanoke, stage this event with the concrete the usual round of events that will Cleveland where he first took up track. His first coach was Va. stands in process of completion get underway with possible pre- Charles Riley, white, and he thinks it is he who deserves 7 Florence Holmes, Durham, and with the quarter-mile track liminary heats in the morning and credit the fame he (Owens) has garnered on the N. C. and the 220 straightaway. The at- the finals beginning at two o'clock most for col- vinderpath. 8—Wilhelmina Waymer, New tractive gymnasium will offer Saturday afternoon before a York for all the orful throng who will share this in junior high school, actually outran and City. lodging accommodations Even 9Frances Harris, Durham, N.C. visiting trackmen on the ground first bigtime track meet in Hornet fact, his —— jumped university stars of In , out the Cleveland. all 10— Mathilda Davis, Elizabeth floor and will be the scene of the Stadium. r junior high track records still stand. They are: high jump, N. J. 6 feet; 220 yard dash, 21.4 seconds; 100 meters, 10.6 sec- BOY’S SINGLES onds; and 75 yard dash, 7.4 seconds. 1—Robert Isaacs, Nassau, Ba- The Olympic hero entered East Tech High in 1930, ATA Releases Annual Rating Os hamas Islands'. Ric ROBERTSI Riley still coaching him. He participated in 47 meets in 2Charles W. Lewis, Jr., Prairie View, Texas. in second year. He was ¦ senior high, losing only five—all his 3 Forrest Dawson, Durham, years. a never a loser in his junior and senior prep He set N.C. Dr. F. D. Patterson yard the new record in every sprint from the 50 dash to Tennis Stars Os United States 4Harry Pratt, Baltimore, Md yard during this period. Not a siitfslg one of those 220 dash Hampton, 5 George Simpkins, Durham, Frightens yard dash, pionship Tournament, Emory 0. marks has ever been excelled. They are: 50 5.2 Arnold, Robert Scott, No. 6, Winner New York Open N. C. Marshall Va.; 6 Jr., seconds; 100 yard dash, 9.4 seconds; 220 yard dash, 20.7 Tournament; Finalist Western New Quintan Vaughn, Brook- lyn, » seconds; and broad jump, 24 feet, 11 3-4 inches. At the Boys Singles; York Open Tournament. N>. Y. Jackson And Me No. 9 In Junior, Former 7 Louis A. Chippey, Raleigh, Mansfield Relays (prep classic), Owens set new 2 Miss Roumania Peters, Tus- famous N. C. the jump kegee Institute, Ala.: Finalist Na- fiy records in the I'oo and 220 yard dashes and broad r—.-(t Also 1 in Junior 8— James 'll Rated No. Doubles tional Champoonsliip T.iuyna- Wood, Baltimore, Md. r ,1 I that still stand. 9Robert Scott, Atlanta, Ga. ment; Winner Florida Open Tour- State where Jesse Owens did his collegiate 10—Charles Lewis, Orange- ATLANTA, Ga.—(SNS) At Ohio By ARTHUR P. CHIPPEY lina CLen Tournament; Semi- nament; Finalist 24tli Infantry Jr., entrance there burg, I that a gazetteer on another Scott News- work, he broke all kinds of records after his (Secretary ATA) finalist Middle Atlantic Open Open S. C. notice fellow Tournament. 11—Ernest in 1933. RALEIGH. N. C—(S N S)—Tht Tournament. Mrs. Frances Gittens, Brook- Harrington, Durham, paper Syndicate venture, the ten-year old BirmCngham when 3 N. of But the day of days in Owens’ career—the day Ratings of the American Tennit 8— Clifford Russell, Tuskegee In- lyn, N. Y.: Quarter-finalist Na- C. World, drank in the stern warning dished out to 3,000 Association for the year 1939 ‘.titute, Ala.: Round before 12— -Robert W. Johnson, Lynch- he became the foremost track and field artist in world his- have Quart- tional Championship Tournament; us the other night down at Tuskegee. * just been released through thi National Champion- burg, Va. tory—was May 26, 1935. er-flttiaß.t Finalist New York Open Tourna- Emory listening President Fred- unbeliev- office of the Secretary of the As- ships; Finalist North Carolina 13— Hilton Davis, Elizabeth, N.J. Jackson was there as That eventful afternoon before nearly 40,000 ment. 14— Durham, D. C. sociation. serving on the Rating Open Tournament. 4 Myrtle Beavers, New L. Brown, erick Douglas Patterson in surmising the big gallery, re- ed eyes, the Buckeye Bullet personally blasted three exist- Miss MEN’S DOUBLES Committee with Miss Laura V. 9 Nathaniel Jackson, Lynch- York City: Quarter-finalist Na- marked: “It would be a grand thing if people could be led ing world records and tied a fourth. Philadelphia, Chairman, burg, Va.: Round before - 1—Richard Cohen and Jimmie religion the spirit and zest new Junior. Quarter tional Championship Tourna- to follow down and get with all Owens raced the 220 yard dash in 20.3 seconds, a are: Dr. Andrew L. Jackson, finalist National Championships; Ndw York McDaniels, New Orleans, La. ment; Semi-finalist (2—(Nathaniel Frahklyn shown in patronizing an affair like this one.” world mark, and the 220 yard high hurdles in 22.6 seconds, Providence, R. 1., E. Harold Semi-finalist North Carolina Open Tournament; Winner New and Open Jackson, Va. Dr. Patterson was dishing out basketballs of gold, sil- record. He leapt 26 feet, 8 1-4 inches in Hopper, East Orange, N. J.. A. E. Touma raent. England Open Tournament. Lynchburg, also a new world 3 John Wood and Reginald ver and bronze to Clark Florida and Tuskegee basketeers. to MacDowdell, New York City, and 10— Christopher Hunt, Raleigh, Agnes Lawson, the broad jump. That, too, was a new world mark. Then, Z—Mrs. prairie It was big moment ‘after down the Dr L. E. McCauley, Raleigh. N.C.: Two rounds before Quarter- National Watts, Baltimore. Md. the the smoke was in cap it all, he galloped to victory in the 100 yard dash in 9.4 View, Tex.; Semi-finalist 4 L.